Luis Campos, the legal director of The Alliance of Idaho, said that in the first few days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, he met with local churches, schools and employers.

Since taking office on Monday, Trump has issued several executive orders regarding immigrants and immigration, along with other actions. Some of those ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ended a Biden administration hold on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and called on Egypt and Jordan to accept more Palestinian refugees following the devastation of the conflict in Gaza.

The decision on the bombs is in line with Trump’s pledges on the campaign trail and since assuming the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Independent School District’s board is investigating a social media post, purportedly written by a North Side High School teacher, that seems to invite immigration officers to the school to arrest students, officials said.

The post was made in the comment section on X in response to a post by Immigration ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens threw his support behind a moratorium on homeless encampment clearings on Friday, amid calls for changes to the city’s homeless strategy after a sweep by city workers left a man dead.

In a video posted to his Instagram account, Dickens said there was a need to “reevaluate and reassess our city’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Long Island man who spent spent decades in prison has been acquitted of the 1990 fatal shooting of a Hofstra assistant football coach.

“It’s about time,” 51-year-old Christopher Ellis told Newsday outside the courthouse on Friday. “From day one, I’ve been telling them I’m innocent and nobody’s been listening to me ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amid complaints that recent preemptive power shutoffs have left Inland Empire residents in the dark for days, San Bernardino County supervisors have published an open letter criticizing Southern California Edison's handling of the outages.

"Some of these outages drag on for more than a week and people are understandably ...Read more

DENVER — Denver and a city police officer are appealing a federal jury’s orders that they pay millions in damages to demonstrators injured by officers during the 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd.

The city and county argued in an appeal filed Dec. 23 that the case should be retried or thrown out, saying several errors took place ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the University of California, the nation’s top higher education recipient of federal research funding, are raising questions and voicing concerns about the ramifications of a temporary Trump administration pause on research grant reviews announced this week.

The administration abruptly canceled some National ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency said the COVID-19 pandemic “more likely” originated from a lab leak than a natural source, shifting its stance after previously saying both scenarios were possible.

The CIA’s new view aligns the agency with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Energy, which say the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A West Palm Beach man was arrested Friday night after police say he made a series of Facebook posts suggesting that President Donald Trump should be assassinated.

Shannon Depararro Atkins, 46, is now charged with written threats to kill or do bodily injury as well as smuggling contraband and possession of a controlled ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — At a San Diego gathering on immigrant rights Friday, one community leader told California Attorney General Rob Bonta her legal center had gotten a call from a young girl.

When the leader later drove to see the girl’s family, a woman opened the door and cried. Her family was in fear, she said in Spanish. She had not gone to work ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on illegal immigration threatens deportation for millions of immigrants living in the U.S. without permission. How would that affect California and the Bay Area?

Recent studies based on U.S. Census Bureau helps to put the numbers in perspective.

Nationally, the number of ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, who once advocated for a bill granting in-state tuition to undocumented college students, now believes that the legislation has “run its course” and is calling for its repeal.

She announced her changed stance on Saturday via her X account, responding to a video posted by state Sen. Jason Pizzo, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man shoved into the path of an oncoming train in Brooklyn told The New York Daily News how he narrowly missed landing on the track’s deadly third rail before scrambling back onto the platform just before the train rushed into the station

“As soon as I jumped up on the platform, the incoming (train)… pulled into the station....Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the early days of President Donald Trump's first administration, several Kern County organizations launched a tip line people could contact if they spotted immigration enforcement activities underway.

Nearly three weeks ago, the hotline started ringing again. In panicked voices, callers reported witnessing U.S. Border Patrol ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration ordered the Pentagon to release a hold on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden, a White House official said.

Under Biden, the U.S. paused delivery of about 3,500 bombs to Israel — including the 2,000-pound explosives — in May in a bid to limit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it will open a new recovery center in Altadena for those who incurred damage from the Eaton fire.

The Altadena Disaster Recovery Center will open Monday at 540 W. Woodbury Road and will operate from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Representatives from state and federal agencies will be ...Read more