SAN JOSE, Calif. — Lawyers clashed Tuesday in a federal courtroom in San Jose over whether student newspaper The Stanford Daily can proceed with a First Amendment lawsuit alleging the Trump administration used immigration law to punish student speech — a case that could set a legal precedent for the constitutional rights of noncitizen ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump won’t rule out the use of military force to acquire Greenland, the White House said, ramping up tension with fellow NATO member Denmark over a dispute that’s surged back into public view following the ouster of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.

Trump is considering many ways of achieving his goal of ...Read more

NEW YORK — As NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Tuesday announced the city just saw its safest year since the department began keeping modern-day crime stats in 1994, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, standing by her side, didn’t address how he will fulfill campaign promises to reform policing.

Tisch and Mamdani appeared together at NYPD headquarers ...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis announced a plan Tuesday afternoon to ensure that a plaque is hung in the U.S. Capitol to honor the law enforcement who responded to the attack on the building on Jan. 6, 2021.

The plaque has already been created. It was commissioned by Congress in March 2022 in an appropriations bill ...Read more

A flurry of federal actions in President Donald Trump’s second term has transgender Minnesotans wondering whether they will continue to exist in public life.

Rollbacks on the liberties of transgender people have been a hallmark of Trump 2.0 since day one, when Trump issued an executive order declaring that the policy of the United States is ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state Democratic leaders accused President Trump of unleashing a political vendetta after he announced plans to freeze roughly $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services programs in California and four other Democrat-controlled states.

Trump justified the action in comments posted on his social...Read more

Boston reported two children have died related to the flu this season Tuesday, the first pediatric flu-associated deaths in the city since 2013, bringing total related deaths Massachusetts children up to four.

“We’ve noted a dramatic increase in flu cases in Boston, particularly among children, and we are very concerned about the severity ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump implored Republicans to turn around their political fortunes ahead of November’s midterm elections, warning that if Democrats retake control of Congress, he would be impeached for a third time.

“You got to win the midterms,” Trump said Tuesday at a retreat for the party’s House caucus in Washington....Read more

WASHINGTON — A highly confidential CIA assessment produced at the request of the White House warned President Donald Trump of a wider conflict in Venezuela if he were to support the country's democratic opposition once its president, Nicolás Maduro, was deposed, a person familiar with the matter told the Los Angeles Times.

The assessment was...Read more

The man who murdered Brown University students and an MIT professor showed no remorse after going on the killing spree, according to the feds who found his hideout videos before he took his own life.

Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente — the Portuguese national who shot and killed students in Providence, R.I., before gunning down an MIT professor in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles just recorded its lowest homicide total in more than half a century, mirroring precipitous drops in many other large cities nationwide last year — and sparking a range of theories about what’s going on.

According to tentative numbers reported by the LAPD through Dec. 31, the city tallied 230 homicides...Read more

Donnie McClurkin, the Grammy-winning gospel singer and minister who has publicly denounced homosexuality, has been sued for sexually abusing his former male personal assistant.

McClurkin, 66, faces allegations of sexual assault, sexual battery and more in the civil lawsuit filed Friday in New York County Supreme Court. The singer's accuser, ...Read more

A bill filed by a Republican state senator on the first day of 2026 General Assembly attempts to ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices in Kentucky’s K-12 public schools.

Senate Bill 26 filed by Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield, would apply to the Kentucky Department of Education, school districts and public schools.

According to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A conservative pastor from Detroit gathered a group of his congregants at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to protest alleged election fraud and commemorate the fifth anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Lorenzo Sewell, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump who led a prayer at his 2025 inauguration, likened the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Budd wasn’t given any warning that a large-scale attack on Venezuela had been ordered by President Donald Trump.

Now, he wants answers about the incursion.

Explosions began around 1 a.m. Eastern time Saturday in the South American country. Delta Force entered Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to capture President Nicol�...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Larry Krasner was sworn in to his second term as district attorney four years ago, Philadelphia was in a public safety crisis: Murders and shootings were at an all-time high and the homicide clearance rate was at a historic low.

On Monday, Krasner was inaugurated to a third four-year term in remarkably different ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — By the time most Twin Cities residents were waking up on Jan. 6, armed federal immigration agents in bulletproof vests had surrounded a man in a St. Paul neighborhood, detaining him as cameras rolled. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared alongside the agents, offering a highly visible marker of the Trump ...Read more