DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections says it won’t grant the Trump administration’s request to transfer Tina Peters to the federal prison system, characterizing it in a statement as not fitting with the “standard practice” for moving inmates.

The statement was issued Tuesday night after county clerks and other elected ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County grand jury is hearing evidence related to the death of a teenage girl whose body was discovered stuffed inside the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla earlier this year, two law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times.

The revelation follows the gruesome discovery of the remains of 14-year-old Celeste ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others agreed Wednesday to kill the probe after a Georgia prosecutor said the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case.

In a brief, one-page order, Superior Court Judge Scott ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Make sure to pack some patience in your carry-on.

This Thanksgiving holiday travel period is expected to be the busiest in 15 years, federal officials said, as Americans brush off the recent government shutdown that snarled air travel across the country.

All told, more than 360,000 flights will take to the skies this week ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Indiana state lawmakers will gavel in next month to consider a redistricting measure in response to insistent demands from President Donald Trump, reversing an earlier decision by the state Senate.

The state House will reconvene on Dec. 1 to take up “all legislative business,” including redrawing the state’s congressional ...Read more

A Tampa, Florida, photojournalist was arrested Saturday while covering a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami.

Deputies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrested 30 activists from the Sunrise Movement after the protesters blocked the entrance to the Krome North Service Processing Center, according to a ...Read more

BOSTON — A bill is moving forward at the State House that would establish a special commission to study the feasibility and implementation of reparations payments and to draft a formal apology on behalf of Massachusetts residents for slavery in the United States.

The joint bill (H. 1753), filed by state Rep. Russell Holmes, D-Boston, and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump’s move to end temporary protected status for Somalis came just days after a conservative website claimed that fraudsters who bilked Minnesota government programs sent stolen money back to Somalia, where it was obtained by the terrorist group al-Shabab.

The report published by City Journal, a conservative...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters are sharply divided along partisan lines over the Trump administration’s immigration raids this year in Los Angeles and across the nation, according to a new poll.

Just over half of the state’s registered voters oppose federal efforts to reduce undocumented immigration, and 61% are against deporting ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Newport News judge has sanctioned a defense lawyer in the Richneck Elementary School shooting case for what the judge found were two unsubstantiated assertions about the case’s prosecutor.

Circuit Court Judge Christopher R. Papile said that the lawyer, Curtis M. Rogers, must complete two additional hours of legal ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.

“After consulting with interagency partners, Secretary (Kristi) Noem concluded that Haiti no longer meets the statutory requirements for TPS,” the agency said in a posting.

“This decision was based on a review conducted ...Read more

ATLANTA — A state prosecutor on Wednesday urged the Fulton County judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others to kill the probe, arguing the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case.

In a 23-page order, Pete Skandalakis, the executive director ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others agreed to kill the probe on Wednesday after a state prosecutor said the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case.

In a brief, one-page order, Superior Court Judge Scott ...Read more

NEW YORK — FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker revealed the reasoning behind his resignation Wednesday, saying he quickly realized he had “fundamental differences” with Zohran Mamdani that would make it a challenge to work in the new mayoral administration.

“There are things that I have heard (Mamdani) say that would make it difficult for ...Read more

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, freshly out of jail over an alleged electoral funding conspiracy, has lost his final bid to overturn a separate guilty finding for overspending in his failed 2012 re-election campaign.

The ruling by France’s top court confirms Sarkozy’s conviction, making it final. He was first found guilty four ...Read more

U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will lead a delegation for talks in Russia next week, a Kremlin official said, as Donald Trump pushes for a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

“As for Witkoff, I can say there is a preliminary agreement that he will visit Moscow next week,” Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin, said in a video clip of an ...Read more

Two dozen students abducted from a school in Nigeria were freed after more than a week in captivity, but hundreds of others seized in separate incidents remain missing as the West African nation reels from a spate of mass kidnappings.

The secondary-school pupils who were captured in the northwestern Kebbi state on Nov. 17 were released on ...Read more

JENIN, West Bank — After 15 months in an Israeli jail, Mustafa Sheta drove home with his brothers to Jenin. A lot changed while he was in prison, they said.

The fighters that once had daily run-and-gun battles with Israeli soldiers? Gone. The bustling population of the refugee camp that gave Jenin its reputation as the martyrs' capital? Gone...Read more