When racial justice protests roiled cities across America at the depths of the pandemic, President Trump, then in his first term, demonstrated restraint. Threats to invoke the Insurrection Act and to federalize the National Guard never materialized.

This time, it took less than 24 hours of isolated protests in Los Angeles County before Trump, ...Read more

Karen Read retrial jurors could enter deliberations possibly this week as the defense’s case has already doubled its length from last year.

“They’ve presented a lot more evidence than most murder defendants,” retired state Superior Court Judge Jack Lu told the Herald on Saturday. He later added, “Many put up little or no evidence and ...Read more

Kyiv’s armed forces rejected as “disinformation” Russia’s claim that its ground troops have crossed into Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time, even as prospects for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire remain elusive.

Separately, Ukraine and Russia continued testy exchanges over the details of a planned large prisoner swap agreed ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A subtle shift was happening among clients at the north Minneapolis community drop-in center.

For years, people seeking substance abuse services at Anything Helps reported using just one drug of choice. Recently, staff noticed more and more users had expanded their appetite, preferring a combination of drugs at once versus “...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The LGBTQ Pride month parades and festivals will go on.

But in the current political environment, organizers of the events in South Florida and across the nation are feeling pressure.

Hostility from President Donald Trump’s administration toward anything touching on diversity, equity and inclusion is having an ...Read more

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City’s renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three chemotherapy pills to treat her squamous cell carcinoma on Jan. 29, her family members said. They didn’t realize the drug could kill her.

Six days later, Zembruski-Ruple went to Sloan Kettering’s urgent ...Read more

Public outcry was swift and forceful after a U.S. House committee last month hastily approved an amendment directing the federal government to sell off more than half a million acres of public land.

A few days later, lawmakers advanced the larger bill — a sweeping list of President Donald Trump’s priorities — but stripped the federal ...Read more

MIAMI — In January, a man returning to the United States from Nicaragua landed at Miami International Airport, made it through customs and waited for his luggage at baggage claim. By the time he left the airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had revoked his Global Entry status.

In April, a social-media travel-content creator ...Read more

Surgeons are operating on Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay after an assassination attempt that recalled the political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and 1990s.

Uribe’s wife said the 39-year-old opposition senator is “fighting for his life” following the attack, which happened while he was campaigning in a...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration said it would send 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses.

The move marks a major escalation in Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and came amid concerns from some officials in California. ...Read more

Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at a campaign event in Bogota on Saturday in an act reminiscent of the drug-fueled political violence that roiled the nation in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The 39-year old senator from the opposition Democratic Center party was rushed to a medical center. He was stabilized there ...Read more

NEW YORK — Multiple demonstrators were taken into custody Saturday afternoon during a protest against Immigration and Customs enforcement in Lower Manhattan in response to ongoing migrant arrests this week.

Cops responded to outside immigration court around noon at 26 Federal Plaza where protesters were sitting in the middle of the street ...Read more

Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at an event in Bogota, with his condition still unclear.

The 39-year-old candidate from the opposition Centro Democratico party was taken to a medical center in the Colombian capital, Semana reported. Online footage of the shooting showed Uribe’s head and back covered ...Read more

CHICAGO — A bottlenose dolphin safely delivered a calf early Saturday morning at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, a “momentous occasion” that marks the first dolphin birth in more than a decade at the west suburban zoo.

Allie, a 38-year-old bottlenose dolphin and experienced mother of four, gave birth to the calf — which will be named later ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s not a good sign in Carson City when members of your own party vote down your bill.

But with less than two hours left in the Nevada Legislature’s 83rd session, a new version of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s landmark health care proposal — heavily amended by Democrats in the state Senate — left Republicans with little choice ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Trump administration official said National Guard troops would be sent into Los Angeles after a second day in which protesters confronted immigration agents during raids of local businesses.

Around 4 p.m. Saturday, a crowd gathered in Paramount in a chaotic clash with federal agents were ordered to disperse. An unlawful ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has reached an agreement with City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson to find the money to reverse the cuts to police hiring made last month by the council.

On Friday, Bass signed the 2025-26 budget approved by the council, which reworked much of her plan for closing a $1-billion shortfall. ...Read more

ATLANTA — South Georgia could soon be home to the country’s largest immigrant jail.

Local officials approved a plan this week to markedly increase capacity at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility located in Charlton County, called the Folkston ICE Processing Center.

Sitting fewer than 10 miles from the Florida border, the ...Read more

Beijing says it granted approval to some applications for the export of rare earths, a move that could ease tensions before trade negotiations between the U.S. and China next week.

The Chinese commerce ministry confirmed the approval of the applications without specifying which countries or industries were covered, even as it noted growing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Job opportunities at the Port of Los Angeles are dwindling as President Donald Trump's steep tariffs take a hit on global trade and a major economic engine for the regional economy.

Nearly half of the longshoremen who support operations at the port went without work over the last two weeks, Gene Seroka, executive director of the...Read more