WASHINGTON — When matching up the first year of Donald Trump’s second term with other presidencies, there really is no comparison.

Trump’s breakneck pace since returning to office does not draw clean parallels with any single former president, historians say, though certain actions have mirrored those of several predecessors, including ...Read more

MIAMI — The mother of a 5-year-old girl who was thrown into the Everglades and left to be eaten by alligators recounted the horror that she and her daughter suffered as prosecutors on Tuesday urged jurors to send the girl’s killer back to Florida’s Death Row.

Quatisha Maycock, affectionately nicknamed “Candy,” was excited about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An unconstrained U.S. president has sided with Russia in its war of conquest in Europe, seized Venezuela’s dictator from his bed in an attempt to take control of that country’s oil, threatened military strikes against America’s closest neighbors and sent tariffs soaring on its friends.

Donald Trump has gotten away with it ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Department of Justice has subpoenaed several Minnesota officials, including Gov. Tim Walz, as part of the federal government’s investigation into whether local leaders impeded immigration operations with their public statements.

The DOJ subpoenaed the offices of Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis ...Read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s election-year budget proposal on Tuesday included record investments in education to the tune of more than $39 billion — but that doesn’t necessarily mean New York City schoolkids will come out ahead.

Advocates are concerned that the governor’s plan fails to address tweaks made to a key formula ahead of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The California Republican Party on Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the redrawing of congressional boundaries authorized by Proposition 50.

The state GOP filing could be the last stop for the effort to block the redrawing. The new lines are aimed at adding five Democratic House seats in...Read more

A disabled Ecuadoran immigrant who was arrested and detained by ICE after he flagged down an officer in September was ordered back to his homeland on Tuesday.

Victor Acurio Suarez, age 52 but childlike and unable to live on his own, was issued an order of voluntary departure by Immigration Judge Dennis Ryan.

That’s not the same as an order ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The ongoing federal immigration campaign is hurting patients too scared to attend checkup appointments, pick up prescriptions or even give birth in hospitals, doctors said at a State Capitol news conference Tuesday.

One diabetic patient rationed insulin and ran low on food to avoid leaving home, the doctors said. A pregnant ...Read more

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis is one of a growing number of Republicans who believe that President Donald Trump is getting faulty policy guidance from his White House advisers, potentially jeopardizing his legacy and the GOP’s chances of retaining their majority.

Several in the Senate Republican Conference, including those at the top in ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — President Donald J. Trump has commuted the five-year prison sentence of a real estate developer convicted two years ago of an elaborate fraud he and a partner used to acquire $50 million in mortgage loans and build an extensive residential real estate portfolio across Hartford.

At the time, federal prosecutors said the “...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Airport crews began removing the 15 illuminated pylons from the entrance of Los Angeles International Airport last week as part of a plan to ease traffic congestion ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

The removal is temporary and part of LAX’s Airfield and Terminal Modernization Program Roadway Improvements Project, which is ...Read more

CHICAGO — Lurie Children’s Hospital is scaling back its gender-affirming care for minors, the hospital said Tuesday, days after a top federal official called for an investigation into the hospital.

The hospital will no longer offer gender-affirming medications for patients younger than 18 who have not previously been treated with the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Wind chills of up to 15 degrees below zero hit the Chicago area Tuesday morning, with the National Weather Service warning of “extreme cold temperatures” throughout the day.

Wind chills of 10 degrees below to 15 degrees below zero will continue throughout the mid-morning in portions of north central and northeast Illinois as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency escalates its immigration crackdowns across the country.

Mamdani’s, who’s long been a critic of the agency, told the hosts of ABC’s “The View” that ICE is “terrorizing people.”

“I’m tired of waking up every ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child, the family announced Tuesday.

The unborn child is a boy and is expected to arrive in July, the family said. The Vances are already parents to sons Ewan and Vivek and daughter Mirabel.

“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth ...Read more

President Donald Trump trashed European allies Tuesday and bared leaders’ private text messages as he continues to aggressively push for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.

In a series of odd posts, Trump mocked European leaders and doubled down on his insistence that they cave to his demands for control of the Arctic island, which is a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Do licensed gun owners have a right to carry a loaded weapon into stores, restaurants and other private places that are open to the public?

California and Hawaii are among five states with new laws that forbid carrying firearms onto private property without the consent of an owner or manager. But the Trump administration joined ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Allegations of misuse of taxpayer dollars, sexual harassment and poor planning and budgeting by the Florida State Guard’s top executive has sparked a wave of departures of senior officers, pilots and rank-and-file soldiers who also say they have been retaliated against for speaking out.

In public statements, mostly on ...Read more

MIAMI — Prosecutors on Tuesday morning dropped witness-tampering charges against YNW Melly just as the rapper’s trial was to begin.

Melly, 26, whose real name is Jamell Demons, was accused of colluding with co-defendant Cortlen Henry and fellow inmate Terrence Mathis to keep his ex-girlfriend from testifying in his double-murder case. The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The leaders of a St. Paul church are contemplating legal action against the activists who disrupted a Sunday service after the intruders determined one of the pastors works as the acting director of ICE’s field office in St. Paul.

A statement released on Jan. 20 by Cities Church to the Minnesota Star Tribune said “the group ...Read more