SEONGNAM, South Korea — South Korean President-elect Lee Jae-myung has always described his politics as deeply personal, born of the "wretchedness" of his youth.

In his last presidential run three years ago, when his conservative opponent Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, appealed to the rule of law, Lee told a story from his childhood: ...Read more

Newark mayor Ras Baraka Tuesday sued U.S. Attorney Alina Habba for wrongful arrest and defamation over his detention last month during a protest outside an immigration jail in the New Jersey city.

Baraka claims Habba improperly ordered his arrest and prosecution for allegedly trespassing at Delaney Hall, a detention center near Newark Liberty ...Read more

Federal immigration authorities are detaining the wife and five children of the suspect accused of burning a dozen people at a demonstration in Boulder that sought the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in a video posted on social media Tuesday.

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, an immigrant...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A judge sentenced disgraced legal titan Tom Girardi, once among the nation's most formidable trial attorneys, to seven years in prison Tuesday for stealing millions of dollars from clients.

U.S. District Court Judge Josephine Staton said in handing down the sentence that Girardi had used the settlements of catastrophically ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sometimes the surfer catches a gnarly wave, and other times a shark catches the surfer.

Luckily for one California surfer, a shark swimming in San Mateo County waters over the weekend managed to get only a sample of his surfboard. Jens Heller was about 100 yards offshore at Montara State Beach sitting on his board Saturday when...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea —South Korea’s opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung vowed to improve people’s livelihoods as his main rival acknowledged defeat in a presidential election that was largely a popular verdict on ousted leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s botched attempt to revive martial law after decades of democratic rule.

With 90% of the ballots ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal agents have arrested a University of Michigan scholar from China on charges she tried to smuggle a biological pathogen into the U.S. characterized as a potential agricultural terrorism weapon that can be used for targeting food crops.

The FBI counterintelligence case against UM scholar Yunqing Jian, 33, and her boyfriend, 34...Read more

BALTIMORE — Court records show that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is personally intervening with El Salvador to facilitate the return of a Venezuelan man with the pseudonym “Cristian” — a case similar to one in which a judge has directed the Trump administration to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to Maryland.

Rubio has “a ...Read more

Ukraine said it attacked the Crimean Bridge with explosives as Russia closed traffic on the route linking the annexed Black Sea peninsula with the Russian mainland.

Agents planted mines on underwater supports and detonated them on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Security Service, known as the SBU, said in a statement on Telegram. The SBU said the ...Read more

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said his government would offer to resign and continue on in a caretaker role, setting the stage for a likely snap election.

Far-right Geert Wilders pulled his Freedom Party out of the Dutch government earlier Tuesday over the refusal of his three coalition partners to agree to his plans to curb migration. His ...Read more

Some of Israel’s most loyal supporters in Europe are increasingly speaking out against the war in Gaza, with several nations, including Germany, considering trade sanctions and curbs on arms sales.

In recent weeks, the U.K., Netherlands and France have started mulling such moves against Israel to help end the 20-month conflict, which has ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA told staff that he was unaware that the U.S. has a hurricane season, but officials claimed he was only joking.

David Richardson, who has no previous disaster management experience, told an all-hands meeting at the nation’s main disaster response agency ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Air quality alerts remain in effect for yet another day for the entire state of Minnesota with concentrations of wildfire smoke so thick the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued a rare hazardous warning.

The MPCA uses a color-coded scale when issuing alerts, with purple and maroon signaling when the air is the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County is poised to pay nearly $2.7 million to a teenager whose violent beating at a juvenile hall launched a sprawling criminal investigation into so-called "gladiator fights" inside the troubled facility.

Video of the December 2023 beating, captured on CCTV, showed Jose Rivas Barillas, then 16, being pummeled by ...Read more

DENVER – A woman attacked Sunday by a moose in Steamboat Springs was airlifted to a Front Range hospital with serious injuries, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

She was walking her two dogs at River Creek Park when she was attacked, agency officials said in a news release. Both dogs were leashed.

A man passing by on a paddleboard ...Read more