WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged 31-year-old Torrance resident Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to assassinate President Trump after rushing past security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on Saturday.

The domestic terrorism charge, announced during a brief arraignment hearing in federal ...Read more

MIAMI — Immigration arrests of Cubans living in the United States have skyrocketed even as green-card approvals have plummeted under President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a recently released analysis from a libertarian Washington think tank.

A Cato Institute report published last week found that overall the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III to the White House for a visit rife with doubt about the future of Britain’s so-called special relationship with America and fresh security concerns in the wake of the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

The British monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Black residents in Baltimore are still much less likely to own a home than white residents, despite years of efforts by the city and the private sector to correct racial inequities in homeownership rates.

Now, local leaders and realtors are hoping that outreach and education for potential Black buyers could be the key to reversing...Read more

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether the police use of phone tracking data violates the Constitution’s protection against “unreasonable searches.”

Most of the justices sounded wary of barring investigators from obtaining precise location history from Google or cellphone providers if it helps find a ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A massive piece of NASA’s Artemis project floated into the Space Coast on Monday with the arrival of the biggest portion of the Space Launch System rocket for next year’s Artemis III mission.

The top four-fifths of what will be a 212-foot-tall core stage arrived to KSC’s Turn Basin after making a 900-mile trip ...Read more

Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack.

Toward the bottom of the Bureau of Reclamation’s marquee announcement last week was a paragraph that said lower flows out of Lake Powell could reduce Hoover Dam’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A California man is being charged with trying to kill U.S. President Donald Trump during an attack on a Washington gala dinner over the weekend.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, made his first appearance in federal court on Monday. He is also being charged with gun offenses.

Wearing a blue jump suit and flanked by two public defenders, ...Read more

John Hinckley Jr. says it’s “spooky” that a gunman opened fire inside the same Washington, D.C. hotel where he shot President Reagan and three others in 1981.

The 70-year-old failed assassin pleaded insanity after shooting the nation’s 40th president along with Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a police officer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the media share responsibility for the attack at a media dinner this weekend attended by President Donald Trump and his most senior aides, the acting U.S. attorney general, Todd Blanche, said Monday.

At a press conference announcing charges against the suspected assailant, Cole Tomas Allen of California, Blanche ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The widow of Renee Good has asked a court to order the federal government to hand over the vehicle her spouse was driving when she was fatally shot by an immigration agent in January.

In a motion filed Friday, April 24, Rebecca Good argued the U.S. government’s refusal to turn over her and her late wife’s Honda Pilot ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a lower court ruling that found Texas’ new congressional map was likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, pointing to the high court’s unsigned order last year allowing the map to go into effect.

Monday’s one-paragraph order cements a new GOP-drawn congressional map for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Virginia Supreme Court grappled Monday over the validity of the legislative process leading to last week’s redistricting referendum, during oral arguments in one of the challenges to the commonwealth’s new congressional map.

An eventual decision on the lawsuit from Virginia Republican legislative leaders could determine ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s biblical rhetoric and prominent religious tattoos have long been decried by some as signals of Christian nationalism and crusader ideology.

But in recent months, as Hegseth became the face of the Trump administration’s military campaign against Iran, scrutiny of the Forest Lake native’s ...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday unveiled an aggressive Republican redistricting plan aimed at flipping four seats from Democrats in the upcoming midterm congressional elections.

With President Trump’s GOP allies clinging to a narrow majority, DeSantis is hoping to help Republicans hold on to the House of Representatives by restoring a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania does not have to release names of people affiliated with Jewish organizations on its campus to a federal agency while it is appealing a judge’s order, a judge ruled Monday.

Judge Gerald J. Pappert granted Penn a stay in the order he issued in late March that said Penn must comply with a subpoena...Read more

First Lady Melania Trump trashed late night host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday for mocking her as an “expectant widow” just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was marred by a shooting attack.

Melania Trump called on ABC to take unspecified action to punish the funny man for the tasteless remark, even though it was clearly ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Poor weather took out Monday what would have been the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch since 2024, but SpaceX has a backup available Tuesday morning, although SpaceX has yet to confirm when it will retry.

When it does launch, Central Florida could be in store for pair of double sonic booms with the planned returned ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota lawmakers may create a new unit within the State Patrol to protect constitutional officers, Supreme Court justices and legislators after last summer’s deadly attack on two lawmakers.

The change is among many safety measures legislators are considering following the assassination of former House Speaker Melissa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A California man is being charged with trying to kill U.S. President Donald Trump during an attack on a Washington gala dinner over the weekend.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, made his first appearance in federal court on Monday. He is also being charged with gun offenses.

Wearing a blue jump suit and flanked by two public defenders, ...Read more