In a decision that could complicate Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to build a giant water tunnel and remake California’s water system, a state appeals court has rejected the state’s plan for financing the project.

The 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled against the state Department of Water Resources’ plan to issue billions of dollars in bonds...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The newly elected Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board opened its first business meeting of the year on Wednesday evening, Jan. 7, with a moment of silence for Renee Good, who was shot and killed by ICE in south Minneapolis just hours before.

Commissioners then approved a slate of measures denouncing ICE and distancing the ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is admitting an “error” made by paying fired aide LaMar Cook over $31,000 in a contract buyout after he was fired for his arrest on cocaine trafficking and gun charges is “unacceptable.”

The governor refused to answer reporter questions on if whoever was responsible for the buyout blunder faced any ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota is continuing to urge shots that protect children against 17 infectious diseases, despite a federal recommendation last week that cut the number to 11.

It’s rare for state health officials to break with federal vaccine guidance, but Thursday’s decision aligned Minnesota with professional medical organizations such ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When a 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an immigration agent Wednesday morning, driving in her Minneapolis neighborhood after dropping her son off at school, the Trump administration's response was swift. The victim was to blame for her own death — acting as a "professional agitator," a "domestic terrorist," ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jaylen Edgar, the teen charged in the 2024 Halloween shooting in downtown Orlando, wants to argue he experienced “temporary insanity” the night two people were killed at an outdoor holiday celebration, a move that will delay his scheduled trial next week.

The delay, reluctantly granted by Circuit Judge Keith Carsten, came ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For the first time in more than half a century, Marie Scott is free.

Scott, 72, who served more than 52 years in prison for felony murder, was released from custody on Wednesday after Gov. Josh Shapiro commuted her life sentence in June. Despite opposition from the victim’s family, community advocates had pushed for her ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In his final State of the State address, Gov. Gavin Newsom shifted from the problem-solving posture that defined his early years in office to a more declarative accounting of California’s achievements, casting the state as a counterweight to dysfunction in Washington.

The address, which Newsom delivered Thursday to a ...Read more

Minutes after the City Commission officially voted on his appointment, Miami’s new city manager said his administration will be reviewing the city’s controversial decision to enter an immigration enforcement agreement, called a 287(g) agreement, with ICE last year.

“We will be evaluating everything, including the 287(g) agreement,” ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 has already spurred a flood of online misinformation that may be shared unwittingly by people with good intentions.

Here are three examples and some tips for telling fake videos and images from real ones:

Washington Post reporter Drew ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Almost immediately after an ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, federal officials began describing the episode as a justified use of force. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the agent acted in self-defense and accused Good of using her vehicle as a weapon.

The agency’s critics, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Investigators with the federal Department of Homeland Security are investigating reports of vandalism at a demonstration in downtown Sacramento that protested Wednesday’s killing of an unarmed woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, the Sacramento Police Department said.

The protest, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In his final State of the State address, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted California’s economic dominance and a modest reduction in the unsheltered homeless population, claiming victory on one of his most potent political liabilities.

During his address, which he gave to lawmakers in Assembly chambers, Newsom spotlighted the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension revealed Thursday that federal officials have “reversed course,” and the investigation into the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent will be conducted solely by the FBI without assistance from the state agency.

In the immediate wake of the killing of 37-year-old Renee ...Read more

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited New York Thursday to promote the success of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement gang takedown operation as hundreds protested ICE’s caught-on-camera killing of a protester in Minneapolis.

More than 200 people rallied outside of One World Trade Center, where Noem was ...Read more

In the days after Maj. Gen. Javier Marcano Tábata vanished from Venezuela’s chain of command earlier this week, the official story never quite settled. Rumors of treason, incompetence and betrayal swirled.

But sources with direct knowledge of the regime’s internal dynamics say the explanations miss the point. Marcano Tábata did not fall ...Read more

To be sure, the optics don’t look good for Nicolás Maduro.

For months, the Trump administration pilloried him as a corrupt drug-trafficking politician who consorted with terrorists to harm America, setting the stage for the U.S. military’s seizure of the Venezuelan president in a predawn raid on Saturday.

A newly unsealed indictment ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents.

Little public ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Victims and witnesses to the deadly Santana High School shooting in Santee nearly 25 years ago expressed disappointment and frustration Wednesday after a judge agreed to recall the shooter’s sentence — a ruling that sets him up to be released from prison.

Charles Andrew “Andy” Williams was 15 years old when he opened fire ...Read more