SAN DIEGO — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has agreed in principle to settle more than 100 childhood sexual abuse lawsuits filed against it last year in San Diego and across California, according to recent court filings in the cases.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs and the Utah-based LDS church, often referred to as the Mormon ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The mistrial of a former Grand Rapids police officer accused of fatally shooting a Black motorist in 2022 evoked mixed reactions on Thursday, with no one calling it a victory, even though the officer involved wasn't found criminally responsible.

Kent County Circuit Judge Christina Mims declared a mistrial Thursday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days after Judge James E. Boasberg ruled against President Donald Trump’s plans to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan criminal gang, the president called for Congress to remove the judge from the bench.

“HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE,” Trump wrote in a social media ...Read more

The Johnson County Commission in Kansas is taking on a former Jan. 6 defendant in a battle over a web domain he registered more than four years ago.

William Pope, a Topeka man who represented himself in his Capitol riot case — and whose charges were dismissed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office — says the Board of County ...Read more

The number of reported measles cases in Kansas grew slightly over the past week, and while the outbreak has not spread to the Kansas City metro, it is getting closer.

The state saw two new cases, bringing the total number to 48 cases as of Wednesday morning, up from 46 cases a week ago, according to the Kansas Department of Health and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thomas Girardi, the disbarred lawyer convicted of defrauding his own clients, has been hospitalized and cannot attend a hearing scheduled for Thursday where a federal judge was set to hear evidence that could determine whether he is sent to prison or a suitable medical facility.

The disclosure of Girardi's hospitalization came ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. has secured what he described as a comprehensive trade agreement with the U.K., the culmination of weeks of talks between the two allies and marking the first of his promised deals with countries around the world.

The U.S. president said in a post on his social media platform that Thursday would be an “...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County on Wednesday approved additional funding to pay overtime for jailers who work for the Sheriff’s Office — and to support efforts to hire and retain them — in hopes of addressing staffing shortages in the county’s notorious jail.

Commissioner Bob Ellis, vice chair of the Board of Commissioners and sponsor of the ...Read more

The Trump administration wants to sharply reduce funding for federal rental assistance that helps hundreds of thousands of California households afford a home.

The plan, part of the president's 2026 budget proposal, calls for a 43% reduction in funding available for a variety of programs it labels "dysfunctional," including public housing and ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council members are looking to extend the city’s popular e-bike voucher program.

Council member Marci Collier Overstreet introduced legislation this week that would set aside additional funding to continue the program that helped more than 500 Atlantans buy e-bikes last year.

The first round was funded with $1 ...Read more

Pakistan said Chinese fighter jets were used to respond to military strikes by India and that it has kept Beijing fully informed of its action as tensions in the disputed Kashmir region escalate.

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told parliament late Wednesday that Chinese J-10C jets were used to shoot down five Indian fighter jets along the border, ...Read more

Beijing reiterated its call for the U.S. to cancel unilateral tariffs on China, underscoring a standoff between the world’s largest economies as they prepare for initial trade talks.

The U.S. should be prepared to revoke punitive tariffs placed on China, Commerce Ministry spokesman He Yadong said at a regular press briefing Thursday. The U.S....Read more

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people.

They’re not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past few weeks, he told KFF Health News, his Schenectady, New York, office has seen people come in for whom “there is no information on the record, ...Read more

Camp Lejeune’s victims are turning into ghosts haunting the federal judges and attorneys struggling with a flood of claims and lawsuits over harm from contaminated drinking water at the Marine Corps base in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1980s.

One of them is Dan Mason, a Marine from September 1975 to September 1979 who spent more than ...Read more

When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work.

“It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access ...Read more