WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is seeking to delay court proceedings over whether it must refund importers billions of dollars in tariffs recently struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a contentious start to the next phase of the legal fight.

The government wants to wait as long as four months before reviving litigation before...Read more

Another step has been taken in the Trump administration’s efforts to expand offshore drilling in California — but the process is still in its early stages, and it’s not clear if oil companies are interested in building new platforms off the coast of the Golden State.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced its intent to ...Read more

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tapped two new members for an influential vaccine committee that’s responsible for guiding the nation’s immunization policy.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday night that Sean Downing, an internal medicine doctor in Florida, and Angelina Farella, a pediatrician in ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton delivered a sweeping denial of any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes during roughly six hours of closed-door testimony Friday before a House committee investigating the disgraced financier’s political connections.

“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton said in a statement prepared for ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton delivered a sweeping denial of any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes during roughly six hours of closed-door testimony Friday before a House committee investigating the disgraced financier’s political connections.

“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton said in a statement prepared for ...Read more

The state of California, its Department of Education and officials were sued Thursday by two Jewish advocacy groups that alleged the state allowed antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students to go unchecked on campuses.

The suit by Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights and StandWithUs — nonprofits focused on Jewish civil rights ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday directed federal agencies to stop using technology from San Francisco artificial intelligence company Anthropic, escalating a high-profile clash between the AI startup and the Pentagon over safety.

In a Friday post on the social media site Truth Social, Trump described the company as "radical left" and "woke."

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his secret meeting with President Donald Trump a day earlier, as well as his proposal to the president to build 12,000 apartments in Queens.

At the White House meeting Thursday, the mayor asked Trump for the green light — and $21 billion — for the plan to build atop Sunnyside Yard. To ...Read more

DETROIT — A federal floodplain notice published by the Department of Homeland Security spells out new details about the agency's plans to use a warehouse in Romulus as an immigration processing and detention facility.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in response to the notice blasted federal officials Friday for failing to engage the ...Read more

Newly unsealed federal indictments level charges against 30 more people involved in an ICE protest at during a St. Paul church service last month and reveal what prosecutors say was a carefully crafted operation that terrorized and physically threatened congregants and pastors.

“At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton denied any wrongdoing in his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein as he sat for a deposition with House lawmakers Friday, saying he had no idea of the crimes the now-dead sex offender was committing, according to prepared remarks.

The former Democratic president, during a deposition in New York, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has been placed on indefinite administrative leave, officials announced Friday — two days after FBI agents raided his home and office related to an undisclosed criminal investigation.

Andres Chait, a senior LAUSD administrator who has served as chief of school operations, was...Read more

More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – are alive today. In 2026, the oldest of them are turning 80.

With longer lives often comes more complicated health needs: multiple chronic conditions, long lists of medications, balance problems that can increase the risk of falls, and changes in memory. Many ...Read more

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the Environmental Protection Agency, can be found in Houston, Texas, the city where my colleagues and I live and work.

Hazardous contaminants...Read more

President Donald Trump hinted Friday that talks with Cuban leaders are progressing and suggested the island’s profound economic collapse could open the door for the United States to regain significant influence over decisions on the Caribbean island just 90 miles off the Florida Keys.

“The Cuban government is talking with us,” Trump said....Read more

Leaders of the Caribbean Community said Friday they plan to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, stressing that the island’s deepening economic crisis could destabilize the wider region.

The announcement came in a joint statement the 15-member regional bloc, known as CARICOM, said it was issuing along with the United States. U.S. Secretary of State...Read more

A 27-year-old man from Guatemala died in South Florida in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month, federal authorities said.

Jairo Garcia-Hernandez “collapsed unexpectedly” and died on Feb. 16 at Larkin Community Hospital in South Florida, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a press release. The cause of death ...Read more

University of Kansas students protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence on campus on Friday morning.

Social media posts spread online of ICE agents outside the Ambler Recreation Center on the KU campus around 8 a.m. Local advocacy group Sanctuary Alliance said it confirmed one person was detained by ICE near that location.

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President Donald Trump directed U.S. government agencies to stop using Anthropic PBC’s products, capping a feud between the artificial intelligence giant and the Pentagon over safeguards on its technology.

Trump said Friday that there would be a six-month “phase out period” for agencies including the Defense Department that are using ...Read more