A roughly 300 million-gallon sewage spill into the Potomac River — which environmental advocates say rivals the scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster — could take several more months to fully clean up after a major sewer line collapse, according to University of Maryland, College Park researchers, utility officials, and the Potomac ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Just before reading the Washington County Board of County Commissioners' endorsement of the Trump administration’s immigration efforts in the area, Commission President John Barr issued a warning. “Any additional noise, outcries, comments, I will suspend this meeting.”

Protesters gathered outside the Board of County ...Read more

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, is considering appointing retired Gen. Miguel Rodríguez Torres as the country’s next defense minister, sources familiar with the discussions told the Miami Herald, confirming reports that have sparked indignation among members of the Venezuelan diaspora.

Rodríguez Torres’ name has ...Read more

Colorado restaurateur Kimbal Musk on Monday addressed his inclusion in a recent release of more files related disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, saying he only met with him once in New York and never visited his island, according to a statement posted on social media.

Musk, who lives in Boulder and is the brother of Elon Musk, has come under ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he will not refer alleged cases of misconduct by federal immigration agents to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, following criticism by the top prosecutor that his “ICE on notice” executive order would politicize investigations.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI claims it seized voting records from a Georgia county due to alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election, part of a probe that originated with a lawyer who helped President Donald Trump unsuccessfully challenge results of that race.

Information about the investigation was included in a U.S. Justice Department ...Read more

More than a week after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson home, authorities offered few clues.

No video surveillance.

No suspects.

No firm sense of exactly when she was abducted.

No sense of where she was being held or if she was still alive.

But that changed Tuesday morning with the release of surveillance footage of a masked ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Montgomery County elected officials forcefully condemned a Monday ICE arrest in which agents broke down a family’s front door, lambasting officers for what the leaders described as needless cruelty.

“We are here for one reason, to say that this kind of brutality is completely unacceptable,” said state Sen. Art Haywood, a ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Defense lawyers for the Raleigh teen who killed five people in a mass shooting began presenting their evidence in his sentencing hearing Tuesday, depicting a seemingly normal child subjected to a sudden mental episode brought on by his acne medication.

Austin Thompson, 18, was 15 years old when he killed his older brother and...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles says it is reviewing all commercial driver’s licenses issued to people who are not U.S. citizens to ensure the licenses conform with federal rules.

The review comes a month after the Trump administration threatened to withhold nearly $49 million in transportation money from the ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate the 2013 permit that set in motion the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge on the border between Detroit and Windsor, which Canada paid for, seeking a cut of the span's toll revenue.

The bridge construction deal that former Gov. Rick ...Read more

The FBI claims it seized ballots and voting records from a Georgia county election office in connection with a criminal investigation into alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election.

Information about the probe was included in a U.S. Justice Department filing in court that was unsealed Tuesday under order from a federal judge. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent verbal swipes at congressional Democratic leaders could complicate closing a deal on the opposition party’s demands for immigration enforcement changes.

White House officials and Trump himself had said after a deal was struck late last year to end a lengthy government shutdown that he and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A rainbow pride flag has been removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village because of a directive from the Trump administration — outraging LGBTQ New Yorkers and local elected officials who feel the move will “erase our history.”

Apparently following orders from a Jan. 21 memo from the U.S. Department of ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The former Letcher County sheriff charged with killing a district judge is asking a court to preclude a potential death penalty punishment because he has a “serious intellectual disability” or mental illness.

In the filing made public Tuesday afternoon, Shawn “Mickey” Stines, 44, argues his disability or illness means...Read more

TROY, Mich. — A Troy judge is expected to announce Tuesday if the owner and three employees of a local medical facility, where a 5-year-old boy died last year in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber explosion, should stand trial on second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges.

Thomas Cooper of Royal Oak underwent dozens of hyperbaric ...Read more

Colorado restaurateur Kimbal Musk on Monday addressed his inclusion in a recent release of more files related disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, saying he only met with him once in New York and never visited his island, according to a statement posted on social media.

Musk, who lives in Boulder and is the brother of Elon Musk, has come under ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told senators Tuesday that “I have nothing to hide” in relation to his interactions with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in his first appearance before Congress since the emergence of new details about their communications.

At a Senate Commerce-Justice-Science ...Read more

Investigators released surveillance photos and a video showing a potential suspect in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigation Tuesday, marking a major update in the unusual case.

The images were circulated less than a day after a ransom deadline to pay Guthrie’s abductors $6 million in bitcoin passed with no sign of the 84-year-old.

The ...Read more