WASHINGTON — University of Virginia President James Ryan said he quit instead of fighting the U.S. government amid a Trump administration probe of the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Battling President Donald Trump would have endangered “hundreds of employees who would lose their jobs, the researchers who would lose ...Read more

As many as 3.4 million Californians could lose their state Medi-Cal health insurance under the budget bill making its way through the U.S. Senate, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.

Newsom said the proposed cuts to health care in the “ one big, beautiful bill,” a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, could force the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Religious leaders and advocates were calling for the removal of Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French in response to a social media post they described as divisive and inflammatory.

French posted a poll Wednesday for his 28,000 followers on X to vote on whether they believed “Jews” or “Muslims” were the “bigger ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Thousands of mourners — including former President Joe Biden, state leaders of both parties and ordinary Minnesotans — streamed through the state Capitol to pay respects to former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, as they lay in state Friday.

The Hortmans were slain on June 14 at their home in Brooklyn...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — As Minnesota House Democratic-Farmer-Labor leader Melissa Hortman lay in state Friday in the state Capitol, her husband, Mark, and their beloved service dog school dropout, Gilbert, rested at her side.

The Hortmans were murdered earlier this month in what officials have described as a politically motivated assassination. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and Congress appear to be on a collision course over a plan to overhaul parts of the Justice Department — and whether the White House or Congress holds the power to make those decisions.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi this week defended the fiscal 2026 budget request at House and Senate appropriations ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he thought a ceasefire in Gaza could be “close,” perhaps in the next week.

“I just spoke with some of the people involved. It’s a terrible situation that’s going,” the president told reporters at the White House on Friday afternoon. “And we think within the next week, we’re going to ...Read more

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda agreed to a U.S.-backed peace deal meant to end years of deadly conflict and promote development in Congo’s volatile eastern region.

Foreign ministers from the two countries signed the accord Friday in the presence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and met with President Donald Trump in the Oval ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Accused political assassin Vance Boelter appeared briefly Friday morning in federal court in St. Paul, where his attorney raised concerns about conditions at the jail where he is being held.

Public defender Manny Atwal said Boelter has remained on suicide watch since his arrest on June 15 and detention at the Sherburne ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday sharply limited the power of federal district judges to issue nationwide orders that block new rules or policies coming from the White House or federal agencies.

The 6-3 ruling was a procedural victory for President Donald Trump and a setback for advocates who seek to block his executive orders in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling curbing the power of judges to block government actions on a nationwide basis has raised questions about whether dozens of orders that have halted President Donald Trump’s policies will stand.

The conservative majority’s ruling Friday came in a fight over Trump’s plan to limit automatic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Veteran Los Angeles political consultant Rick Taylor said he was pulled aside by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents while returning from a trip abroad, asked if he was from California and then separated from his family and put in a holding room with several Latino travelers for nearly an hour.

“I know how the system ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California fire chiefs cautioned Friday that a season of devastating wildfires is all but guaranteed, amid parched conditions following a dry winter.

The warning, delivered at the L.A. County Fire Department's headquarters in East Los Angeles, is a stark reminder of how endless fire season can feel these days.

"We can ...Read more

The Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for over half-a-million Haitians living in the United States has sent shock waves throughout South Florida, the beating heart of the Haitian community in the United States.

Many advocates and experts expected the decision. It comes after Trump moved to end the deportation ...Read more

CHICAGO — In response to reports of Texas officials using automatic license plate reading technology to track a woman who traveled to Illinois for an abortion, Evanston officials passed an ordinance that would limit data sharing in similar cases to protect the privacy of individuals seeking sensitive health care procedures.

The Evanston City...Read more

The Trump administration is putting an end to Haiti’s temporary protected status designation, dealing yet another devastating blow to roughly a half-million Haitian nationals, some of whom have lived in the United States for more than a decade.

The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that conditions in Haiti have improved, and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was ending all trade discussions with Canada in retaliation for the country’s digital services tax and threatened to impose a fresh tariff rate within the next week.

“Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Joe Biden joined Minnesotans by the thousands who paid their respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman at the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, as the couple received one of the state’s highest honors.

Lying in state is a rare honor typically reserved for former governors, U.S. senators and other high-ranking public...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court curtailed the power of district courts to issue “universal injunctions” in a decision Friday in the legal clash over the Trump administration’s push end birthright citizenship.

The 6-3 decision found that most of those those broad orders that stop government actions — and there have been dozens issued ...Read more