LOS ANGELES — A line of unmarked white vans and SUVs at Dodger Stadium sparked a wave of speculation online about immigration enforcement at the stadium Thursday, but team officials say the agents were denied entry.

In photos posted on social media Thursday morning, the vehicles appeared to be staging near the downtown parking lot entrance to...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Lightning, wind and warmth have sparked and fueled dozens of new wildland fires around Alaska, including several near communities.

Nearly 50 new fires were reported across the state Tuesday and Wednesday following widespread thunderstorms.

The 20-acre Obrien Fire north of Fairbanks was spotted Tuesday and by Wednesday ...Read more

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups.

Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous with shopping. For many people, it’s difficult to imagine a quick grocery run without the crinkle of a plastic bag, and even harder to believe ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday that the Legislature should consider prohibiting people from carrying firearms at the State Capitol after two lawmakers were shot in their homes this past weekend.

In brief remarks to reporters at a Juneteenth event, Walz said lawmaker safety will be top of mind after the killing of House ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wants to set up an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades he is calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Uthmeier touted his proposal for a 1,000-bed facility as “the one-stop shop to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.”

It would be positioned on a...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will decide within two weeks whether to strike Iran, his spokeswoman said, as Israel hit more Iranian nuclear sites and warned its attacks may bring down the leadership in Tehran.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said she had a message dictated by Trump that “based on the fact that there’s a ...Read more

An Ecuadorian man wanted for a 2011 murder in the South American nation has been arrested in Connecticut, authorities said Wednesday.

Richard Cabrera, aka Ricardo Dionicio Cabrera-Erreyes, 50, was nabbed Tuesday in Oxford, the U.S. Marshals said in a press release. He was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.

Cabrera is accused of stabbing a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities recovered a notebook from the SUV of the man accused of fatally shooting Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband that included a number of online services to look up personal information.

The sites are sometimes known as “data brokers” or “people search engines.” The online services aggregate personal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a dozen religious leaders from an array of faiths marched to the steps of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, flowers in hand, calling for an end to the federal immigration raids they say have torn families apart and resulted in racial profiling.

At the start of the procession in Plaza ...Read more

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza — Like “Squid Game.” That’s how residents describe it, invoking the dystopian TV show when recounting the lethal gauntlet that getting aid in famine-haunted Gaza has become.

“It’s a death race. The faster, the stronger, the luckier — they’re the ones who might survive, might reach the food,” said 30-year-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Flights out of Los Angeles area airports related to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations more than doubled in the month before Sunday.

ICE increased its activity in the region this month, conducting multiple raids, including one on June 6 in the Fashion District. As a result of the raids, 330 people have been ...Read more

Canada has opened the door to increasing its tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminum next month if trade talks with the Trump administration stall.

The government “will adjust its existing counter-tariffs on steel and aluminium products on July 21, to levels consistent with progress that has been made in the broader trading arrangement with the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The alleged assassin fled on foot after shooting lawmakers last weekend, leaving behind his SUV strewn with firearms, a first-aid kit and several spiral-bound notebooks full of blue-inked scrawl.

One of the notebooks, pictured in the federal complaint charging Vance Boelter with the murder of Melissa and Mark Hortman, and the ...Read more

A Supreme Court ruling this week upholding a Tennessee law that bans many gender-affirming treatments for minors could put added strain on Minnesota providers of care.

Minnesota’s protections for transgender youth remain protected under state law.

Rep. Leigh Finke, DFL-St. Paul, the first transgender person elected to the Minnesota ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The private jet that crashed last month in San Diego, killing all six on board, was flying too low before it hit power lines and slammed into a house, investigators said Wednesday.

According to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report, the plane reached a descent point about three miles from the runway that was ...Read more

On Juneteenth, the federal holiday celebrating the moment when the last enslaved people received word of the Emancipation Proclamation, North Carolina lawmakers debated eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in state agencies.

Before a committee hearing was over Thursday — featuring a wide-ranging discussion of DEI that even ...Read more

Maryland ties for fourth among 50 states in terms of the financial benefits average families would see if Congress passes President Donald Trump’s tax bill, according to a White House news release.

Citing a state-by-state analysis from the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, the Wednesday release lists the anticipated increases to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police officers will soon be trading in their recognizable powder blue uniform tops for “midnight” navy blue shirts, Sgt. Eric Gripp said.

“This change is part of a broader effort to honor our department’s history while preparing for the future,” Gripp said in a statement Wednesday. “Midnight blue ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 55-year-old Muslim woman was attacked by a stranger on a Queens train after he repeatedly asked her, “Where are you from?” police said Thursday.

The victim was on a westbound E train entering the 75th Avenue station on Queens Boulevard in Glen Oaks around 4 a.m. Wednesday, when Naved Durrni, 34, approached her, cops said.

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