In about two weeks, Kentucky Rep. James Comer will be in Florida.

Not for vacation or a fundraising trip, but to depose Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein now at the center of a controversy that has consumed American politics.

Outrage across the political spectrum has festered, largely due to President Donald Trump and his...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials are investigating after a Monday morning bomb threat evacuated a Frontier Airlines flight that landed at Denver International Airport, though no devices were found, police said.

Frontier crew members on Monday discovered two threatening notes onboard a flight headed from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to ...Read more

Over the past month, as the Trump administration has intensified its immigration crackdown, it has called on states to take a more active role in assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement by building temporary facilities to hold detained migrants. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will now distribute $608 million to states and local ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The wildfire that ravaged Los Angeles in January caused $51.7 billion in damage to residential properties within the city, according to a new report from real estate brokerage Redfin.

The report focused on homes inside the city limits and does not include damage from the Eaton fire in Altadena. The majority of the properties ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republicans are under pressure from President Donald Trump and a group of hard-right lawmakers to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts and tighten the GOP’s already firm grip on the state.

Kansas City is the likely target.

Trump’s political team has expressed interest in redrawing Missouri’s U.S...Read more

BOSTON — The Wu administration is directing $5 million in grant funding toward community organizations with the aim of narrowing a life expectancy gap in three low-income neighborhoods where residents die about 20 years sooner than wealthier parts of Boston.

The grant funding was doled to out to four community-led coalitions “to build ...Read more

Miami residents will have access to free citizenship classes again after the federal government cut funding for a program that’s helped thousands of immigrants prepare for their naturalization exams.

On Monday, Miami District 4 Commissioner Ralph Rosado announced that his office would allocate up to $10,000 to subsidize Miami-Dade County ...Read more

Eleven religious groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security in response to a Trump administration policy reversal ending a decades-long practice protecting houses of worship, schools and hospitals from immigration officials looking to enforce action.

The lawsuit, filed July 28 by Democracy Forward and the Washington Lawyers’ ...Read more

Charlie Rollin, a rising St. Olaf College junior, has begun to retool his plans to attend veterinary school.

That’s because, within the many provisions of the massive, Trump-backed tax package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” are new restrictions on borrowing for graduate and professional school students.

Some schools are now ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Nearly 170 Central Florida sheriff’s deputies have completed training allowing them for the first time to arrest people for immigration violations, as local authorities move to execute a critical piece of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Under a Florida law passed earlier this year, city and county law ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man charged with a hate crime for his role in a wild mob attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA last year has entered a diversionary program to avoid jail time, marking the end of the first and only felony case filed in connection with the violence.

Malachi Marlan-Librett, 28, was charged with assault with a deadly ...Read more

A coalition of liberal-led states filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent demand that they turn over the personal information of millions of people receiving federal food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins informed states earlier this ...Read more

President Donald Trump asked a judge to order Rupert Murdoch to sit for a deposition within 15 days in the president’s $10 billion libel lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over a story about Jeffrey Epstein, arguing an expedited schedule is justified due to the executive’s advanced age.

In a court filing Monday, Trump’s lawyer said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Israeli government is defending a top military officer who dismissed images of starving Palestinians as “fake” over the weekend, despite President Donald Trump stating Monday that he believes the pictures are real.

The rupture comes amid growing international pressure on Israel over dire circumstances in the Palestinian ...Read more

Two young children died at the hospital after a large barge crashed into a summer camp sailboat they were on near Hibiscus Island off Miami Beach Monday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A third child on the boat was taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital and was unresponsive as of Monday afternoon, said Petty ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — More than a dozen displays at Independence National Historical Park that share historical information about slavery during the founding of United States have been flagged for a content review in connection with an executive order from President Donald Trump.

Materials within the President’s House Site, the Benjamin Franklin ...Read more

A federal judge in Miami said Monday he wants the DeSantis and Trump administrations to provide more information about the legal agreement governing the operations at Alligator Alcatraz as lawyers representing detainees question the very legality of the immigration detention site.

“We need to get to the bottom of the interplay between the ...Read more

The University of California system admitted its largest ever class of California undergraduates for fall 2025, while also maintaining a diverse student body and increasing the number of students who are the first generation in their family to attend college, according to preliminary data released Monday.

The University of California also ...Read more

MIAMI — Immigration attorneys and environmental activists — even the Mexican government and the Archdiocese of Miami — have all asked who’s in charge at Alligator Alcatraz.

They say they can’t get a straight answer.

“We’ve gotten a lot of runaround,” Archbishop Thomas Wenski told the Miami Herald after trying unsuccessfully to ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — About a month before his fiery testimony against the state's Department of Natural Resources, conservative rocker Ted Nugent beat the agency in court on allegations that he was illegally hosting hunts of Russian boar.

Nugent's was one of six Michigan facilities in 2021 targeted by an undercover operation in which DNR officers...Read more