Environmental groups are demanding that the Trump administration exercise the federal government’s authority to curb wasteful water use in an effort to address the Colorado River’s chronic water shortages.

In a petition submitted Tuesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council and nine other groups called for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis is opposing the nomination of Ed Martin as Washington’s top prosecutor.

This would be the first time Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, splits from President Donald Trump on one of Trump’s nominees to help the president lead the country in his second term.

“At this point I’ve indicated to the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A pair of NYPD cops jumped by a group of migrant gang members, including a 12-year-old boy, while trying to thwart a robbery in Times Square were struck with scooters, basketballs, bottles and makeshift weapons in a “wolfpack”-style ambush, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.

Police are still looking for at least six teens behind ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio’s new role as national security adviser will place him closer to President Donald Trump at a higher frequency as the administration struggles to hatch a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

But the added responsibility will also test the bandwidth of the secretary of state, with experts expressing skepticism Rubio...Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced late Monday she won’t run for a key congressional post even after she won a big boost Monday when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called her a “very compelling candidate” to fill the spot.

The progressive lawmaker said she doesn’t believe she could win enough support from establishment ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The State Bar of California is suing the vendor that administered its February bar exam, a disastrous rollout of a new testing platform that shook confidence in the organization's leadership, prompted lawmakers to call for an audit and the state Supreme Court to order the agency to revert to the traditional exam format in July.

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Two months after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with a half-dozen Caribbean leaders in his first official visit to the region, more heads of government will get a chance to air their concerns.

The prime ministers of six eastern Caribbean nations — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice wants to dismiss a legal challenge against a common abortion medication brought by Missouri and Kansas, pitting top Republican officials in the two states against the Trump administration.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, along with Idaho’s ...Read more

Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney met Tuesday with President Donald Trump amid major tensions over the trade war and Trump’s push to annex the northern neighbor as a 51st state.

Carney, who won election last week on a platform of confronting Trump’s threats, sought to strike a more cordial tone in the planned face-to-face ...Read more

A newly released report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council concludes that while the Nicolás Maduro regime tolerates the feared Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, it is unlikely the Venezuelan strongman exercises direct control over the organization.

That finding contradicts a central assertion made by former President Donald Trump in his...Read more

NEW YORK — Columbia University plans to lay off about 180 researchers after the Trump administration revoked $400 million in federal funding over claims the school did not do enough to protect Jewish students from harassment.

The staff were expected to receive notices Tuesday. The move impacts 1 in 5 Columbia researchers who were funded in ...Read more

ATLANTA — Citing “alarming” rates of assaults on teachers, the Georgia Federation of Teachers has a suggestion for lawmakers: Hold parents accountable for their children’s actions.

The union unveiled the Georgia Parent Accountability Act last week. It would penalize parents — through fines, required community service at schools or ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — While much attention was on antisemitism complaints at the University of Pennsylvania over the last year and a half, the much smaller Haverford College was weathering a storm of its own.

A group called Jews at Haverford, including several students, filed a federal lawsuit alleging the college was indifferent to complaints about...Read more

A federal appeals court has dealt the Trump administration another loss in its bid to revoke deportation protections and work permits for more than a half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, many of them living in South Florida, who were granted entrance into the United States under a humanitarian parole program.

The U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump remains deeply unpopular in California after his first 100 days in office, with conservatives and liberals alike expressing concern that U.S. courts can effectively serve as a check on his power, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by The Times.

Overall, the ...Read more

Friedrich Merz secured parliamentary backing as Germany’s new chancellor on the second attempt, paving the way for the conservative leader to take charge of Europe’s biggest economy but with considerably diminished authority.

In a repeat ballot on Tuesday, arranged after several hours of frantic consultations with constitutional experts, ...Read more

For a week and counting, flying in and out of Newark Airport has inflicted misery on travelers. The cancellations and delays have been caused by a cascade of infrastructure failures and staffing issues that have ground air travel to a crawl.

What’s behind it the meltdown and when might it end?

Here’s what you need to know before you fly: ...Read more

Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney was set to meet Tuesday with President Donald Trump amid major tensions over the trade war and Trump’s push to annex the northern neighbor as a 51st state.

Carney, who won election last week on a platform of confronting Trump’s threats, will likely seek to strike a more cordial tone in the...Read more

Friedrich Merz secured parliamentary backing as Germany’s new chancellor only on the second attempt, paving the way for the conservative leader to take charge of Europe’s biggest economy but with considerably diminished authority.

In a repeat Bundestag ballot on Tuesday in Berlin, Merz got 325 votes, more than the required 316 out of 630 ...Read more