MIRAMAR, Fla. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Florida law enforcement officials announced Thursday the deportations of more than 200 criminals, many of whom are sex offenders, as part of a 10-day operation across the state, touting Florida as the “model” for immigration enforcement across the country.

ICE Deputy Director Madison...Read more

With the swearing in of a newly elected Democrat in the U.S. House on Wednesday, Rep. Thomas Massie got enough signatures on his petition to force a House vote on the release of documents related to the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

But the effort still has a long way to go from petition to document release.

House Speaker ...Read more

A social media influencer visited a protected island off the eastern coast of Australia, filmed herself starting an “illegal” campfire and posted the video, environmental officials said. Now, she’s been fined and warned.

The woman lit “an illegal fire” while visiting K’gari Island, a “World Heritage environment” site formerly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit over conditions at the largest immigration detention center in California, as migrant advocates and Democratic members of Congress have pressed for more oversight of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement expansion.

The complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District...Read more

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge said at a hearing Thursday she would rule before Thanksgiving on whether to dismiss the high-profile criminal indictments against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no overt signs about how that ruling might come down, as attorneys...Read more

The United States Department of Justice filed a motion Thursday to assist a Republican-led lawsuit filed last week that aims to overturn California’s redistricting plan, which nearly two-thirds of voters approved last Tuesday.

Proposition 50 redrew California’s congressional districts with the hope of electing five more Democrats to the ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized after a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Fetterman, D-Pa., was on an early-morning walk when he fell to the ground after feeling lightheaded, according to a statement from a spokesperson posted to his X account Thursday.

The statement described the cause as a “ventricular fibrillation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Edison International Chief Executive Pedro Pizarro said Wednesday that the utility expects the first Eaton fire victims who have agreed not to sue the utility to get their settlement offers later this month.

In an interview, Pizarro said that the utility decided to create the program to pay victims before the fire investigation ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — As Idaho moved to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Gov. Brad Little promised that the state would help remove “highly dangerous illegal alien criminals.” In a news release last month, Little said Idaho State Police would target only undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes and already set to be ...Read more

BOSTON — A Springfield judge has modified the detention status of Lamar Cook, setting cash bail for Gov. Maura Healey’s former aide, arrested and charged with cocaine trafficking, at $75,000.

Hampden Superior Court Judge William J. Ritter has also ordered Cook, 45, of Springfield, to forfeit his passport.

This comes after Cook was ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two federal officials told Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden that U.S. Border Patrol agents could be in Charlotte for enforcement as soon as this Saturday, according to a news release.

If not by then, they could be here early next week, McFadden said.

He did not know details of any planned operation, which was first...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fernando Gomez Ruiz had been eating at a lunch truck outside Home Depot when agents arrested him and 10 others in early October.

The diabetic father of two, who has lived in the Los Angeles area for 22 years, was detained and then quickly transferred to California’s biggest detention facility, where he’s been unable to get ...Read more

A bill ordering the release of all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case is expected to come to a vote in the House of Representatives next week and is shaping up to win lopsided, bipartisan approval despite President Donald Trump’s steadfast resistance.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, who has resisted the measure at Trump’s behest for...Read more

Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago, his organization said Wednesday.

Jackson, 84, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with deep ties to Atlanta’s civil rights community, is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, the Rainbow PUSH ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in a departure from his typically optimistic outlook, said Thursday it will be “nearly impossible” for his incoming administration to complete a long-stalled affordable housing project in Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden in light of outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ latest move to block it.

On ...Read more

DETROIT — Nearly four dozen business, community and philanthropic leaders are part of Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield's effort to shape and guide policy that she vows will spread Detroit's rebounding fortunes citywide.

Sheffield, who takes office in January, unveiled the members of her Rise Higher Detroit transition team at Marygrove Conservancy ...Read more

A former teacher was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing one of her students at a juvenile detention facility in Kentucky.

Elena Bardin, 27, of Columbia, was convicted in September of sexual abuse, unlawful transaction with a minor, and distribution of obscene material to a minor in connection with her abuse of a 17-...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A vacant, overgrown lot rests on King Road at the edge of the University of Idaho campus in Moscow. The stillness comes in stark contrast to the home that once stood there, brimming with activity from the college students who lived there.

Three years have now passed since a man entered the house in the middle of the night and ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Following the passage of the ‘One, Big Beautiful Bill’ this summer, Kentucky legislators say they will shift the way they make policy and create the state’s budget.

The federal tax and spending bill passed July 4 will largely impact the way the Kentucky General Assembly creates its two-year budget, said Speaker of the ...Read more

DETROIT — A federal grand jury late Wednesday indicted three Dearborn men on terrorism-related charges in the latest legal move in a case involving an alleged coast-to-coast conspiracy involving the Islamic State.

The indictment was filed two days after Ayob Nasser, 19, his 20-year-old brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, 20, agreed to stay ...Read more