WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat who went on to chair the 9/11 Commission and was one of his party’s foremost foreign policy mavens, has died at the age of 94.

First elected in 1964, Hamilton served 17 terms and went on to a busy retirement with his roles at, among other institutions and organizations, Indiana ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a veteran police misconduct investigator against the city and the former chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability who resigned last year.

The lawsuit brought by Matthew Haynam claimed that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that California this fall may use its new election map, which is expected to send five more Democrats to Congress.

With no dissents, the justices rejected emergency appeals from California Republicans and President Trump’s lawyers, who claimed the map was a racial gerrymander to benefit ...Read more

President Donald Trump sent a fresh warning to Iran’s leaders as U.S. military forces amass in the region, even as diplomatic talks between Washington and Tehran appeared to remain on track.

“I would say he should be very worried, yeah. He should be,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, when asked about Iran’s ...Read more

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday that her agency is consulting with the Justice Department on how to proceed after a federal judge halted the administration’s decision to terminate temporary protected status for Haitians in the United States.

The TPS designation, which allows more than 300,000 Haitians to legally live ...Read more

The gunman accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., killing one and seriously wounding the other, has pleaded not guilty to the nine charges against him — including first-degree murder.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was also shot before he was taken into custody, made his brief court appearance Wednesday in a ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive directive requiring all state agencies to cancel their partnerships with ICE.

“Public trust is essential both to keep members of the community safe as well as to keep law enforcement safe. Here in the commonwealth, we want to make sure that we’re making a clear line in the sand ...Read more

MIAMI — Ryan Wesley Routh, the man convicted of trying to kill Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president was playing golf at his club in West Palm Beach, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

During his sentencing in Fort Pierce federal court, Routh generally listened and then read part of a 20-page statement that U.S. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that the federal government is immediately withdrawing 700 law enforcement officers from Minnesota, marking the first significant pullback of Operation Metro Surge after weeks of heightened immigration enforcement across the state.

The announcement comes a week after Greg Bovino, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that after getting “unprecedented” cooperation from Minnesota political and law enforcement leaders, the Trump administration is withdrawing 700 federal law enforcement personnel from the state “effective today.”

Homan then said that if Minnesotans want to end Operation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California has named Beong-Soo Kim — interim president for seven months — as it 13th president, university officials announced Wednesday.

The USC board of trustees said it unanimously voted for Kim, 53, the university's former general counsel who previously worked as a federal prosecutor, to ...Read more

By the time Laura Farnsworth Dogu stepped onto the tarmac at Maiquetía International Airport near Caracas on Jan. 31, the assignment before her was already the most consequential of her career.

Tapped earlier this month by President Donald Trump as the United States’ lead diplomat to Venezuela, Dogu arrived in Caracas at a crucial political ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal lawyer expressed frustration over the U.S. government’s failure to comply with court orders amid an overload of immigration cases swamping the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota since the deployment of 3,000 federal agents to the state.

U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered attorneys for the U.S. government ...Read more

DETROIT — An animal rights group sued the Michigan Natural Resources Commission on Tuesday, alleging the group that sets Michigan's hunting and fishing regulations was wrong to expand coyote hunting in Michigan.

Humane World for Animals, formerly called the Humane Society of the United States, filed the lawsuit in Ingham County Circuit Court....Read more

DETROIT — A Michigan Department of National Resources officer and a Grand Blanc police officer will not be charged after they fatally shot a man who drove into a Genesee County church and shot several people, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The officers, whom The Detroit News is not naming because they have not been charged, shot 40-year-old ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier seized on a news report Wednesday that cited an anonymous source saying that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would not bring charges in the Hope Florida scandal.

Citing a report in the online publication The Floridian, DeSantis and a spokesperson ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied an effort to overturn California’s new voter-passed congressional map, letting the map go into effect for this year’s midterm elections.

The unexplained, unsigned order ends a bid from the Trump administration and California Republicans to overturn a lower court ruling that found the ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has been hospitalized with “flu-like symptoms,” in the latest health challenge for the 83-year-old former Republican Senate leader.

McConnell, a childhood polio survivor who has suffered a string of health setbacks in recent years, checked himself into the hospital Monday night, his spokesman said.

“In an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump recently used the term “de-escalate,” but on a number of hot-button issues, all he and his team have done in recent days is the opposite.

From videos showing ongoing aggressive actions by federal immigration enforcement agents, to Trump’s tough talk on nationalizing elections in the face of some GOP ...Read more

MIAMI — Ryan Wesley Routh, the man convicted of trying to kill Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president was playing golf at his club in West Palm Beach, was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday.

During his sentencing in Fort Pierce federal court, Routh generally listened and then read part of a 20-page statement that U.S. ...Read more