MINNEAPOLIS — A federal lawyer expressed frustration over the U.S. government’s failure to comply with court orders amid an overload of immigration cases swamping the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota since the deployment of 3,000 federal agents to the state.

U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered attorneys for the U.S. government ...Read more

DETROIT — An animal rights group sued the Michigan Natural Resources Commission on Tuesday, alleging the group that sets Michigan's hunting and fishing regulations was wrong to expand coyote hunting in Michigan.

Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, filed the lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court....Read more

DETROIT — A Michigan Department of National Resources officer and a Grand Blanc police officer will not be charged after they fatally shot a man who drove into a Genesee County church and shot several people, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The officers, whom The Detroit News is not naming because they have not been charged, shot 40-year-old ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier seized on a news report Wednesday that cited an anonymous source saying that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would not bring charges in the Hope Florida scandal.

Citing a report in the online publication The Floridian, DeSantis and a spokesperson ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an effort to overturn California’s new voter-passed congressional map, letting the map go into effect for this year’s midterm elections.

The unexplained, unsigned order ends a bid from the Trump administration and California Republicans to overturn a lower court ruling that found the ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has been hospitalized with “flu-like symptoms,” in the latest health challenge for the 83-year-old former Republican Senate leader.

McConnell, a childhood polio survivor who has suffered a string of health setbacks in recent years, checked himself into the hospital Monday night, his spokesman said.

“In an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump recently used the term “de-escalate,” but on a number of hot-button issues, all he and his team have done in recent days is the opposite.

From videos showing ongoing aggressive actions by federal immigration enforcement agents, to Trump’s tough talk on nationalizing elections in the face of some GOP ...Read more

MIAMI — Ryan Wesley Routh, the man convicted of trying to kill Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president was playing golf at his club in West Palm Beach, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

During his sentencing in Fort Pierce federal court, Routh generally listened and then read part of a 20-page statement that U.S. ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is open to upcoming talks with Iran and that a location is “being worked through,” but stressed the discussions cannot be restricted to nuclear issues.

Amid confusion over where the talks will take place and what topics will be covered, Rubio said Wednesday the U.S. side thought an ...Read more

WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that California this fall may use its new election map, which is expected to send five more Democrats to Congress.

With no dissents, the justices rejected emergency appeals from California Republicans and President Donald Trump's lawyers, who claimed the map was a racial gerrymander to benefit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For nearly two months, Mayor Karen Bass has repeatedly denied that she was involved in altering an after-action report on the Palisades fire to downplay failures by the city and the Los Angeles Fire Department in combating the catastrophic blaze.

But two sources with knowledge of Bass’ office said that after receiving an early...Read more

A ransom note connected to the suspected abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy Guthrie demanded millions in cryptocurrency and was shown to the “Today” show co-host by federal authorities.

Alarm bells began to sound Sunday when the 84-year-old matriarch missed church. She was last seen the night prior at her Tucson home, where she ...Read more

Detectives have now been working for four days to try to locate the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, who officials believe was taken against her will from her home outside of Tucson.

On Wednesday morning, amid swirling rumors online about who could be involved, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said investigators still have not ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After calling a federal judge’s order unconstitutional, North Carolina state legislators now have a court date to argue why they should be able to access and discuss the pending criminal investigative file in the fatal Charlotte train stabbing of Iryna Zarutska.

On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell ...Read more

DETROIT — In her first month on the job, Detroit's new mayor launched several major initiatives intended to combat violence and poverty, along with measures intended to expand progress citywide.

Mayor Mary Sheffield said on Jan. 1, the day she was sworn in, she would have a "pretty busy January," and she lived up to that promise. It's too ...Read more

BALTIMORE — U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen thanked Howard County lawmakers Wednesday for their actions to block a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Elkridge, Maryland, while calling for “not one more dime for a lawless ICE.”

Van Hollen’s updates came as Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and the Howard ...Read more

Border czar Tom Homan Wednesday announced an immediate 25% cut in federal agents carrying out the Trump administration’s Minneapolis anti-immigration operation that has led to the killings of two U.S. citizens in the past month.

Homan said he has ordered 700 federal agents to leave the flashpoint city after touting improved cooperation from ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Fridley and Duluth schools, along with the state teachers union, are suing the Trump administration to keep federal immigration agents off school property.

The new measure comes as school leaders decry what they say is increased federal agent activity on and near campuses, causing fear and safety concerns. The plaintiffs are ...Read more

Two days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a surprise trade deal with India, New Delhi officials moved to counter concerns that the country may have made too many concessions to secure lower tariffs.

Over the past 24 hours, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has spoken twice to say India adequately protected its farm sector, especially ...Read more