DENVER — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated Jeanette Vizguerra’s First Amendment rights by detaining — and planning to deport — the Colorado immigration advocate, her attorneys argued in federal court in Denver on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Nina Wang held a short hearing on the high-profile immigration case, but did not ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 227-year-old wartime law.

A brief filed by acting Solicitor General Sarah H. Harris on Friday asks the nation’s highest court to vacate the order issued by a U.S. District Court, which ...Read more

NEW YORK — Columbia University has largely maintained the size of its application pool — despite campus protests over Gaza and scrutiny by the federal government that have besieged the university over the last year, according to newly released undergraduate admissions data.

Overall, 59,616 students applied to Columbia, down by just more ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Matthew Muller was sentenced to two lifetime state prison terms Friday for holding women captive during two Santa Clara County home invasions in 2009, six years before he gained worldwide infamy for a 2015 Vallejo kidnapping that inspired a fervent true-crime media following and would turn out to be just a slice of his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and that the two would meet after Canada’s election, amid an intensifying tariff war between the neighboring allies and major trading partners.

“It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Agency for International Development will be merged into the State Department by July 1 and “substantially all” of the aid agency’s remaining personnel will be fired, according to a congressional notification sent Friday.

The State Department will assume responsibility for the aid agency’s programming and new ...Read more

ATLANTA — Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, state and federal lawmakers have introduced a raft of legislation to protect the right to contraceptives. Now Georgia lawmakers are joining the push.

Six Republican women in the state House co-sponsored a one-page bill Thursday with a simple premise: ...Read more

DETROIT — A woman detained by border officials at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit this month after wrong directions sent her and her family toward Windsor is free.

But the Guatemalan national, who allegedly entered the United States illegally six years ago, may face deportation to her home country, officials with the Michigan Immigrant ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore raised some eyebrows this week by saying the state’s $5.5 billion budget surplus “wasn’t real,” after describing the state’s “fortunate financial position” at the beginning of his term.

Speaking to reporters in Annapolis as the current legislative session winds down, Moore pointed to the ...Read more

U.S. Army Sgt. Edvin Francisco Franco had to leave behind his new wife and baby earlier this year for a monthslong deployment to Lithuania.

Now, his family members in Georgia and California are anxiously awaiting news of his fate after he and three other soldiers based at Georgia's Fort Stewart went missing Tuesday during a training mission.

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Most Americans believe the Signal chat scandal that embroiled President Donald Trump’s administration is a major concern, polling shows. But, how does the public reaction compare with past scandals?

On Monday, The Atlantic published a story stating one of its editors had been inadvertently added to a Signal group chat with senior members of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The deadline to apply for the government-run debris clearance program for the Eaton and Palisades fires has been extended by two weeks, and owners of some multiunit properties are now eligible, officials said Friday.

The deadline to submit a right-of-entry form and opt in to the U.S. Army Corps' cleanup has been extended from ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland state senators have amended an energy bill to ease the burden on ratepayers struggling with pricey utility bills during the hottest and coldest months of the year.

The Senate Education, Energy and the Environment Committee amended the Next Generation Energy Act to provide utility bill rebate payments based on usage by ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Friday that allows local public bodies to continue meeting in hybrid or remote formats, an extension of COVID-era policies that Beacon Hill Democrats have routinely signed off on amid calls to make the options permanent.

The policies, which were first adopted under Gov. Charlie Baker in March 2020...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s snowpack made a solid rebound ahead of the summer months, thanks to a string of cold and wet storms that pounded the Sierra Nevada in February and March. But even with the late-season boost, the statewide reserves remain smaller than they were a year ago.

Amid a steady stream of snowflakes at Phillips ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — To stave off a looming deficit, Minnesota Senate Democrats released a budget framework Friday that includes nearly $2.5 billion in spending cuts over the next four years and pullbacks on inflationary increases.

The Senate DFL plan would cut health and human services spending by about $1.3 billion over the next four years. It ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Offices, courthouses, a jail and a psychiatric facility throughout Maryland — most in downtown Baltimore — all found Legionella bacteria in their water systems last year, but state law doesn’t have any regulations to address it on a large scale. One group hopes to change that next legislative session.

Legionella is the ...Read more

WATERBURY, Conn. — Kimberly Sullivan pleaded not guilty to allegations she held her stepson captive for 20 years in abusive conditions in a small storage room during a hearing Friday where a judge ordered that she be put on GPS monitoring while she is out on bond.

The hearing, held in Waterbury Superior Court, came after Assistant State’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Rockefeller Center law firm representing Voice of America and its affiliates is claiming victory after winning a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, which hopes to silence the broadcasting network that’s shared U.S. messaging globally for over 80 years.

Andrew G. Celli, Jr., founding partner at Emery ...Read more