Sen. Andy Kim had been pepper sprayed in Afghanistan and Iraq, but never in the United States – until Monday.

The South Jersey Democrat stood between protesters and federal immigration agents as they clashed outside of Delaney Hall, an immigration detention facility in Newark. He turned away from the agents as they sprayed pepper balls at his...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The long-awaited property tax plan touted by Gov. Ron DeSantis is now in writing — and not only does it drastically cut how much local governments can raise from homeowners, it also ties officials’ hands on how they can spend it.

What concerns some state lawmakers and local officials the most is that it doesn’t ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the idea of putting President Donald Trump’s face on a specially issued $250 bill, a move that is currently barred by U.S. law.

Bessent was pressed on Thursday about a Washington Post report that said Trump administration officials are pushing to have the president’s portrait on ...Read more

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — In his day-to-day, Ross Brockwell works as the operations manager of Chesapeake’s public works department, where he helps oversee the crews responsible for keeping the city’s water, trash, sewer and road maintenance functioning properly.

But for 378 days throughout 2023-24, he was one of four living on Mars.

Brockwell, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Both the California Assembly and their counterparts down the hall in the Senate voted in favor of bills to push back against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda, and the federal agents who enforce it, ahead of a Friday deadline for such measures to cross over to the other chamber.

The Assembly ...Read more

DENVER — College campuses across Colorado will have to provide students access to abortion medication starting next summer, under new legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jared Polis.

Under House Bill 1335, any college or university with a student health center is required to provide access to the two-pill prescription starting Aug. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Josh Shapiro promised to “fix traffic congestion” around the South Philadelphia sports complex, with an almost $30 million infrastructure investment from the state.

Major changes include a new westbound entrance ramp to I-76, artificial intelligence-powered traffic signals, and better signage in the complex. A second ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration has added three new judges to Philadelphia’s immigration court, part of a sweeping and ongoing effort to transform the country’s immigration system and dramatically increase deportations nationwide.

The new members of Philadelphia’s immigration bench started hearing cases this month, the Justice ...Read more

BOSTON — Hantavirus, Ebola, and now mpox.

Yet another virus has caught the attention of public health officials, as mpox (formerly called monkeypox) cases jump in the city.

The Boston Public Health Commission and Massachusetts Department of Public Health are monitoring an uptick in mpox cases in the Hub, while officials urge at-risk ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized.

In December, then-Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara urged citizens to call 911 if they witnessed...Read more

MIAMI — A Cuban Air Force veteran — who was charged in Miami last week along with former President Raul Castro in the 1996 shoot-down of two exile planes — was sentenced to seven months in prison on Thursday for lying on his visa and permanent-residency applications in the United States by omitting his military history.

Luis Raul Gonzalez...Read more

If President Donald Trump were to order military action against Cuba, analysts say the operation would likely unfold not as an invasion but as a race, one measured in minutes rather than weeks.

The opening moves could involve cyberattacks, electronic warfare and elite special operations teams targeting key figures or command sites before much ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday denied an effort to pause President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to restrict mail voting in federal elections, finding that it was too early to say whether anyone has been harmed by the effort.

The opinion and order, from Judge Carl Nichols for the U.S. District Court for the District of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the aftermath of a six-day chemical crisis that displaced tens of thousands of Orange County residents, elected leaders are calling for accountability from the company at the center of the chaos — GKN Aerospace.

On Wednesday, members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors asked the company to provide compensation to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Angel Guzman had been locked up for years, awaiting trial in one of the most grisly gang murder cases in Los Angeles history, when prosecutors say he chose a new tattoo.

The black image, inked across his chest, showed a human heart gripped by long, clawlike fingers.

To federal prosecutors, the tattoo was evidence of the crime ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to meet with the House Oversight Committee on Friday to discuss the Justice Department's investigations into deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and its release of files related to that investigation.

But the circumstances surrounding her meeting with the committee raise ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, a magazine advice columnist who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in a widely-publicized civil lawsuit, according to multiple reports.

According to CNN, The New York Times and other outlets, federal investigators are probing...Read more

ROME — Mayor Brandon Johnson invited Pope Leo XIV to Grant Park next year and delivered him a key to the city during their much-awaited meeting Thursday afternoon in Vatican City, where the son of a pastor and chief executive of the pope’s hometown was surely eager to play up their shared roots.

After emerging from the historic Vatican ...Read more

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya is in talks with the U.S. on Ebola-related health cooperation after media reports that the Trump administration is planning to send Americans exposed to the virus to a quarantine facility in the East African nation being built by the U.S. military.

Any such arrangement would be guided by Kenya’s national laws, public-...Read more