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A federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to restore deportation protections for more than 60,000 Nicaraguans, Hondurans and Nepalis.

U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said the Trump ...Read more

A federal appeals court has temporarily paused enforcement of a San Diego federal judge’s ruling that had cleared the way for school staff to tell parents about possible changes to their child’s gender presentation ...Read more

The federal government has agreed to resume the review process for National Institutes of Health-funded medical and scientific research grants — including those to Washington state universities and institutes — which ...Read more

California wildlife authorities are urging residents of a small Central California town to lock up their pets and secure livestock following a series of mountain lion attacks.

Multiple animals have been killed in the ...Read more

The California High-Speed Rail Authority entered 2025 knowing its federal dollars were at risk as President Donald Trump took office for the second time.

The agency finished the year with $4 billion gone from its federal ...Read more

The Trump administration stepped up a pressure campaign against Venezuela’s oil exports by sanctioning companies based in Hong Kong and mainland China, along with related oil tankers it accused of evading restrictions.

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Political allies of Donald Trump were willing to testify against him in cases brought by the U.S. Justice Department, according to former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Smith said that fellow Republicans were willing to ...Read more

The manager of a Somali-run day care in south Minneapolis burglarized this week called the experience “frightening and exhausting” amid what he sees as unfair targeting of the Somali community by the federal government...Read more

Hundreds of news photographs and social media videos have captured altercations between migrants and masked federal immigration agents, whether it’s outside a courtroom or in a traffic stop.

The videos and photographs ...Read more

A politically charged YouTube video thrust a group of Somali-owned day cares in Minnesota into an uncomfortable spotlight this week, accusing the owners of defrauding the state and unleashing a torrent of threats against ...Read more

With health care subsidies expiring in the new year, Cook County Health officials and political leaders on Wednesday warned the impact will not only hurt millions of Americans but also affect the county’s bottom line and...Read more

A judge has ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to pay $115,220 in attorney's fees to a retired Anchorage lawyer and wildlife advocate who successfully sued the state over a wolf-killing policy on the southern ...Read more

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and attorneys general from North Carolina and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday, alleging the agency unlawfully cut congressionally approved ...Read more

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for canceling $50 million in education grants to 18 Tar Heel school districts, including in Durham and Orange ...Read more

It was just a couple of years ago that the minimum wage landscape in California reached a major milestone — fast food workers would begin earning $20 an hour, a monumental boost in pay over the state’s then hourly rate...Read more

New Jersey’s minimum wage will increase on Thursday.

The new rate of $15.92 an hour is a $0.43 increase from the previous standard, which was set in 2025.

“Eight years ago, Governor Murphy pledged a stronger, fairer ...Read more

California wants to use ChatGPT to make state employees’ daily work easier and more efficient.

That’s the goal of Poppy, a new “digital assistant” powered by ChatGPT and other publicly available generative ...Read more

Mayor Adams vetoed 19 City Council bills late Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to block the measures, which carry significant implications for city policy on immigration, housing, street vending, police accountability and ...Read more

Maryland has secured more than $2.6 million in philanthropic grant funding to launch artificial intelligence tools aimed at streamlining access to public benefits such as food assistance, Medicaid and unemployment services...Read more

Rain was falling over the Southland on Wednesday afternoon as the region headed into the New Year soggy and with the virtual certainty of a wet 2026 Tournament of Roses parade.

Forecasters warned of a "near 100% chance" ...Read more