President Donald Trump said his team will move forward with winding down much of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — but not until after a hurricane season that some projections show could be particularly deadly.

“We’re going to do it much differently,” Trump said Tuesday at the White House, adding that he would like to see FEMA ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called the city’s sanctuary city policy a “pragmatic” and “common-sense” solution to a broken immigration system that he said is now being “weaponized” by President Donald Trump.

“In the absence of much-needed federal immigration reform, mayors and governors are forced to ...Read more

A Philadelphia police officer was injured and several protesters were arrested after a scuffle broke out during a march denouncing deportations Tuesday evening in Center City, police said.

Video showed a confrontation at the intersection of 11th and Market Streets with police arresting at least one masked man, who was held down on the ground, ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday night accused President Trump of intentionally fanning the flames of the Los Angeles protests and "pulling a military dragnet across" the city endangering peaceful protesters and targeting hardworking immigrant families.

The Democratic governor's comments were a forceful rebuke to the president's claims that ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The search for survivors from a downed Cessna plane that crashed into the ocean Sunday was suspended Tuesday morning after personnel used aircraft and boats to scour 300 square miles of ocean.

“They are still unaccounted for,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said of the six victims presumed to have died.

The search began Sunday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass has announced a curfew will be put into effect for one square mile of downtown Los Angeles following four nights of sporadically chaotic protests during which the LAPD arrested more than 150 people.

The curfew will extend from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. It will apply to the area of downtown from the 5 Freeway to the 110 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can continue to enforce his global tariffs for now, a federal appeals court held in a win for the president on one of his signature economic policies.

The order Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extends an earlier, short-term reprieve for the administration as it presses a challenge to a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the city of Las Vegas as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants, which threatens withholding of federal funds, local officials haven’t been told why.

The DHS list of hundreds of jurisdictions, which it alleges flout federal immigration laws, ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Two expert witnesses for murder defendant Karen Read said that although victim John O’Keefe experienced major head trauma, the absence of other significant injuries made it unlikely a vehicle strike killed him — potent testimony in a trial the judge said is “winding down.”

“When you look at the position and ...Read more

The United States and China de-escalated trade tensions, agreeing to a preliminary deal on how to implement the consensus the two sides reached in Geneva, negotiators for both sides said.

While the full details of their accord weren’t immediately available, U.S. negotiators said they “absolutely expect” that issues around shipments of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After days of fiery protest against federal immigration raids, Los Angeles residents and officials braced for the arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines on Tuesday in what some called an unprecedented and potentially explosive deployment of active-duty troops with hazy mission objectives.

As Trump administration officials vowed to ...Read more

During his public falling out with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk slammed the president’s proposed spending bill — dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — claiming it will balloon the deficit.

It turns out, most Americans agree with his critique, new polling reveals.

In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, half of respondents were ...Read more

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced this week he is joining a coalition of 15 other Democratic attorneys general in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the redistribution of devices that the lawsuit claims enable firearms to fire like machine guns.

The Democrat’s latest lawsuit particularly targets the Bureau of ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned protesters to stay away from his controversial military parade planned for Saturday in Washington D.C. — or face “very big force.”

As he defends his crackdown on immigration protests in Los Angeles, Trump said authorities wouldn’t hesitate to flex their muscles if protesters seek to disrupt the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled. Over the next 80 seconds he moaned twice more before drawing his final, gasping breath.

Protocol required the executioners to aim for Mahdi’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In a different jurisdiction, Andrea Lozano-Alanis could have been freed from jail as soon as she paid her $77 bail.

But she was in Montgomery County.

And that Philadelphia suburb holds immigrants wanted by ICE for an additional four hours, allowing time for federal agents to arrive and take them into custody.

That’s what ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democratic appropriators and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traded barbs Tuesday over the deployment of U.S. military forces to California in an often contentious hearing that ultimately yielded few new details about what lawmakers were ostensibly present to discuss: the fiscal 2026 budget request.

While the hearing was ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Twice this year in the North Carolina legislature, votes that typically fall along party lines have instead been upended.

First, Democrats broke with their caucus to vote for the House Republican-written budget bill.

Now, a few Republicans are also singling themselves out from the herd on a controversial bill in the General ...Read more