As the Trump administration seeks more partners to help round up immigrants living in the United States illegally, some states and cities are eager to step up, despite risks of racial profiling.

Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and even Arizona’s Democratic governor are pursuing statewide plans to help find immigrants ...Read more

As if there’s not already enough going on to disturb your sleep, here’s another nighttime distraction to keep you from counting sheep: A blood red moon rises over Maryland later this week. And you won’t want to miss it.

A lunar eclipse takes place when Earth lines up between the sun and a full moon. The sun casts the planet’s shadow ...Read more

As state legislative sessions grind on, conservative lawmakers have filed a new batch of bills that would grant legal rights to fetuses and fertilized embryos.

Lawmakers in at least eight states — Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas — have considered bills to go even further, to punish women ...Read more

DWIGHT, Ill. — Nature has taken over the vacated Dwight Correctional Center, where a thin forest of spindly trees covers a 160-acre campus that old photos show once featured well-tended lawns and stately oaks.

The decaying old prison has become an unauthorized soundstage for YouTubers. In a video titled “We Got Trapped Inside an Abandoned ...Read more

CHICAGO -- You can heat homes with gas, propane, oil or electricity.

Or you can make use of the virtually endless supply of clean energy that lies right beneath your feet.

The South Side nonprofit Blacks in Green is pursuing the latter option, with a plan for a multibuilding geothermal system that will tap steady, year-round underground ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing to eliminate property taxes in Florida — a move that could disproportionately harm public schools and give the state more power over local communities.

The idea isn’t new. But in a political climate focused on government efficiency, DeSantis broke with past precedent in saying the $55 ...Read more

DENVER — After weeks of anticipation followed by a six-hour hearing, Denver officials hope they can put Mayor Mike Johnston’s testimony before Congress behind them.

But it may not be that simple.

During Wednesday’s hearing about the immigrant-friendly policies enacted by Denver and three other cities, members of the House Committee on ...Read more

DENVER — Commerce City Councilwoman Renee Millard-Chacon screamed — sometimes with profanity — about the climate crisis and its impact on her neighborhood, saying she was tired and angry that she feels forced to hold rallies every year to get attention.

But here she was again, on the steps of the Capitol on a cold, cloudy and windy ...Read more

A 20-year legal odyssey seeking the return of a Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to the German Jewish family of a former La Mesa, California, resident endured its latest twist Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an appellate court to reconsider the fate of the artwork.

The ruling is a win — for now — for the family of Claude ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Some Maryland firefighters are missing out on training after a national firefighter facility in Emmitsburg canceled classes, effective immediately due to orders issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday, according to an agency email reviewed by The Baltimore Sun.

Firehouse.com reported FEMA sent notices canceling...Read more

In November 2021, Capt. Li Tian, an officer stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Lakewood, Washington, allegedly began emailing back and forth with a foreign national living in China. He introduced himself as a friend of Ruoyu Duan, a former Army soldier who lived in Hillsboro, Oregon. Tian said he was looking for a job opportunity.

At ...Read more

A U.S. judge ordered the Trump administration to undo some of its cuts to billions of dollars in foreign assistance programs through the U.S. Agency for International Development, the latest turn in a legal fight that’s likely to end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington issued a mixed ...Read more

When people seek mental health treatment in Washington, insurance companies are supposed to cover that care just like they would physical ailments.

Instead, people often find that coverage denied — and they aren't always told why.

A bill moving through the state Legislature aims to change that.

House Bill 1432 would require all insurers in ...Read more

When the Palisades fire raged and winds whipped ash and debris into the Pacific Ocean, scientists with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration — already out in boats doing water-quality surveys — quickly gathered tainted saltwater samples, knowing the data would be vital to understand the impacts the wildfires would have on the ocean...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s U.S.-Ukraine meeting in Saudi Arabia is intended to help clarify what concessions might be possible in the push toward a ceasefire with Russia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, playing down the possibility of a major breakthrough.

“We’re not going to be sitting in a room drawing lines on a map, but just get a ...Read more

Hundreds of protesters marched in Manhattan Monday following the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student and activist taken into custody by federal immigration authorities.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, acting on orders from the State Department, took Khalil, 30, into custody Saturday night at ...Read more

A 20-year legal odyssey seeking the return of a Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to the German Jewish family of a former La Mesa, California, resident endured its latest twist Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an appellate court to reconsider the fate of the artwork.

The ruling is a win — for now — for the family of Claude ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday visited a Northeast Philadelphia fire station whose members rallied as part of the all-hands-on-deck emergency response to a deadly Jan. 31 plane crash that left a deep trail of grief and trauma in its wake.

A medical transport Learjet 55 plunged from the sky moments after it had taken off from ...Read more

CHICAGO — As Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration finally unlocked to the press the controversial City Hall “gift room” Monday, tours revealed what lies inside: Quirky, but generally low-value souvenirs filling metal shelves in a cramped closet space.

The cache of gifts offered to Johnson and accepted on behalf of the city consisted ...Read more