ATLANTA — Hundreds of new Georgia laws take effect this week after being adopted by the state’s Republican-led Legislature.

Some — like a law restricting transgender students from playing on school sports teams that don’t match the gender they are assigned at birth — mirror President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Others are aimed at ...Read more

The Trump administration is using Haiti’s “widespread” gang violence, along with the State Department’s recent decision to designate several of the country’s most powerful armed groups as “foreign terrorists,” to justify ending temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living and working in the United ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday issued a hand-written note to Fed Chief Jerome Powell demanding he cut interest rates in a new escalation of their feud.

Trump scrawled the to “Jerome” note as he piles pressure on the powerful central banker to agree to dramatically cut rates or step down before his term is up next May.

“Jerome – You are,...Read more

SEATTLE — Wild orcas on more than 30 occasions in four oceans have attempted to share their prey with people, potentially to develop relationships with humans, researchers have found.

In each of the instances recorded over two decades, orcas approached a person within a length of the orca’s body, and dropped freshly hunted prey in front of ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury started deliberating the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday, with a possible life sentence on the line for the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder.

The anonymous eight men and four women on the panel got the case at 11:30 a.m. after hearing an instruction on the law from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For "Grease" fans in Los Angeles, recent summer nights had a surprise in store. We'll tell you more, tell you more.

John Travolta, who brought life to bad boy heartthrob Danny Zuko in the 1978 classic, crashed the Hollywood Bowl's sing-along event Friday. He surprised not just the audience, but also fellow "Grease" alumni as he ...Read more

New charges have been filed against the suspect in a molotov cocktail firebomb attack at a rally for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, earlier this month after an 82-year-old victim died from her injuries.

The Boulder County district attorney’s office announced Monday that Karen Diamond died as a result of “the severe injuries that she...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inner circle worked with outside lobbyists who were not registered to lobby on behalf of the city in the Illinois General Assembly, a practice his office defended after repeated inquiries into the makeup of his intergovernmental affairs team in Springfield.

Email records and Springfield sources ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man sprayed bear repellent into a crowd of Pride March revelers in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park on Sunday, injuring 51 people, police said Monday.

Dominic Sabator, 33, of Harlem, told cops he unleashed the powerful spray because he believed he was about to be jumped.

He was arrested for assault, reckless endangerment and...Read more

BALTIMORE — More than 3,800 people filed lawsuits under Maryland’s Child Victims Act in the two months before new limits on monetary damages took effect in June, according to a Baltimore Sun analysis of court records.

That legal mad dash could theoretically put Maryland taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars in jury awards. It also ...Read more

MIAMI — A 75-year-old Cuban man who arrived in the United States nearly six decades ago died Thursday after three weeks in immigration detention in Miami.

Isidro Perez is the fifth person to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Florida this year. Half of all deaths since January in the agency’s custody nationwide have been ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Two University of Idaho students who discovered the bodies of their four friends after they were killed in their Moscow home spoke out for the first time Monday in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Hunter Johnson and Emily Alandt at the time had arrived to help two surviving roommates check the off-campus ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump is planning to visit a new immigration detention center in the Everglades on Tuesday, when the facility is expected to open and be ready to house detained immigrants, Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference Monday.

“We have the president of the United States coming down tomorrow to tout what ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — He’s been portrayed in numerous media accounts as the man who taught murder suspect Bryan Kohberger how to box. But Jesse Harris told a Monroe County judge Monday that he barely remembers the former Pleasant Valley High School student now accused of killing four University of Idaho students.

“I knew him as a 15- to 16-year-...Read more

CHICAGO — In the early morning light outside O’Hare International Airport, Cynthia Myers was dressed like a bride.

Her long white dress seemed curiously out of place Friday on the curb outside Terminal 3, but Myers didn’t seem to notice; the man in the slightly loose black suit had her full attention.

After three weeks in a Louisiana ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice sued the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass and City Council members Monday, calling its sanctuary city law “illegal” and asking that it be blocked from being enforced.

The lawsuit, filed in California’s Central District federal court, said the country is “facing a crisis of illegal ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury started deliberating the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday, with a possible life sentence on the line for the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder.

The eight men and four women on the panel got the case at 11:30 a.m. after hearing an instruction on the law from Manhattan ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state Supreme Court judge has ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams broke the law when he refused to implement elements of a city law severely restricting the use of solitary confinement in the jails.

Local Law 42 was passed in December 2023, and the City Council overrode the mayor’s subsequent veto in January 2024. Since ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide a Republican-led challenge to the limits on how much national political parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates.

The case, brought by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, along with then-Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and former Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, ...Read more

ATLANTA – Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens boasted a small property tax cut for residents this past budget cycle, despite a projected $33 million deficit that required departments to cut at least 5% — including employee layoffs and leaving positions unfilled.

But last week the mayor, who is seeking reelection, said a property tax hike is almost ...Read more