U.S. officials have imposed visa restrictions on a top Haitian government official for allegedly supporting gangs and other criminal organizations and obstructing the Haitian government’s fight against gangs that have been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The State Department’s decision comes amid intensifying political ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Fire Department waited nearly six hours after responding to a massive hazardous materials fire at the Port of L.A. on Friday to order residents to "get inside IMMEDIATELY and close all windows and doors" due to potential toxic smoke.

The department's shelter-in-place order for areas of San Pedro and Wilmington ...Read more

The White House signaled optimism around efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia while warning that additional negotiations to address remaining sticking points would be necessary, despite reports earlier suggesting a deal was afoot.

“There are a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details that must be sorted out and ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has raised $2 million for his transition efforts in less than 20 days as he prepares to take office on Jan 1.

The cash has flowed mostly from small donors — with 25,620 individual donors and an average contribution of $75.

The fundraising reflects Mamdani’s focus on grassroots support. ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with the U.S. about a peace plan were continuing following a report suggesting that Kyiv agreed to the terms of a potential deal to end Russia’s full-scale invasion.

“Communication with the American side continues,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X following a phone call with German ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Texas redistricting case now before the Supreme Court turns on a question that often divides judges: Were the voting districts drawn based on politics, or race?

The answer, likely to come in a few days, could shift five congressional seats and tip political control of the House of Representatives after next year's midterm ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pressure over antisemitism allegations against the Berkeley school system intensified Monday with the launch of what members of Congress called a "nationwide investigation of antisemitism in K-12 schools."

The first three districts to fall under scrutiny of the House Committee on Education and Workforce are the Berkeley Unified ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with the U.S. about a peace plan were continuing following a report suggesting that Kyiv agreed to the terms of a potential deal to end Russia’s full-scale invasion.

“Communication with the American side continues,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X following a phone call with German ...Read more

When Xi Jinping and Donald Trump sat down in South Korea last month to discuss a pause in their trade war, Taiwan surprisingly didn’t come up. Now the biggest flashpoint between the U.S. and China is firmly back on the agenda.

In an hourlong phone call with Trump on Monday, Xi seized on a diplomatic row with Japan in a bid to assert China’s...Read more

As the federal government prepares for the next meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has intensified his attacks on aluminum vaccine components used in many shots to boost the body’s immune response.

Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist before seeking ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Nick Sortor was arrested last month in Oregon for disorderly conduct.

It was a huge boost for his career.

In an Oct. 2 altercation with people protesting the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Portland, Sortor grabbed American flags that were being burned and walked through protest camps before he was pushed ...Read more

CHICAGO – Inside a modest second-floor apartment on Chicago’s Southwest Side, three children went without sleep waiting for their mom to finally come home.

Their dad, with a family friend, had driven through the night to get her. More than five hours in the dark to pick her up from the dingy jail in rural Indiana, five hours more on the way...Read more

The top authorities of U.S. cancer statistics will soon have to classify the sex of patients strictly as male, female, or unknown, a change scientists and advocates say will harm the health of transgender people, one of the nation’s most marginalized populations.

Scientists and advocates for trans rights say the change will make it much ...Read more

DENVER – Depending on who’s talking, beavers can be any of the following: unsung ecological heroes, nuisance rodents bent on wreaking havoc, cute creatures brimming with charisma — or a hunting target.

Now it’s Colorado wildlife officials’ task to create a statewide management plan that acknowledges all the roles beavers play in the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Members of the San Diego Democratic congressional delegation were granted access to inspect an immigration detention facility inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in downtown San Diego on Monday, after having been turned away on two previous occasions.

The lawmakers had asked for access to check the conditions, as they ...Read more

Since 2010, data centers in Virginia have not had to pay the state’s sales and use tax. At a rate of 4.3%, that foregone revenue adds up: Over the past decade, data centers have been exempt from paying $2.7 billion.

The state lost out on $1 billion through the data center exemption in fiscal 2024, up from $685 million in fiscal 2023.

That’...Read more

NEW YORK — The Justice Department again asked federal judges to unseal grand jury material from the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing the recently enacted law on Epstein documents.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday filed requests with a pair of New York judges overseeing the Epstein and Maxwell cases...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There was the U.S. citizen who said she no longer feels safe after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer slammed her to the ground in downtown Los Angeles and later accused her of assault — a case prosecutors dismissed soon after.

The Long Beach mayor, who said immigration agents have seized more than 50 residents ...Read more

Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital where he spent nearly two weeks being treated for a rare neurological disorder.

The Rainbow PUSH Coalition published a statement Monday confirming the civil right’s organization’s 84-year-old founder had been discharged from Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

“Our family would ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time since Los Angeles police began investigating the gruesome discovery of a dead girl's body in the trunk of singer D4vd's Tesla, a detective has characterized the probe as an "investigation into murder," according to court documents.

Seeking to prevent the release of autopsy findings, a Los Angeles Police ...Read more