A federal judge in Texas ruled that President Donald Trump improperly invoked a 227-year-old wartime law to deport accused Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador prison, setting up what may become yet another high-stakes battle at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The decision Thursday marks the biggest setback yet for Trump’s effort to unilaterally...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Park District announced Thursday that it had reached a deal to end a lawsuit brought over the removal of Christopher Columbus statues from city parks during 2020 protests.

The city will loan the small Columbus statue removed from Arrigo Park in July 2020 to the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, which is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Trump administration has terminated a three-year, $600,000 grant to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, which has helped exonerate around 35 people in the state incarcerated for crimes they didn’t commit.

The nonprofit learned about the cuts, from funds initially awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice, last week.

In a...Read more

A man killed in a shootout with police in California earlier this week was identified as Brian Montana, the guitarist from the pioneering death-metal band Possessed.

The incident began Monday around 6 p.m. when Montana, 60, reportedly started shooting into a neighbor’s home, where people were inside at the time. Montana was shot by South San ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency released two videos Thursday aimed at recruiting Chinese officials who might be disillusioned by their prospects in government in a bid to get them to share top secrets about China with the U.S.

The effort is part of a broader strategy by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to boost intelligence collection...Read more

After losing key legal battles, the Trump administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal judge’s decision protecting hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in Florida and other states from being deported while they sue the government.

The high-stakes appeal by the administration’s solicitor general could have ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ latest budget plan does not include millions of dollars in funding needed to keep thousands of the city’s families on child care vouchers, putting a critical program for working families at risk of being significantly chopped down in scale.

Adams had been counting on the state to pony up hundreds of millions ...Read more

BOSTON — This May Day, workers are sending out a call for action and solidarity in the face of unprecedented challenges from the federal government.

The start of May has long been a worker’s holiday the world over — it’s also known as International Workers Day — but this year the occasion was marked by nationwide protests over the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A pair of Cook County Jail detainees are alleging sheriff’s deputies encouraged a third inmate to tie them up and sexually assault them at knifepoint after one of them complained about forced sexual encounters with a guard in the jail complex.

The alleged misconduct is outlined in a lawsuit filed Thursday, which contends the ...Read more

In April 2024, Priscilla Chan sat on a stage during the five-year anniversary celebration for a housing initiative that she and husband Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy had seeded with a $50 million commitment. She explained their mission: “To improve housing affordability for folks across the socioeconomic spectrum, but especially for those ...Read more

Thousands of protesters flooded Bay Area streets Thursday for May Day – many of them holding signs with slogans declaring “resist fascism” and “impeach Trump” – in a rebuke of Trump administration actions, marking the third such mass mobilization in recent weeks.

May Day typically draws rallies and protests in support of labor, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump recently suggested he’d rather his administration didn’t use the Signal messaging app. A recent photo suggests his team isn’t getting the message.

A photograph taken by Reuters shows National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — who was later removed from the job and nominated as U.S. ambassador to the U.N...Read more