MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Two men accused of being the ringleaders of a signature fraud scheme that kept the names of seven judicial and gubernatorial candidates off the August 2022 primary ballot have been found guilty of forging citizen signatures, and one has been acquitted on all counts.

Shawn Wilmoth and Willie Reed were found guilty Monday...Read more

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s election victory is handing Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dilemma: Engage with Japan’s most popular post-war leader or continue a deep freeze with the United States’ top ally in Asia.

Takaichi emerged Sunday from a snap election with a historic majority that gives her a mandate for a more assertive foreign ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump threatened Monday evening to prevent the new Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor from opening until Canada treats the United States with, what he described as, "fairness and respect."

The Republican president issued the statement about the $5.7 billion Canadian-financed project,...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The kinds of DNA-collecting techniques that fuel crime fiction and courtroom TV dramas could soon come with criminal penalties in California when collected without consent by everyday people.

A new bill proposed by an Orange County assemblymember would make it a crime to steal someone’s DNA — such as collecting ...Read more

Two Florida companies that provide computer code and designs for making 3-D printed guns and ammunition magazines are being sued by the state of California and the city of San Francisco, who say its products are allowing people to create illegal ghost guns.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, named the Gatalog Foundation,...Read more

BOSTON — A Venezuelan woman working in Gov. Maura Healey’s office has filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, claiming the Trump administration has “unlawfully” and “unreasonably” delayed her H-1B worker visa renewal, which expires on Feb. 14.

Valentina Amaro ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie recorded a desperate plea for help in finding her 84-year-old mother in this “hour of desperation.”

The NBC host’s message was posted on Instagram as a 5 p.m. deadline from possible kidnappers approached Monday afternoon.

“Hi there everybody, I wanted to come on and just share a few thoughts as we enter into another ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Abington Township neighbors filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Pennsylvania’s first couple, in what is the latest clash over security upgrades to his personal home following an arson attack on the governor’s Harrisburg residence while Shapiro and his family slept inside.

In the suit, filed in U.S. ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Armenia on Monday, pledging as much as $9 billion in potential investment as the South Caucasus country seeks to reduce its long-standing reliance on Russia for energy.

The accord, known as a Section 123 agreement, establishes the legal framework for U.S. companies ...Read more

DENVER — Federal and state lawmakers unveiled legislation Monday drafted in response to the Evergreen High School shooting in Colorado, aiming to require social media companies to respond more quickly when investigators are checking out potential warning signs in online posts.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen unveiled a federal bill that would ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler, appearing in Edgewood alongside sheriffs and leaders from several other Maryland jurisdictions Monday afternoon, called on Gov. Wes Moore to reject a bill ending local law enforcement cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE.

The bill, which passed both the...Read more

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has endorsed Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell for California governor, the Swalwell campaign and a Schiff spokesperson said Monday.

Schiff, one of the state’s most prominent Democrats, previously served with Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee, where they riled Republicans by investigating President Trump ...Read more

LONDON — The Epstein files are threatening to bring down not the U.S. president who was once his buddy but a prime minister who never met the disgraced financier and sex trafficker.

U.K. Premier Keir Starmer’s future hangs in the balance after the release of 3.5 million pages of Epstein-related documents by the U.S. Justice Department.

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department took steps Monday to unwind the contempt of Congress case against Stephen Bannon, who already served four months in prison for a conviction that he has appealed to the Supreme Court.

A jury convicted the President Donald Trump ally in 2022 for his refusal to testify and provide documents to the House select...Read more

On the eve of Florida’s first execution of 2026, churches and people of faith across Florida are speaking out against the death penalty, an issue they feel stands in opposition to their religious and moral beliefs.

“We are gathering to say that state sanctioned executions are wrong on many levels, and as persons of faith we urge restorative...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado House has passed a bill that would allow nonprofits, school districts and transit agencies to build housing on their land without their local government’s approval — the latest salvo in the legislature’s yearslong crusade for land-use reform.

House Bill 1001, the first bill introduced in that chamber this year, ...Read more

Investigators in the Nancy Guthrie abduction are consulting with artificial intelligence experts to examine ransom notes to determine the validity and possible origins of the messages, sources told The Times on Monday.

As a second deadline given for the Guthries to pay $6 million in bitcoin at 5 p.m. Monday rapidly approaches, the family is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Immigration-rights attorneys will get to see for themselves the conditions inside the Whipple Federal Building and visit clients on Monday, following a judge’s ruling granting them access to the facility.

U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Brasel over the weekend ordered that attorneys be given full access to the detention ...Read more