Federal immigration agents arrested a man who documented their activities in Charlotte on Tuesday, his friends told The Charlotte Observer. He was freed from an FBI office six hours later and disputed claims by the federal government about what transpired.

It happened Tuesday afternoon at the parking lot of the Eastway Crossing Shopping Center,...Read more

North Carolina father Wellington Delano Dickens III has allegedly admitted to the death of a fifth child after cops found four of his kids in the trunk of his car last month.

The 38-year-old was arrested on Oct. 27 after he called 911 to report that he’d kill his kids, according to the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office. When deputies arrived...Read more

The U.S. based dealers who are selling high-powered assault rifles that are later illegally trafficked to armed criminal gangs in Haiti are a handful of “bad actors” who can be reined in with tightened U.S. efforts, experts told a human-rights panel on Tuesday.

“These dangerous business practices can be stopped in several ways. One is ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — It may be "OK" with President Trump, but Mexico rejects any U.S. strikes against cartels in its territory.

That was the message reiterated Tuesday by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has repeatedly said that her nation would not accept U.S. attacks or troops on Mexican soil.

"It's not going to happen," Sheinbaum told ...Read more

GREENVILLE, S.C. — A near-total abortion ban for South Carolina failed to advance after a majority of a committee’s Republican state senators declined to cast a vote.

Four Republican senators abstained on the final vote after several amendments to remove the bill’s most extreme measures failed during a hearing Tuesday afternoon.

The bill...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On his second day as chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Jaime Moore criticized what he called media efforts to “smear” firefighters who responded to the worst wildfire in city history.

Moore’s comments Tuesday appeared to be in reference to a Los Angeles Times report that a battalion chief ordered firefighters to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would formally designate Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally in a further strengthening of ties between the two countries, capping a day of dealmaking between the U.S. leader and the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

“I’m pleased to announce that we’re taking our military ...Read more

CHICAGO — The number of detainees held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview has dropped precipitously since a federal judge ordered the government to comply with requirements to improve conditions at the facility, with only four people held there as of Tuesday morning.

The figure came out during a ...Read more

BOSTON — The City of Boston moved to dismiss the federal government’s lawsuit challenging its sanctuary city policy Monday, arguing the policy is constitutionally protected and the U.S.’s lawsuit failed to show a conflict with federal law.

“The Trust Act requires the Boston Police Department to prioritize criminal law enforcement, while...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said it will transfer some of the Education Department’s largest grant programs and major portions of several offices to other federal agencies, part of a broader plan to greatly reduce the department’s authority.

The plan would shift tens of billions of dollars in funding out of the Education ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Lancaster couple who stabbed and decapitated their son and daughter before showing the remains to their two surviving children were convicted of murder Nov. 12 in the Antelope Valley Courthouse.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found personal trainer Maurice Jewel Taylor, 39, and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 48, guilty of...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence and warned that varied regulation at the state level risked slowing the development of an emerging technology that’s critical to the U.S. economy.

In a post on his Truth Social network Tuesday, the president urged...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from moving forward with its new congressional map, hastily drawn in hopes of netting up to five additional Republican seats and securing the U.S. House for the GOP in next year's midterm elections.

The ruling is a major political blow to the Trump administration, which set off a ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum again ruled out a U.S. military intervention in Mexico, pushing back on the latest suggestion of unilateral action from President Donald Trump.

“It won’t happen,” Sheinbaum said emphatically on Tuesday, responding to the U.S. leader’s comments a day earlier that he may even deploy ground ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave his sharpest rebuke of congressional Democrats’ efforts to extend expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits, saying he would not support legislation to do so.

The announcement, made through a post on Truth Social, comes as Senate Republicans and the White House had promised to ...Read more

In a stunning victory for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, both houses of Congress on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation directing the Justice Department to release all its case files involving sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The Government has kept most of the files under seal for almost two decades — since 2007 when the FBI and U.S. ...Read more

Just three days before the annual Miss Universe pageant is set to take place, one of the judges has abruptly stepped down.

On Tuesday, Lebanese-French musician Omar Harfouch posted on his Instagram Story explaining why he suddenly pulled out, saying he felt “deep confusion and concern” after finding out that an “impromptu jury” had ...Read more