The U.S. on Friday appealed a judge’s order that permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests against his immigration crackdown.

The Justice Department seeks to overturn a Nov. 7 finding by a federal judge in Portland who held the first trial over Trump’s effort...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA along with stipulations for deep campus changes in exchange for being eligible for federal grants.

The decision is a major win for universities that have struggled to resist President Donald Trump’s attempt to discipline“very...Read more

China urged its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan in the near term, escalating a conflict over comments from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggesting potential intervention in the event of a military conflict over Taiwan.

The measure, the first significant retaliation taken by Beijing in the row, was sparked by Takaichi’s remarks last ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced it would launch an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to former President Bill Clinton, one-time Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. at the public urging of Donald Trump, after new emails prompted questions about the current ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he had made “progress” on Venezuela in regard to halting the flow of drugs amid speculation that his administration is preparing to strike targets in the country.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday he had “sort of made up my mind” when asked if he had come to a decision on next ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The U.S. Department of Justice is asking that Brett Hankison, one of the Louisville police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, be released from federal prison while he appeals his conviction.

The DOJ filed a 28-page brief Thursday supporting Hankison’s bid for bail before the 6th Circuit of the U.S. ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed by firing squad inside the state death chamber in Columbia shortly after 6 p.m. Eastern time Friday.

Bryant pleaded guilty to death for the murder of Willard Tietjen who he killed during a bizarre and violent crime spree in Sumter, South Carolina, in October 2004. He also pleaded guilty to the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued an order on Friday reducing tariffs on beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, a move aimed at lowering costs on groceries as the administration faces pressure from voters to cut prices on everyday goods.

The exemptions would reduce trade levies on the commodities, which the White House said can’t be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Jaime Moore prepares to take the helm of the Los Angeles Fire Department, he said he plans to commission an outside investigation into missteps by fire officials during the mop-up of a small brush fire that reignited days later into the destructive Palisades fire.

Mayor Karen Bass had requested a probe late last month in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced it would launch an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to former President Bill Clinton, one-time Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. at the public urging of Donald Trump, after new emails prompted questions about the current ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Indiana state Senate will not move forward with a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map next month, the chamber’s GOP leader said Friday.

“Over the last several months, Senate Republicans have given very serious and thoughtful consideration to the concept of redrawing our state’s congressional ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Adams administration is planning to resign the city’s non-police mental health response team program, or B-HEARD, shifting it from the purview of the FDNY.

Under the changes announced by City Hall, NYC Health + Hospitals, which currently operates the program with FDNY, would entirely run the program.

“This new model for B-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California will be under a severe weather threat Saturday, with the most powerful wave of an incoming atmospheric river storm peaking over the weekend in Los Angeles County and bringing a risk of mudflows, debris flows and, possibly, a tornado.

If rain falls as forecast, this storm could result in downtown Los Angeles ...Read more

NEW YORK — Attorneys for accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione are questioning the validity of a damning statement allegedly made by Mangione’s mother, and have raised the possibility that the statement was made up by the head of the NYPD’s Detective Bureau, who repeated the statement at a press conference, recently released ...Read more

White House border adviser Tom Homan lambasted the Catholic Church on Friday over its stance against the Trump administration's mass deportations.

"The Catholic Church is wrong, I'm sorry," Homan told reporters outside the White House. "I'm saying it not only as the border czar, I'm saying it as a Catholic."

Homan described himself as a "...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman was hospitalized Thursday after suffering injuries to his face in a fall due to a serious heart condition, ventricular fibrillation. This life-threatening condition is the 56-year-old’s latest health issue in recent years, following a 2022 stroke on the campaign trail that nearly killed him.

Like atrial fibrillation, which...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Friday ruled that the government is "partially blocking access to lawyers" for immigrant detainees held in a downtown Los Angeles processing center and ordered it to stop.

The preliminary injunction essentially extends a temporary restraining order that U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued in...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced two Henderson men to probation after they were convicted of damaging government property by pushing a rock formation off a cliff at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Earlier this year, a jury found Wyatt Fain and Payden Cosper guilty of one count of injury and depredation of government ...Read more

ATLANTA — The parents of Ahmaud Arbery said they were relieved to learn an appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of the three men responsible for their son’s 2020 murder.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling Friday, nearly two years after attorneys for Greg McMichael, his son Travis and ...Read more