LAS VEGAS — Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss a Trump administration lawsuit that is trying to force Nevada to release an unredacted voter roll list to the federal government.

The administration targeted the state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, in a Dec. 11 lawsuit ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a year left in his term, Gov. Henry McMaster sought to look at what the state would be like after he leaves office.

McMaster, South Carolina’s longest serving governor, delivered his ninth and final State of the State address Wednesday. Because of term limits, he cannot run for reelection this year.

In his ...Read more

Hundreds of students across the Bay Area walked out of their classes Wednesday to protest the recent killings of two people in Minneapolis by federal agents and President Donald Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown.

The local walkouts — which included a march through the streets of downtown San Jose, along with other walkouts near San ...Read more

OTTAWA, Canada — Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is enjoying a surge in polls after the Canadian prime minister earned praise from other world leaders for his Davos speech urging smaller countries to resist coercion by superpowers.

A new survey released by Leger Marketing finds Carney’s Liberals with a nine-point lead over the Conservative ...Read more

A 5-year-old Minnesota child detained with his father at a Texas immigration facility appeared lethargic during a visit Jan. 28 by members of Congress, who demanded the family’s immediate release and an end to the use of family detention.

Liam Conejo Ramos, a Columbia Heights preschooler, was taken by federal agents Jan. 20 along with his ...Read more

A lawsuit from the state of Minnesota that aims to hold the oil industry accountable for allegedly misleading the public about climate change can move forward, a state appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling inches the case closer to trial after nearly six years of legal challenges.

The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling, denying a motion...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved $8.75 million Wednesday to address the ongoing Tijuana River pollution crisis through health studies, infrastructure improvements and an expanded air purifier program.

The funding package includes $4.75 million for epidemiological studies and a temporary infrastructure...Read more

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem already had weathered missteps in the past year pressing the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policy and changes to federal disaster relief — and then came her response to immigration agents fatally shooting two Minnesotans.

The former South Dakota governor ...Read more

DENVER — At least one of Colorado’s collared wolves roamed widely across southwestern Colorado in the last month, a new map of wolf locations released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows.

One of the state’s 19 collared wolves traveled quickly through a number of watersheds in that region, including near tribal land, according ...Read more

NEW YORK — State prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday pushed to try Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in July, before his federal case gets underway.

In a letter to Justice Gregory Carro, Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann said state prosecutors should get to present their case before President ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Key Republicans in the Trump administration are retreating from their blanket defense of Border Patrol agents who fatally shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on a Minneapolis street, part of a larger effort by the White House to turn down the temperature after the killing provoked widespread outrage.

But it remains unclear whether the...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill barring law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while performing public duties advanced out of the Washington Senate Wednesday, sending one of the session’s most closely watched public safety proposals to the House amid heightened scrutiny of masked federal immigration enforcement.

Substitute Senate...Read more

A West Virginia librarian was arrested for allegedly using social media to recruit someone to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Ripley resident Morgan Leigh Morrow, 39, was taken into custody after she engaged in the “social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump,” the Jackson County Sheriff’s ...Read more

After weeks of the Trump administration verbally hammering Minnesota officials, it looked earlier this week like a détente was in sight over the immigration crackdown during which two citizens have been killed by federal agents.

But now, the bickering is back on.

Earlier this week, amid fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti, President ...Read more

Committees in the Maryland House of Delegates and state Senate have each passed legislation to end local formal agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sending the legislation to the floor of both chambers.

The House Judiciary Committee passed the legislation Wednesday, 12-7, and the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee ...Read more

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Transportation unlawfully withheld nearly $1 billion in electric vehicle infrastructure funding from 20 states and the District of Columbia, siding with a multistate coalition including Maryland.

The states argued the funding freeze violated federal law and jeopardized efforts to build a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s challenge to a judge’s decision ejecting three of the newspaper’s journalists from witnessing an alleged victim testify in Nathan Chasing Horse’s sexual assault trial.

The challenge, filed Tuesday, argued that District Judge Jessica ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A preliminary report from federal investigators provided to members of Congress lays out the timeline of how Alex Pretti was killed by immigration enforcement agents — a deadly interaction that lasted less than five minutes.

A copy of the report, obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune on Tuesday, says two officers — a Border...Read more