Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting friends.

It was a contrast to how Cole, 18, spent part of the 2024 holiday season. She was in the hospital — a frequent occurrence with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition that damages oxygen-carrying red blood cells ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Witness accounts of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti describe him observing federal law enforcement and helping with traffic in the moments leading up to gunfire in south Minneapolis.

The statements were filed late Jan. 24 alongside an ongoing lawsuit and related petition from attorneys asking an appeals court to reinstate ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Top Los Angeles federal prosecutor Bill Essayli faced blistering criticism from gun rights groups, including the NRA, after he posted on X Saturday about the fatal shooting of a U.S citizen in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers.

Essayli, the first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, wrote: "...Read more

The U.S. has asked Italy to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza as a founding member, people familiar with the matter said, as the Trump administration tries to bolster the credibility of the initiative.

Diplomats made the offer to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office and to Italy’s foreign ministry this week, said the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Saturday morning — a day after hundreds gathered in downtown Los Angeles to protest recent nationwide immigration enforcement — another protest gained momentum.

Even if almost everyone in attendance laid on the ground stock still.

Road safety advocates and others, led by the group Streets Are for Everyone, or SAFE, ...Read more

A sprawling winter storm has grounded more than 14,500 flights around the U.S., halted trains and triggered a grid emergency and knocked out power to thousands, all while threatening to drop a foot of snow on New York City and the rest of the Northeast corridor on Sunday.

As of 5:30 p.m. ET, 14,537 flights across the U.S. were grounded through ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear and some other Kentucky Democrats had strong reactions Saturday to news of another fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis.

“What happened today in Minneapolis is gut-wrenching and unacceptable and has no place in America,” Beshear, who chairs the Democratic Governors Association, said in a joint...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer vowed to block a massive spending package next week unless Republicans strip funding for the Department of Homeland Security, dramatically increasing the risk for a partial U.S. government shutdown.

Schumer’s announcement came on the same day that a Border Patrol agent shot and killed an ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — With frustrating meetings on a near-daily basis, the seven states that share the Colorado River are scrambling to deliver any semblance of an agreement as they gear up for a high-profile discussion with the Trump administration next week.

About 40 million people — and economically vital farms — in the American West rely on the...Read more

SAN DIEGO — On an altar at Carlos Ramirez’s home in southeastern San Diego, a laminated photo of his mother who passed away years ago rests atop a candle, surrounded by idols of Jesus Christ, angels and the Virgin Mary.

Ramirez is in awe of the photo. Two years ago, flood waters swept through his Shelltown neighborhood and others nearby —...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A protester was arrested by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on Friday during a rally against mass deportation in Orlando on Friday, OCSO said. The arrest happened as demonstrators gathered outside the ICE facility on Delegates Drive.

According to the arrest affidavit, Alexis Brianna Clark, 23, allegedly blocked the path ...Read more

A CNN correspondent covering the aftermath of Saturday’s fatal shooting of a demonstrator by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis can be heard coughing and struggling to breathe amid “extremely strong, peppery tear gas” deployed against protesters.

Sara Sidner, reporting live from the streets of Minneapolis, was describing the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified states on Saturday that it would pause public health grants worth about $5 billion, then hours later said it would lift the halt.

The grants were suspended to evaluate whether activities were in “alignment with administration and agency priorities,” according to an email viewed by ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the 37-year-old fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday, was carrying an Sig Sauer 9mm pistol that is widely popular and frequently carried by U.S. military and law enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared photographs of the gun with its slide retracted and sitting on the seat ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Andrew Marshall has ruffled some feathers in his volunteer role caring for Lake Eola’s swans. Now, following the deaths of dozens of those swans over the past month, he’s demanding more be done to protect them.

A petition he started after an avian flu outbreak erupted in late December urges the city to create a full ...Read more

CHICAGO — A day after a Chicago construction worker was acquitted by a federal jury of charges he offered money to kill Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the Department of Homeland Security was hardly in a conciliatory mood.

“This verdict does not change the facts: (Juan) Espinoza Martinez targeted federal law enforcement with violence ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse from south Minneapolis and a U.S. citizen, was fatally shot by federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Pretti is the second Minneapolis resident to be fatally shot by federal agents in January, following Renee Good, also 37, who was shot ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Saturday decried the killing by federal agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA in Minneapolis. Stein called his death “a travesty.”

“The videos coming out of Minnesota are awful, heartbreaking, and infuriating,” Stein said on social media site X.

Video showed agents “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom and other prominent California Democrats called for an end to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents in U.S. cities after an immigration officer fatally shot a man Saturday morning in Minneapolis.

The elected officials also condemned the Trump administration for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said U.S. military forces used a weapon that he referred to as “the discombobulator” during the U.S. operation in Caracas to remove former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power earlier this month.

“The discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said in an interview with ...Read more