NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial wrapped its fourth week on Friday with even more bombshell claims about the embattled music mogul, including that he dangled a woman off a 17th-floor balcony and coerced another into participating in sex parties.

Combs, 55, has been behind bars at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan ...Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Greenland this month, the self-ruling territory of Denmark that U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants to take over.

Macron will meet with the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen, to discuss security in the North Atlantic and the Arctic, climate...Read more

WASHINGTON — There may be no second acts in American lives, but American politics is full of sequels. And 15 years after they starred in an electoral bloodbath, Democrats who faced tea party-filled town halls in the past say they’re watching a party-swapping reboot unfold today.

“There are some eerie similarities,” said Chris Carney, a ...Read more

The Trump administration is intensifying efforts to round up migrants. It’s also doing so with increasingly aggressive tactics.

In scenes from San Diego to Massachusetts, agents outfitted with bullet-resistant vests and often displaying military-style rifles are shown in social media videos and photos being escorted along city streets by ...Read more

A burst of gunfire shattered the stillness along the Cuyuní River when soldiers from the Guyana Defense Force came under attack while navigating a remote jungle waterway near the settlement of Eteringbang — deep within the mineral-rich Essequibo region, a territory claimed by Guyana and Venezuela.

The ambush, launched on May 13 from the ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — One of Kentucky’s most controversial juvenile detention centers flunked an annual inspection in May, as state officials cited its filthy conditions, broken equipment, youths languishing in cells for extended periods and poor documentation about the staff’s use of pepper spray and physical force.

The state-run Adair Youth ...Read more

Japan won’t necessarily wait for the Group of Seven Summit set to take place in Canada next week to seal a trade deal with the U.S. if the two sides can agree earlier, Japan’s top negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said in Washington, D.C. on Friday.

Trade discussions between Japan and the U.S. have “progressed” but have not yet reached a ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — A key Karen Read defense crash reconstruction expert testified that damage to her SUV — the alleged murder weapon — and wounds to boyfriend John O’Keefe’s arm are “inconsistent” with a vehicle strike.

Daniel Wolfe, a Ph.D. who serves as chief of the crash reconstruction unit of an engineering consultancy company ...Read more

A group of 18 leading U.S. research universities, including Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins, asked a federal judge for permission to file legal arguments in support of Harvard University in its high-stakes showdown with the Trump administration over more than $2 billion in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly five months after a firestorm laid waste to a wide swath of Pacific Palisades, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday that the global infrastructure company AECOM will help develop a master plan for rebuilding the area, as well as a plan for reconstructing utilities and other infrastructure.

The company will work ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On a 7-5 vote, the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Friday rejected controversial measures aimed at reducing air pollution by imposing surcharges that could make natural gas-powered water heaters and furnaces more expensive to buy.

In voting to deny the measures, AQMD board member Janet Nguyen said the rule would ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has tried for months to find a Boise man — accused of stabbing his roommate to death — competent enough to stand trial for his first-degree murder charge. Instead, the 35-year-old now could be going to prison without a criminal conviction.

That’s because under state law, someone ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping had agreed to restart the flow of rare earth materials, as negotiators from the two nations prepare to resume trade talks on Monday in London.

The developments come as the world’s two largest economies look to resolve a simmering dispute over tariffs and technology...Read more

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the U.S. to face a federal indictment in Tennessee accusing him of helping to transport across the country hundreds of people who had entered the U.S. illegally.

Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. marks a surprising turnaround in the mistakenly deported Maryland man’s legal saga after months of litigation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a fresh gun-rights appeal, refusing to question the District of Columbia’s ban on large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices.

The justices on Friday rejected arguments from four firearms owners who said the ban violates the gun-rights protections in the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

On ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let him resume dismantling the Department of Education, seeking to lift a lower court order that requires the reinstatement of as many as 1,400 workers.

The emergency request Friday challenges a federal district judge’s conclusion that Trump’s effort to shut down the ...Read more