SAN DIEGO — The search for survivors from a downed Cessna plane that crashed into the ocean Sunday was suspended Tuesday morning after personnel used aircraft and boats to scour 300 square miles of ocean.

“They are still unaccounted for,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said of the six victims presumed to have died.

The search began Sunday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass has announced a curfew will be put into effect for one square mile of downtown Los Angeles following four nights of sporadically chaotic protests during which the LAPD arrested more than 150 people.

The curfew will extend from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. It will apply to the area of downtown from the 5 Freeway to the 110 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can continue to enforce his global tariffs for now, a federal appeals court held in a win for the president on one of his signature economic policies.

The order Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extends an earlier, short-term reprieve for the administration as it presses a challenge to a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated the city of Las Vegas as a “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants, which threatens withholding of federal funds, local officials haven’t been told why.

The DHS list of hundreds of jurisdictions, which it alleges flout federal immigration laws, ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Two expert witnesses for murder defendant Karen Read said that although victim John O’Keefe experienced major head trauma, the absence of other significant injuries made it unlikely a vehicle strike killed him — potent testimony in a trial the judge said is “winding down.”

“When you look at the position and ...Read more

The United States and China de-escalated trade tensions, agreeing to a preliminary deal on how to implement the consensus the two sides reached in Geneva, negotiators for both sides said.

While the full details of their accord weren’t immediately available, U.S. negotiators said they “absolutely expect” that issues around shipments of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After days of fiery protest against federal immigration raids, Los Angeles residents and officials braced for the arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines on Tuesday in what some called an unprecedented and potentially explosive deployment of active-duty troops with hazy mission objectives.

As Trump administration officials vowed to ...Read more

During his public falling out with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk slammed the president’s proposed spending bill — dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — claiming it will balloon the deficit.

It turns out, most Americans agree with his critique, new polling reveals.

In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, half of respondents were ...Read more

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced this week he is joining a coalition of 15 other Democratic attorneys general in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the redistribution of devices that the lawsuit claims enable firearms to fire like machine guns.

The Democrat’s latest lawsuit particularly targets the Bureau of ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned protesters to stay away from his controversial military parade planned for Saturday in Washington D.C. — or face “very big force.”

As he defends his crackdown on immigration protests in Los Angeles, Trump said authorities wouldn’t hesitate to flex their muscles if protesters seek to disrupt the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled. Over the next 80 seconds he moaned twice more before drawing his final, gasping breath.

Protocol required the executioners to aim for Mahdi’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In a different jurisdiction, Andrea Lozano-Alanis could have been freed from jail as soon as she paid her $77 bail.

But she was in Montgomery County.

And that Philadelphia suburb holds immigrants wanted by ICE for an additional four hours, allowing time for federal agents to arrive and take them into custody.

That’s what ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democratic appropriators and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traded barbs Tuesday over the deployment of U.S. military forces to California in an often contentious hearing that ultimately yielded few new details about what lawmakers were ostensibly present to discuss: the fiscal 2026 budget request.

While the hearing was ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Twice this year in the North Carolina legislature, votes that typically fall along party lines have instead been upended.

First, Democrats broke with their caucus to vote for the House Republican-written budget bill.

Now, a few Republicans are also singling themselves out from the herd on a controversial bill in the General ...Read more

California's two U.S. Senators pushed top military officials Tuesday for more information about how hundreds of U.S. Marines were deployed to Los Angeles over the objections of local leaders and what the active-duty military will do on the ground.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla asked the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — How many people does it take to move a life-size stuffed moose through the hallways of the Hart Senate Office Building? Four at a minimum, as the staff of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen discovered on Tuesday.

Huddled around the giant moose waiting for a freight elevator, the group discussed their options.

“It’s going to be precarious,�...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent departed trade talks with China late Tuesday in London, as delegations continued to negotiate over key tech and industrial exports and deescalating their trade war.

Bessent told reporters he had to return to Washington in order to testify before Congress. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. ...Read more

Denver Public Schools this week dropped its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which the district sued earlier this year to prevent immigration arrests from occurring in school buildings.

DPS sued Homeland Security in February in an effort to force the federal government to reinstate a policy that largely prevented ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has shifted into a noticeably military mindset, just days before hundreds of tanks and combat vehicles will rumble along the streets of the nation’s capital.

“Those foolish enough to challenge America’s Army have been met with unyielding strength, unbreakable spirit and unstoppable, overwhelming force...Read more