PHILADELPHIA — Crowds stood outside the Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice chanting “say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.”

The Friday morning rally organized by Juntos follows a string of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainments outside courthouses, including one at the Philadelphia justice center ...Read more

CHICAGO — Bowing to federal pressure under the Trump administration, UChicago Medicine has become the latest Illinois hospital to end gender-affirming pediatric care.

The decision, announced Friday, leaves no room for ongoing transitional care, and an unknown number of patients in limbo.

“UChicago Medicine has reached the difficult ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York state on Friday agreed to pay $450,000 to Brittany Commisso, a former aide to Andrew Cuomo who accused him of groping and subjecting her to persistent sexual harassment on the job at the governor’s office.

Lawyers for Commisso called the settlement by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office “a complete vindication” of her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. intelligence official declassified an email trove purporting to expose a Democratic conspiracy to cast doubt on Donald Trump’s 2016 election win, just as his team seeks to defuse criticism over its handling of files linked to financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the 114 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three deputies were killed on Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A., the deadliest incident for the agency in more than 160 years.

Deputies with the arson explosives detail, an elite unit within the sheriff’s department, were moving military-...Read more

In a dramatic and high-stakes diplomatic maneuver, the United States and Venezuela have completed a sweeping prisoner exchange that could mark the beginning of a thaw in years of political hostility between the two nations.

The arrangement, detailed by multiple sources familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity, was ...Read more

Venezuela released 10 Americans as it prepares to receive a group of deportees freed from jail in El Salvador after an unexpected breakthrough in ongoing talks with the United States.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the formerly detained Americans were “on their way to freedom” on Friday and thanked El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele for his ...Read more

The company with all eyes on it has finally put out a statement about ColdplayGate.

Astronomer on Friday afternoon said its board has launched an investigation after CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot were apparently caught on the kiss cam at a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro.

“Astronomer is committed to the values and ...Read more

DENVER — Fire crews working across western Colorado made more progress containing and slowing the growth of several wildfires Thursday.

The largest fire of the bunch — the Turner Gulch Fire near Gateway — is now 34% contained, a sharp improvement from 9% reported Thursday morning. The wildfire’s growth also slowed, increasing by 179 ...Read more

DENVER — Six weeks before a former Trump official called clerks seeking access to secure voting equipment in Colorado, he reached out to several county commissioners in the state with a different proposition.

President Donald Trump’s administration had just placed more than 50 Colorado cities and counties on a list of “sanctuary ...Read more

Venezuela is set to receive a group of deportees freed from jail in El Salvador following an unexpected breakthrough in ongoing talks with the U.S.

Roughly 250 Venezuelans, previously deported by the U.S. to El Salvador in March, are set to arrive in Caracas Friday, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is celebrating the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show" on CBS — and calling for even more late-night hosts to be axed.

"I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings," Trump wrote Friday morning on Truth Social. "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At least three deputies were killed and another person was injured Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Center, according to law enforcement sources.

The blast occurred just before 7:30 a.m. at the center on Eastern Avenue, which is home to the sheriff’s special ...Read more

PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. — The Space Force presence on the Space Coast is beginning to swell as one of its major units, STARCOM, had its first change-of-command ceremony since its headquarters moved from Colorado to Florida.

Major Gen. James Smith on Friday became the third-ever commander of STARCOM, which stands for Space Training and ...Read more

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell’s burglary case is now in the hands of a jury.

Following three days of emotional testimony, a group of 15 jurors are deliberating on whether Mitchell, a first-term Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party senator, broke into her stepmother’s home last spring to steal mementos of her late ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A University of Kentucky employee has been removed from teaching and is under investigation for circulating an online petition calling for the destruction of Israel, university officials said Friday.

UK law professor Ramsi Woodcock is running a website called the “Antizionist Legal Studies Movement.” It includes a ...Read more