Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly didn’t tell President Trump or seek his permission before ordering a pause in shipments of arms to embattled Ukraine last week.

Trump was unhappy and frustrated to find out about the Pentagon chief’s controversial decision, which the president quickly reversed after a high-stakes meeting with ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security announced it has subpoenaed Harvard for “foreign student information” Wednesday, the latest escalation in a long back and forth between the university and Trump administration.

“If Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will,” the Department of Homeland Security and DHS ...Read more

A group of small businesses that won an order finding President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs illegal urged a federal appeals court to uphold that decision and block the trade levies.

The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on May 28 that Trump exceeded his authority by imposing broad tariffs, a power granted to Congress in the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Sorry, rats. The "Parker piles" of trash found around the city are about to disappear.

Philadelphia's first major city worker strike since 1986 lasted eight days and four hours before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker and Greg Boulware, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33, ...Read more

NEW YORK – Grok, the AI chatbot designed by Elon Musk’s xAI for social media, described itself as “MechaHitler” while making a string of antisemitic posts this week.

The questionable responses follow Musk’s announcement last week of an update to the bot after he expressed frustration that it was too politically correct.

In one ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland state parks are in their busy season, with yearly attendance still millions more than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We were discovered in and after the pandemic, and we stayed discovered,” Tim Hamilton, the business and marketing manager for the Maryland Park Service, said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun. “...Read more

ATLANTA — Crime and gun violence among young people in the metro Atlanta area are decreasing, and law enforcement officials say it’s not the boys in blue on patrol but rather city-run youth programs that are shifting the trend for kids.

Recent headlines about shootings in metro Atlanta involving young victims have raised alarm about gun ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County’s jail system has agreed to drive local immigration detainees to federal detention centers — an arrangement that could include trips to the state-run facility in the Everglades branded as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

The administration of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava quietly signed the updated agreement with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County leaders are once again scrambling to stem the flow of illicit drugs into the county's troubled juvenile halls.

After nine people were rushed to the hospital last week following suspected drug exposure at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, county supervisors asked the probation department Tuesday to ramp up ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A baby died after his mother left him and his 2-year-old sibling inside a car while she was getting lip filler at a Bakersfield medical spa on a 101-degree day, authorities said.

Bakersfield Police criticized Maya Hernandez for "placing the value of her appearance over the safety and well-being of her children" in a report ...Read more

Virginia Guevara came to the United States from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in the 1990s, before the country was granted Temporary Protected Status following the devastating destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

Guevara, 48 at the time, found a new and better life in the U.S. by working as a kitchen helper. Now, at 78, she faces possible ...Read more

President Donald Trump reiterated his displeasure with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and confirmed he’s sending more defensive weapons to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government, sweeping aside an earlier pause by the Pentagon.

“He’s killing too many people so we’re sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine and I’ve ...Read more

Russia launched a record number of drones and missiles at Ukraine on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his displeasure with Vladimir Putin and confirmed he’s sending more defensive weapons to Kyiv.

Ukraine’s air defense forces said Russia launched around 730 drones, including Iranian Shahed-type strike drones, as well ...Read more

Search crews slogged through thick mud and debris Tuesday in central Texas, where more than 100 people are confirmed dead after catastrophic flooding.

Authorities described the search as grueling and slow-moving, with unstable rubble piles and high water complicating recovery efforts along the Guadalupe River. Governor Greg Abbott, visiting ...Read more

Houthi attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea killed three crew members, sank one vessel, and left a second without propulsion in signs the Tehran-backed group is once again escalating assaults in the vital trade route.

The attacks resulted in the “tragic loss of three mariners, with many others injured and the complete loss of the MV Magic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested four men on Tuesday on suspicion of interfering with immigration enforcement operations and placing homemade tire spikes allegedly intended to disable law enforcement vehicles, federal authorities said.

Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory K. Bovino identified the men as Jenaro-Ernesto Ayala, 43;...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After overcoming homelessness, Kristy Smith became an advocate for others, designing tools to help Sacramento residents get off the street and into permanent shelter. A new bill would shut down her work.

Smith, along with 16 homeless and 15 formerly homeless people, signed a letter from the Sacramento Homeless Union last ...Read more