The Trump administration said on Monday it would not comply with California’s new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and other face coverings when conducting operations in the state, and sued in federal court to overturn its “No secret police” and “No vigilantes” acts.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools returned to class Monday after Border Patrol agents descended on the region for a weekend of arrests, with no clear sign about when the activity might end.

Agents wearing green and brown uniforms with masks covering their faces spread out across Charlotte and area towns, raising fear in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — For the first time, newly available data confirmed Monday what many have long suspected: New York City is failing to intervene before students become involved with the court system, and not doing enough to help them get back on track once in the city’s care.

Some 1,040 young people were enrolled in Passages Academy, the ...Read more

Republican lawmakers, who control North Carolina’s purse strings, declined to return Monday to take action on Medicaid cuts.

But medical providers showed up at the General Assembly to plead for relief, with several shedding tears as they described the effects of the cuts on employees, children and families.

They spoke at an unofficial ...Read more

NEW YORK — Three people have been arrested in a plot to bribe a federal juror in the upcoming case of Goran Gogic, a former heavyweight boxer accused of playing a key role in a massive international cocaine trafficking ring, prosecutors revealed.

The trial, set to start in Brooklyn Federal Court on Monday, was put on hold, with the jury ...Read more

A neo-Nazi leader who wrote a manifesto called the “Haters Handbook” pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Monday to spearheading a bizarre murder plot to dress as Santa and give poison candy to minority children on New Year’s Eve.

Michael Chkhikvishvili, 22, a citizen of Georgia, ran the Russian and Ukrainian “Maniac Murder Cult” hate group and...Read more

Charlotte city leaders pledged Monday to look for short-term money for groups helping people affected by U.S. Border Patrol’s operations in the city.

A Charlotte City Council committee voted unanimously to direct City Manager Marcus Jones to collaborate with Mecklenburg County to find money in the next week. The committee also unanimously ...Read more

A manhunt was underway on Friday for a man who ransacked the New Jersey federal prosecutor’s office building after being denied a meeting with acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba, according to reports.

The suspect showed up outside the Newark office on Wednesday evening, but he was barred entry by security because he had a bat with him, sources ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD cop was shot and wounded in the face early Monday by a gunman who had just murdered a Brooklyn neighbor, police said

Officers responding to a 5:57 a.m. 911 found 41-year-old Leroy Wallace dead from a gunshot wound to the chest on the sidewalk near Hegeman Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street in Brownsville, cops said. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Aldermen voted down Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2026 budget in a Monday committee vote, a historic display of rebellion against the freshman mayor who has been struggling to shore up support for his controversial head tax.

Johnson’s handpicked Finance Committee chair, Ald. Pat Dowell, moved to recess a meeting instead of considering...Read more

Wall Street traders gearing up for Nvidia Corp.’s earnings and the jobs report shunned riskier assets as both events will be key in shaping the global financial outlook throughout the rest of 2025.

Just ahead of tests of the two main pillars of the stock bull market — prospects for artificial intelligence and Federal Reserve rate cuts — ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer Monday vowed to force to Senate to vote quickly on a measure ordering release of the Jeffrey Epstein files as the House prepared to overwhelmingly pass it Tuesday after President Donald Trump abruptly changed his tune on the proposal.

The Senate Democratic leader said he would use his legislative power to prevent Republican ...Read more

Family and loved ones of 9/11 victims are urging the Trump administration to compel Saudi Arabia to “ensure accountability” with a federal lawsuit against the Kingdom.

The thousands of family members want the U.S. to force Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to apologize for alleged involvement in the terror attacks, finally.

“We are ...Read more

Many prominent politicians and political figures rushed to the defense of Rep. Thomas Massie over the weekend after President Donald Trump lobbed a personal attack against the Kentucky politician and his new wife.

Across party lines, observers online called Trump’s words sick, disgusting, and even “pure evil.”

Trump, in a late Friday Nov...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, resigned on Monday after about six months on the job.

Richardson had no emergency management experience when he took on the role. He came to FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This weekend’s atmospheric river uprooted trees, caked roads in mud and sent toxic runoff flowing into the ocean, but nowhere got quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara, which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county’s recorded history.

According to data from the National Weather Service, the ...Read more

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. It can obstruct, perforate or twist their airways and gastrointestinal tracts.

Now new research shows it takes just 6 pieces of ingested rubber the size of a pencil eraser to kill most sea birds.

For marine mammals, 29 pieces of any kind of plastic — hard, soft, rubber or fishing equipment — are often ...Read more

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A Wayne County judge on Monday denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented the Wayne County Board of Canvassers from certifying a candidate who may contest losing the city's Nov. 4 mayoral election by 11 votes.

The request for the restraining order was made by the attorney for apparent Mayor...Read more

NEW YORK — With less than two months to go in his term, Mayor Eric Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, drawing a contrast with his successor, Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to direct the NYPD to arrest the PM if he sets foot in New York under his administration.

In an interview with the right-wing Israel Hayom ...Read more