OTTAWA, Canada — Prime Minister Mark Carney won a key budget vote by the slimmest of margins in Canada’s Parliament, ensuring the survival of his government.

A majority of elected lawmakers backed the government’s proposed fiscal plan, thanks to support from the leader of the Green Party and the absence of some members of other opposition...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump argued his administration was making process on lowering prices as he faces new political headwinds, pushing back on criticism from Democrats who blame his tariffs for high costs.

Trump touted economic policies he said have drawn trillions in new investments to fuel private-sector job growth and eased the ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Border Patrol will be in Raleigh on Tuesday after a weekend of arrests and protests in Charlotte, Raleigh Mayor Janet Cowell told The News & Observer on Monday night.

More than 130 people were reportedly arrested this weekend in Charlotte after U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested people at places like restaurants, ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Texas National Guard has departed Illinois, ending a futile 41-day deployment in which its soldiers spent less than 24 hours working in support of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation mission.

The troops, who had been living at a U.S. Army Reserve training center in southwest suburban Elwood, left the facility around 1 p....Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. would sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, offering Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a prize he’s long cherished — even though many obstacles remain before he gets the stealthy planes.

Agreeing to sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia represents a major concession to bin Salman, who’s set to ...Read more

During the government shutdown, the U.S. Forest Service completed prescribed burns on more than 127,000 acres, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz announced in an internal memo welcoming back furloughed employees. During the same time frame in 2023 and 2024, the Forest Service completed a comparable amount of work, indicating the agency managed to ...Read more

More than half of Australians are concerned about U.S. interference while support for defense spending has reached a new high, according to a nationwide poll that comes as friction mounts between the allies over issues such as trade.

The survey released Tuesday by the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney ...Read more

California is once again fighting in federal court for a Jewish family's right to have a precious Impressionist painting returned to them by a Spanish museum nearly 90 years after it was looted by the Nazis.

The state is also defending its own authority to legally require art and other stolen treasures to be returned to other victims with ties ...Read more

NEW YORK — With less than two months to go in his term, Mayor Eric Adams met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, drawing a contrast with his successor, Zohran Mamdani, who has vowed to direct the NYPD to arrest the PM if he sets foot in New York under his administration.

In an interview with the right-wing Israel Hayom ...Read more

A last-ditch effort to push Mayor Eric Adams and his administration to slow the implementation of new class size caps before Zohran Mamdani takes office has failed.

Over the recent objections of a coalition of education advocates, a trove of compliance documents released Monday showed local education officials did not request that the state ...Read more

Maryland elected officials representing Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties have rejected an invitation to consider breaking away and joining West Virginia.

West Virginia state Sen. Chris Rose last week introduced legislation in his state’s upper chamber, inviting the three rural counties, in addition to 27 others in Virginia, to secede...Read more

After U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested at least 130 people in the Charlotte area over the weekend, Democratic lawmakers representing the region said the arrests amount to racist profiling.

Mecklenburg County Democratic Rep. Carolyn Logan spent her career in law enforcement and said people who do that work are supposed to make people “ feel ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD officer survived getting shot in the face Monday during an early-morning shootout with a gunman suspected of killing his Brooklyn neighbor an hour earlier, police said.

Officer Sharjeel Waris was guarding evidence inside the vestibule of a Brownsville building where the suspect and murder victim lived when the killer ...Read more

Thirty years after Selena Quintanilla’s death, a recently released autopsy report revealed new details about her murder.

In March 1995, the 23-year-old Tejano singer was gunned down inside a motel room in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, who had been accused of embezzling money from Quintanilla.

The...Read more

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson’s estate has approved a claim of almost $58 million for the father of Ron Goldman.

Fred Goldman won a civil judgment against the former NFL star over the 1994 killing of his son, a friend of Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson. Goldman had sought $117 million from the estate of Simpson, who died at his Las ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Justice sued California on Monday to block newly passed laws that prohibit law enforcement officials, including federal immigration agents, from wearing masks and that require them to identify themselves.

The laws, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, came in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested he could expand U.S. military strikes in Latin America beyond Venezuela to targets on land in Colombia and even Mexico, spooking markets and raising fresh questions about his strategy for the region.

On Monday, Trump said he’d be “proud” to expand strikes that have targeted alleged drug-...Read more

The Trump administration said on Monday it would not comply with California’s new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and other face coverings when conducting operations in the state, and sued in federal court to overturn its “No secret police” and “No vigilantes” acts.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools returned to class Monday after Border Patrol agents descended on the region for a weekend of arrests, with no clear sign about when the activity might end.

Agents wearing green and brown uniforms with masks covering their faces spread out across Charlotte and area towns, raising fear in the ...Read more