WASHINGTON — After sounding the war drums for weeks with warnings to Iranian leaders, President Donald Trump spent scant time on foreign policy matters during his State of the Union address, with lawmakers saying they expected to hear more from the commander in chief.

Trump bickered and traded verbal jabs with Democrats during a nearly two-...Read more

As revelations emerged this week that the U.S. Department of Justice withheld key materials relating to allegations against President Donald Trump in its release of Jeffrey Epstein files, Stetson University College of Law graduates demanded action from the U.S. attorney general’s alma mater.

Pam Bondi earned her law degree from Stetson in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The backers of two resolutions in the House and Senate aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from attacking Iran are gearing up to force the issue soon.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who previously said he was waiting for diplomatic efforts to play out before forcing a vote, vowed Wednesday to bring his Iran war powers resolution ...Read more

Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University and ex-Treasury Secretary, is retiring from his Harvard professorship, following revelations that his ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were deeper than previously known.

“I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic ...Read more

In response to recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations across Kansas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas said it is reviewing reports of interactions between federal agents and the public, including a recent incident in Johnson County.

The attorney’s office said in a statement that it decided not to pursue ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nineteen people are expected to be charged in the coming days in connection with a yearslong West Philadelphia gang war that investigators say fueled nearly two dozen shootings — including at least five homicides — across the city, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.

The defendants include members of the Young ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky lawmakers are moving a bill to strip power from the state and local human rights commissions that enforce civil rights law for the public, instead directing aggrieved people to hire lawyers and file lawsuits.

“The reason that I am proposing this is I believe that the right to a jury trial, which is enshrined in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives underscored the agency’s law enforcement mission but criticized the latest Republican-led spending cut to the agency in written responses to lawmakers.

The responses to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee offer new insight into...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho could be changing the way it handles car registration. House Bill 533, which would end the legal requirements for vehicle registration tags on motor vehicles, has passed both the Idaho House of Representatives and the state Senate.

As of Tuesday, Feb. 24, the bill was headed to Gov. Brad Little’s desk.

If signed into ...Read more

Three varieties of cottage cheese sold under Walmart’s Great Value brand got yanked from stores in 24 states on potential pasteurization problems.

Manufacturer Saputo Cheese USA said while doing “pasteurizer troubleshooting exercises” with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the company and agency found “there’s the ...Read more

Anthropic PBC, which for years billed itself as a safer alternative to artificial intelligence rivals, has loosened its commitment to maintaining its guardrails, one of the most dramatic policy shifts in the AI industry yet as startups once focused on helping humanity turn their attention to profit and success.

The company in 2023 said in its ...Read more

The H5N1 bird flu virus that devastated South American elephant seal populations has been confirmed in seals at California's Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Cruz announced Wednesday.

The virus has ravaged wild, commercial and domestic animals across the globe ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — President Donald Trump telephoned his Mexican counterpart after the takedown of the cartel leader known as "El Mencho" and the ensuing violence south of the border and asked: "What's going on in Mexico? How are things?"

The cordial conversation Monday lasted about eight minutes, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told ...Read more

The federal government may stop TSA PreCheck during the ongoing partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday.

Noem previously said the department would suspend PreCheck operations last weekend but quickly reversed course and kept the faster, prescreened security lanes open.

However, she put the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities raided the home and office of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho on Wednesday morning, the FBI confirmed.

Law enforcement sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told the Los Angeles Times that the federal investigation specifically...Read more

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport marked her first official day in the office exchanging lawsuits with President Donald Trump’s administration.

Davenport, appointed by Gov. Mikie Sherrill, had already been waging legal battles against Trump as acting attorney general before her unanimous confirmation Tuesday by the New Jersey ...Read more

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a day of talks with Caribbean leaders here telling them he wants to reinforce the long-term relationship between the United States and the region.

The statement, though brief, was encouraging, Caribbean leaders said as they prepared for longer closed-door discussions ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado forensic officials have slashed the turnaround time for sexual assault kit testing, but it still takes analysts more than six months to process and complete a test, a new state audit found.

The 190-day testing lag is well outside the 60-day goal set by the legislature in state law, and it’s more than twice as long as the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani doubled down Wednesday on his belief that the mass snowball fight in Washington Square Park that left two cops hospitalized should not result in criminal charges — drawing a deeper line in the snow between himself and NYPD officials looking to make arrests.

Speaking at an unrelated press conference, Mamdani ...Read more