WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said it will transfer some of the Education Department’s largest grant programs and major portions of several offices to other federal agencies, part of a broader plan to greatly reduce the department’s authority.

The plan would shift tens of billions of dollars in funding out of the Education ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Lancaster couple who stabbed and decapitated their son and daughter before showing the remains to their two surviving children were convicted of murder Nov. 12 in the Antelope Valley Courthouse.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found personal trainer Maurice Jewel Taylor, 39, and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 48, guilty of...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence and warned that varied regulation at the state level risked slowing the development of an emerging technology that’s critical to the U.S. economy.

In a post on his Truth Social network Tuesday, the president urged...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from moving forward with its new congressional map, hastily drawn in hopes of netting up to five additional Republican seats and securing the U.S. House for the GOP in next year's midterm elections.

The ruling is a major political blow to the Trump administration, which set off a ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum again ruled out a U.S. military intervention in Mexico, pushing back on the latest suggestion of unilateral action from President Donald Trump.

“It won’t happen,” Sheinbaum said emphatically on Tuesday, responding to the U.S. leader’s comments a day earlier that he may even deploy ground ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave his sharpest rebuke of congressional Democrats’ efforts to extend expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced tax credits, saying he would not support legislation to do so.

The announcement, made through a post on Truth Social, comes as Senate Republicans and the White House had promised to ...Read more

In a stunning victory for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, both houses of Congress on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation directing the Justice Department to release all its case files involving sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The Government has kept most of the files under seal for almost two decades — since 2007 when the FBI and U.S. ...Read more

Just three days before the annual Miss Universe pageant is set to take place, one of the judges has abruptly stepped down.

On Tuesday, Lebanese-French musician Omar Harfouch posted on his Instagram Story explaining why he suddenly pulled out, saying he felt “deep confusion and concern” after finding out that an “impromptu jury” had ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s lawyers appeared before an appeals court in Alabama to try to revive a civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton of leading a conspiracy to bog down his 2016 presidential campaign with bogus allegations tying him to Russia.

The packed hearing Tuesday at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Birmingham came more than ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Residents of a suburban East Bay community have spent the past 10 days dealing with a jarring trend — not repeated rain storms or the end of baseball season. Earthquakes. Lots of them.

Since Nov. 9 there have been 83 earthquakes in a roughly 1-mile radius around the town of San Ramon. The earthquakes, which geologists ...Read more

Both the Republican-controlled House and Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday demanding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files after President Donald Trump abruptly reversed his strident opposition while still maintaining the scandal is a “Democrat hoax.”

Hours after a group of Epstein’s victims made another emotional plea for ...Read more

When Florida’s government unveiled a proposal this summer to trade 600 acres of a beloved St. Johns County wilderness preserve, Floridians of all political backgrounds felt blindsided.

Though the plan was scrapped after widespread protest, including from President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, questions remained about how an idea to give ...Read more

Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District Rep. Thomas Massie notched another win Tuesday in his effort to release the full files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Massie’s push on a discharge petition to force the release of the documents had long faced opposition from President Donald Trump and House GOP leaders, but those power ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The long-standing fight to demand the Justice Department release all documents tied to its investigation into late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shifted to President Trump on Tuesday after the House and Senate, within hours of each other, voted overwhelmingly to publicize the files.

Trump, who tried to thwart the ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read has sued witnesses from her murder case who she argues framed her for the killing of John O’Keefe and are “actually involved” in her Boston police officer boyfriend’s death.

Read and her defense team have filed a civil complaint in Bristol Superior Court against witnesses they point to as “third parties” for O�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The scene at the White House on Tuesday was vintage Donald Trump. He welcomed one of the world’s most controversial figures, verbally lambasted a reporter and announced a major arms deal that could shake up the Middle East. And all before lunch.

There was the 47th U.S. president warmly shaking hands with Saudi Arabia’s de ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — President Donald Trump has issued a second pardon to a Kentucky man who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Daniel Edwin Wilson, who is from Louisville, was pardoned Nov. 14 for illegally possessing firearms and unregistered firearms.

Wilson was previously pardoned for his participation in the 2021 Capitol attack. He ...Read more