RALEIGH, N.C. — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday rejected an effort to prevent North Carolina’s new Republican-favoring congressional map from taking effect before the midterm elections.

The challengers had claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in the northeastern part of the state for electing a Democrat in 2024.

The ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday rejected an effort to prevent North Carolina’s new Republican-favoring congressional map from taking effect before the midterm elections.

The challengers had claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in the northeastern part of the state for electing a Democrat in 2024.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON —Californians using Obamacare-inspired health care plans and facing huge premium increases at the start of next year got some hope this week that cost-cutting subsidies will continue.

Efforts by Reps. Kevin Kiley, R-Roseville, and Sam Liccardo, D-San Jose, to push for a two-year extension have gotten backing from bipartisan members...Read more

A woman with family ties to the brother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Massachusetts, a Trump administration official confirmed.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who shares an 11-year-old child with Michael Leavitt, is currently being held at an ICE facility in southern ...Read more

CHICAGO — Northwestern University is expected to close a deal “soon” with the Trump administration, potentially restoring $790 million in frozen federal research funding, according to the U.S. Education Department.

The deal could also resolve several government investigations into alleged antisemitism on campus. An agency spokesperson ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County taxpayers may have to pay President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the recently killed 2020 election interference case millions of dollars in legal fees.

Under a state law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year, defendants in dismissed cases in which the prosecutor was disqualified because of improper ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians, adding them to a growing list of immigrant groups seeing their protected status revoked by the Trump administration.

The decision, which becomes effective on Feb. 3, 2026, could affect more than a half million Haitians living in...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two National Guardsmen were shot and killed in downtown Washington, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday.

A suspect is in custody, officials said.

The scene is secured and one person has been arrested, DC Metropolitan Police said in a social media post. Morrisey said the two guardsmen were from his state and ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections says it won’t grant the Trump administration’s request to transfer Tina Peters to the federal prison system, characterizing it in a statement as not fitting with the “standard practice” for moving inmates.

The statement was issued Tuesday night after county clerks and other elected ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County grand jury is hearing evidence related to the death of a teenage girl whose body was discovered stuffed inside the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla earlier this year, two law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times.

The revelation follows the gruesome discovery of the remains of 14-year-old Celeste ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others agreed Wednesday to kill the probe after a Georgia prosecutor said the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case.

In a brief, one-page order, Superior Court Judge Scott ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Make sure to pack some patience in your carry-on.

This Thanksgiving holiday travel period is expected to be the busiest in 15 years, federal officials said, as Americans brush off the recent government shutdown that snarled air travel across the country.

All told, more than 360,000 flights will take to the skies this week ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Indiana state lawmakers will gavel in next month to consider a redistricting measure in response to insistent demands from President Donald Trump, reversing an earlier decision by the state Senate.

The state House will reconvene on Dec. 1 to take up “all legislative business,” including redrawing the state’s congressional ...Read more

A Tampa, Florida, photojournalist was arrested Saturday while covering a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami.

Deputies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrested 30 activists from the Sunrise Movement after the protesters blocked the entrance to the Krome North Service Processing Center, according to a ...Read more

BOSTON — A bill is moving forward at the State House that would establish a special commission to study the feasibility and implementation of reparations payments and to draft a formal apology on behalf of Massachusetts residents for slavery in the United States.

The joint bill (H. 1753), filed by state Rep. Russell Holmes, D-Boston, and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump’s move to end temporary protected status for Somalis came just days after a conservative website claimed that fraudsters who bilked Minnesota government programs sent stolen money back to Somalia, where it was obtained by the terrorist group al-Shabab.

The report published by City Journal, a conservative...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters are sharply divided along partisan lines over the Trump administration’s immigration raids this year in Los Angeles and across the nation, according to a new poll.

Just over half of the state’s registered voters oppose federal efforts to reduce undocumented immigration, and 61% are against deporting ...Read more