A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to restore deportation protections for more than 60,000 Nicaraguans, Hondurans and Nepalis.

U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said the Trump administration had improperly terminated Temporary Protected Status for the three countries. She said the federal government had...Read more

A federal appeals court has temporarily paused enforcement of a San Diego federal judge’s ruling that had cleared the way for school staff to tell parents about possible changes to their child’s gender presentation without the student’s consent.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a short-term administrative stay of the ruling but ...Read more

The federal government has agreed to resume the review process for National Institutes of Health-funded medical and scientific research grants — including those to Washington state universities and institutes — which the Trump administration attempted to freeze earlier this year.

The agreement involves grants whose evaluations were paused ...Read more

California wildlife authorities are urging residents of a small Central California town to lock up their pets and secure livestock following a series of mountain lion attacks.

Multiple animals have been killed in the Monterey County hamlet of Corral de Tierra, about 12 miles east of Monterey, officials said.

Residents have claimed that family ...Read more

The California High-Speed Rail Authority entered 2025 knowing its federal dollars were at risk as President Donald Trump took office for the second time.

The agency finished the year with $4 billion gone from its federal purse. But it also has a state promise of $1 billion per year through 2045, and new strategies that could help push the ...Read more

The Trump administration stepped up a pressure campaign against Venezuela’s oil exports by sanctioning companies based in Hong Kong and mainland China, along with related oil tankers it accused of evading restrictions.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday added four companies with links to Venezuela’s ...Read more

Political allies of Donald Trump were willing to testify against him in cases brought by the U.S. Justice Department, according to former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Smith said that fellow Republicans were willing to cooperate with the investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a 255-page transcript ...Read more

The manager of a Somali-run day care in south Minneapolis burglarized this week called the experience “frightening and exhausting” amid what he sees as unfair targeting of the Somali community by the federal government.

“Our licensing has been good, even the inspections,” Nasrulah Mohamed, the 20-year-old manager of Nokomis Daycare ...Read more

Hundreds of news photographs and social media videos have captured altercations between migrants and masked federal immigration agents, whether it’s outside a courtroom or in a traffic stop.

The videos and photographs have led people to ask about what rights they have in such situations.

Can federal agents search you or search your vehicle? ...Read more

A politically charged YouTube video thrust a group of Somali-owned day cares in Minnesota into an uncomfortable spotlight this week, accusing the owners of defrauding the state and unleashing a torrent of threats against them.

A lawyer who represents one of the operators of Minnesota Best Childcare Center in Minneapolis, which was featured in ...Read more

With health care subsidies expiring in the new year, Cook County Health officials and political leaders on Wednesday warned the impact will not only hurt millions of Americans but also affect the county’s bottom line and hospitals around the state.

Congress remains at a stalemate over the future of subsidies for certain households that buy ...Read more

A judge has ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to pay $115,220 in attorney's fees to a retired Anchorage lawyer and wildlife advocate who successfully sued the state over a wolf-killing policy on the southern Kenai Peninsula.

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Una Gandbhir found the state violated the Alaska Constitution when it ...Read more

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and attorneys general from North Carolina and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday, alleging the agency unlawfully cut congressionally approved funding for community school programs.

Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the suit seeks to block ...Read more

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for canceling $50 million in education grants to 18 Tar Heel school districts, including in Durham and Orange counties.

The Democratic attorney general accuses the U.S. Education Department of unlawfully terminating a Full-Service Community...Read more

California wants to use ChatGPT to make state employees’ daily work easier and more efficient.

That’s the goal of Poppy, a new “digital assistant” powered by ChatGPT and other publicly available generative artificial intelligence tools, which the California Department of Technology began piloting earlier this year.

State employees can ...Read more

Mayor Adams vetoed 19 City Council bills late Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to block the measures, which carry significant implications for city policy on immigration, housing, street vending, police accountability and more.

The vetoes, issued just hours before Adams’ term as mayor was set to end at midnight, can be overridden by the City ...Read more

Maryland has secured more than $2.6 million in philanthropic grant funding to launch artificial intelligence tools aimed at streamlining access to public benefits such as food assistance, Medicaid and unemployment services, Gov. Wes Moore said.

The state received two of seven national awards from the Public Benefit Innovation Fund, a program of...Read more

Rain was falling over the Southland on Wednesday afternoon as the region headed into the New Year soggy and with the virtual certainty of a wet 2026 Tournament of Roses parade.

Forecasters warned of a "near 100% chance" of rain falling on the parade route — including overnight as spectators camp along Colorado Boulevard — marking the first ...Read more

With just hours left in office, Mayor Eric Adams launched a Charter Revision Commission stacked with political allies on Wednesday afternoon, tasking the panel with considering changing city law to allow for open primaries in local elections.

The commission, made up of 13 members all appointed by Adams, will mainly be focused on exploring the ...Read more