MINNEAPOLIS — Federal agents have no plans to end the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota, U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino said at a news conference.

Asked whether agents had a targeted end date or arrest quota for Operation Metro Surge, the name given to the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota, Bovino said the ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was being deliberately provocative when he released a memo on Martin Luther King Jr. Day stating he wouldn’t enforce or defend dozens of laws that mention race, the Florida House minority leader said Thursday.

“I think he did it, basically, to flaunt that he has the power and to do it ...Read more

Cops arrested a pair of teen vandals Thursday and charged them with desecrating a Brooklyn playground in a Jewish neighborhood with more than 50 swastikas during a two-day attack, police and city officials said.

The swastikas were drawn with red, yellow and blue paint on slides, playground equipment and the handball court at Gravesend Park at ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration said it plans to rearrest Mahmoud Khalil, with the goal of deporting the Columbia University activist of Palestinian descent to Algeria — a move that Khalil’s lawyers panned Thursday as illegal.

Khalil was being held in Louisiana until a federal judge ordered him released last June. But last week, an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Several thousand federal agents have converged on Minnesota in what the Department of Homeland Security claims is the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

In many instances, media coverage has featured masked and armed immigration officers in unmarked vehicles unleashing tear gas and tossing smoke bombs ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal jury on Thursday found a Chicago construction worker not guilty of charges he solicited the murder of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, delivering a swift repudiation in a case the Trump administration had held up as evidence of violence toward immigration officials.

After a lightning-fast trial, the jury of six men and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —The National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park.

The President’s House, which serves as a memorial to the nine people George Washington enslaved there during the founding of America, has come under increased scrutiny by President ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday the city is bracing for potentially massive winter storm, doing everything it can to prepare for bitter cold and as much as a foot of snow forecast to hit New York starting Saturday evening.

Around 2,000 sanitation workers will work 12 hour shifts to salt, brine and remove snow starting Saturday ...Read more

Russian leader Vladimir Putin began talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on the latest peace plan aimed at ending his war in Ukraine.

“It’s so good to see you,” Witkoff said as Putin shook hands with the two envoys in a video posted on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri ...Read more

A number of members of Congress are taking a stand for Haiti’s women and girls, warning that their bodies can no longer serve as a battleground for the country’s deepening crisis.

Forty-eight Democrats in the House have signed onto a resolution introduced by Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York condemning what it describes as the “...Read more

European allies breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after President Donald Trump caved on his divisive demand to take over Greenland, which had appeared to threaten the very future of the NATO alliance.

With few details emerging about Trump’s supposed “framework of a future deal” on Greenland, it doesn’t appear European allies or Denmark...Read more

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated.

“We’d like to get to the point where we can verify where something entered the atmosphere and whether any fragments reached the ground,” Hopkins ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The year before California’s deadliest fireworks explosion in decades, the state agency tasked with regulating and investigating fireworks and explosions prepared to tell lawmakers about its enforcement problems — of which it had many.

Officials with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, a division of Cal Fire, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — About a week before Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a criminal investigation into Native American boarding schools in Michigan, a separate $1.25 million state investigation into the same issue came to an inauspicious end.

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights on Nov. 30 issued a memo to legislative leaders and Gov. ...Read more

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days before shooting and killing him in a robbery attempt.

Raymond Myles, 66, a longtime jurist at the county’s main courthouse at 26th ...Read more

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days before shooting and killing him in a robbery attempt.

Raymond Myles, 66, a longtime jurist at the county’s main courthouse at 26th ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sepulveda Transit Corridor project would connect Los Angeles' Westside to the San Fernando Valley in less than 20 minutes and ideally eliminate traffic congestion along one of the nation’s busiest corridors by offering an alternative to the snarling 405 Freeway over the Santa Monica Mountains.

The multibillion-dollar Metro...Read more

WASHINGTON — Challengers to California’s new congressional map asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the state from using its new map in this fall’s election, pressing claims the state racially gerrymandered its new map.

The map, passed by ballot initiative last year, would target seats held by five Republicans in the state and was...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal agents have no plans to end the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota, U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino said at a news conference.

Asked whether agents had a targeted end date or arrest quota for Operation Metro Surge, the name given to the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota, Bovino said the ...Read more