ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can no longer oversee the prosecution of President Donald Trump in the 2020 election interference case, according to a decision issued Tuesday by the state’s highest court.

The ruling casts doubt on the future of the last remaining criminal prosecution of Trump. A nonpartisan state ...Read more

BEIRUT — Israel began a ground offensive into Gaza City, military officials said Tuesday, slow-rolling into the beleaguered city from multiple directions despite international opprobrium and even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents remain within Gaza's devastated confines.

Weeks of intense bombardment that all but leveled the ...Read more

Israel started a long-threatened push into the heart of Gaza City after U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat warned Hamas there’s a “very short window” for negotiations to end the war.

The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday its troops have begun an “expanded” ground operation in the de facto capital of the Palestinian ...Read more

The U.S. has “decertified” Colombia as a partner in the war on drugs amid the biggest cocaine boom in history.

The move is likely to hit foreign investment, multilateral funding and tourism, as a long-time ally of Washington now finds itself in the same rogue category as Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan and Myanmar.

“The U.S. is ...Read more

Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class.

A July ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California’s right to mandate that every course doctors take to remain ...Read more

An increasing number of immigrants without legal status — even some who have lived here for decades — are finding it easier to seek opportunities in other countries than to stay in the U.S. amid threats of detention and deportation.

“This has never happened in our country before. We have had periods of voluntary departure, but not self-...Read more

For nearly 20 years, thousands of industrial plants across the U.S. and California have been required to track and report the greenhouse gas pollution they spew into the atmosphere.

This month, the Trump administration moved to permanently end that program, which has long held bipartisan support, originating during the administration of George ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California's late summer COVID surge is showing signs of peaking, but the state's war with the Trump administration over vaccines is just beginning.

Coronavirus levels in California's wastewater remain "very high," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as they are in much of the country. But some ...Read more

MIAMI — For the hundreds of men who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz, entering the gates of the makeshift migrant detention center in the Everglades meant exiting the labyrinthine but familiar federal immigration process and entering what several immigration attorneys described as an alternate system where the normal rules don’t apply.

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CHICAGO — As President Donald Trump has recently threatened to send federal troops to clean up Chicago’s violence, local officials have trumpeted a factor complicating his plans: Crime is down in the city.

It’s a feather in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s cap that he has highlighted as a political win all year, but one that’s become ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance will visit Michigan on Wednesday to deliver a speech at a manufacturing facility in Howell, according to the White House.

The Trump administration's announcement didn't identify which business Vance, a Republican from Ohio, will visit, but described the venue as "a precision metal stamping facility."

Vance has been ...Read more

A federal judge ordered the city of St. Paul to pay $1.7 million in attorneys fees after a jury found an officer used excessive force in fatally shooting a 29-year-old man.

The payment was on top of $3.25 million in compensatory damages and $1.5 million in punitive damage, plus interest. The city sent payment of more than $7.5 million last week...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Monday bumped up again its forecast chances that a tropical wave in the Atlantic would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, a low-pressure area had formed from the tropical wave in the central tropical Atlantic about midway between the ...Read more

The nearly century-old Valley Forge Military Academy is set to close for good in May, following years of declining enrollment, numerous abuse scandals, and allegations of financial mismanagement.

In a statement posted online Monday, the board of trustees said the academy's future "is no longer viable" due to rising tuition costs and soaring ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would have lowered American flags to half-staff in the aftermath of state Rep. Melissa Hortman’s assassination if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had asked him to.

Trump, who days after the assassination said it would be a “waste” of time to call Walz about it, made his latest remarks while taking questions from ...Read more

Donald Trump’s economic adviser Stephen Miran is on his way to joining the Federal Reserve board after the Senate confirmed him to the post in a vote Monday evening.

The Senate voted largely along party lines to approve Miran’s nomination, setting him up to walk into the Fed’s Washington offices Tuesday morning in time for a crucial ...Read more

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke out forcefully Monday against the partisan effort to redraw California's congressional districts that voters will decide in a November special election.

"They are trying to fight for democracy by getting rid of the democratic principles of California," Schwarzenegger told hundred of students at an event ...Read more