LOS ANGELES — Federal immigration agents have departed from the Coast Guard site at Terminal Island in San Pedro, which for months was used as a base of operations while the Trump administration conducted immigration raids across Southern California.

U.S. Rep. Nanette Barragan, D-Calif., said the Coast Guard confirmed Friday evening that ...Read more

In early 2013, Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was stressed about her U.S. visa status. Later that year, she married an American citizen and her worries were gone.

A Green Card followed, and, in 2018, citizenship. Then Shuliak divorced her spouse: a woman named Jennifer who had been in a relationship with Kimbal Musk after ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration won’t be conceding to the demands of LGBTQ New Yorkers who want to see a Pride rainbow flag fly above the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, with the federal Department of the Interior claiming it won’t allow any exceptions to the existing rules.

Word of the federal government’s line in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Casey Wasserman, the embattled mogul who is the face of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, is preparing to sell his talent agency, a stunning fall for a leading figure in the world of sports and music.

In a memo to his staff Friday, Wasserman acknowledged his appearance in a recently released batch of documents related to the late ...Read more

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi invoked Japan’s World War II history of aggression and warned Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi against a return to militarism as he blasted her support for Taiwan as “a very dangerous development” for Asia.

Wang’s comments at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday rebuffed overtures for dialogue made a...Read more

French authorities opened new probes into possible sexual and financial crimes linked to Jeffrey Epstein and are revisiting the file on modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who died in a French prison in 2022.

Prompted by the U.S. Justice Department’s release of a large trove of Epstein files, the Paris prosecutor’s office said it set up a ...Read more

A massive storm aimed at California may help the state, which has been struggling with a snow drought through much of the winter.

At least 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow is expected to fall between 3,000 feet and 4,000 feet (900 to 1,200 meters) across mountains in northern and eastern California through next week, said Ashton Robinson Cook...Read more

WHITESBURG, Ky. — As most of the commonwealth continues to thaw out after the bitter cold left behind by Winter Storm Fern earlier this month, several Eastern Kentucky water districts are still struggling to restore service to their customers.

Whitesburg residents have been under a boil water advisory for more than three weeks, and service ...Read more

Italy will likely participate in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” as an observer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Saturday.

The board is meeting in Washington on Feb. 19 and Italy was invited as an observer country, Meloni said in an interview with local media. “I believe an Italian and European presence is necessary...Read more

President Donald Trump spent part of his Valentine’s Day composing a very lengthy social media post attacking comedian Bill Maher.

Among the president’s grievances was the fact he invited the HBO “Real Time” host to the White House for dinner last April, yet Maher has continued mocking him on his Friday night show.

“Sometime in life ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Saturday celebrated Valentine’s Day by sharing a series of cards that praised his accomplishments while predictably slamming Democrats and even poking fun at his own secretary of state.

The cards, posted by the White House on social media, kick off with a picture of a handcuffed and blindfolded Venezuelan President ...Read more

Heavy police activity in Tucson, Arizona, late Friday night resulted in at least three people being detained in connection to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, but ended without any arrests.

Two individuals — a man and a woman — were taken out of a Pima County home during an operation involving a SWAT team, according to News Nation.

More ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Signal group chats were quiet as Kaegan Recher drove through south Minneapolis Thursday morning, a stark contrast to a week earlier when agents pointed guns at observers and tackled protesters.

Recher was on his daily volunteer observer patrol when border czar Tom Homan announced that Operation Metro Surge — the Trump ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Tucked in between a fish market, a bakery, and a honey stand, seven couples tied the knot among family, friends and perfect strangers on Saturday.

“It’s amazing,” said Beth Esposito-Evans, who officiated the ceremony. “What could be more Philly than Reading Terminal Market?”

Esposito-Evans, a vendor at the market, ...Read more

China increased its support for Russia’s war in Ukraine in 2025 and is likely to deepen cooperation with Moscow further this year, Western officials said, casting doubt on efforts by European leaders to improve relations with Beijing.

President Xi Jinping has become more assertive and confident in his supporting Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom sat onstage at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday and described one of the primary ways he is responding as the Trump administration shifts federal climate priorities.

"I'm showing up," he said.

In recent months, that has meant trips to Brazil, Switzerland and now Germany, where he ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled Saturday that economic reforms could offer the Cuban government a path to easing U.S. pressure even as the Trump administration’s oil blockade pushes the island deeper into crisis.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Rubio declined to spell out specific conditions but suggested ...Read more

When U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, early in the new year, the Trump administration heralded the operation as concise and deliberate: with overhead air support, about 60 special forces troops descended from helicopters into Caracas, fought off security guards, grabbed their quarry and were ...Read more

U.S. agencies are struggling to find the best method to fund additional software for millions of Iranian civilians to get around their government’s strict internet censors, amid a surge in demand over weeks of domestic unrest.

The State Department, U.S. senators from both parties, and other U.S. agencies have advocated for funding virtual ...Read more