CHICAGO — The Cook County state’s attorney’s office on Tuesday hit back at an effort to appoint an outside prosecutor to investigate potential wrongdoing by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, filing a response in court arguing that the move was driven by public outrage rather than the law.

Earlier this month, a group of ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — The massive criminal prosecution of ex-East Contra Costa police officers ended Tuesday afternoon in a federal courthouse, with the most paradoxical defendant of the bunch.

Former Antioch police officer Eric Rombough committed more crimes of violence than of his 13 former peers in law enforcement who also faced serious ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles schools named after César Chávez will be renamed and his image will be removed from campus murals, the school board unanimously decided Tuesday.

The action came after a brief but emotional discussion as board members reacted to the fall of a personal and public idol who has been a substantial presence in the nation...Read more

Danish parliamentary election had the country’s main political rivals in a virtual tie, complicating the chances for a re-election of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

The premier’s Social Democrats held a clear lead in a vote shaped by Donald Trump’s threats over Greenland, but projections by Denmark’s main broadcasters showed the ...Read more

One of Tallahassee’s favorite parlor games has been figuring out what Gov. Ron DeSantis will do next year when he’s no longer Florida’s governor.

The president of the University of Florida? Florida State? A job with the Tampa Bay Rays?

On Monday, DeSantis told Fox’s Sean Hannity that he wouldn’t rule out another presidential run. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The feud between California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has escalated after Bonta asked a court to stop Bianco's investigation into alleged election fraud.

In a 70-page petition filed with the 4th Appellate District Monday, Bonta wrote that "the Sheriff's misguided investigation threatens ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signaled that Iran had offered a “present” as a show of good faith in negotiations he has claimed are ongoing to end a 25-day conflict that’s upended global markets, even while he deploys more troops to the Middle East.

Trump wouldn’t detail the gift, “worth a tremendous amount of money,” but ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that Iran wants to “make a deal” with the United States to end the war in the Middle East, saying that negotiations are ongoing with the conflict in its fourth week.

Iran has publicly denied that talks are happening. But Trump told reporters during an Oval Office event that negotiations are ...Read more

Sen. Thom Tillis said he will not run for public office again.

He made that statement in an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl released Monday.

Tillis, 65, a Republican from Huntersville, announced his retirement from the U.S. Senate last summer after sparring with President Donald Trump over protecting North Carolina’s Medicaid ...Read more

Thousands of Floridians living with HIV/AIDS are regaining access to life-saving medication after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday reversing most of the deep cuts his administration ordered earlier this year.

House Bill 697, now law, appropriates $30.9 million in stopgap funding to get the AIDS Drug Assistance Program through June ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that it may block migrants from applying for asylum at ports of entry along the southern border.

The administration's lawyers argued that the right to asylum, which arose in response to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, does not extend to those who are stopped just...Read more

Minnesota lawmakers have struck a tenuous agreement to keep a flagship anti-fraud bill alive after a weekslong standoff.

Leaders of both parties in the Minnesota House and Senate say they want the legislation to establish an independent inspector general to investigate fraud in state programs. But it’s been stuck in negotiations over the ...Read more

After a bipartisan vote in the House on Monday, the Alaska Legislature is poised to pass an omnibus election reform bill, a goal that has eluded lawmakers since 2022.

Alaska legislators have repeatedly sought to make substantial changes to the state's voting laws. Republicans have wanted to more easily remove inactive voters from the state's ...Read more

An effort to let Maryland voters decide whether to legalize online casino games is practically dead in the General Assembly, according to a chief sponsor.

Legislation introduced in both chambers would have placed a referendum on the November ballot on whether games such as blackjack and slots could legally be played on phones and other online ...Read more

Even as Haitian security forces make some progress in clearing roads and deploying armored vehicles into previously inaccessible neighborhoods, Haitians living under gang control continue to be subjected to harsh punishment and enforcement tactics, a new United Nations human-rights report details.

In some cases, victims are subjected to gang-...Read more

BALTIMORE — Nearly two years after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland officials say reconstruction is accelerating and on the verge of entering full-scale construction.

Speaking at the Port of Baltimore on Tuesday, Gov. Wes Moore said the Key Bridge rebuild is the “fastest-moving large project in the country,” adding ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration, accusing its top law enforcement agencies of withholding evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis to protect agents in Operation Metro Surge from potential criminal charges.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, March 24, in U.S....Read more

WASHINGTON — Robert Malone, an ideological ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is stepping away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee following a court ruling that effectively nullified the panel.

Malone was one of several picks by Kennedy in a controversial reworking...Read more