Colombia said it’s acting “decisively” against transnational organized crime after a senior U.S. official described the country’s president as being sympathetic to drug traffickers and gang members.

Operations against the Tren de Aragua gang have “significantly weakened” its consolidation in Bogota and thwarted its expansion plans,...Read more

An American YouTuber was arrested by Indian authorities after he allegedly snuck onto a remote island untouched by the modern world, bringing with him a coconut and a can of Diet Coke as an offering for an isolated tribe that lives there.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov is accused of using an inflatable boat to illegally travel to North Sentinel ...Read more

A Yale police officer has been arrested for allegedly possessing dozens of digital files depicting child sexual abuse, state police said.

Otilio Green, 43, of Hamden, was arrested Friday following a Connecticut State Police investigation prompted by a tip sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC.

The tip ...Read more

ATLANTA — This year’s legislative session ended with a jolt, as Senate leaders abruptly adjourned and left dozens of pending proposals to die on the vine.

But before the Friday standoff, Georgia lawmakers had already approved a stack of bills, setting the stage for Gov. Brian Kemp to begin the final phase of the legislative process. He has ...Read more

The ex-husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has apologized for berating three Muslim women in Georgia days after a video of the incident went viral.

“I came today just to meet with the young ladies that I was mean to and treated disrespectfully about their religion and about what they were doing,” Perry Greene said Friday at a ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Superior Court judge has issued a ruling that bars a Texas-based company from selling and marketing in California a computer-controlled milling machine designed to make untraceable “ghost guns,” with the decision marking the third significant victory for San Diego County in the early stages of its lawsuit against ...Read more

The Canadian government issued a new warning for travelers entering the U.S., saying they should “expect scrutiny” at the border and that their phones and other electronic devices may be searched.

The updated travel advisory follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to tighten border and immigration policy, which had already prompted ...Read more

Five nurses who worked on the same floor of a Boston-area hospital have all developed brain tumors.

In total, 11 members of the fifth-floor maternity unit at Mass General’s Newton-Wellesley Hospital have reported suffering from health issues, including the nurses diagnosed with the benign tumors. Two of those have the most common, benign ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — You’re not the only one asking this question: Why is it raining so darn much?

Some of Kentucky’s foremost and longest-tenured experts on weather and flooding aren’t sure when they last saw a system so sustained hang over the state.

From Thursday afternoon through Saturday, downpours have pelted much of the commonwealth...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump and a wide range of his administration’s actions, including government downsizing, attacks on the rights of immigrants and transgender people, and tariffs that are roiling economies across the globe.

More than 500,000 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has canceled more than a dozen international student visas at California campuses, including UCLA, UC San Diego and Stanford, university leaders, students and faculty at campuses confirmed to The Times.

At UCLA, the revocations hit at least eight international students, according to faculty groups and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The $600 million effort to rebuild the three L.A. Unified schools burned in the Palisades fire has hit an important milestone ahead of schedule — all debris has been cleared from the properties, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Friday.

Calling the debris removal a "pivotal moment for all of us," he detailed rebuilding ...Read more

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet on Monday with President Donald Trump in Washington to seek a better tariff deal for Israel and to discuss the war in Gaza, the situation in Syria and the Iranian nuclear program, an Israeli official said.

Netanyahu is in the Hungarian capital Budapest where he was warmly welcomed by Prime Minister ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to federal programs has delivered a considerable hit to the nation’s environment, but experts say its plans to repeal hard-won protections for clean air and water will also directly jeopardize Americans’ health — and their wallets.

Two new reports from environmental ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked police and prosecutors from enforcing a new state law that makes it a crime for immigrants to come into Florida after they enter the country illegally.

Calling the law likely unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams suspended enforcement of it for 14 days and ...Read more

President Donald Trump has vowed his historic tariff blitz would revive domestic manufacturing, but industry worries about his approach are raising fresh doubts about whether he can deliver on his promise of an economic boom.

In the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump declared “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country” and ...Read more