A group of 19 states sued the Trump administration to block a $100,000 fee for any new applications for H-1B visas, which allow employers in the U.S. to hire skilled foreign workers.

The mostly Democrat-led states argue in the suit filed Friday that the fee creates a costly and illegal barrier for employers to use the popular visa program, ...Read more

Almost a half-mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, California, scientists recently recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus— only the fourth time the same research team has spotted the species in about four decades.

In a new video posted online, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shared footage of the giant ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis residents noticed a new strategy in the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, OR ICE, operation in the Twin Cities this week: helicopters flying overhead.

In an emailed statement, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson confirmed the agency’s aircraft are “supporting federal law enforcement partners ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Months of tension between Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and members of the City Council burst into public view Friday when the council rebuffed the mayor's request to significantly increase police hiring.

The face-off between the mayor and some council members has been brewing since the council voted in May as part of the city ...Read more

Public speakers at Maryland’s final redistricting hearing overwhelmingly backed Democratic efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map, but written testimony submitted to the state tells a sharply different story.

Gov. Wes Moore’s redistricting commission held its last virtual public listening session Friday, where Maryland voters ...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is headed to Europe to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders this weekend in Berlin, according to The Wall Street Journal, as part of President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European leaders, including U.K Prime Minister Keir Starmer, had ...Read more

SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion, according to a company message seen by Bloomberg on Friday.

The company also said it’s preparing for a possible public offering in 2026, a deal aimed at funding an “insane flight rate” for its developmental Starship ...Read more

MIAMI — Radio Mambí — the iconic Miami station long considered a pillar of the Cuban exile community — will go off the air as we know it on Friday at 11:59 p.m. For more than four decades, it served as a gathering place for news about Miami and Cuba, and as a forum where listeners called in to share their problems, complaints, sorrows and...Read more

The Trump administration is ending the family-reunification parole programs for Cuba, Haiti and six other Latin American countries in another blow to legal migration from the region.

The Department of Homeland Security “is terminating all categorical family reunification parole programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland proposed a new $242 million settlement with hundreds of parishioners who claim they were sexually abused for years at the hands of local clergy, a plan that drew immediate pushback from the victims’ attorneys, who say it doesn’t go far enough.

The proposal, filed Thursday in U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action.

“We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Air Force pushed back the estimated delivery date for the first of two new Air Force One jets by another year to mid-2028, giving Boeing Co. even less wiggle room to meet President Donald Trump’s demand to get the plane by the end of his term.

The Air Force offered the latest estimate in a statement that said the timeline �...Read more

A coalition of states is suing the Trump administration over a policy charging employers $100,000 for each new H-1B visa they request for foreign employees to work in the U.S. — calling it a threat not only to major industry but also to public education and health care services.

"As the world's fourth largest economy, California knows that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate leaders plan for the chamber to vote next week to clear the bicameral compromise National Defense Authorization Act for President Donald Trump’s signature.

As the fiscal 2026 bill edges closer to enactment, one of the few last-minute controversies shadowing it concerns whether the measure goes far enough to restrict ...Read more

Congress appears poised to spend money in 2026 on beach replenishment projects in wake of the zero dollars it allocated this year.

But bills proposed in the House by U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., and in the Senate by U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., appear to still fall woefully short of what’s needed, a coastal advocacy group says. U.S...Read more

MIAMI — The U.S. Southern Command, the Pentagon’s combatant outpost based in Miami-Dade County that is at the center of escalating tensions in the southern Caribbean, has a new commander.

Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey officially relinquished his duties Friday, passing command responsibilities to his deputy, Lt. General Evan L. Pettus, an Air Force...Read more

A quintessential holiday spice made by a single manufacturer has been recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for possible contamination.

The FDA recalled Lucky Foods brand cinnamon powder on Tuesday after an analysis conducted by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets found high levels of lead.

It's unclear how the...Read more

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday said President Donald Trump “just sits in the Oval Office and just hurls 1980s tropes about Baltimore” — the latest jab in a months-long feud between the two leaders.

Moore chastised Trump in an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” show, where one of the show’s hosts asked him to react to Trump ...Read more