SAN FRANCISCO — In a late-night order Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a court order that would have required President Donald Trump to return control of the thousands of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The 9th Circuit’s emergency stay came hours after U.S. District Judge Charles ...Read more

Israel launched waves of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic-missile sites on Friday morning, a major escalation in the standoff between the two adversaries that risks sparking a wider war in the Middle East.

Explosions were heard across Tehran and in the city of Natanz, home to one of its nuclear sites, according to ...Read more

President Trump signed a memo intended to save the lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington on Thursday, reversing Biden administration actions that helped support efforts to remove the hydroelectric dams.

Trump said in a memo that his administration was “committed to protecting the American people from radical green agenda policies that ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to “return control” of the California National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom after the president issued an extraordinary order deploying them to Los Angeles over the weekend.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, presiding over the case, granted ...Read more

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey issued a harsh warning Thursday to protesters who use violence in his county: “We will kill you graveyard dead.”

Speaking at a news conference with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, Ivey said peaceful protests “are part of our democracy” and allowed, but anyone who uses violence or interferes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is developing a plan to use Cold War-era powers to prioritize and fund rare earth projects it deems critical to national security, people familiar with the matter said.

Officials are discussing using the Defense Production Act to tap financing, loans and other means for rare earths element-related ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump “can’t push this state any longer,” after a federal judge ruled the president must return control of the California National Guard.

“Today’s order makes clear that he is not above or beyond constitutional constraints,” Newsom said in a news conference just minutes after the order was ...Read more

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has requested the International Criminal Court in The Hague for his interim release, three months after he was arrested for alleged crimes against humanity under his controversial war on drugs.

Duterte, 80, is not a flight risk and a certain government has agreed to take him in during the interim ...Read more

An Air India flight bound for London crashed Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people on board the Boeing Co. Dreamliner in the deadliest aviation accident in more than a decade.

The airline confirmed that 241 of those on the London-bound flight had died. The sole survivor is being treated in a hospital, the carrier said.

Officials ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The defense for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students, appears to have requested a ”special investigation” into alleged leaks in the case in an episode of NBC’s “Dateline” last month.

Prosecutors in the case filed a response Wednesday to the defense’s motion regarding a ...Read more

The Rev. Robin Hynicka, pastor of United Methodist Church, wants to know how committed Philadelphia officials are to undocumented immigrants.

Hynicka and several prominent clergy, who see President Donald Trump’s immigration policies as cruel and antithetical to what their faiths dictate, were already worried City Hall was not forcefully ...Read more

Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, in a major escalation in the standoff over Tehran’s atomic program that risks sparking a new war in the Middle East.

Explosions were heard in Tehran, according to local media. Iran had previously vowed to respond to any attack.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement he’s declaring a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione celebrated his 27th birthday at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center by drafting a list of the “27 Things I’m Grateful For” as he awaits trial in his federal death penalty case.

The list was later sent out via electronic communication and obtained by TMZ this week. It begins with an ...Read more

NEW YORK — A vandal torched 11 NYPD police cars in a Brooklyn parking lot just down the street from a police stationhouse early Thursday, police said.

At a press conference at the lot near the 83rd Precinct stationhouse on Knickerbocker Ave. and Bleecker St. in Bushwick, Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch decried the ...Read more

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday signed the budget for the next fiscal year, and announced that he had vetoed $51 million in school funding.

The Legislature in May voted to override Dunleavy’s veto of a bipartisan education measure that included a roughly $180 million annual increase in school funding.

Dunleavy’s veto reduces that by ...Read more

Judge Shelley Joseph says the fact that an illegal immigrant had evaded federal authorities came as a surprise when she learned about the slip-away two days after she presided over the defendant’s case.

The Massachusetts judge testified on the fourth day of her judicial misconduct hearing that she did not commit any wrongdoing when she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans on and off the U.S. House Oversight Committee took aim at Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday, pressing him on whether Minnesota complies with federal immigration laws while admonishing him for recently saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were a “modern-day gestapo.”

In a full-day hearing, Republicans zeroed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Standing alongside a hundred civic leaders as police sirens blared in the background, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered her most impassioned critique of the federal response to anti-ICE protests to date Thursday.

The mayor — flanked by faith leaders, business leaders, immigrant rights advocates and others — defended the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies are pursuing an alternative strategy to defend against mounting court orders blocking his policies: Raise the financial stakes for those suing the administration.

House Republicans want to force people suing the U.S. to post financial guarantees to cover the government’s costs if they win a...Read more