SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a letter on Friday requesting that the Trump administration remove California from its list of sanctuary jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law.

The Department of Homeland Security issued the list this week in accordance with an executive order President ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who has led an effort in the Trump administration to cut jobs and programs across the federal government, stood by President Donald Trump’s side on Friday in the Oval Office, officially for the last time as a government employee. But neither man was clear whether Musk’s active hand in ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday said he’d consider pardoning embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently on trial in the same Manhattan courtroom where Trump was found liable for sex abuse in 2023.

“Nobody’s asked, but I know people are thinking about it,” he told a Fox News reporter in the Oval Office.

Combs faces ...Read more

Russia said it’s sending a delegation to Istanbul on Monday for a second round of talks with Ukraine amid wrangling over Kyiv’s insistence that Moscow outline its peace proposals before any meeting.

The warring sides have tussled over the parameters of negotiations after Turkey hosted the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine since...Read more

Entrepreneur and mega MAGA donor Elon Musk allegedly used mind-altering drugs on a frequent basis while campaigning for President Donald Trump in 2024, according to a detailed report.

The conspiracy theory-peddling billionaire, who spent nearly $300 million to put back Trump in power — often garnering headlines of his own on the campaign ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk said he will continue to advise President Donald Trump even after stepping away from the Department of Government Efficiency effort he has spearheaded.

“I expect to remain a friend and an adviser, and hopefully, if there’s anything the president wants me to do, I’m at the president’s service,” Musk said ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is accused in a new lawsuit of violating state law after allegedly omitting data from the state’s annual vehicle stops report that shows whether minority drivers were stopped by police more frequently than white drivers.

The lawsuit, filed this week by the Missouri NAACP, also ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is firing Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, for being "a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI."

The announcement, made on Truth Social, comes as Trump pushes to remake some of the highest profile national arts institutions so they ...Read more

Minnesota colleges and universities draw nearly 15,000 international students, who bring an estimated $488 million to the state — critical revenue schools could lose if fewer international students enroll next fall after major changes by the Trump administration.

That would also reshape the makeup of campuses. College officials say ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cut off a lifeline to more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba and three other countries, as the justices overturned a federal judge’s order that halted the Trump administration’s plan to revoke their humanitarian parole.

The court granted the administration’s emergency request to lift the judge’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats find themselves in familiar powerless territory when it comes to trying to stop President Donald Trump from what they see as potential violations of a constitutional clause meant to prevent presidents from accepting gifts or other items of value from foreign countries without the consent of Congress.

During Trump’s ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — A Karen Read attorney began the first day of the defense’s case arguing that the whole case should be thrown out. That motion was denied, though the argument sets up the case that is to follow.

“The Commonwealth has simply not proven, even in a light most favorable to them, that there was a collision on Jan. 29, 2022, at ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — In the final days of the spring legislative session, Illinois lawmakers this week advanced a bill to the Senate that would prohibit public schools from denying a student access to free education based on that child’s immigration status or that of the child's parents — a move aimed at reinforcing long-standing ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ defense team Friday sought to undermine claims by the mogul’s former assistant that he raped, sexually assaulted and otherwise abused her throughout her employment.

Mia, the second of three alleged victims slated to testify at Combs’ Manhattan federal court trial, under questioning by prosecutors ...Read more

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its childhood vaccination schedule to say that healthy children “may receive” COVID shots — softened from its previous stance calling for them — after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it would no longer be recommended.

When parents want “their child to be ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dylan, the 20-year-old Bronx public school student arrested by federal immigration authorities, sued the Trump administration late Thursday night over his ongoing detention in Pennsylvania.

The “habeas corpus” petition asked a western Pennsylvania federal judge to find Dylan’s arrest was unconstitutional and violated his due ...Read more