LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is turning up the heat on Trump administration officials after federal agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Paul, who is chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called for an investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, in a social ...Read more

NEW YORK — State prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday pushed to try Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in July, before President Trump’s Justice Department presents its case to a jury in federal court.

The defense quickly pushed back on the request as unrealistic.

In a letter to Justice Gregory Carro, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A 16-year-old Minnesota high school student was “lost in the system” after federal agents detained the Ecuadorian immigrant when he went out to get dinner for his family on Jan. 16, court records show.

Six days later, still unable to contact his family or his attorney, the boy was finally located at a shelter in Michigan. It...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia lawmakers are set to consider legislation that would make it harder for ICE to operate in the city, including limiting information sharing, restricting activity on city-owned property, and prohibiting agents from concealing their identities.

Among the package of bills set to be introduced Thursday is an ordinance ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani lambasted former Mayor Eric Adams for a “fiscal crisis” on Wednesday, laying the blame on Adams for a budget gap that could exceed $12 billion. The mayor’s remarks came as he launched a public push on Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes for the city’s richest residents and corporations and to send billions ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two of the federal agents involved in the shooting of Alex Pretti during a federal enforcement operation last weekend have been placed on administrative leave, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson confirmed to the Minnesota Star Tribune on Jan. 28.

In a one-sentence statement, a CBP spokesperson said: “The two officers...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — When Greg Ketter learned that federal law enforcement agents had killed a second Minneapolis resident, he got in his car and drove the 30 minutes from his home in Andover to Nicollet Avenue, where Alex Pretti had been fatally shot.

He hadn’t witnessed ICE agents in Minneapolis like other residents have, he said. But he knows ...Read more

The two federal agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on leave, officials said Wednesday.

While paid administrative leave is standard for law enforcement officers who shoot someone throughout the country, Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino previously said the agents who killed Pretti were still on the job, just ...Read more

DETROIT — No charges will be issued against a Detroit mother whose two children died in February of 2025 of carbon monoxide poisoning as the homeless family was sleeping in their car in the Greektown Casino Parking Garage in Detroit.

The then-29-year-old mother, whose name prosecutors did not release because she was not charged, discovered ...Read more

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A hunk of romaine was easy pickings for Porkchop and her three flippers.

On a rainy day last week, the green sea turtle pumped her limbs and stretched her beak up to chomp a lettuce leaf floating on the surface of a tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. That’s where she’s been on the mend since early ...Read more

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Lawmakers representing Kentucky’s mountainous Appalachian counties are coalescing behind an effort this legislative session to bolster resiliency to natural disasters in the wake of extreme Eastern Kentucky floods.

Several members of the General Assembly’s Mountain Caucus will seek funding this year to form a new agency-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center filed a lawsuit against Southern California Edison Tuesday, claiming the electric company was to blame for igniting last year's Eaton fire, which destroyed the congregation's historic sanctuary, preschool and other buildings.

"Our congregation has been without a physical home for more than a...Read more

President Donald Trump admitted he feels “terrible” about the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but said he’s was more upset about Good because her parents are “tremendous Trump people.”

Trump made the comment Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” while addressing the ongoing unrest in Minneapolis, where both ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has taken the lead in the criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed with a liquid as she spoke on Jan. 27 at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a police spokesman said.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis remained jailed one day after he allegedly targeted Omar during the public gathering at ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has taken the lead in the criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed with a liquid as she spoke on Jan. 27 at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a police spokesman said.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis remained jailed one day after he allegedly targeted Omar during the public gathering at ...Read more

The French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders is calling for urgent, coordinated action by Haiti’s government and international partners to address the surging rape crisis that has deepened amid Haiti’s worsening gang violence.

A new report released Wednesday by the nonprofit medical organization says that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The resistance was born on a Friday morning at the General George A. McCall School photocopy machine.

The copier spat the message out on yellow, purple, and orange paper — page after page amplifying the same sentiment scrawled on each in big black letters: Learn all history.

In the aftermath of the removal of the slavery ...Read more

NEW YORK — A New Jersey man pretended to be an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to rob two people in Newark, authorities said Wednesday.

Julio Garcia Barrera, 41, was charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of impersonating a public servant, Newark police said Wednesday in a press release. He was arrested Monday.

The first...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Tuesday took initial steps toward addressing the public safety concerns posed by the state’s growing populations of wolves, mountain lions and other predators — issues the state’s top environmental official called a crisis.

A packed hearing before the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and ...Read more