As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting 137 Venezuelans he says are associated with a Venezuelan gang.

A federal judge swiftly blocked the deportations and ordered the planes carrying ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate will remain there after a court upheld his sentence of capital punishment from more than 40 years ago.

Karu Gene White’s most recent appeal to overturn his sentence was rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit on Friday, according to Kentucky Attorney General ...Read more

Authorities have confiscated the passport of a man considered a "person of interest" in the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic earlier this month, according to CNN.

Joshua Riibe is a person of interest but not a suspect in the case, according to authorities in Konanki's home county in ...Read more

NEW YORK — The president of the union representing New York City’s deputy sheriffs was transferred out of her unit and punished by Sheriff Anthony Miranda and his team for questioning the agency’s crackdown on illegal pot shops and several personnel changes, a city Office of Collective Bargaining report says.

After reviewing union ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Days after telling lawmakers that he took out a $3.4 billion loan to pay for Medi-Cal costs through March, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office said Monday that he’s asking the state Legislature to approve another $2.8 billion in extra funding for the health care program for low-income Californians through the end of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cast the Kennedy Center, one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, as mismanaged and in disrepair, as he visited the iconic venue as its new chairman and vowed to work with Congress to restore it to a place of prominence.

Trump toured the center and spoke at a board meeting on Monday, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 21-year-old man suffering from a serious infection who went into medical distress last Thursday in a jail at Rikers Island has died, according to officials and sources.

Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in connection with two robberies, records show.

He ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida House is for the third time pushing to undo a law that bans people younger than 21 from buying a rifle.

In the past two legislative sessions, the bill failed amid opposition from Senate President Kathleen Passidomo.

But this year, gun rights activists say they’re more hopeful, pointing to new legislative ...Read more

MIAMI — Appointments are a hot commodity at DMV offices across Miami-Dade County — and apparently are for sale.

On Monday, the county agency in the process of taking over driver’s-license services in Miami-Dade declared it had “uncovered a network of appointment scalpers” who have been “hoarding free appointments and reselling them ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he is not new to the concept of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

“If you believe in cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, the answer is that so do I. And that’s what we’ve been doing,” Moore told Semafor during an interview at the BlackRock retirement summit last week in Washington...Read more

DULUTH, Minn. — The man accused of burying the stolen ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” in his backyard for years has died — closing the case against him that never got its conclusion in federal court.

Jerry Hal Saliterman, 77, of Crystal died Sunday. He had COPD and Parkinson’s disease, according to court ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore said Monday afternoon that the current version of a bill creating a “broad” new tax on business-to-business services will not be in the state’s final budget for fiscal year 2026.

“A broad [business] to [business] tax will not happen in the state of Maryland,” Moore said in Annapolis Monday.

Senate ...Read more

A French European parliament member quipped over the weekend that the U.S. should return the Statue of Liberty to France after President Donald Trump decided “to side with the tyrants” against Ukraine.

Raphaël Glucksmann, a a member of the European Parliament and co-president of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, a small ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — State lawmakers are proposing an expansion of Minnesota’s Medicaid fraud control unit and tougher penalties for health- and elder-care providers who bilk taxpayer money.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the expansion, from 32 to 41 people, would allow the investigative unit in his office to recover more money from...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Correctional staff at the Central California Women’s Facility assaulted a group of incarcerated women with pepper spray and rubber bullets to retaliate after inmates filed sexual abuse claims, a recent federal lawsuit alleges.

Thirteen women who are currently serving sentences in the Chowchilla prison filed the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A former California police officer was convicted of unreasonably siccing his K-9 on a bicyclist and ordering the dog to bite the person, according to federal prosecutors, who said he then lied about the incident in a report.

While a K-9 handler with the Antioch Police Department, Morteza Amiri kept a “running bite count...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal maneuver to invoke a 1798 law to deport certain alleged Venezuelan gang members in the United States raised questions about whether he defied a court order that sought to temporarily pause those removals.

Trump announced a proclamation Saturday that said the Tren de Aragua gang is “undertaking ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Business groups are raising privacy concerns after state regulators requested detailed data on Floridians' prescription drugs, including patients' names and dates of birth and their doctors.

The Office of Insurance Regulation is demanding the unusual trove of data from pharmacy benefit managers — health care industry ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that pardons granted by then-President Joe Biden to lawmakers on the disbanded select House committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot were invalid because he used an automatic pen.

“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of ...Read more