LOS ANGELES — There were no stars in the October sky. No moon that 64-year-old Masuma Khan could see from the narrow window of the California City Immigration Processing Center.

"No planes," she said, recalling her confinement.

Once a prison, the facility in the Mojave Desert, located 67 miles east of Bakersfield, reopened in April to hold ...Read more

Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just as the web advertising promised.

Instead, she died three days after a liposuction-like procedure called AirSculpt at the San Diego office of Elite Body Sculpture, a cosmetic surgery chain with more...Read more

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama’s first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, wanted to improve access to maternal health care in a state that’s long had one of the nation’s highest rates of maternal and infant mortality.

Those rates are especially high among Black women and infants. Skanes�...Read more

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — It’s hemmed in by Israel’s tanks and troops. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened it with annihilation. But Hamas, defiant in the ruins of less than half of Gaza, is clawing its way back to a semblance of pre-war governance.

Surviving civil servants have returned to work. Taxes are being collected, including...Read more

MIAMI — Venezuelan artist Pedro Martín didn’t waste any time celebrating Nicolás Maduro’s capture in the way he knows best. So on Saturday, with cans of spray paint, he headed to Wynwood, the Miami neighborhood famous for its murals.

When Martín saw the photo of Maduro in handcuffs, he knew that would be the subject of his mural. So he...Read more

In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California’s Placer County provided limited health care to some 3,400 uninsured residents who couldn’t afford to see a doctor.

For several years, that number has been zero in the predominantly white, largely rural county stretching from Sacramento’s eastern ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Starting this year, a single request form will allow Californians to demand that data brokers delete their personal information and refrain from collecting or selling it in the future.

Third parties are constantly lurking as you navigate the internet, collecting data they can later aggregate and sell, according to the Electronic...Read more

After California paused a plan to cancel the licenses of thousands of immigrant truckers, federal officials announced Wednesday they would withhold $160 million in transportation funds from the state.

The state was set to revoke 17,000 commercial driver's licenses for immigrants by Jan. 5 but instead extended the deadline amid the threat of a ...Read more

The funding request from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear for a pre-K for all initiative looks different from what he pitched two years ago. And this year’s ask could be seen as a more politically savvy move as spend-conscious Republicans are increasingly wary of how the state spends its money while the executive remains adamant about the ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s inauguration fund received $1.2 million in donations from heavy-hitters in the sports and business industries, including $15,000 from the professional women’s soccer team the city is rebuilding White Stadium for.

Wu’s inaugural fund contribution report was filed with the state Office of Campaign and ...Read more

Rapper Snoop Dogg’s daughter, Cori Broadus, has finally welcomed her new baby home, after the infant spent 10 months in a hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit following her birth at 25 weeks.

“She’s home,” a beaming Broadus posted on Instagram Wednesday alongside a photo of her cuddling with tiny Codi under a faux fur blanket. “...Read more

The Trump administration is quickly moving to reestablish a diplomatic presence in Venezuela, asking local staff to prepare for the arrival of U.S. officials at its embassy in Caracas as soon as this week.

No official date has been set to reopen the embassy, according to people involved, asking not to be identified because the discussions are ...Read more

As state lawmakers returned to Sacramento for a new legislative session this week, Democratic members are having serious behind-the-scenes conversations about ways to raise revenue for the state budget.

State spending has outgrown its tax revenues and in recent years the budget has faced structural deficits in the tens of billions of dollars. ...Read more

Minneapolis Public Schools has canceled classes and activities for the rest of the week following the fatal ICE shooting and ensuing protests on Jan. 7.

There will be no school or extracurriculars Thursday, Jan. 8, or Friday, Jan. 9.

“Safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city” prompted the closure, the district told ...Read more

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down on her characterization of the fatal shooting of a woman by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis as the result of an “act of domestic terrorism” while criticizing Minnesota’s immigration policies.

Flanked by federal agents at Fort Snelling ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In a presidential memorandum, Trump said it is “contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump leveled fresh criticism toward NATO, days after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said his desired takeover of her nation’s territory of Greenland would mean the end of the military alliance.

“RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE ZERO FEAR OF NATO WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE ...Read more

Two Caribbean countries whose nationals have been targeted under a recent U.S. travel ban have agreed to accept asylum-seekers rejected from the United States who cannot return to their countries of origin.

Meanwhile, a third country, Guyana, confirmed to the Miami Herald that it is also close to finalizing “a framework to lead to an ...Read more

SEATTLE — Projects funded by Washington’s Climate Commitment Act have not been nearly as effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions as previously thought, state officials acknowledged this week.

Officials with the state's Department of Commerce overshot their own estimates by such a significant margin that on Tuesday they published a ...Read more

The woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday lived in Kansas City as recently as fall of 2023, court records show.

Renee Good filed a petition in Jackson County Circuit Court on Oct. 18, 2023, to change her last name. She gave an address in Kansas City.

According to her petition, Good ...Read more