CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly two miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed.

Then they broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them.

Miguel Angel ...Read more

MIAMI — Donning an all white suit and her signature silk press, former Vice President Kamala Harris walked on stage to Victoria Monet’s “On My Mama” and waved to the crowd that filled the Adrienne Arsht Center to see her on the final stop of her book tour promoting “107 Days,” detailing her historic campaign for presidency.

For an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors moved to drop manslaughter charges Friday against two Torrance police officers who shot and killed a Black man in 2018, attempting to end a seven-year saga that saw the case rejected and then reexamined by three different district attorneys.

Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez were indicted in ...Read more

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar met with Pope Leo XIV on Friday at the Vatican as part of a delegation visit from Ukraine that’s asking the church to help return more than 19,000 children who have been abducted during the ongoing war with Russia.

Klobuchar said she spoke with the first American pope for 20 minutes. They talked about the missing ...Read more

The rewriting of a page on the CDC’s website to assert the false claim that vaccines may cause autism sparked a torrent of anger and anguish from doctors, scientists, and parents who say Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrecking the credibility of an agency they’ve long relied on for unbiased scientific evidence. ...Read more

CHICAGO — A man facing a federal terrorism charge for allegedly dousing a 26-year-old woman with gasoline and lighting her on fire on a Blue Line train car was ordered detained while awaiting trial Friday.

The unusual charge of terrorism against a mass transportation system filed against 50-year-old Lawrence Reed comes as President Donald ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marjorie Taylor Greene made her support for releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse files known long before she became a member of Congress.

“Despite what the Fake News Media says, this isn’t a conspiracy theory,” she wrote in July 2020 Facebook post about the case. “I will do everything under my power to bring down any ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — All Kentucky state and local law enforcement could get broad authority to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement in deporting undocumented immigrants under a bill proposed by Rep. TJ Roberts, R-Burlington, Thursday.

Roberts discussed his bill request to force all local law enforcement agencies and the Kentucky State Police ...Read more

After a panel of federal judges in Texas this week struck down that state’s recently redrawn congressional maps, voters in California might be wondering if that means the Golden State will halt its own mid-decade redistricting plan.

After all, when Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California Democrats began talking about redistricting early on, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former Los Angeles County sheriff's custodian who was facing a possible DUI charge took his blood sample from the arrest and microwaved it to destroy the evidence against him, prosecutors say.

Tommy Ray Trimble, 60, is charged with one felony count each of second-degree commercial burglary, preparing false evidence, destroying...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Before the start of Tuesday’s team practice on Boathouse Row, a couple of teenagers filmed their own TikTok dances. The boy was sheepish about showing his adult coaches the final product on his phone, while a group of girls compared hairstyles. After a quick warmup in the cold air, with some students moving more ...Read more

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, pushed back Friday against President Donald Trump’s call for the arrest and potential “execution” of him and five other Democratic lawmakers over their call for military service members to defy illegal orders.

Invoking the recent murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Kelly called out Trump for ...Read more

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is facing the risk of losing its key partner after the U.S. threatened to cut off support unless Kyiv agrees to a peace deal that favors Russia.

“Now, it’s one of the most difficult moments in our history,” Zelenskyy said in a video address to the nation on Friday after he was presented with a 28...Read more

The stepmother of Anna Kepner, the high school senior found dead on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month, has invoked the Fifth Amendment in a custody battle as one of her minor children faces potential criminal charges in the Florida cheerleader’s death.

Shauntel Hudson — who was traveling with her kids, Kepner and the latter’s ...Read more

Kyiv’s biggest European allies lined up with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reject key elements of a U.S.-Russian plan to end the war in Ukraine as Washington threatened to halt military support to force acceptance of the deal.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer of the U.K. agreed on a call with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hazardous pesticides — and sensitive data from customers who trusted a trio of pest control companies, including Orkin — allegedly wound up in the regular trash.

Now three companies that operate in California are paying millions following an investigation that included some dumpster diving.

The $3.15-million settlement was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fall is the time of year when bears really begin to think with their stomachs.

Some will double their weight to prepare for wintertime hibernation, often scavenging for calories for up to 20 hours per day. This feeding frenzy, called hyperphagia, drives them farther from their usual range and into neighborhood dumpsters in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Faced with a large budget gap, Los Angeles County on Thursday released a spending plan that slashes funding for some homeless services and could reverse progress made in getting people off the streets.

The plan for next fiscal year starting July 1 details how the L.A. County Department of Homeless Services and Housing proposes ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As Border Patrol agents fan out of Charlotte and fear lingers from days of federal immigration enforcement across the region, Bishop Michael Martin is urging Catholics to confront the moment through the lens of faith, not politics.

Half of the diocese’s roughly 565,000 Catholics are Hispanic. Many stayed home from Mass, ...Read more