MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz says President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement is targeting people of color in Minnesota, including U.S. citizens, and he’s warning that there could be a surge of ICE agents in the state over the next two weeks.

“It’s pretty clear to all of us exactly what this president is doing. He’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — States are expecting clarity within days for a key feature of Republicans’ signature budget reconciliation law — a $50 billion rural health care fund that has an end-of-year deadline for the administration to announce its plans.

The wide-ranging law reduces health spending by about $1 trillion over a decade, primarily from ...Read more

Russia will seek key changes to the latest U.S. peace plan to end its war on Ukraine, including more restrictions on Kyiv’s military, according to a person close to the Kremlin.

Moscow regards the 20-point plan worked out between Ukraine and the U.S. as a starting point for further negotiations, as it lacks provisions important for Russia and...Read more

ATLANTA — Two women were arrested Tuesday after nearly 40 dogs were found either dead inside refrigerators or malnourished at a Gwinnett County home, police said.

Christine Abbott, 67, and Donna Slavin, 65, each face six felony counts of animal cruelty and seven misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. They were booked into the Gwinnett jail, ...Read more

The Thai military said ceasefire talks with Cambodia, set to begin on Wednesday, are expected to conclude with a meeting of the countries’ defense ministers on Dec. 27, as the two sides seek to end weeks of deadly clashes.

The talks are set to start at 4 p.m. Bangkok time in Thailand’s Chanthaburi province, which borders Cambodia.

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Ukraine and the U.S. remain split primarily on territorial issues in talks on a peace plan to end Russia’s war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

“We now have draft documents that largely reflect the joint Ukrainian-American position, in some respects the American position,” Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday. “Some issues ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Cross-border students in the San Diego-Tijuana region will soon have an option for a faster commute to school.

Early next year, the pedestrian border crossings in San Ysidro and Otay Mesa will add dedicated lanes for students living in Mexico who cross daily to go to school in the United States, officials from U.S. Customs and ...Read more

Ukraine and the U.S. remain split primarily on territorial issues in talks on a peace plan to end Russia’s war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

“We now have draft documents that largely reflect the joint Ukrainian-American position, in some respects the American position,” Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday. “Some issues ...Read more

As immigrants in southeastern Louisiana and Mississippi braced for this month’s U.S. Homeland Security operation, Cristiane Rosales-Fajardo received a panicked phone call from a friend.

The friend’s Guatemalan tenant, who didn’t know she was pregnant, had just delivered a premature baby in the New Orleans house. The parents lacked legal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Every night, Abdullah Ibrahim retreats from the streets into a wooded stretch along the Potomac River.

As night falls and temperatures drop, he erects a tent and builds a fire beneath a canopy of pine, hemlock, and cedar trees.

He evades authorities by rotating use of three tents of different colors at three campsites. As day ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The baby-faced teen called his mom for the fourth time that November day. He was homesick, but he wanted her to know he was OK.

Benjamin Guerrero Cruz had recently turned 18, and he was farther from his mother and younger siblings than he'd ever been before.

But he wasn't off at college or starting a new job. He was calling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A provision tucked into the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act restricts the Pentagon’s ability to quickly revoke protections for former officials who face security threats — an attempt by lawmakers to curb retaliatory moves like those carried out by President Donald Trump at the beginning of his second term.

The ...Read more

The latest Justice Department release of Jeffrey Epstein files sheds some light on the FBI’s quest in 2019 to charge additional suspects who may have helped the financier or participated in his sex trafficking crimes.

The names of 10 potential co-conspirators, or suspects, that New York prosecutors intended to interview in 2019 was mentioned ...Read more

The Michigan Cannabis Industry Association on Tuesday appealed a lower court ruling that upheld the imposition of a new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana sales.

The controversial tax is set to take effect Jan. 1, but the marijuana association has asked the Michigan Court of Appeals to take up the case immediately, preferably before New Year's Day....Read more

Brown University placed its campus police chief on administrative leave and the Trump administration announced an investigation into the school’s security measures after a shooting rampage this month that killed two students and injured nine others.

The Education Department’s Office of Federal Student Aid will review whether Brown violated ...Read more

The woman who was dragged out of her car by federal immigration agents in Key Largo while screaming she was a U.S. citizen said the feds had already stopped her twice within a few weeks, including when they had detained her undocumented husband in a traffic stop in the same location just last month.

The woman was commuting alone in her husband�...Read more

CBS’ decision to pull a “60 Minutes” segment on alleged torture and inhumane conditions inside a notorious El Salvador prison just hours before it aired stunned the UC Berkeley students whose research helped underpin the report.

The students at UC Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center contributed to a Human Rights Watch report titled "You ...Read more

The Epstein files are still being released by the thousands after the deadline for the Department of Justice to disclose them passed on Friday.

On Tuesday another 10,000 files were uploaded to a government website – much of which covered the Federal Bureau of Investigations inquiry into the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. The ...Read more