NEW YORK — New York City’s public schools are suing the Trump administration after it slashed tens of millions of federal dollars from local magnet programs, as part of a campaign against policies for transgender students, officials announced Thursday.

The lawsuit, filed the day before in Manhattan Federal Court, marked a major escalation ...Read more

A newly formed, multistate coalition represents the largest coordinated pushback to federal public health guidance under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to date.

Preceded by similar, more regional approaches, including a Northeast collaborative that Pennsylvania joined in mid-September, the Governors Public Health Alliance includes 14 ...Read more

South Florida congressional seats are in Republicans’ crosshairs after this week’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing about the Voting Rights Act — a case Gov. Ron DeSantis has been closely watching, and which outside advocates say could put three Democratically held seats in Florida at risk.

“We believe Florida will become ground zero for ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office is jumping in to defend Miami Dade College in what he’s calling a “bogus lawsuit,” after a judge temporarily blocked the school from transferring the deed for prime downtown land the state plans to give Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation.

Florida’s chief ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Thursday held that the Trump administration’s decision to withhold tens of millions of dollars from the MTA to protect against terrorist attacks because the city’s sanctuary protections don’t align with the president’s anti-immigrant policies was “a blatant violation of the law.”

In a 28-...Read more

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear wants to protect the state’s energy projects at risk of losing federal funding.

In a letter to President Donald Trump and Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright, the two-term Democrat urged the administration to oppose terminating federal grants for energy-related projects.

Cuts could threaten 700 jobs and $...Read more

Maryland sheriffs call it a political stunt, while legal experts say State Attorney General Anthony Brown’s Wednesday guidance was meant to ease concern, not to impact current or future partnerships between local agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE].

On Wednesday afternoon, Brown sent out a memo as a reminder that ...Read more

CHICAGO — Saying “political opposition is not rebellion,” a federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s request for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.

In its ruling, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California this week joined a multistate coalition and sued the Trump administration over its cancellation of a $7 billion grant program designed to help low-income households install solar panels on their homes.

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Attorney General Rob Bonta, the California Public Utilities Commission, and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday announced charges against two real estate executives accused, in two unrelated cases, of misappropriating millions of dollars in state funds allocated to combat homelessness.

Prosecutors charged Steven Taylor, 44, with seven counts of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, ...Read more

Two Ohio children are facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, for the brutal attack on a 5-year-old girl in Cleveland last month, officials said Wednesday.

The two suspects — a 9-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl — were charged with four counts of rape, two counts of felonious assault and one count each of kidnapping, ...Read more

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The father of missing baby Emmanuel Haro has pleaded guilty to murder in Riverside County.

Jake Haro pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his 7-month-old son, Emmanuel, several weeks after the boy’s parents falsely reported him missing in Riverside County.

Haro appeared in a Riverside courtroom on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools.

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which would give priority funding ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans unveiled a new congressional map Thursday, officially entering the national redistricting battle as President Donald Trump pushes GOP-controlled states to redraw their maps in his party’s favor ahead of the midterms.

If enacted, the map could flip the 1st Congressional District in Republicans’ ...Read more

Former national security adviser John Bolton faced possible indictment Thursday on charges related to classified documents.

There was no immediate announcement of any indictment by lunchtime Thursday and details of the charges prosecutors planned to seek from a federal grand jury in Maryland were not immediately clear.

Bolton, a prominent ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Thursday he will meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin again after what he called a “very productive” phone call aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump said he would hold a second summit with Putin soon in Budapest, Hungary, although he didn’t disclose a date.

“I believe great progress was made with today’s ...Read more

Three drones carrying explosive devices targeted a Baja California attorney general’s office facility in Tijuana, Mexico, on Wednesday night, prompting the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana to issue a security warning, authorities said.

No one was injured in the attack, believed to be the work of an organized crime group, Attorney General Maria Elena...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams is going to do it all.

Once he’s out of office in January, Adams plans to get a doctorate degree, write a book, shoot a documentary and start a new “dream job” that might relate to “things in other countries,” he said Thursday.

“I’m going to go back to school, No. 1, I’d like to get my ...Read more

The 85th orbital launch from the Space Coast in 2025 also marked a milestone for SpaceX with the 500th successful landing of a Falcon 9 rocket booster.

The early Thursday morning launch came as the workhorse rocket for Elon Musk’s company lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:27 a.m. Eastern time ...Read more

The French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières is known for working in some of the world’s most difficult combat zones. But in violence-torn Haiti, the stray bullets have become so frequent that the charity, known as Doctors Without Borders in the U.S., announced this week that it’s been left with no choice but to permanently close ...Read more