Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the idea of immigration cuts or tighter border checks, even as electoral polls show a surge in support for the country’s hard-right One Nation Party.

“We have tight checks,” Labor leader Albanese said in an interview with Sky News aired on Sunday, when asked if he planned to harden ...Read more

DETROIT — Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the Ambassador Bridge, gave $1 million to a political action committee that supports Republican President Donald Trump less than a month before Trump threatened to block the opening of a new, competing span between Detroit and Canada.

The $1 million receipt for the super PAC MAGA Inc. was revealed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marylanders have for months faced high grocery prices and rising energy bills. Polls show affordability is a major issue. But lawmakers in Annapolis have focused on a more divisive topic: immigration.

While the state legislature has been slow to address cost concerns, they moved quickly to act against the U.S. Immigration and ...Read more

MIAMI — From the moment Philippe Bien-Aime stepped foot in the United States on July 25, 1995, immigration authorities, say the Haitian native has been living a lie.

The former mayor of North Miami arrived in the U.S. with his photo on someone else’s passport, authorities say in a federal lawsuit seeking to strip Bien-Aime of his ...Read more

Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” after she said that Democrats would take action against corporations that “take a knee” to the president.

Rice, who was former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and United Nations ambassador and also served in Joe Biden’s White...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Montgomery County health officials on Saturday warned residents of a possible measles exposure at two locations in the county, after confirming another case of the highly contagious disease.

A person infected with measles visited a car dealership and a convenience store in Royersford and Limerick earlier this week, officials ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At a luncheon this week for L.A. County politicos, Supervisor Kathryn Barger pitched what she framed as a commonsense reform.

Legislators in Sacramento, she argued, need to change a 2019 law that extended the statute of limitations for sex abuse lawsuits, opening the floodgates for decades-old claims that have cost the county ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts AG’s office is representing House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka as they look to dismiss Diana DiZoglio’s lawsuit against them, a move that the state auditor describes as “insanity.”

DiZoglio is speaking out after the Attorney General’s Office wrote letters to the state Supreme ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With costs mounting for alleged sexual misconduct cases, the Los Angeles school board has approved $250 million in bonds — on top of $500 million already authorized less than a year ago — to fund payouts to victims.

The cost of both bond issues, including financing, is expected to be more than $1 billion, based on cost ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Outside a hall where Southern California Edison was celebrating Black History Month on Friday, a group of Altadena residents stood on the sidewalk, waving signs and talking of the homes and family members they lost in last year's Eaton fire.

"They're in there celebrating Black history and they've destroyed a Black town," said ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four people were killed Saturday in a fiery car crash near Long Beach Airport, and police are investigating whether speed played a role.

The National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that investigates significant crashes on highways, railroad lines and commercial airspace, said on X that it is sending its own team...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Lottery is planning to introduce online ticket sales by 2027 as a way to increase revenue for outdoors projects, but critics warn it could be a slippery slope toward legalized internet gambling — similar to playing online slot machines.

A bipartisan group of Colorado legislators on Friday filed a bill to block online ...Read more

The Haitian judge who signed an arrest warrant for President Jovenel Moïse that figured prominently in the late leader’s July 7, 2021, assassination testified Friday that the document was illegal and that he had no authority to remove a sitting head of state.

Jean Roger Noelcius also admitted under oath during a deposition in Miami federal ...Read more

A march in Lyon organized by far-right groups to honor a man beaten to death in a fight went off without violence Saturday after authorities put a massive police presence on the streets.

About 3,200 people turned out for the rally and march, local media reported, citing estimates from the prefecture of the region. The event paid homage to 23-...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The four remaining bodies of the nine skiers killed in Tuesday’s avalanche were retrieved Saturday morning, after five others were recovered Friday.

Authorities confirmed the identities of all the victims Saturday afternoon.

On Saturday morning, a U.S. Army California National Guard Blackhawk med-evac helicopter took off...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds gathered in Minneapolis’ Whittier Park on Saturday, Feb. 21, to mark the month that has passed since Alex Pretti was shot by immigration agents.

On a sunny day with temperatures in the teens, organizers handed out signs at 11 a.m. and led chants through megaphones. The crowd also honored Renee Good, who was shot and ...Read more

Conan O’Brien, whose holiday party was reportedly the site of several confrontations involving Nick Reiner in the hours before police say he murdered his parents, has broken his silence more than two months after the brutal slayings.

Nick, 32, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbings of his father, director Rob...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it’s helping the District of Columbia clean up and make repairs after a section of sewer line collapsed last month, leading to a massive discharge of raw sewage into the Potomac River.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency over the collapse on Wednesday ...Read more

CHICAGO — Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was to admit a truth he had been trying to deny, that he had taken part in the melee that broke out two months earlier in the stands at a high school ...Read more

Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation Friday night that approves the proposed congressional redistricting map, her staff confirmed Saturday.

The map was attached to the budget bill, known as the “caboose bill,” that amends the existing budget through the end of fiscal 2026 in July. The Senate amended the map Thursday, and the House ...Read more