BALTIMORE — Robert A. Parks, the Baltimore police officer who was stripped of his police powers last month after a viral video showed him almost striking a man with his vehicle, is now suspended without pay, a spokesperson for the department confirmed Tuesday.

Other than saying that the sudden change was “in accordance with state law,” ...Read more

A father and daughter on a humanitarian mission to Jamaica were killed when their twin-engine plane crashed in Coral Springs, Florida, according to an evangelical Christian ministry.

Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter, Serena, 22, were traveling to deliver aid to communities devastated by Hurricane Melissa when their small plane went down ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s coming down to the wire for the seven Colorado River states to comply with a federal deadline to submit a plan for how to divvy up the river over the next 20 years.

The contentious, closed-door process has been drawn out over multiple years as the outlook for levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell continue to nosedive. But the...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — U.S. Border patrol could soon be on their way to Charlotte, according to reports from CBS News and CNN .

U.S. officials told the national outlets Monday that some border patrol agents could be leaving their monthslong stay in Chicago as early as this week and shift to Charlotte and New Orleans for operations that are ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County officials are approaching a deadline to comply with a request for a slew of records related to the 2020 election requested by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, with resistance.

Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts said the county has complied with the law regarding the 2020 election, and there’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it would investigate security at the liberal bastion campus of UC Berkeley after multiple people were taken into custody Monday evening after clashes erupted on and off campus as protesters tried to shut down a Turning Point USA event.

“I see several issues of serious concern ...Read more

CHICAGO — After two months of raids that netted thousands of arrests but also sparked outrage and resistance, a surge of federal immigration agents that came to the city as part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago as the controversial mission winds down, multiple law enforcement sources told the ...Read more

SEATTLE — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended a contract with the Alaska Earthquake Center that helped maintain some seismic stations and transmit data in real time.

Alaska state seismologist and director of the center, Michael West, warned that the termination of this contract, which is around two decades old, will lead...Read more

CHICAGO — Dueling legal interpretations of what constitutes “regular forces” are at the heart of briefings now positioned before the U.S. Supreme Court as the high court prepares to rule on President Donald Trump’s authority to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois.

While considering a motion to stay a lower court’s order blocking ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For months, as victims pleaded for information, the Los Angeles Fire Department kept secret that its firefighters were ordered to stop mop-up operations on a small brushfire that continued to smolder and reignited days later into the massive Palisades fire.

At least one department official learned that a battalion chief had ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Medicaid cuts included in President Donald Trump’s signature ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ are already prompting Kentucky hospitals to consider pausing expansions, scaling back services, layoffs and even closing altogether.

That’s the takeaway from Kentucky Hospital Association President and CEO Nancy Galvagni, who notes ...Read more

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongest rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, is facing the risk of life in prison, after a prosecutor requested a sentence of more than 2,000 years for the Istanbul mayor.

The unprecedented request escalates a legal battle for one of Turkey’s most prominent opposition figures and raises the prospect that he ...Read more

A Turkish prosecutor has requested a prison sentence of more than 2,000 years for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a corruption case, raising the prospect that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongest challenger will be barred from the next presidential election.

The 3,900-page indictment names 402 suspects and describes Imamoglu, the ...Read more

California is asking the Trump administration for permission to use federal funding to provide meals to students outside of school hours, as families continue to reel amid the federal government’s cuts to food stamps.

On Monday, the California Department of Education urged the Trump administration to allow flexibility to the school meal ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Abhinav Kochar traveled from India to the United States to study computer science in late 2023, a consular official interviewed him at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. It’s in a scene repeated countless times around the world each year as foreign students seek access to American higher education.

The high-stakes ...Read more

ATLANTA — Over the summer, just weeks before the arrest that led to his own deportation, Atlanta-area reporter Mario Guevara filmed as masked federal agents put a group of day laborers in chains and loaded them into an unmarked white van.

The June 2 operation resulted in the arrests of at least six men. It took place outside of a Home Depot ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Raised in Northeast Philadelphia, sisters Perla and Aydee Trinidad do everything together, from speaking with a similar cadence to enrolling in the same college program. But these days, only one of them feels like she can move through the city without the worry of being taken away.

Even as a legal resident, “with all this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A strange scene unfolded at the Adams/Vermont farmers market near USC last week.

The pomegranates, squash and apples were in season, pink guavas were so ripe you could smell their heady scent from a distance, and nutrient-packed yams were ready for the holidays.

But with federal funding in limbo for the 1.5 million people in ...Read more

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before finally chalking up her ailments to getting older.

But months of intense back pain eventually landed her in the emergency ...Read more

Lawyers for undocumented immigrants detained after attending mandatory hearings on their cases asked a federal judge in Northern California on Monday to certify their lawsuit as a class action and order the federal government to improve conditions at its San Francisco detention facility.

The immigrants sued the Trump administration in September...Read more