A deep freeze is gripping the U.S. as the worst storm so far this season winds down, leaving the country’s biggest electric grid in emergency status and bracing for record wintertime demand.

PJM Interconnection LLC, which serves 67 million people from New Jersey to Chicago, issued a grid emergency for Tuesday and warned demand will exceed 147...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Facing opposition from key Republican senators, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Kuwait instead has taken a job with AmeriCorps in Washington.

Former Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said he started Monday as senior adviser for strategic partnerships at AmeriCorps, where his role will include working with local ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California Sen. Alex Padilla and Democratic colleagues proposed Monday overhauling what he called a “cruel” immigrant detention system.

The Senate is expected to debate immigration policy this week, as it considers funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats said Monday they won’t vote for the DHS budget.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for the Justice Department and Minnesota squared off in federal court on Monday over the continued presence of immigration agents as part of Operation Metro Surge.

The high-stakes hearing in Minneapolis centered on Minnesota’s bid to halt the surge of federal immigration agents to the state — described by the Trump...Read more

MADRID — Spain will approve an extraordinary grant of legal status to undocumented migrants on Tuesday, the government said in a statement.

The move aims to “guarantee rights and provide legal certainty to an existing social reality.” About half a million people could benefit, provided they were in Spain before Dec. 31, have no criminal ...Read more

Several people who witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Minnesota man Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis were detained for several hours in a federal building, according to a report published Monday.

One of the witnesses, identified only as Javier, told local CBS affiliate WCCO that he and about two dozen other people were held in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two women have been charged with biting the fingers of U.S. Border Patrol officers moments after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend near the scene of an immigration enforcement action.

Claire Louise Feng, 27, of St. Paul was arrested on Jan. 24 and charged in U.S. District Court a day later ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Virginia House of Delegates voted along party lines Monday to pass a bill scheduling a voter referendum on the proposed redistricting constitutional amendment.

The bill also would repeal an old part of state code that requires clerks of circuit courts to post proposed constitutional amendments on courthouse doors 90 days ...Read more

As federal immigration tactics face mounting legal and political scrutiny after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a Minneapolis man over the weekend, President Trump announced Monday that he was dispatching his border adviser Tom Homan to Minnesota.

Until now, Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino has overseen the federal government’s ...Read more

State budget analysts told Maryland lawmakers Monday that Gov. Wes Moore’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget improves the state’s short-term outlook but leaves major structural problems unresolved in the years ahead, setting the stage for weeks of legislative deliberations over the administration’s spending plan.

Moore released a $70.8 billion ...Read more

Three new cases of measles have been confirmed in Florida, including one each in Hillsborough and Manatee counties, state data shows.

The Hillsborough case was in a person aged between 20 and 24 who was infected by the highly contagious disease in Florida this month, a Florida Department of Health database for infectious and reportable diseases...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The reactions of Idaho lawmakers, lawyers and gun-rights activists to the killing of a Minnesota protester run the gamut.

Some justify federal agents’ shooting of protester Alex Pretti, arguing that he put himself at risk because he had a gun. Others push back on that idea — which some officials in President Donald Trump’...Read more

When Winter Storm Fern left Kentucky roads covered in snow and ice, Kentucky State Police dispatchers and Knott County health care workers stayed on the job overnight, sleeping on-site.

The storm left significant snow and ice accumulation, also bringing temperatures well below freezing. Lexington and Louisville each saw nearly 6 inches of snow,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An Orange County mother has been arrested on suspicion of felony child endangerment after a video went viral on social media showing her 19-month-old child flying out of a moving car and landing in the middle of a busy intersection, according to the Fullerton Police Department.

The shocking recording shows the front passenger ...Read more

Ye, the provocative rapper formerly known as Kanye West, explains himself once again — this time in a full-page ad in Monday's issue of The Wall Street Journal.

The Grammy-winning musician penned a lengthy apology in the advertisement, voicing regrets for his social media attacks on Jewish people and his public embracing of Nazism in recent ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida may keep some required vaccine mandates after all.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo made national news in September when he announced a plan to remove all vaccine mandates from state law.

But so far, no lawmaker has any bill that would do away with the mandated vaccines, which include required shots for polio, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys argued Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul over whether the state of Minnesota can trust the federal government to preserve and maintain evidence from the shooting death of Alex Pretti.

The court had granted the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office a temporary ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys argued Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul over whether the state of Minnesota can trust the federal government to preserve and maintain evidence from the shooting death of Alex Pretti.

The court had granted the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office a temporary ...Read more