SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Amid a national uproar over the recent killing of a Minnesota man by immigration agents, the California Senate on Tuesday approved proposed legislation that would make it easier to sue law enforcement officials suspected of violating an individual’s constitutional rights.

Senate Bill 747 by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San ...Read more

Marylanders could see lower electric bills this year under Gov. Wes Moore’s latest energy measure, which seeks to lower costs by funding clean energy projects, upgrading the state electric grid, and giving residents one-time $40 refunds on their utility bills.

Funding for the bill is slated to come from the remainder of Maryland’s Strategic...Read more

WASHINGTON — While Republicans split over Second Amendment protections after the fatal Saturday shooting of a citizen by federal immigration officers, Democrats are increasingly uniting to call for the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

And on Tuesday, one Republican — retiring Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina — called ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An online fundraising campaign on behalf of the family of Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot in Minneapolis during a confrontation with federal immigration officers on Jan. 24, has raised more than $1.6 million and drew a big donation from an activist investor who gave to a fundraising effort for the officer who killed Renee Good ...Read more

CHICAGO — Aldermen advanced a package Tuesday to grant Police Department oversight officials the power to investigate alleged cooperation between Chicago officers and federal immigration agents.

The effort to address concerns that police may have violated city rules by acting in ways that supported President Donald Trump’s Operation Midway ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Measure ULA, L.A.’s so-called mansion tax, has been an object of scorn within the real estate industry, with developers saying it has put a major chill on the construction of desperately needed apartments.

Mayor Karen Bass, expressing sympathy for those arguments, sponsored a state bill last fall to overhaul the tax, but that ...Read more

MIAMI — South Florida leaders urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to extend immigration protections for Haitians, warning that the loss of protections from deportations would be devastating not only for affected families but for the communities where they live and work.

The appeal comes just days before Haiti’s temporary protected ...Read more

Illinois could soon opt into the first federal school voucher program — an initiative long-championed by private school advocates and religious conservatives — but Gov. JB Pritzker has yet to weigh in.

Under the program, part of the Republican “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” donors can get a dollar-for-dollar tax credit of up to $1,700 ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The abrupt change in oversight of Operation Metro Surge in the aftermath of the killing of Alex Pretti has local leaders and activists hoping for a drawdown in federal forces, but on the ground in Minneapolis, it was hard Tuesday, Jan. 27, to see if it’s happening.

At the federal Whipple Building near Fort Snelling, the ...Read more

MIAMI — A DJ who played an antisemitic song requested by right-wing influencers at a Miami Beach nightclub has apologized in a statement on Instagram, saying he didn’t understand what the song was before he played it.

The DJ, who goes by DJ Vybz, wrote that he was sent a song file titled “HH” — masking the song’s true name, “Heil ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Virginia judge sided Tuesday with Republican state lawmakers who challenged the commonwealth’s mid-decade redistricting process, in a ruling that voids a resolution Democrats passed in a push for a new congressional map for November’s elections.

Judge Jack Hurley Jr. of the Circuit Court of Tazewell County found that the ...Read more

Eighty-nine new cases of measles have been reported in the Upstate since Friday, according to the South Carolina Department of Health.

That brings the total number of cases to 789 across the state, leaving 557 people in quarantine and 20 in isolation, according to a news release.

The department identified new cases at Dorman High, Inman ...Read more

The “Melania” documentary purchased by Amazon for $40 million is on track to recover as little as $1 million on its opening weekend, according to at least one projection.

But optimists say the movie following Melania Trump in the weeks leading up to her husband’s second inauguration will do a little better than that when it opens around ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was looking to “de-escalate” in Minnesota with a reshuffle of the leadership running his deportation effort in the state following widespread outcry over the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents.

Still, the president denied he was pulling back his immigration crackdown and said that ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Prompted by the recent shootings in Minneapolis, state Senate Democrats called Monday for a new state civil rights law that would allow Connecticut citizens to sue federal immigration agents.

The measure would permit civil lawsuits against federal officials if citizens believed that their civil rights had been violated.

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An Edgewater, Maryland, man and former Voice of America employee accused of threatening to kill former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene pleaded guilty last month to anonymous telecommunications harassment and threatening to kidnap or injure across state lines.

Seth Jason, 64, has a sentencing hearing scheduled for June 18. He faces up to seven ...Read more

UPS has retired its MD-11 fleet, the model of McDonnell Douglas airplane that was involved in a fatal crash in Louisville in November.

The announcement was shared in the company’s quarterly earnings report Tuesday. UPS said it has accelerated its fleet modernization plans, and as part of that, will retire the MD-11 during the quarter.

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NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani named three new commissioners on Tuesday, vowing that they’d help him establish a “new era” in city politics — but some of the picks offered only lukewarm answers on how they’d address problems of the previous era.

He announced Sharun Goodwin will serve as commissioner of the Department of Probation, ...Read more