The two federal agents who shot and killed Alex Pretti during anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis were identified Sunday in a report.

Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, were identified as the shooters in government documents, ProPublica reported. They had not been named publicly prior to ProPublica’s reporting Sunday.

Ochoa is a ...Read more

A federal judge in Washington blocked the Trump administration Monday night from ending temporary immigration protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, many of them in South Florida, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security violated the law.

The decision halts, for now, the Trump administration’s decision to terminate Haiti’...Read more

Elon Musk is combining SpaceX and xAI in a deal that values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion, as the world’s richest man looks to fuel his increasingly costly ambitions in artificial intelligence and space exploration.

The acquisition of xAI was announced in a statement on SpaceX’s website signed by Musk and confirming an earlier ...Read more

A U.S. judge ruled that a wind farm being developed by Orsted A/S off New York’s Long Island can resume work halted by the federal government, the fifth such court win for an industry President Donald Trump has sought to cripple.

The Sunrise Wind project, which was losing $2.5 million a day while it sat idle, would “be irreparably harmed”...Read more

WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed Monday to appear for depositions as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the House took steps to vote on contempt of Congress measures this week.

Attorneys for the Clintons informed the committee they accept terms...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he anticipated talks with Iran over a new nuclear deal in the coming days, building on a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at averting war between the two countries.

“We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones, biggest and the best, and we have talks going on with Iran,” Trump told reporters Monday...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once inquired about buying a private plane from University of Pennsylvania megadonor and Wharton School adviser Marc Rowan, emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice show.

The exchange, which appears among the three million documents unsealed Friday, occurred in early 2016, at a time ...Read more

Writer Neil Gaiman denied sexual misconduct allegations first brought forth against him more than a year and a half ago in a statement released Monday.

Gaiman, the bestselling fantasy author behind "The Sandman" comic books, and novels and shows "American Gods" and "Good Omens," called the allegations, which emerged in the summer of 2024, a "...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Howard County government revoked a building permit Monday that had been issued for a planned federal immigration detention facility in Elkridge, County Executive Calvin Ball announced during a news conference.

The detention center has been under construction in a former warehouse building in an office park at 6522 Meadowridge ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A decades-old cold-storage facility in Reedley closed three years ago after an investigation is back under FBI scrutiny — and again, it’s tied to an illegal biomedical laboratory.

On Saturday, the FBI raided a home in Las Vegas, where they found “evidence of possible biological material to include refrigerators with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that “every officer” in the field in Minneapolis will wear a body camera after a national outcry over the killings of two U.S. citizens in the city, potentially easing the path to pass a government funding deal.

“Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Democrat Jocelyn Benson raised the most money of the candidates running to be Michigan's next governor over the final two months of 2025, while Republican Mike Cox had the most cash still available to spend, according to disclosures that were due Monday.

The new reports detailed fundraising from Oct. 21 through Dec. 31 and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — State prosecutors have formally demanded that the Trump administration turn over any evidence gathered by federal authorities after the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday that her office had served what are known as Touhy letters on the Department of ...Read more

​NEW YORK — The Trump administration’s rewrite of long-recognized immigration law has left the special-needs daughter of a Long Island man stranded in Guatemala, foiled a Manhattan grandmother’s fight to reunite with her kids and grandkids, and indefinitely separated countless more Americans from their families, according to a lawsuit ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Cook County state’s attorney’s office on Monday said “a thorough analysis is being conducted” to assess the legality of a mayoral executive order that directs Chicago police to investigate potential wrongdoing by immigration agents, after the weekend signing was overshadowed by a political brouhaha due to social media ...Read more

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — San Mateo County’s first death penalty case in 15 years now has a trial date.

Judge Jeffrey R. Finigan set a trial date of Jan. 25, 2027, for Chunli Zhao, the Peninsula man accused of gunning down seven fellow migrant workers in the county’s deadliest mass shooting on record. If the trial date holds, it would come ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Human Services on Monday announced a new push to scrutinize providers in state-run Medicaid programs at high risk for fraud, including a significant expansion of unannounced site visits.

Human Services’ plan to significantly expand on-site validations comes as federal officials threaten to cut ...Read more

Federal officials have denied Alaska's request to cover all initial expenses associated with a costly and complicated disaster response effort following a catastrophic Western Alaska storm last fall.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is appealing the decision, revising his request to ask that the Federal Emergency Management Agency instead pay 90% of the cost...Read more