CHICAGO — Aldermen tried Tuesday to send a clear message to Chicago police: Do not cooperate with President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.

And several members of the City Council’s Immigration Committee left the marathon meeting frustrated, unable to get clear answers about the role of responding officers during a June 4 deportation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass fired back at the Department of Justice on Tuesday, calling its lawsuit against her city part of an “all-out assault on Los Angeles” by President Trump.

Bass said she and other city leaders would not be intimidated by the lawsuit, which seeks to invalidate sanctuary policies that prohibit city resources from...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is not considering delaying his July 9 deadline for higher tariffs to resume and renewed his threat to cut off talks and impose duty rates on several nations, including Japan.

“No, I’m not thinking about the pause,” Trump said Tuesday when asked whether he would extend the negotiating period with trading ...Read more

MIAMI — During an hourslong visit on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top state and federal officials celebrated the opening of the new Florida-run immigration detention center in the Everglades as a major milestone in a joint mass deportation campaign.

Trump depicted the new facility as a harsh solution to deter undocumented immigrants ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill intended to limit his officials from asking lobbyists and donors for campaign contributions while on the clock.

HB 1445, which passed with a single “no” vote in the Republican-controlled Legislature this year, would in part have prohibited state officials from using their position to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jurors weighing the federal case against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Tuesday told the court they’d reached a verdict on all counts except the RICO conspiracy charge, which had drawn “unpersuadable opinions on both sides.”

In a note sent out after 4 p.m., the eight men and four women on the jury said after around 12 hours of ...Read more

A New York federal judge has ruled in favor of Haitians with temporary legal status in the United States, deciding on Tuesday that the Trump administration was wrong in deciding to cut short their end date by six months.

U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan’s ruling means that Haiti’s temporary protected status designation should return to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The World Series of Poker vacated the result of one of its largest events after two players were accused of colluding during heads-up play.

In a statement released Monday night on social media, the WSOP announced it completed its investigation into the $1,500 “Millionaire Maker” No-limit Hold’em tournament and will not ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Legislature failed Tuesday to approve a state budget for the upcoming fiscal year, missing a deadline that was established in state law in 2019.

While there's no penalty for not hitting the self-imposed target, the development — no bill providing money for any segment of state government has made it to Gov. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California educators are calling on the Trump administration to release the $6.8 billion in education grants it is withholding from 33 states, labeling the federal government’s actions illegal and disastrous for students.

The California Department of Education received notice that the grant money would not be disbursed ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday publicly asked President Donald Trump to commit more resources to managing California’s federal lands, accusing the administration of engaging in “political theater” by diverting California National Guard members away from firefighting duties as the state heads into wildfire season.

Newsom has repeatedly ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The morning a gunman went on the run after shooting state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in Brooklyn Park, the suburb sent a shelter-in-place alert to area cellphones, warning residents.

Suspect Vance Boelter eventually made his way to north Minneapolis, where he appeared on security footage returning to his part-time ...Read more

SpaceX was facing a poor forecast for its Tuesday launch attempt of a European satellite on the Space Coast, but the skies cleared and the rocket lifted off right on time.

A Falcon 9 on the MTGS1 mission carrying the second of EUMETSAT’s third generation of weather satellites took off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 5:04 p.m. ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a protester with interfering with Immigration & Customs Enforcement task force officers who were searching a day earlier for an immigrant accused of illegally entering the United States.

Detroiter Roman Gomez-Ocadiz was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, a charge that ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education sent school officials in Florida and across the nation scrambling this week as it announced plans late Monday to freeze funds that Congress approved in March to help some of the nation’s neediest students.

Florida schools were set to receive about $396 million of the $6.8 billion in federal grants — which ...Read more

Jurors have reached a verdict on four of five counts against music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is on trial in a New York federal courtroom, accused of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution.

The jury sent a note to the trial judge Tuesday afternoon stating they'd reached a verdict on several counts but were unable ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to arrest Zohran Mamdani if he gets in the way of federal immigration enforcement efforts — and also falsely implied that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee is not in the country legally.

Asked during a press conference in Florida on Tuesday what his response was to Mamdani�...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the murder suspect in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students, is expected to plead guilty Wednesday after he accepted a plea deal, which would end the high-profile criminal case months earlier than anticipated.

The 30-year-old is scheduled for an 11 a.m. plea hearing at the Ada County ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott on Tuesday touted continued decreases in the city’s homicide and non-fatal shooting rates for the first half of 2025, but the falling numbers were not seen across all nine Baltimore police districts.

The city has seen a 22.7% reduction in homicides and a 19.6% reduction in non-fatal shootings between the ...Read more