DENVER — Immigration agents operating near Vail placed branded ace of spades playing cards — similar to “death cards” left on corpses by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War — in cars left behind after immigrants’ arrests this week, an advocacy group alleged.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating, according to a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop demanding medical records that identify young patients who received gender-affirming care from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, ending a legal standoff with families who sued to block a subpoena that some feared would be used to criminally prosecute the parents of transgender ...Read more

The largest pediatric health care system in California will stop providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth next month amid increasing pressure from the federal government.

Rady Children's Health, encompasses Children's Hospital of Orange County, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and Rady Children's in Riverside County, said ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California said the state is losing more residents than it is attracting from other states. The top reasons? Employment and housing.

PPIC said since 2001, California has lost more residents than it has gained to other states.

“During the height of the pandemic, the flows...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Visitors at Independence National Historical Park strolled through what was left of the President’s House Friday afternoon, some stopping to inspect the blank brick and streaks of glue residue where exhibits about slavery were displayed for 16 years.

That is, until the National Park Service dismantled them a day prior.

At ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Friday filed a federal antitrust suit against the nation's largest oil companies, arguing the businesses had acted as a "cartel" to restrain trade and slow renewable energy competition and growth.

The result, the attorney general argued in a statement, has been "artificially high home ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For some, the removal of exhibits about slavery at the President’s House Site at Independence National Historical Park on Thursday came as a shock.

For John Garrison Marks, a historian and author who writes and researches about America’s early years, it looked like history repeating itself.

In April, Marks will publish his...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles on Friday, hundreds gathered as part of a nationwide protest of ongoing immigration raids that have rattled cities and communities across the country.

Labor organizers, clergy leaders and immigrant rights groups gathered at La Placita Olvera to march down to the federal detention facility where ...Read more

NEW YORK — As Mayor Zohran Mamdani dashed kids’ hopes of a snow day next week, the MTA said it was preparing for potential buildup of snow and ice on aboveground subway lines.

The MTA will work to keep aboveground service on elevated tracks running as long as the third rail is clear and train operators have visibility, transit sources told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Long before and after his return to the White House, President Donald Trump perennially linked Joe Biden with John L. “Jack” Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who brought criminal charges against him.

But when Smith testified publicly for the first time Thursday, it was Democrats who repeatedly raised the issue to...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year, marked a key tool in Republican officials’ yearslong effort to halt abortions. It severely ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials on Friday confirmed the 2005 death of renowned author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson was a result of suicide, almost six months after the state started reviewing the case by request of the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.

State investigators started reviewing the case after Thompson’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Thousands of marchers descended on the National Mall on Friday as some of the nation’s most powerful politicians pledged to take the next steps to ending abortion.

The annual March for Life rally serves as a key jumping point for abortion-related policy announcements from conservatives. But anti-abortion advocates had warned ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and constitutional rights experts expressed outrage after reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had written a memo stating that deportation agents are allowed to enter immigrants' homes — by force, if necessary — without a judicial arrest warrant.

The internal memo authorizes ICE...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota businesses shuttered Friday and crowds hit the streets to protest in bone-chilling temperatures as part of a statewide demonstration to support immigrant communities and demand federal immigration agents leave the state.

An estimated 700 restaurants, shops, museums and entertainment venues closed for the “Day of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The ICE vehicle had barely made it two blocks when something went wrong.

Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a three-row SUV on the afternoon of Jan. 22 in Brooklyn Park, detained by federal immigration agents and heading toward the Whipple Federal Building. The third row had ...Read more

MIAMI — In the dark of night, Quatisha Maycock, 5, was dumped in the Everglades to suffer a grisly fate: death by alligators.

The extent of the brutal injuries that Quatisha suffered were at the center of medical testimony presented in the ongoing death-penalty resentencing of Harrel Braddy, who was convicted almost two decades ago of killing...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The White House posted a digitally altered photo of Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong that depicts her crying as she’s arrested by federal agents in connection with the demonstration at a church service on Jan. 18.

In a previous version of the image posted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — After weeks of minimal public communication, federal officials held their third news conference in a week on Friday, the latest in a series of attempts to elevate their own narrative of the enforcement crackdown in Minnesota.

Officials accused critics of “irresponsible rhetoric,” highlighted arrests of violent offenders and ...Read more