LAS VEGAS — Millions of dollars in cash flow through Las Vegas casinos every day, making them ideal targets for money laundering schemes. Accordingly, the gaming industry is tightly regulated and closely monitored by both federal and state agencies to ensure that casinos are not used to launder illegitimate funds.

But no system is perfect.

A...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has promised to end the right to citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to undocumented parents shortly after he takes office next month.

In an interview earlier this month with NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump said he would attempt to do so through executive action.

"Yes, we're going to end that, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A high ranking administrator in the Beverly Hills Unified School District had an urgent, confidential message for the school board.

It was Oct. 27, just over a week before the presidential election, and tensions at Beverly Hills High School between Persian Jewish students and Black students were quickly escalating, wrote Laura ...Read more

Andrea Deutsch, the mayor of Narberth, Pennsylvania, and the owner of a pet store in town, doesn’t get health care coverage through either of her jobs. Instead, she is enrolled in a plan she purchased on Pennie, Pennsylvania’s health insurance exchange.

Deutsch, who has been mayor since 2018, is paid $1 per year for the job. Her annual ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It was an ordinary day at his Los Angeles law office when John Nadolenco opened a letter from Brazil enlisting his help in a mission to retrieve a stolen, and quite possibly cursed, 836-pound emerald.

The year was 2014, the heyday of the Nigerian prince email scam, and the up-and-coming attorney was no fool.

"I immediately ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released the fourth of seven reports Monday related to a years-long investigation into clergy sexual abuse within Michigan's Catholic dioceses.

The report indicated that the investigation into the Diocese of Lansing, which began in September 2018, found that 48 priests, three religious brothers,...Read more

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump Monday slammed the “cold-blooded” murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and trashed supporters of accused killer Luigi Mangione.

Trump said he was outraged that some Americans have expressed sympathy for the man accused of gunning down Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk on Dec. 4.

“It...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was set to start meeting Republican senators Monday as the vaccine skeptic launches his contentious confirmation bid for health secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial Cabinet nominee headed to Capitol Hill for the first of more than a dozen planned meetings with GOP senators as he addresses questions ...Read more

MIAMI — Dozens of luxury beachfront condos and hotels in Surfside, Bal Harbour, Miami Beach and Sunny Isles are sinking into the ground at rates that were “unexpected,” with nearly 70% of the buildings in northern and central Sunny Isles affected, research by the University of Miami found.

The study, published Friday night, identified a ...Read more

At least three people, including the suspect, were killed and and six people are injured Monday in a shooting at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said a deceased juvenile found at the scene is believed to be the shooter, who used a handgun.

Barnes said the juvenile is an enrolled student and no police ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has responded to reported drone sightings over New Jersey and other states with assurances that there’s no evidence of “malicious intent,” with a National Security Council official signaling that federal entities think the brouhaha has been much ado about nothing — even as top Democrats demand ...Read more

Saying the federal government and the military know the origin of the drones that are confounding residents from New Jersey, New York, and the Philadelphia suburbs, President-elect Donald Trump asserted on Monday that U.S. leaders won’t comment because ”for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.”

Trump made his remarks during ...Read more

Georgia’s 16 Republican electors will cast their ballots for Donald Trump and JD Vance on Tuesday, cementing the state’s electoral votes for the Republican presidential ticket in an oft-overlooked process that four years ago was anything but humdrum.

The contingent selected by party leaders this year to formally elect Trump is made up ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD’s terror guru said Monday that most drone sightings have been determined to be crafts flown by innocent hobbyists — or to be planes, helicopters, meteor showers or even planet Venus.

“There is a little bit of virality associated with how this thing has materialized and grown,” said Deputy Commissioner Rebecca ...Read more

The Maryland native accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month faces five charges in New York, the most serious being second-degree murder.

Each state defines its own murder statute, and many state laws lay out differing levels of seriousness with different definitions of what constitutes each degree.

Had ...Read more

At least three people were killed, including a suspect, and six others wounded Monday in a shooting at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin.

Madison police Chief Shon Barnes said the body of a female juvenile found at the scene is believed to be the shooter, who used a handgun.

Barnes said the juvenile is an enrolled student and no police ...Read more

Derek Chauvin’s legal team will be permitted to examine heart tissue and fluid samples taken from George Floyd’s autopsy for an appeal of the former Minneapolis officer’s federal civil rights conviction based on a medical theory that Chauvin did not cause Floyd’s death.

U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson on Monday granted a motion from ...Read more

An FBI agent took the witness stand at the federal detention hearing of Tal Alexander — one of three wealthy Miami Beach brothers charged with sex-trafficking — and testified that since June she has interviewed 40 women from New York and elsewhere who alleged they were raped by one of them.

Special Agent Justine Atwood testified on Friday ...Read more

Hannah Kobayashi has returned to the United States after disappearing for weeks and then being tracked down in Mexico, according to a report published Monday.

Kobayashi, 30, crossed back into California from Mexico and met an attorney at the border, TMZ reported. Federal officials questioned her upon reentry and then let her go, according to ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Daily threats to fire the attorney general. Stopping the scheduled appointment of a chief justice because he’s a liberal. Replacing legal overseers in government ministries. Restricting who runs for office in a way more likely to affect Arabs.

Fresh off a series of military victories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ...Read more