WASHINGTON — Weeks after Donald Trump won reelection, Keith Ives held an all-staff meeting at his Denver-based company to reassure his 30 employees that their work evaluating the success of U.S. aid projects overseas wasn’t under threat.

“I enthusiastically told them, ‘I’m not worried at all — the work we do isn’t political,’”...Read more

A Wisconsin teenager is accused of killing his parents as part of an extremist plot to assassinate President Donald Trump and start a revolution to “save the white race,” newly unsealed federal court documents show.

Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested last month after his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, 51-year-old Donald ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former LAPD officer accused of slamming into another vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol — killing all the passengers inside — pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of murder, prosecutors said.

Edgar Verduzco, 34, also pleaded guilty to one count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bay Area advocates for foreign citizens living in the U.S. without authorization or with temporary legal status are decrying the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive tactics against migrants.

“It has a huge impact in our region,” said San Francisco-based immigration lawyer Erin Quinn of the Immigrant Legal ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, representing a major reprieve for global technology manufacturers including Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp. even if it proves a temporary one.

The exclusions, published late Friday by U.S. Customs and Border ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A dead 50-foot gray whale washed ashore in Huntington Beach on Friday, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

The cause of death of the young adult female is not yet known, said Glenn Gray, chief executive of the Laguna Beach-based nonprofit. Employees of the center performed a necropsy of the body on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Detectives have arrested a 46-year-old woman recorded dumping trash on a Tesla Cybertruck parked on a Brooklyn sidewalk in an apparent swipe against the company’s controversial CEO Elon Musk, police said Saturday.

Natasha Cohen, who lives around the block from where the vandalism took place, is also accused of leaving a brick ...Read more

MIAMI — A Cuban woman was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by a federal district judge in Miami on Friday for her role in a tragic human smuggling operation that left 16 people dead, many of them children.

On Nov. 16, 2024, a small fishing boat carrying 18 Cuban migrants departed Playa Jaimanitas, Cuba, en route to South Florida....Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s national forests are on the chopping block — literally — in the wake of the Trump administration’s April 5 order to immediately expand timber production in the United States.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued an emergency declaration that ordered the U.S. Forest Service to open ...Read more

ATLANTA — When a coalition of federal and local law enforcement agents swarmed a Bartow County flooring manufacturer late last month, some workers picked up and ran, mistakenly thinking an immigration raid was taking place.

The authorities’ arrival at Wellmade Industries in Cartersville, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta, was the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One after another in recent weeks, Maria's accounting clients raised the same fear: immigration agents finding and detaining them using information from their tax filings.

"I heard it from everybody," said the 40-year-old consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. "They come to me and they ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week, even as a cruise ship arrived in Miami with another norovirus outbreak among passengers and crew.

The CDC employees whose jobs were cut were responsible for monitoring, tracking and assisting...Read more

Bill Maher capped off his usual jabs at President Donald Trump’s administration by saying the Don is only playing the role of “a crazy person,” describing him as “self-aware” and “measured” following a recent White House dinner.

During Friday’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the self-proclaimed centrist launched ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As President Donald Trump blasts American allies and adversaries alike for “unfair trade” and sets steep tariffs, California Governor Gavin Newsom has a different message for the nations of the world.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” the Democrat said in a video posted on social media last ...Read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will end its 100% match for Helene disaster recovery in North Carolina.

“The need in Western North Carolina remains immense — people need debris removed, homes rebuilt, and roads restored,” Gov. Josh Stein said in a news release. “I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As warmer days approach, many Angelenos eager to once again spread their toes in the sand may find an unwelcome sight along the shoreline: dark, ashy sediment still sitting on beaches from the devastating January firestorm.

But residents need not fear the detritus, which is composed of fine ash that swirled together with sand ...Read more

The U.K. Parliament passed an emergency bill to give ministers control over Jingye Group’s British Steel, as Keir Starmer’s Labour government fights to preserve Britain’s last virgin steelmaker.

The legislation was approved on Saturday by the House of Commons and the Lords after both chambers were recalled from their Easter recess. It ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A decade later and Freddie Gray‘s name still elicits a visceral response from those who lived or worked in Baltimore in the spring of 2015. Those who were nearby during those weeks of turmoil, anger, and despair can recall it — the sirens, the protest chants, and the faint smell of smoke as parts of the city burned.

But what ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted double murder let out a groaning yell as the bullets struck his chest, followed 80 seconds later by a deep guttural moan as the life seemed to leave him. He...Read more

TOKYO — Gov. Wes Moore launched into a weeklong trade mission in Japan and South Korea on Saturday at 311 miles per hour.

Riding a test version of a high-speed magnetic levitation train that both Japanese and Maryland officials have long sought to bring to the United States, the Democratic governor kicked off a packed schedule of meetings ...Read more