In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Donald Trump's remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera's board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971.

"Today, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel selected Christopher Raia, a career counterterrorism official who led the investigation into the 2025 New Orleans New Year’s attack, as co-deputy director of the bureau.

Raia most recently served as assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office, one of the bureau’s most prominent ...Read more

Nick Reiner, accused in the brutal slayings of his parents Rob and Michele Reiner, allegedly believes he’s the victim of a “conspiracy,” according to a new documentary.

In TMZ’s “The Reiner Murders: What Really Happened,” airing Friday night on Fox and streaming Saturday on Hulu, sources say the 32-year-old knows he killed his ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Federal prosecutors want disgraced former GOP state Rep. RJ May to spend 20 years in prison for distributing child porn on the internet, according to filings made ahead of his Jan. 14 sentencing.

Twenty years is near the maximum May could get based on the charges against him and federal prison sentencing guidelines. The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renee Good on a south Minneapolis street served in a multitude of law enforcement roles during a two-decade career that also included military service.

Federal court records show Jonathan Ross’ career includes U.S. military experience and mostly high-level ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Parents, neighbors and school staffers are ramping up mobilization efforts to stand guard outside schools as thousands of federal immigration agents descend on the Twin Cities.

While parent-teacher organizations have organized watches outside schools during pick-up and drop-off times for months, the ICE killing of Renee Nicole ...Read more

DETROIT — Hundreds of protesters gathered Friday evening to passionately and peacefully protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to mourn a Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent.

Assembled at Clark Park in southwest Detroit, protesters carried signs and chanted slogans critical of President Donald Trump and his aggressive ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Opening arguments in a Stanford felony vandalism case began Friday amid sharp disputes over whether political views tied to Israel’s war in Gaza should factor into the trial — an issue that has shaped the case from its earliest stages.

Almost two years after 13 people were arrested for allegedly damaging Stanford ...Read more

SpaceX knocked out Friday the first of a series of afternoon launches in the coming week with another Starlink mission from Florida's Cape Canaveral.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-96 mission with 29 more of the internet satellites lifted off at 4:41 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

This was ...Read more

A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s move to freeze $10 billion in child care funds in five Democrat-led states including California.

The ruling Friday afternoon capped a tumultuous stretch that began earlier this week when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told California officials and...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After experiencing one of the wettest holiday seasons on record, still soggy California hit a major milestone this week — having zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years.

The data, collected by the U.S. Drought Monitor, are a welcome nugget of news for Golden State residents, who in the last 15 years alone...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A rider stuck on a stalled Disneyland Monorail climbed on the roof of the train before firefighters arrived to evacuate the ride that had been stalled on the track for more than an hour, according to social media posts.

About 60 people were evacuated by ladder from the Disneyland Monorail Thursday evening after a technical ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and its state-funded programs are heading into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in Washington and on Wall Street.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget chief warned Friday that surging revenues tied to the artificial intelligence boom are being offset by rising costs and federal funding ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal immigration judge on Friday denied bond for an Eastern Shore woman arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December, keeping her detained as deportation proceedings move forward, her attorney said.

Vanessa Parrazal, 24, has been in federal immigration custody since Dec. 17 and is currently held at the ...Read more

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday determined Colorado cannot order the closure of coal-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act, and, therefore, the agency will deny the state’s plan to reduce the haze that clouds views at Rocky Mountain National Park and other federal lands.

The move is part of the Trump ...Read more

Some of the celebrities and high-powered executives who gathered at Conan O’Brien's annual holiday party on Dec. 13 are likely to be called to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Nick Reiner, especially if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity in the fatal stabbing of his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. ...Read more

MIAMI — An Italian filmmaker who gunned down an Australian hotelier on Miami’s Virginia Key in the '90s can now leave prison to make pizzas and windsurf in Italy, thanks to the Italian judicial system and the U.S. push to return him to his native country to serve out his life sentence.

The Italian courts recently granted work release to ...Read more

DETROIT — Planning is underway for a potential visit by President Donald Trump to Michigan on Tuesday, according to four sources familiar with the behind-the-scenes preparations.

The sources requested to speak on the condition of anonymity because the plans weren't finalized as of Friday afternoon and because they weren't authorized to ...Read more

Calling a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling a “straightforward path” to a legal victory, lawyers for the state of Illinois said Friday they hope to quickly resolving ongoing litigation over President Donald Trump’s controversial efforts to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area to bolster immigration enforcement.

The status ...Read more