LOS ANGELES — Students returned Tuesday morning to a temporary campus at the site of Marquez Elementary, about nine months after it burned to the ground in the devastating Palisades fire — prompting celebration and some concerns as the school and the surrounding community struggle to recover.

For the Los Angeles Unified School District, the...Read more

Federal officials on Thursday characterized the Twin Cities as a hotbed of immigration fraud, accusing people of using sham marriages, fake documents and other schemes in their bids to win U.S. citizenship or legal residency.

But officials provided few details of the potential criminal charges that could come from a recent 10-day surge probing ...Read more

MIAMI — The drifter who confessed to killing an inventor and his wife was executed Tuesday night, more than three decades after the double murder in their Miami business.

Victor Tony Jones, 64, died by lethal injection at 6:13 p.m. at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. He declined to make ...Read more

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has vetoed Senate Bill 113, which would have applied state corporate income tax on out-of-state businesses that operate online, such as streaming and tech services. It was expected to raise between $25 million and $65 million annually for the state.

In a Saturday letter to legislative leadership explaining the veto, ...Read more

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein said Tuesday that his administration is not going to move the Oct. 1 deadline for planned cuts to Medicaid, after the General Assembly didn’t send him a bill with funding.

In late July, lawmakers provided funding for Medicaid, but state health officials said the amount fell short. Without more money, health ...Read more

Maryland officials mobilized Tuesday ahead of a potentially prolonged federal government shutdown that they said would put a significant strain on the state and its mass of public employees.

Convening about 10 hours before the shutdown was set to begin, top officials in Gov. Wes Moore’s administration and Comptroller Brooke Lierman’s office...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that it will review the investigation into the 2005 death of renowned journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson at his Woody Creek home, 20 years after local authorities ruled the case a suicide.

State investigators are reviewing the case “to provide an independent perspective�...Read more

In the event of a government shutdown, President Donald Trump would have broad authority to reshape the federal workforce — though only temporarily, according to legal experts.

With no spending deal in sight and the Oct. 1 funding deadline fast approaching, such a shutdown now seems increasingly unavoidable.

The deadlock in Congress stems ...Read more

The United Nations Security Council agreed on Tuesday to transition the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti into a much more lethal and beefed up force, supported by both a newly created U.N. Support Office and the Organization of American States.

The newly authorized Gang Suppression Force was unanimously approved for a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Negotiations between top Minnesota lawmakers and Gov. Tim Walz over possible gun violence solutions broke down Tuesday as Republicans refused to sign on to a broad package of proposals that included an assault-style weapons ban.

Walz and Democratic leaders on Tuesday proposed a suite of policies and investments that would’ve ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Four months into relocating its legal headquarters to Nevada, Roblox has been sued in federal court.

The lawsuit alleges that the company put “profits over safety,” which led to a 12-year-old child, only identified by the initials B.M.D., becoming addicted to the online game.

Attorneys Chelsie Warner and Jennifer Hoekstra ...Read more

Sierra Space had been looking to join SpaceX and Northrop Grumman as one of three commercial resupply partners for NASA aiming to fly its Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station.

But now Dream Chaser won’t be guaranteed any flights to the space station after NASA and Sierra Space mutually agreed to adjust the contract.

The...Read more

Pennsylvania school districts are taking out loans to keep schools running. Counties have had to furlough staff. Now, add to the ongoing state budget impasse a federal government shutdown threatening Pennsylvanians’ paychecks and some critical social service benefits.

Welcome to the swing state of dual governmental dysfunction, where ...Read more

BEIRUT — When President Donald Trump presented his 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip, he deployed his trademark hyperbolic speaking style to trumpet it as a "big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization," which would end the war and deliver "eternal peace in the Middle East."

Yet many of the plan'...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has urged judges statewide to use caution when evaluating whether police who testify in court have accurately described a neighborhood or block as a “high crime area,” saying some officers tend to apply that designation “as a matter of routine” — or even sometimes use it to try to justify...Read more

MIAMI — The United States deported a former judge who sentenced anti-government protesters in Cuba, in a case that became a test of efforts by Cuban exiles to “out” former officials accused of human rights violations who have taken refuge in the United States.

Melody González Pedraza was put on a deportation flight to Cuba last Thursday,...Read more

NEW YORK — After Nathaniel Rojas, the romantic partner of a top-ranking Adams administration official, was detained by ICE last month, President Trump’s administration said it was taking the drastic step of trying to revoke his green card and deport him to his native Dominican Republic because of a criminal record.

Trump officials, whose ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — New laws on immigration, child welfare and more take effect on Wednesday.

Here’s a look at some notable legislative changes coming to North Carolina.

Stricter immigration enforcement

Local law enforcement will be required to further cooperate with federal immigration authorities under changes approved in House Bill 318.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Attorney Ben Crump and the family of Kevin Rodriguez Zavala on Tuesday angrily accused theme park giant Universal Studios Orlando of ignoring complaints from riders about the safety and lack of restraints on its new fast-paced rollercoaster Stardust Racers at Epic Universe.

“We believe that there is something wrong with the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The FDNY has transferred nine firefighters and suspended 11 more plus three captains over videos of probationary firefighters being hazed, the New York Daily News has learned.

The two separate Bronx hazing incidents involved new FDNY members doing push-ups face-first into cakes and hugging naked men.

The FDNY has transferred nine ...Read more