Election board members are required to certify election results, even if they distrust the outcome, according to a Georgia Court of Appeals decision.

The decision resolves a dispute that overshadowed the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, when the State Election Board passed rules calling for an “inquiry” and more documents before ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s escalating immigration crackdown has sparked a new round of lawsuits alleging illegal seizures by masked federal agents, as well as violations of U.S. privacy rights and environmental laws.

The Trump administration in the past month has ramped up raids on homes, workplaces and even courthouses as U.S. officials ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For many Angelenos, the spectacle of armed federal agents — faces hidden behind neck gaiters and balaclavas — jumping out of unmarked vans to snatch people off the streets presents a clear threat to public safety.

As federal immigration agents have ratcheted up enforcement raids, arresting and detaining anyone they suspect ...Read more

Embattled Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik has been kicked out of the Norfolk DA’s office as fallout from the Karen Read case spreads.

Bukhenik is now on a “temporary duty assignment” at the Division of Standards and Training in the Framingham headquarters, the State Police said Monday when they corrected an earlier statement about him going to ...Read more

MIAMI — Jury selection is expected to begin Tuesday for the sex crime trial of Ohad Fisherman, the hummus entrepreneur and good friend of Miami Beach’s Alexander brothers, accused of pinning down a woman eight years ago as the twins took turns raping her.

Fisherman, 39, who New York magazine once dubbed the “hummus hunk,” will stand ...Read more

Demolition work on the remaining pieces of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was expected to start Monday and continue over the next several months.

The effort begins this week with work mainly focused on “mobilizing assets and equipment,” said Maryland Transportation Authority Press Secretary Briana McEachern.

Crews will then start dismantling...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas — The devastating Texas floods that killed scores of people on July 4 weekend sparked a spreading controversy on Monday over President Donald Trump’s cuts to the weather forecasting and disaster agencies, which critics say may have worsened the catastrophe.

As the death toll rose to nearly 100, some elected officials and ...Read more

Haiti’s storied Hotel Oloffson, a favorite haunt of writers and artists that survived dictatorship, coups and a devastating earthquake and was immortalized in novelist Graham Greene’s “The Comedians,” is no more.

After months of resisting gang threats and attacks that forced thousands in its surrounding Carrefour Feuilles neighborhood ...Read more

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Tucker Carlson his country remains open to talks with the U.S., but that it was difficult to trust Washington after its strikes last month.

“I’m of the belief that we could very much, easily resolve the differences and conflicts with the United States through dialog and talks,” Pezeshkian told ...Read more

NEW YORK — In August 2011, Mark Nunez typed out a lawsuit against the city, a year after a team of jail officers on Rikers Island beat him with a radio, dragged him down a hallway and stripped him naked.

In an upstate prison at the time, Nunez was not a lawyer, and relied on advice from two savvy older inmates who worked in the law library to...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia schools have another year before a statewide cellphone ban goes into effect — but some districts are getting a head start.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed the Distraction-Free Education Act into law over the objections of parents and advocates who worry the ban would mean less access to their children during emergencies. Early ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Jessica Annoh is a rising senior kinesiology major at the University of Maryland, College Park. She wanted to live on campus last year, but instead, found herself paying $1,200 a month for one bedroom in a five-bedroom apartment off campus.

Most of the year, Annoh finances her education and housing using scholarship money, but ...Read more

The streets of downtown Nairobi were deserted and many store fronts were soldered shut as workers and traders stayed away on fears that protests demanding the removal of President William Ruto may turn violent.

Kenyan police had already placed road blocks on all major thoroughfares into the central business district of the capital before ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed replacing the current ambassador to the U.S. during his phone call with President Donald Trump on Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal is on the list of potential candidates to become Kyiv’s envoy to Washington alongside Deputy Prime Minister ...Read more

The streets of downtown Nairobi were deserted and many store fronts were soldered shut as workers and traders stayed away on fears that protests demanding the removal of President William Ruto may turn violent.

Kenyan police had already placed road blocks on all major thoroughfares into the central business district of the capital before ...Read more

Fear in the local undocumented community about getting swept up by immigration agents — a sentiment cited in the indefinite closure of Broadacres Market — is reverberating in the finances of independent family-owned establishments that cater to local Latinos, according to businesses that spoke to the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Almost two days after she gave birth in her college dormitory bathroom, Brianna Moore sat in a campus security office with two Tampa police detectives old enough to be her father.

“I know things can get pretty big, pretty scary, pretty quick,” Detective Aaron Campbell told the 19-year-old freshman. “Can you tell me about ...Read more