Gov. Gavin Newsom took an early victory lap on homelessness, touting that the number of people sleeping on California’s streets had dropped by nearly 10% in the last year as he announced another tranche of state homelessness funds for local governments.

Newsom announced Friday at a press conference in San Francisco that the state would award ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected bids by Marilyn Mosby and federal prosecutors for redo hearings after the high court vacated the former Baltimore state’s attorney’s fraud conviction in July.

The appeals court denied the petitions in a brief order handed down Thursday.

Mosby remains convicted of two counts of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — National Democrats aren’t giving up on potentially eliminating Maryland’s lone Republican congressional seat through redistricting, despite state Senate President Bill Ferguson refusing to consider the effort. His chamber, necessary to advance legislation, will prioritize affordability issues during this year’s legislative ...Read more

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is accused of having an affair with a member of her security detail and destroying the man’s marriage in a lawsuit filed by his ex-wife in Moore County, North Carolina.

Heather Ammel, a resident of Moore County and the ex-wife of Matthew Ammel, the member of Sinema’s security detail, sued Sinema for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s disaster chief quietly retired in late December amid criticism over the state’s indecisive stance on whether soil testing was necessary to protect survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires.

One year ago, Nancy Ward, then the director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A court filing made public this week claims to reveal the identity of the off-duty federal immigration agent who shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year’s Eve and includes allegations that the law enforcement officer whipped his sons with a belt and made racist and homophobic remarks in the past, according to documents ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former Vice President Kamala Harris tapped into local resentment against the White House on Friday during a brief speech in Chicago, her latest postelection stop as she seeks to stay in the national spotlight while mulling whether to make another run for the Oval Office in two years.

Speaking at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Homeland Security officers who blinded a young protester by shooting a less-lethal projectile at close range in Santa Ana apparently shot a second man in the face that night, blinding him too.

Britain Rodriguez, 31, a resident of Orange County, said he was standing at the bottom of some steps with other demonstrators when ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Friday that socialist interim President Delcy Rodríguez is cooperating with the Trump administration under pressure rather than by choice, and that her main task is to dismantle what she described as a criminal power structure that has sustained repression in Venezuela for more than two ...Read more

Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last week, was struck four times in the gunfire, the Fire Department said.

When first responders reached her, 36-year-old Good was unresponsive in the driver seat of her maroon Honda pilot, and her pulse was “inconsistent” and “irregular,” according to ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard said this week that its crews intercepted more cocaine loads at sea than at any time in the service’s history — a record high of over half-a-million pounds of narcotics in a single year.

The announcement comes the same week federal auditors in the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report concluding the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officials have announced two arrests one day after agents’ vehicles were vandalized and government property was stolen during unrest that followed a federal officer shooting and wounding a man on Wednesday in north Minneapolis.

“One individual who allegedly stole federal government property out of an FBI vehicle in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California State Parks will be free to enter on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday, after the Trump administration ordered national parks to charge entry fees that day.

Newsom's announcement comes as the nation approaches the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, and after the U...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on goods from nations that oppose his push to take control of Greenland, stepping up his rhetoric while Denmark hosted U.S. lawmakers on its home turf following meetings in Washington this week.

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland ...Read more

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on Hamtramck's contested mayoral race but ordered the Court of Appeals to expedite a review of whether 37 uncounted ballots should be tallied — though one justice said the case warrants an immediate review by the high court.

Now-Mayor Adam Alharbi was declared the winner...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A year after the Eaton fire, survivors and the state's electric utilities are clashing over whether state law should continue to protect the companies from the cost of disastrous wildfires they ignite.

Southern California Edison says that with the help of those state laws it expects to pay little or even none of the damage costs...Read more

Security forces in Haiti have destroyed at least two homes belonging to feared warlord Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, after a drone strike targeted his Delmas 6 stronghold.

A Haitian government source confirmed to the Miami Herald that the incident occurred Wednesday and the homes were located next to each other. Chérizier’s whereabouts ...Read more

Denmark and Greenland are stepping up lobbying of U.S. lawmakers in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland.

A group of U.S. senators and representatives met lawmakers in the Danish parliament on Friday, with protests against Trump’s plans due across Denmark on Saturday. Alaska Republican Lisa ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — During a brief appearance in court Friday, former Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill’s legal team and prosecutors agreed they’d be ready for a June trial on her seven felony charges.

A status hearing was scheduled for May 1, when there will be a further update to potentially lock in the trial date. Attorneys told Judge ...Read more

Nick Reiner was placed under a mental health conservatorship for a year beginning in 2020, according to a report published Thursday.

Reiner, now 32, was released from the conservatorship in 2021, and it’s unclear why it wasn’t extended, the New York Times reported. He had been placed under what’s known as an LPS conservatorship — based ...Read more