LOS ANGELES — After days of immigration protests, downtown L.A.’s first night under curfew ended Wednesday morning with dozens of arrests, but less destruction and fewer clashes between protesters and authorities.

The curfew went into effect at 8 p.m. Tuesday and lifted at 6 a.m. the following day. The Los Angeles Police Department reported...Read more

A military parade celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday this weekend is expected to draw a lot of interest, but it’s also garnered plenty of criticism — including from a Kentucky senator.

The parade, on Saturday on Constitution Avenue at the National Mall in Washington, is expected to draw around 200,000 attendees, according to The ...Read more

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced late Tuesday he deployed Texas National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of protests planned for Wednesday night against a Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

He also said he plans to send guardsmen elsewhere in the state to “uphold law and order,” days ahead of planned ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says she doesn’t need help from the National Guard after cops arrested 86 anti-ICE activists in lower Manhattan — with more protests expected this week.

“We certainly got this,” Tisch said on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” Wednesday morning. “I spent the weekend reaching out to our ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued a stern warning to demonstrators the day after police arrested six people at a Buford Highway immigration protest.

Carr, in a statement issued just before noon Wednesday, described his message as a “warning to rioters” and said the state “will not hesitate to bring domestic terrorism ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — House Republicans unveiled a spending plan Wednesday that would slash state taxpayer support for the University of Michigan and Michigan State University by $300 million annually because of UM and MSU's large out-of-state student enrollment and multibillion-dollar endowment funds.

Under the proposal, the UM-Ann Arbor campus ...Read more

WASHINGTON – Eleanor Holmes Norton’s language was pointed.

Rep. Andy Harris is “trying to overrule the will of my constituents,” said Norton, Washington D.C.’s delegate to the U.S. House. The Maryland Republican, she added, is “violating his own principles regarding local control of local affairs.”

Norton was referring to Harris ...Read more

A body of a gray whale found on a San Francisco Bay Area beach marks the 18th death of 2025 for the marine mammals in the region, experts reported.

The dead male gray whale washed up at Lands End on Saturday, June 7, the California Academy of Sciences said in a June 9 news release.

No necropsy was performed, so the cause of death remains ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Los Angeles, Sacramento and other cities across California to protest immigration enforcement operations.

Others are preparing for statewide “No Kings” protests across California to rally against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies.

If you...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Palm Beach County officials on Tuesday urged the public to stay vigilant for storms now that the six-month hurricane season has started. And they’re telling residents how to prepare.

The region has been spared of a direct hit by hurricanes for many years, making it “very lucky,” said Mary Blakeney, the county’s...Read more

DENVER — Hundreds of Coloradans in Douglas County will mobilize Saturday for an anti-Trump rally, even after the town of Parker tried to shut them down, organizers say.

The Parker-led group will join thousands of people in cities across the country hosting “No Kings” rallies on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s birthday, “in response...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended the internal review process that led to the firings of two City Hall staffers involved in a domestic dispute, amid allegations by one of the staffers who claimed she was fired to protect a top Wu aide who had propositioned her, in order to avoid an election year scandal for the mayor.

A day after ...Read more

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling-out last week, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” he said on his social-media platform, X. “They went too far.”

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President Donald Trump said a trade framework with China has been completed, with Beijing supplying rare earths and magnets “UP FRONT” and the U.S. allowing Chinese students into its colleges and universities.

The U.S. and China will maintain tariffs at their current, lower levels following negotiations between the two nations this week in ...Read more

CHICAGO — State election officials have informed Senate President Don Harmon that he will face more than $9.8 million in penalties pending an appeal of a case alleging he broke an Illinois election law designed to rein in big money in political campaigns.

The calculation of the potential penalty emerged only days after the Oak Park Democrat ...Read more

President Donald Trump said a trade framework with China has been completed, with Beijing supplying rare earths and magnets “UP FRONT” and the U.S. allowing Chinese students into its colleges and universities.

The U.S. and China will maintain tariffs at their current, lower levels following negotiations between the two nations this week in ...Read more