President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on goods from nations that oppose his push to take control of Greenland, stepping up his rhetoric while Denmark hosted U.S. lawmakers on its home turf following meetings in Washington this week.

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland ...Read more

NEW YORK — Kianna Underwood, a former Nickelodeon child actor, was killed in a hit-and-run that saw her body dragged two blocks through Brooklyn on Friday morning, police said.

Underwood, 33, was struck by a black sedan heading west on Pitkin Avenue as she tried to cross the roadway near Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville around 6:50 a.m....Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Trump administration has repeatedly said the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota is the result of “sanctuary politicians who release criminal illegal aliens directly from jails onto the streets to terrorize more innocent Americans,” but Minnesota officials say the state’s prisons work directly with ICE.

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DENVER — Adams County health officials are investigating Colorado’s only immigration detention center after immigrant-rights advocates alleged that a wave of largely untreated illness had swept through the facility.

County health officials “received multiple reports about possible gastrointestinal and respiratory illness,” Health ...Read more

NEW YORK — Frank Carone, a close friend and longtime political confidant to Eric Adams, is among the partners behind the launch of the ex-New York City mayor’s cryptocurrency token, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The revelation of Carone’s involvement in the so-called “NYC Token” venture comes after the digital asset ...Read more

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas elementary school guidance counselor kept sixth graders from listing Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump as their role models during a class assignment, according to a complaint sent this week to federal officials by a conservative legal organization.

And, the seven-page complaint says, after at least one parent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An Anaheim man is facing federal charges that he falsely claimed to have placed pipe bombs inside Disneyland before Vice President JD Vance visited the park with his family last year.

Marco Antonio Aguayo, 22, is accused of posting threatening messages on Disneyland's official Instagram page after learning that Vance was ...Read more

A plane carrying deported immigrants landed in Venezuela on Friday — the first removals from the United States since the Trump administration captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

The six-hour flight departed from the Mesa Gateway Airport in Phoenix and landed in Simón Bolívar International Airport, according to U.S. watchdog group ...Read more

California lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a $23 billion science research bond aimed at offsetting recent federal funding losses — and, in a break from past efforts, tying public investment in university research to lower drug prices for Californians.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, announced the effort during a news conference ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good died after suffering four gunshot wounds, including a shot to the left side of her head, according to newly released incident reports from emergency responders that also detail the scene’s aftermath in south Minneapolis Jan. 7.

The documents, released by the Minneapolis Fire Department and Minneapolis Police ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom took an early victory lap on homelessness, touting that the number of people sleeping on California’s streets had dropped by nearly 10% in the last year as he announced another tranche of state homelessness funds for local governments.

Newsom announced Friday at a press conference in San Francisco that the state would award ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected bids by Marilyn Mosby and federal prosecutors for redo hearings after the high court vacated the former Baltimore state’s attorney’s fraud conviction in July.

The appeals court denied the petitions in a brief order handed down Thursday.

Mosby remains convicted of two counts of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — National Democrats aren’t giving up on potentially eliminating Maryland’s lone Republican congressional seat through redistricting, despite state Senate President Bill Ferguson refusing to consider the effort. His chamber, necessary to advance legislation, will prioritize affordability issues during this year’s legislative ...Read more

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is accused of having an affair with a member of her security detail and destroying the man’s marriage in a lawsuit filed by his ex-wife in Moore County, North Carolina.

Heather Ammel, a resident of Moore County and the ex-wife of Matthew Ammel, the member of Sinema’s security detail, sued Sinema for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s disaster chief quietly retired in late December amid criticism over the state’s indecisive stance on whether soil testing was necessary to protect survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires.

One year ago, Nancy Ward, then the director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A court filing made public this week claims to reveal the identity of the off-duty federal immigration agent who shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year’s Eve and includes allegations that the law enforcement officer whipped his sons with a belt and made racist and homophobic remarks in the past, according to documents ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former Vice President Kamala Harris tapped into local resentment against the White House on Friday during a brief speech in Chicago, her latest postelection stop as she seeks to stay in the national spotlight while mulling whether to make another run for the Oval Office in two years.

Speaking at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Homeland Security officers who blinded a young protester by shooting a less-lethal projectile at close range in Santa Ana apparently shot a second man in the face that night, blinding him too.

Britain Rodriguez, 31, a resident of Orange County, said he was standing at the bottom of some steps with other demonstrators when ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Friday that socialist interim President Delcy Rodríguez is cooperating with the Trump administration under pressure rather than by choice, and that her main task is to dismantle what she described as a criminal power structure that has sustained repression in Venezuela for more than two ...Read more

Renee Nicole Good, the woman fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis last week, was struck four times in the gunfire, the Fire Department said.

When first responders reached her, 36-year-old Good was unresponsive in the driver seat of her maroon Honda pilot, and her pulse was “inconsistent” and “irregular,” according to ...Read more