A key candidate running to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister is calling for an international summit to hammer out a joint response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff and sovereignty threats.

Former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who spearheaded trade negotiations for Canada during Trump’s first term, pitched the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire the U.S. arm of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, President Donald Trump said Monday night, without elaborating.

“I would say yes,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if Microsoft is in discussions to purchase the app. “A lot of interest in TikTok. There’s great interest ...Read more

Brazil’s foreign ministry has summoned the highest representative for the U.S. government in Brasilia to explain the treatment given to undocumented Brazilian migrants who were deported back to the Latin American country during the weekend, according to two people familiar with the matter.

U.S. Charge d’Affaires Gabriel Escobar, who will ...Read more

Nearly 400 years after members of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, arrived in America in pursuit of religious freedom, a new immigration policy threatens the ability of the religious group to freely practice their beliefs, according to a lawsuit.

Five Quaker groups — including the first formal association of Quakers in...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore on Monday said that Maryland will follow the Constitution regarding President Donald Trump’s commitment to deport people who have entered the country illegally.

“We are going to follow the Constitution here,” Moore, a Democrat, said at an event in Baltimore. “We are going to make sure that our local ...Read more

CHICAGO — Partway through answering questions Sunday during an immigration enforcement blitz in Chicago, a man who appeared to be in federal custody briefly stopped talking when he recognized the man with the Texas accent asking the questions.

“You’re Dr. Phil,” the man said to television personality Phil McGraw, who, while standing ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released new guidance for state and local law enforcement late Monday, advising officers that they can’t inquire about immigration status in routine police work.

An 11-page memo explains the “limited” scope of how Maryland police can enforce federal immigration law, according to a news...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time since the devastating Palisades fire ignited on Jan. 7, all Pacific Palisades residents can now return to their homes — or what is left of them.

All remaining evacuation orders were lifted at noon Monday, with most zones converted to residents-only access. Residents were previously allowed limited access ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four Southern California Edison lines over Eaton Canyon saw a momentary increase of electrical current at about the same time the destructive Eaton fire is believed to have ignited on Jan. 7, the utility company told state regulators in a filing Monday.

The incident, according to the filing, happened after Edison’s Eagle-Rock-...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Less than two weeks after a huge fire in Moss Landing at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants, scientists affiliated with San Jose State University have discovered unusually high levels of toxic metals in soils at Elkhorn Slough, roughly a mile away.

Researchers at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories have ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The special administrator of O.J. Simpson’s estate filed a lawsuit earlier this month alleging that Simpson’s son has improperly claimed ownership of his father’s home.

Simpson, the football star who was acquitted of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, was 76 when he died April 10 from prostate ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The man accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed hip hop icon Tupac Shakur is now facing an additional battery charge.

A criminal complaint was filed Sunday charging Duane Davis with a charge of battery by a prisoner. He was accused of using “force or violence” against someone else Friday while at the ...Read more

DENVER — A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after two men were fatally shot at a 7-Eleven near Denver’s Park Hill and Clayton neighborhoods, police said Monday.

Fabian Vasquez allegedly shot at a Denver Police Department officer as he ran away from the convenience store near East 35th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard where ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that it would return to policies that ensure no federal funds are used to pay for or promote abortions.

The news release was the first since the Trump administration placed a temporary freeze last week on some government work and communications on health topics.

The ...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A Lehigh County district judge approved a search warrant for the DNA of an Allentown employee who allegedly was the victim of a hate crime.

The warrant application said the employee was not willing to provide a sample for the investigation.

According to an affidavit by Allentown Police Detective Harold Bonser, the employee "...Read more

DENVER — Denver will pay $980,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of eight people who were seriously injured by police during the George Floyd protests in 2020 under several settlements approved Monday by the City Council.

The joint lawsuit, filed in 2021, was one of two filed on the same day. Both alleged that police officers used ...Read more

DEARBORN, Mich. — As worries about immigration enforcement surge and the Trump administration continues its broad push for mass deportations, local advocates are reminding immigrants of all residency statuses to know their rights during interrogations, arrests or raids.

The Arab American Civil Rights League had originally planned a press ...Read more

SEATTLE — A new proposal to help solve Washington's public defender crisis is attracting bipartisan support in the Legislature but would carry a hefty price tag.

Sponsored in the Senate by a diverse group of prominent Democrats and Republicans, Senate Bill 5404 would require the state to cover at least 50% of the costs that counties incur to ...Read more

Buckley Carlson, the 28-year-old son of far-right pundit Tucker Carlson, will serve as Vice President JD Vance’s deputy press secretary, according to ABC News.

The political scion has spent the past five years as a Capitol Hill aide, where he most recently served as deputy chief of staff to Republican Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana.

Despite his ...Read more