Last October, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sold his multibillion-dollar ownership interest in Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services company he led for more than three decades, to trusts benefiting his four children — a move designed to comply with federal ethics rules.

At about the same time, one of the trusts did something ...Read more

A congressional candidate in Arizona is leading a campaign to recall Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, whose department is heading up the Nancy Guthrie investigation.

Tucson GOP hopeful Daniel Butierez is hoping to turn the city’s 7th Congressional District red after Adelita Grijalva finishes the term started by her dad prior to his death in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, who's been criticized for blocking bills to make the Legislature's records available to the public, claimed Tuesday to have won a transparency award from an organization that might not exist.

At a press conference inside the Capitol, the Richland Township Republican told reporters he had been...Read more

Undergraduate students from families with an annual income below $150,000 can now attend the University of Notre Dame for free beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, according to a university statement.

The change is part of a broader university initiative, Pathways to Notre Dame, which was initially announced at the inauguration of the ...Read more

RICHMOND, Calif. — Driven by public safety concerns, automatic license plate readers will be turned back on in Richmond, months after they were shut down over privacy risks.

In addition to turning the cameras back on, a 4-3 vote by the City Council on Tuesday extended the city’s contract with Flock Safety, one of the largest surveillance ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the pages of history, they were a team that changed the world.

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers and brought new life to the American labor movement, drawing national attention to the brutal working conditions and unlivable wages that agricultural workers experienced.

Chavez was the iconic ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and the city’s inspector general blamed each other’s offices on Wednesday for hampering their ongoing probes into city contractor payments after an oversight report alleged that two community-based organizations submitted fraudulent invoices to the mayor’s public safety office.

Speaking after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next Homeland Security secretary, committed to working with lawmakers of both parties to address immigration policy concerns and said he would walk back some of the policies implemented under his predecessor.

Mullin, the Oklahoma Republican and former mixed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four of the five members of the Board of Fire Commissioners, which oversees the Los Angeles Fire Department, are stepping down at a time when the department is under intense scrutiny because of its missteps in handling the devastating Palisades fire.

The departures, which include board President Genethia Hudley Hayes, come after...Read more

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and continued to expect one rate cut this year as they acknowledged increased uncertainty due to war in the Middle East.

Chair Jerome Powell emphasized that to resume lowering rates, officials would have to see progress in reducing inflation, especially goods inflation that has been ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky lawmakers’ current effort to remove a Lexington judge from the bench by impeachment is nearly unprecedented in the state’s history.

And in Kentucky’s modern court system, it’s never happened.

Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman faces impeachment after a petition was filed against her in January by a ...Read more

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, on Wednesday removed Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López after more than a decade in the post and appointed Gen. Gustavo González López as his replacement, in a major shake-up of the country’s military leadership amid a fragile political transition.

The appointment of González López ...Read more

As Cuba adopts a more belligerent tone following President Donald Trump’s talk of “taking” the country, two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are headed to the island, in defiance of de facto oil embargo the U.S. has imposed on the communist-run nation.

Cuban leader Miguel Diaz Canel replied to repeated comments from Trump’s about ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka compared President Trump’s nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration, and ICE carrying it out, to the Holocaust while speaking at an “Immigrant Day” celebration Wednesday at the State House.

“I’ve been open and honest that this moment, what is happening across our country, ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The funeral prayer for the 41-year-old Afghan father of six who died Saturday in ICE custody was held Tuesday while more questions arise about why he was picked up and what caused his death less than a day later.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal and his family fled Afghanistan in 2021 through Operation Allies Refuge, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Iranian government remains “intact but largely degraded,” National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard told Congress on Wednesday, as Israel continued to hunt down the Islamic Republic’s leadership with an overnight airstrike that killed the nation’s spy chief.

The death of Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former interim Police Commissioner Tom Donlon is taking another run at litigating Mayor Eric Adams' administration, on Wednesday filing charges in state court that he was retaliated against for sounding the alarm on corruption in the upper ranks of the Police Department.

The 40-page suit largely reiterates charges Donlon made in ...Read more

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday contended voters in Michigan should "double down" on President Donald Trump's policies, while acknowledging that a "rough road" lies ahead on gas prices for the next few weeks.

Vance, a Republican former senator from Ohio, made a pitch for Republican candidates in the battleground ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cesar Chavez, the iconic labor leader, is accused of sexually assaulting two underaged girls in the 1970s as well as fellow farmworker leader Dolores Huerta in the 1960s, according to an investigation from The New York Times.

The allegations have sparked public outcry from elected leaders and spurred a wider reckoning of a ...Read more