MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officials have announced two arrests one day after agents’ vehicles were vandalized and government property was stolen during unrest that followed a federal officer shooting and wounding a man on Wednesday in north Minneapolis.

“One individual who allegedly stole federal government property out of an FBI vehicle in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California State Parks will be free to enter on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday, after the Trump administration ordered national parks to charge entry fees that day.

Newsom's announcement comes as the nation approaches the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, and after the U...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on goods from nations that oppose his push to take control of Greenland, stepping up his rhetoric while Denmark hosted U.S. lawmakers on its home turf following meetings in Washington this week.

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland ...Read more

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on Hamtramck's contested mayoral race but ordered the Court of Appeals to expedite a review of whether 37 uncounted ballots should be tallied — though one justice said the case warrants an immediate review by the high court.

Now-Mayor Adam Alharbi was declared the winner...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A year after the Eaton fire, survivors and the state's electric utilities are clashing over whether state law should continue to protect the companies from the cost of disastrous wildfires they ignite.

Southern California Edison says that with the help of those state laws it expects to pay little or even none of the damage costs...Read more

Security forces in Haiti have destroyed at least two homes belonging to feared warlord Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, after a drone strike targeted his Delmas 6 stronghold.

A Haitian government source confirmed to the Miami Herald that the incident occurred Wednesday and the homes were located next to each other. Chérizier’s whereabouts ...Read more

Denmark and Greenland are stepping up lobbying of U.S. lawmakers in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland.

A group of U.S. senators and representatives met lawmakers in the Danish parliament on Friday, with protests against Trump’s plans due across Denmark on Saturday. Alaska Republican Lisa ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — During a brief appearance in court Friday, former Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill’s legal team and prosecutors agreed they’d be ready for a June trial on her seven felony charges.

A status hearing was scheduled for May 1, when there will be a further update to potentially lock in the trial date. Attorneys told Judge ...Read more

Nick Reiner was placed under a mental health conservatorship for a year beginning in 2020, according to a report published Thursday.

Reiner, now 32, was released from the conservatorship in 2021, and it’s unclear why it wasn’t extended, the New York Times reported. He had been placed under what’s known as an LPS conservatorship — based ...Read more

Nationwide, the number of people buying health plans on Obamacare insurance marketplaces is down by about 833,000 compared with a year ago, according to federal data released this week.

Many states are reporting fewer new enrollees, more people dropping their coverage, and more people choosing cheaper and less generous health insurance plans ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis unilaterally stalled a specialized prison program aimed at rehabilitating and releasing people who have served decades behind bars for crimes they committed as juveniles and young adults, The Denver Post found.

Polis has not approved any of the program’s graduates for early release since 2023 — an about-face from...Read more

DENVER — Across Colorado, in bustling municipal courtrooms and council chambers, in city attorneys’ offices and public defender headquarters, legal professionals and elected officials are scrambling to make sense of a new normal.

The world of city courts was upended in late December, when the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ...Read more

Denmark and Greenland are stepping up lobbying of U.S. lawmakers in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland.

A group of U.S. senators is set to meet members of the Danish parliament in Copenhagen on Friday. The trip follows a week of meetings in Washington by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke ...Read more

South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in jail for charges including resisting arrest, marking the disgraced ex-leader’s first sentence in a slew of pending cases connected to his declaration of martial law.

The Seoul Central District Court on Friday found Yoon guilty of unlawfully obstructing authorities�...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good was found with gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and head after a federal immigration officer shot her the morning of Jan. 7, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department’s incident report.

Paramedics found Good unresponsive in her car with blood on her face and torso at 9:42 a.m. She was not breathing, and her pulse...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal officials have launched an investigation into the California Community Colleges Athletic Assn. and four other state colleges and school districts, alleging that their policies allowing sports participation based on gender identity violate the civil rights of female athletes, U.S. Education Department officials announced ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The scene that played out this week in Minneapolis illustrated a growing tension among those protesting federal immigration sweeps: Demonstrate at a distance or become more disruptive, even violent?

A federal agent on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 15, shot a man during a struggle to apprehend him, prompting residents to pour from...Read more

In the largest Medicare Advantage fraud settlement to date, Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $556 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it billed the government for medical conditions patients didn’t have.

The settlement, announced Jan. 14, resolves whistleblower lawsuits that accused the giant health insurer of mounting a ...Read more

For the second time in the past two weeks, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a prominent national report, has classified 100% of California as being drought-free. That’s a rating that hasn’t occurred in 25 years.

Great news, right?

It’s not quite that simple. To be exact, the last time the report had California at 100% drought-free was the week ...Read more