A New York federal judge has ruled in favor of Haitians with temporary legal status in the United States, deciding on Tuesday that the Trump administration was wrong in deciding to cut short their end date by six months.

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan’s ruling means that Haiti’s temporary protected status designation should return to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The World Series of Poker vacated the result of one of its largest events after two players were accused of colluding during heads-up play.

In a statement released Monday night on social media, the WSOP announced it completed its investigation into the $1,500 “Millionaire Maker” No-limit Hold’em tournament and will not ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Legislature failed Tuesday to approve a state budget for the upcoming fiscal year, missing a deadline that was established in state law in 2019.

While there's no penalty for not hitting the self-imposed target, the development — no bill providing money for any segment of state government has made it to Gov. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California educators are calling on the Trump administration to release the $6.8 billion in education grants it is withholding from 33 states, labeling the federal government’s actions illegal and disastrous for students.

The California Department of Education received notice that the grant money would not be disbursed ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday publicly asked President Donald Trump to commit more resources to managing California’s federal lands, accusing the administration of engaging in “political theater” by diverting California National Guard members away from firefighting duties as the state heads into wildfire season.

Newsom has repeatedly ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The morning a gunman went on the run after shooting state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in Brooklyn Park, the suburb sent a shelter-in-place alert to area cellphones, warning residents.

Suspect Vance Boelter eventually made his way to north Minneapolis, where he appeared on security footage returning to his part-time ...Read more

SpaceX was facing a poor forecast for its Tuesday launch attempt of a European satellite on the Space Coast, but the skies cleared and the rocket lifted off right on time.

A Falcon 9 on the MTGS1 mission carrying the second of EUMETSAT’s third generation of weather satellites took off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 5:04 p.m. ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a protester with interfering with Immigration & Customs Enforcement task force officers who were searching a day earlier for an immigrant accused of illegally entering the United States.

Detroiter Roman Gomez-Ocadiz was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, a charge that ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education sent school officials in Florida and across the nation scrambling this week as it announced plans late Monday to freeze funds that Congress approved in March to help some of the nation’s neediest students.

Florida schools were set to receive about $396 million of the $6.8 billion in federal grants — which ...Read more

Jurors have reached a verdict on four of five counts against music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is on trial in a New York federal courtroom, accused of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution.

The jury sent a note to the trial judge Tuesday afternoon stating they'd reached a verdict on several counts but were unable ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to arrest Zohran Mamdani if he gets in the way of federal immigration enforcement efforts — and also falsely implied that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee is not in the country legally.

Asked during a press conference in Florida on Tuesday what his response was to Mamdani�...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the murder suspect in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students, is expected to plead guilty Wednesday after he accepted a plea deal, which would end the high-profile criminal case months earlier than anticipated.

The 30-year-old is scheduled for an 11 a.m. plea hearing at the Ada County ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott on Tuesday touted continued decreases in the city’s homicide and non-fatal shooting rates for the first half of 2025, but the falling numbers were not seen across all nine Baltimore police districts.

The city has seen a 22.7% reduction in homicides and a 19.6% reduction in non-fatal shootings between the ...Read more

BOSTON — A local school district is facing allegations that officials ignored antisemitic bullying and failed to protect Jewish students, as groups filed a federal civil rights brief with the Department of Education.

Officials at Concord-Carlisle Regional School District are facing heat from the Anti-Defamation League, the Louis D. Brandeis ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jurors weighing the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday told the court they had reached a verdict on all counts but one.

In a note sent out after 4 p.m., the eight men and four women on the jury said they had decided on one count of sex trafficking, one count of racketeering and two ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California on Tuesday led a coalition of states in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its alleged sharing of Medicaid recipients’ health data with immigration enforcement agencies, Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

Bonta cited news reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...Read more

DENVER — New laws regulating Colorado gun store licenses, firearm permits and the number of youth the state can keep in pretrial detention kicked into effect Tuesday.

The first day of July is typically one of the earliest effective dates for new laws passed by the legislature in the spring and winter, and it remains a common implementation ...Read more

As always, the numbers boggle the mind.

The Justice Department on Monday unveiled new healthcare fraud charges against 324 defendants nationwide, including 37 in South Florida, who were recently arrested as part of the government’s annual take-down initiative.

Overall, Justice Department officials said 96 doctors, nurses and pharmacists were...Read more

The Trump Administration announced a plan Tuesday for the FBI headquarters to move to a new location in downtown Washington, D.C., instead of the planned relocation in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen told The Baltimore Sun that his office was notified Tuesday morning that Congress will be asked to approve a reprogramming request for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jurors weighing the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday told the court they had reached a verdict on all counts but one.

In a note sent out after 4 p.m., the eight men and four women on the jury said they had decided on two counts of sex trafficking and two counts of transportation to ...Read more