President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it is beginning a surge of immigration law enforcement in Chicago, dubbing it “Operation Midway Blitz” and claiming it will target “criminal illegal aliens” who have taken advantage of the city and state’s sanctuary policies.

The announcement comes more than ...Read more

As the fatal stabbing last month of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte light rail received national attention and sparked a debate over crime and public safety, a top Republican lawmaker said he was exploring “potential legislative action” that could be taken.

The Aug. 22 death of Iryna Zarutska, 23, at the hands of a stranger onboard the ...Read more

On Monday afternoon, a San Diego Superior Court judge sentenced 24-year-old Walt Mehran to 12 years in prison for the Dec. 2, 2023, attempted murder of Eric Van Tine.

The two men, both struggling with mental illness and drug addiction, had been placed in a cell with a third man at San Diego’s Central Jail — even though state regulators had ...Read more

The Missouri House on Monday gave initial approval on a Republican plan to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts, marking the first major vote on a map that would dilute the voting power of Kansas City.

The vote came more than four hours after the House also advanced a first-in-the-nation plan that would overhaul Missouri’s ...Read more

A humiliating election defeat is forcing Argentine President Javier Milei to face up to a series of political miscalculations — chief among them, his reliance on his beloved sister.

The president’s libertarian party got just 34% of votes in Sunday’s local elections in Buenos Aires province, to 47% for Peronism, its main rival. While the ...Read more

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister within days, after the current premier lost a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament.

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is formally presenting his resignation to Macron on Tuesday. Whoever Macron picks as his successor will need to assemble a government and then...Read more

Japan’s ruling party is set to decide when and how an upcoming leadership race will be held, after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation announcement triggered a vote to choose his successor.

The Liberal Democratic Party is considering holding a full-scale leadership election with the participation of over 100,000 rank-and-file party...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said the federal government has not yet started writing a report on the possible causes of autism but reaffirmed a longstanding promise that it will be released “within a month.”

Makary said last week’s Wall Street Journal story about the autism report was “...Read more

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is asking the US Supreme Court to review a Connecticut court’s nearly $1.4 billion judgment against him and Infowars stemming from his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax.

The default judgment entered against Jones and his Infowars parent company in 2022 after “...Read more

Three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices dismissed suggestions that their decisions were political as they made their case for retention in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

In a rare public speaking event Justices Kevin Dougherty, David Wecht, and Christine Donohue spoke about their work over the last 10 years on the state Supreme Court as they face a...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would ban online pet dealer websites and shadowy middlemen who pose as local breeders from selling dogs to California consumers — the latest move to curtail the pipeline from out-of-state puppy mills.

Assembly member Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, said Assembly Bill 519 will help...Read more

Top Beacon Hill Democrats criticized President Donald Trump’s administration Monday for renewing a surge of immigration arrests in Boston over the weekend, with Gov. Maura Healey calling the actions “political theater” and “attempts to distract from Trump’s failing agenda.”

Immigration agents from across the country descended on ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republicans in the Missouri House gave preliminary approval Monday to a plan asking voters to make it harder for citizens to change the state Constitution through ballot questions.

Facing heavy opposition and sit-in protests over the weekend by Democrats, the GOP-led chamber also was poised to give first-round approval ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday for the Trump administration and agreed U.S. immigration agents may stop and detain anyone they suspect is in the U.S. illegally based on little more than their working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

In a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal and lifted a Los ...Read more

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to clear the way for ICE raids in Los Angeles, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Boston’s legal recourse amid the latest ICE operation has slimmed.

“The federal law enforcement, we absolutely can work and cooperate with local and state law enforcement,” Leavitt said on the Howie ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has struck down an effort by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to let federal immigration authorities operate on Rikers Island, ruling the action was ethically “impermissible” because it came on the heels of President Trump’s Department of Justice securing a highly controversial dismissal of the mayor’s ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The transgender Boise State University student who sued Idaho Gov. Brad Little over the state’s law banning trans women and girls from women’s sports has dismissed her case two months after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the issue.

Attorneys for Lindsay Hecox filed the “suggestion of mootness” with the Supreme ...Read more