LEXINGTON, Ky. — Nick Sortor was arrested last month in Oregon for disorderly conduct.

It was a huge boost for his career.

In an Oct. 2 altercation with people protesting the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Portland, Sortor grabbed American flags that were being burned and walked through protest camps before he was pushed ...Read more

CHICAGO – Inside a modest second-floor apartment on Chicago’s Southwest Side, three children went without sleep waiting for their mom to finally come home.

Their dad, with a family friend, had driven through the night to get her. More than five hours in the dark to pick her up from the dingy jail in rural Indiana, five hours more on the way...Read more

The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of transgender people, one of the nation’s most marginalized populations.

Scientists and advocates for trans rights say the change will make it much ...Read more

DENVER – Depending on who’s talking, beavers can be any of the following: unsung ecological heroes, nuisance rodents bent on wreaking havoc, cute creatures brimming with charisma — or a hunting target.

Now it’s Colorado wildlife officials’ task to create a statewide management plan that acknowledges all the roles beavers play in the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Members of the San Diego Democratic congressional delegation were granted access to inspect an immigration detention facility inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in downtown San Diego on Monday, after having been turned away on two previous occasions.

The lawmakers had asked for access to check the conditions, as they ...Read more

Since 2010, data centers in Virginia have not had to pay the state’s sales and use tax. At a rate of 4.3%, that foregone revenue adds up: Over the past decade, data centers have been exempt from paying $2.7 billion.

The state lost out on $1 billion through the data center exemption in fiscal 2024, up from $685 million in fiscal 2023.

That’...Read more

NEW YORK — The Justice Department again asked federal judges to unseal grand jury material from the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing the recently enacted law on Epstein documents.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday filed requests with a pair of New York judges overseeing the Epstein and Maxwell cases...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There was the U.S. citizen who said she no longer feels safe after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer slammed her to the ground in downtown Los Angeles and later accused her of assault — a case prosecutors dismissed soon after.

The Long Beach mayor, who said immigration agents have seized more than 50 residents ...Read more

Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital where he spent nearly two weeks being treated for a rare neurological disorder.

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition published a statement Monday confirming the civil right’s organization’s 84-year-old founder had been discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

“Our family would ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time since Los Angeles police began investigating the gruesome discovery of a dead girl's body in the trunk of singer D4vd's Tesla, a detective has characterized the probe as an "investigation into murder," according to court documents.

Seeking to prevent the release of autopsy findings, a Los Angeles Police ...Read more

Ukraine and its European allies signaled that key sticking points remained in U.S.-brokered peace talks even as senior officials hailed progress in winning more favorable terms for Kyiv from a proposal backed by President Donald Trump.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a meeting in Geneva on Sunday where Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators came...Read more

Members of Minnesota’s Karen community are at risk of being sent back to Myanmar after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it was ending temporary asylum protections for the country’s citizens.

The department, under the direction of President Donald Trump, announced it was terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ...Read more

Russia launched a combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine, concentrated heavily on the capital Kyiv, just hours after President Donald Trump struck a positive tone on prospects for a ceasefire deal.

Ukraine’s air defenses worked to shield the city and loud explosions were heard, with authorities instructing residents to stay in shelters....Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The estranged wife of former Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez accepted a plea deal Monday, avoiding jail time in exchange for possible testimony against her husband in his racketeering trial.

Robin Severance-Lopez, initially charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of money ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hundreds of miles from his normal stomping grounds, a former Chicago police detective was in a cell in the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center, allegedly screaming at a prisoner who had been waterboarded with saltwater until he threw up.

“I told you not to f--- with me,” Detective Richard Zuley reportedly yelled. “I told...Read more

CHICAGO — Almost two months after the militarized raid that roused them from their sleep and made international headlines, those who remain living — or trying to live — at 7500 South Shore Drive gathered Monday morning in the cold outside their deteriorating apartment building in a show of solidarity.

Amid five floors of mostly empty ...Read more

CHICAGO — Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area may have ebbed in recent weeks, but U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood cautioned Monday against assuming the effort is over after she was granted special access to the federal government’s controversial immigration processing center in ...Read more

SEATTLE — Gov. Bob Ferguson has turned to a longtime colleague and top civil rights lawyer in naming his pick to serve on the Washington Supreme Court.

Ferguson on Monday appointed Colleen Melody, whom he hired more than a decade ago to lead the civil rights division in the attorney general's office, to fill the court vacancy created by the ...Read more

DENVER — In the end, Alex Hunter picked the day of his death.

Boulder’s longest-serving district attorney — who defined more than a quarter century of criminal justice for the region and oversaw the early years of the JonBenét Ramsey case — had exhausted all options for medical care after suffering a heart attack in mid-November.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is still working on a proposal to address a spike in Obamacare health insurance premiums, but the eventual plan may differ significantly from details reported over the weekend, the White House said Monday.

“As you all know, sometimes you report things and then President Trump comes out with an ...Read more