President Donald Trump over the weekend continued to paint San Francisco as a hotbed of crime, and suggested in a Fox News interview, once again, that he planned to send federal troops to the city by the bay.

“I think they want us in San Francisco,” Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo during a Sunday interview. “San Francisco was truly...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday said he selected Detroit marijuana businessman Mark Savaya to serve as his special envoy to Iraq.

Savaya has owned Leaf and Bud, a Detroit-area chain of medical and recreational marijuana stores.

"Mark’s deep understanding of the Iraq-U.S. relationship, and his connections in the region, will ...Read more

A U.S. appeals court allowed for now President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests against his immigration crackdown, a major boost for the administration’s effort to send the military into Democratic-led cities.

A divided court in San Francisco on Monday lifted an order earlier this month that ...Read more

A mother faces felony charges after police say she smuggled a knife past a Detroit elementary school guard this month and gave it to her child, who allegedly stabbed a fellow student.

In Eastpointe, Michigan, a woman was deemed competent to stand trial Thursday, after she allegedly fatally stabbed her manager at a McDonald's restaurant.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an agreement with visiting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to boost access to critical minerals and rare earths, as the U.S. looks to reduce reliance on Chinese supplies.

“In about a year from now, we’ll have so much critical mineral and rare earths that you won’t know what to do ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida group pushing to legalize recreational marijuana is accusing the state of meddling with its ability to get the issue in front of voters.

Smart & Safe Florida, a political committee trying to again put a recreational marijuana constitutional amendment on the ballot, filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump listed rare earths, fentanyl, soybeans and Taiwan as the U.S.’s top issues with China, underlining the divisive topics the two sides plan to tackle at the negotiating table as a fragile trade truce nears its expiration.

“I don’t want them to play the rare earth game with us,” Trump said on Air Force...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans aligned with the party establishment are excited that Texas Sen. John Cornyn has closed the gap with primary challenger Ken Paxton in his high-profile reelection race.

But the four-term incumbent is still extremely vulnerable. The GOP primary, now a three-way race between Cornyn, Paxton and Rep. Wesley Hunt, offers an...Read more

Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in U.S. courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest social media companies.

The blizzard of paperwork is a byproduct of two consolidated lawsuits accusing Snap Inc.’s Snapchat; Meta ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — New details have emerged in the ongoing search for Melodee Buzzard, a missing 9-year-old Lompoc girl who authorities now say was seen as recently as Oct. 7 and may have been driven to Nebraska by her mother.

Melodee’s mother, Ashlee Buzzard, refuses to cooperate with authorities or answer questions about her daughter’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was supposed to be a boisterous event at Camp Pendleton celebrating 250 years of the U.S. Marine Corps that included a live simulation of a beach assault by sea and air.

The plan involved Marines firing high explosive rounds from M777 Howitzers — artillery used to launch shells in wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine — into ...Read more

Outrage spread Monday over President Donald Trump’s effort to mock the huge No Kings protests over the weekend by posting an AI video of himself dumping waste on demonstrators.

Supporters of the sprawling rallies that drew millions slammed Trump for posting the 18-second clip depicting him wearing a crown and piloting a KING TRUMP warplane ...Read more

WILDER, Idaho — At La Catedral Arena in Wilder, a local horse racetrack popular among the Spanish-speaking community west of Boise, families enjoy the free raffles, vendors and food. It’s common to see hundreds of children there on a race day, said Nikki Ramirez-Smith, a Nampa-based immigration lawyer.

Those children, Ramirez-Smith said, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration filed another lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump’s administration, this time in a bid to protect threatened emergency preparedness funding.

The city’s federal suit, filed Monday, alleges the Department of Homeland Security has tied long-standing funding that pays for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A burned-down hilltop mansion once featured in HBO’s “Succession” is one of eight Pacific Palisades properties declared a public nuisance by Los Angeles city officials who alleged the owner still hasn’t removed fire ash and debris.

The Los Angeles Board of Building and Safety Commissioners, a five-member committee that ...Read more

There are many stresses that come with being an LGBTQ+ youth: fear, isolation, bullying, feeling as if the world hates you, loved ones pressuring you to change.

Those realities come into sharper view in the first release of findings from an ongoing study by the Trevor Project to track the mental health of about 1,700 youth across the U.S. over ...Read more

Four teenagers were killed in a wrong-way car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike early Sunday, authorities said.

All four teens were in the same vehicle, which was struck by a Dodge pickup truck traveling the wrong direction near the south end of the highway in Carneys Point Township, NJ.com reported.

Yaakov Kilberg, 19, was driving the Mazda ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide the constitutionality of a federal law banning gun possession for anyone who is an “unlawful user” or addicted to any controlled substance.

Ali Danial Hemani was charged with violating the law when federal agents found cocaine, marijuana and a pistol during a search of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if "habitual drug users" lose their gun rights under the Second Amendment.

The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any "unlawful user" of ...Read more