An Air India flight bound for London crashed Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people on board the Boeing Co. Dreamliner in the deadliest aviation accident in more than a decade.

The airline confirmed that 241 of those on the London-bound flight had died. The sole survivor is being treated in a hospital, the carrier said.

Officials ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The defense for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students, appears to have requested a ”special investigation” into alleged leaks in the case in an episode of NBC’s “Dateline” last month.

Prosecutors in the case filed a response Wednesday to the defense’s motion regarding a ...Read more

The Rev. Robin Hynicka, pastor of United Methodist Church, wants to know how committed Philadelphia officials are to undocumented immigrants.

Hynicka and several prominent clergy, who see President Donald Trump’s immigration policies as cruel and antithetical to what their faiths dictate, were already worried City Hall was not forcefully ...Read more

Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, in a major escalation in the standoff over Tehran’s atomic program that risks sparking a new war in the Middle East.

Explosions were heard in Tehran, according to local media. Iran had previously vowed to respond to any attack.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement he’s declaring a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione celebrated his 27th birthday at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center by drafting a list of the “27 Things I’m Grateful For” as he awaits trial in his federal death penalty case.

The list was later sent out via electronic communication and obtained by TMZ this week. It begins with an ...Read more

NEW YORK — A vandal torched 11 NYPD police cars in a Brooklyn parking lot just down the street from a police stationhouse early Thursday, police said.

At a press conference at the lot near the 83rd Precinct stationhouse on Knickerbocker Ave. and Bleecker St. in Bushwick, Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch decried the ...Read more

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday signed the budget for the next fiscal year, and announced that he had vetoed $51 million in school funding.

The Legislature in May voted to override Dunleavy’s veto of a bipartisan education measure that included a roughly $180 million annual increase in school funding.

Dunleavy’s veto reduces that by ...Read more

Judge Shelley Joseph says the fact that an illegal immigrant had evaded federal authorities came as a surprise when she learned about the slip-away two days after she presided over the defendant’s case.

The Massachusetts judge testified on the fourth day of her judicial misconduct hearing that she did not commit any wrongdoing when she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans on and off the U.S. House Oversight Committee took aim at Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday, pressing him on whether Minnesota complies with federal immigration laws while admonishing him for recently saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were a “modern-day gestapo.”

In a full-day hearing, Republicans zeroed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Standing alongside a hundred civic leaders as police sirens blared in the background, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered her most impassioned critique of the federal response to anti-ICE protests to date Thursday.

The mayor — flanked by faith leaders, business leaders, immigrant rights advocates and others — defended the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies are pursuing an alternative strategy to defend against mounting court orders blocking his policies: Raise the financial stakes for those suing the administration.

House Republicans want to force people suing the U.S. to post financial guarantees to cover the government’s costs if they win a...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge in Denver on Thursday ordered the deportation case for the wife and five children of Pearl Street Mall attack suspect Mohammed Soliman transferred to a court in Texas since the family is being held in that state.

Hayam El Gamal, 41, and her children were detained by federal immigration authorities on June 3, two days ...Read more

DENVER — The wolves roaming the state have new pups that are being monitored by wildlife officials, Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed Thursday.

A spokesman for the agency declined to say how many pups have been spotted — or from how many litters — but said staff members had begun to tally the number of new additions to the state’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seven of the Democrats running to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a rare joint statement Thursday to condemn the forceful removal of Sen. Alex Padilla from a Department of Homeland Security news conference, calling it a “dark moment for our democracy.”

“We are witnessing the rise of authoritarianism that ...Read more

The Illinois secretary of state’s office said Thursday it will conduct an audit of the state’s automated license plate reader system after it was allegedly used illegally by law enforcement in Texas to track down a woman for an abortion care-related matter.

A state law last year restricted the sale, sharing and access of its license plate ...Read more

While President Donald Trump remains deeply unpopular in heavily Democratic California, a new poll finds surprising support in the state for the Republican’s top policy initiatives of shrinking the federal government and limiting federal benefits to U.S. citizens.

The poll of 1,591 California adults and 1,080 likely voters, conducted from May...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tensions over President Trump’s immigration crackdown boiled over Thursday as U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security news conference and immigration agents swept across the region arresting people suspected of living in the United States illegally.

Outrage over the operations has ...Read more

A federal judge in San Francisco expressed skepticism at a hearing Thursday that President Trump had the authority to federalize the National Guard, questioning whether he had followed the law before ordering an extraordinary deployment to Los Angeles over the weekend.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, presiding over the case, pushed back ...Read more

SEATTLE — A sweeping Biden-era initiative to restore Columbia Basin salmon runs, boost tribal energy development and provide a pathway for dam removal on the Lower Snake River has been canceled by President Donald Trump.

A presidential memorandum issued Thursday revoked the 2023 Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement, which Trump stated “placed...Read more