BOSTON — The terms of a plea agreement Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson reached with federal prosecutors raises questions about whether her decision to plead guilty to two public corruption charges could get her deported.

Fernandes Anderson, 46, was born in Cape Verde, and at the age of 10, immigrated to Roxbury. She was the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department has made only incremental progress in addressing a critical shortage of officers following a wave of retirements and resignations, and the police commissioner acknowledged Tuesday that it could take “years of momentum” for staffing levels to rebound.

The department is down about 1,200 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals panel appeared sympathetic toward a claim that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has failed in its duty to veterans but also raised concerns that a trial judge may have overstepped his authority in a broad order requiring the agency to build more housing on its West Los Angeles campus.

"When you look at ...Read more

Dozens of arms shot toward the midday sun Tuesday at UC San Diego when a protest organizer asked roughly 200 students if they work in laboratories whose research funding has been cut by the Trump administration.

Seconds later, the crowd was chanting “Stand up, fight back!” — the kind of phrase that demonstrators across the country were ...Read more

President Donald Trump cast his tariffs as a political winner in an attempt to assuage fears from wealthy Republican benefactors about the fallout of his signature trade policy just hours before even more sweeping tariffs were due to take effect.

“We’re going to win the midterm elections, and we’re going to have a tremendous, thundering ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Amid reports that the Trump administration is considering drone strikes against cartels, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated her staunch opposition to any such military action.

"We do not agree with any kind of intervention or interference," Sheinbaum told reporters Tuesday at her daily morning news conference. "This ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A jury has been selected in the trial that will decide whether the suspect in the fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur is guilty of battery in connection with a jail altercation.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, was indicted in February on counts of battery by a prisoner and challenging someone to a fight. According to prosecutors,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marjorie Taylor Greene took her DOGE agenda on the road Tuesday, but the tour didn’t go far. The Delivering on Government Efficiency Oversight Subcommittee held a field hearing on federal real estate holdings from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the home of the U.S. Agency for Global Media located just three blocks west of...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican bill filed this week that proposes making abortion illegal in North Carolina at any stage of pregnancy won’t move forward, House Speaker Destin Hall said Tuesday.

“I don’t think there’s any real desire in our caucus to hear that particular bill, and so, it’s not going to be heard in committee,” Hall ...Read more

South Bow Corp.’s Keystone oil pipeline has been shut after a spill in southeast North Dakota, curtailing a conduit that carries as much as 15% of Canada’s crude exports to the U.S.

South Bow estimates 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near the pump station. The affected segment has been isolated and the release has been contained, ...Read more

As the Trump administration makes it harder for Haitians to leave their country or remain in the United States, the Dominican Republic is announcing its own tougher immigration directives toward Haitians to discourage them from going over to the next-door neighbor that shares the island of Hispaniola.

Dominican President Luis Abinader has ...Read more

FBI Deputy Director and former Fox News host Dan Bongino could soon be getting a 20-person team of bodyguards for a job that doesn’t typically come with a security detail.

The FBI is reportedly seeking agents to temporarily leave their jobs to serve as muscle for the brash ex-pundit, according to NBC News.

Sources told the outlet that a ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In just 16 months, a new nursing program in Meridian will usher its first class of nurses into the health care workforce. In Idaho, that workforce is waiting with open arms — and a deficit of hundreds of workers.

Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university based in Phoenix, celebrated the onset of its accelerated ...Read more

Gov. Joe Lombardo vowed to “put the teeth back into Nevada’s penal code” through a proposed crime and public safety bill he introduced this week.

The Republican governor said Senate Bill 457 – which he calls the “Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act” — has provisions that increase criminal penalties in a variety of areas including ...Read more

Edward Goodrich sees himself in the text of Nevada’s Assembly Bill 414.

“As I read the contents of AB 414, I quickly realized that this legislation was actually about me,” Goodrich told lawmakers on behalf of a Northern Nevada chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Goodrich, who has worked in convention ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged a River Rouge man with a gun crime and said he is a suspect in the homicides of three people found in a burning vehicle in Detroit.

The case against Edward Delorean Redding, 29, was filed two days after the remains of three people were found when firefighters responded to a car blaze in an alley ...Read more

Colorado legislators are fast-tracking the creation of a $4 million fund to help Gov. Jared Polis’ office defend against actions by the Trump administration — including potential criminal investigations — as policymakers grapple with frozen funding and uncertainty from the federal government.

Using money from the federal Infrastructure ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The US Defense Department is offering an apology, back pay and a welcome back to former military personnel who were forced out of the armed forces over their refusal to be vaccinated against the coronavirus during the Biden administration.

“Former service members who were involuntarily separated solely due to their COVID-19 ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Michigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar's office this week turned over copies of receipts for the more than $484,000 that he was reimbursed by the House of Representatives last year.

The office of the congressman had initially declined to provide receipts for the 21 transactions to The Detroit News last week, but did so after The News ...Read more