Anaheim over the weekend saw several federal immigration raids in what officials said was the first significant action the city has seen in weeks.

City officials in a news release Monday, Aug. 18, said those concerned about federal immigration enforcement “need to be aware and alert” after agents over the weekend detained five laborers at a...Read more

A Minnesota District Court judge on Monday struck down a state law that bans what are known as binary triggers on guns, ruling the way legislators tucked the change inside a massive budget bill was unconstitutional.

Binary triggers allow two bullets to be fired from a gun with one pull-and-release motion, and the Legislature outlawed the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will resign next month to serve as a co-deputy director of the FBI, signifying the Missouri litigator’s rapid ascent in Trump’s political orbit.

Bailey announced his resignation, which will be effective on Sept. 8, in a press release Monday evening. Bailey will serve in President ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Democrats on Monday kicked off the process to redraw the state’s congressional districts, an extraordinary action they said was necessary to neutralize efforts by President Trump and Texas Republicans to increase the number of GOP lawmakers in Congress.

If approved by state lawmakers this week, Californians ...Read more

Chris Cleary is about to become a key player in psychedelic medicine.

He’s a mental health nurse, with a doctorate in nursing, who has been tapped by UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing to lead the creation of new classes in the use of traditional psychedelics – psilocybin, MDMA and the like – as part of a regimen to treat ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A drug dealer dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” has agreed to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges, including that she provided the drug that ultimately led actor Matthew Perry to suffer a fatal overdose in October 2023, federal prosecutors announced Monday.

Jasveen Sangha, 42, also admitted in her plea agreement to ...Read more

Myanmar’s military regime said it has scheduled Dec. 28 for the first phase of a general election, despite ongoing civil conflict and boycotts by democratic opposition groups.

The Union Election Commission announced Monday that seats in both chambers of parliament as well as at the provincial level would be contested in the “multi-party ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The presidents of Russia and Ukraine may finally meet to discuss peace after 3 1/2 years of war, President Donald Trump said Monday, hosting European leaders at the White House in a push to resolve the conflict.

But it is unclear whether the Kremlin has agreed to the proposal, telling reporters only that Russian leader Vladimir ...Read more

A former Michigan State University student is suing after she says the college is at fault for her cancer diagnosis.

McClatchy News reached out to Michigan State University for comment Aug. 18 but did not immediately hear back.

“While we cannot offer comment on pending litigation, we do want to emphasize that Michigan State University ...Read more

For years, Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF) has been the gold standard for suppressing and extinguishing petroleum-based fires.

But its effectiveness has come with a cost: the presence of PFAS, so-called "forever chemicals" that don't break down and are linked to health and environmental risks.

One potential contender to replace the PFAS-laden...Read more

A protester remained jailed in Anchorage on Monday after his arrest Friday on accusations he painted a defamatory message about President Donald Trump on a sign at a military gate.

James Garrett Hermansen, 31, was one of hundreds who took part in peaceful protests and demonstrations during Friday's landmark meeting between Trump and Russian ...Read more

DENVER — A Jefferson County couple face multiple felony charges after they lived for almost two years with the corpse of a man with whom they had been involved in a three-way relationship.

The gruesome living arrangement was discovered in early July after the brother of 64-year-old James Frances O’Neill called the Lakewood Police Department...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian leader to begin making plans for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after meeting the Ukrainian president and European leaders at the White House on Monday.

The proposal — which Trump pitched as a one-on-one summit between Ukraine and Russia’s leaders ...Read more

The rising number of extrajudicial killings carried out by Haitian police is once more coming under scrutiny, this time by the U.S. State Department.

The Trump administration noted the arbitrary killing of civilians by Haitian police and government agents in its long-awaited annual assessment of human rights in 198 countries and territories. ...Read more

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday demanded the “immediate return” of a 7-year-old New York City public school student grabbed last week by federal immigration authorities amid the Trump administration’s sweeping crackdown.

Dayra, an Ecuadorian student at P.S. 89 The Jose Peralta School of Dreamers in Queens, and her mom Martha were separated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It was one part diplomatic summit, one part emergency intervention. But President Donald Trump did not back down Monday when face-to-face with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and a group of European leaders.

There was no bickering between Trump and Zelenskyy this time in the Oval Office, as Zelenskyy repeatedly thanked his American...Read more

Texas Democrats are back at the Capitol, tipping off what’s expected to be a fast-paced, jam-packed special session with policies related to THC, abortion access, flood relief, education policy and redistricting on the agenda.

Bills related to those issues and more could be headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk within a matter of weeks.

“We ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Russia must agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine before negotiations can advance toward a formal peace agreement, top European leaders told Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, urging the U.S. president to "put pressure on Russia" in his push to end the war.

The meeting had an historic flair with six European heads of government...Read more