SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Sacramento leaders consider banning overnight sleeping at City Hall, police have already ramped up enforcement at the property under Mayor Kevin McCarty’s tenure.

In the past seven months, officers issued at least 187 citations to people sitting or lying at City Hall during the day. Only two such citations were ...Read more

French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state builds on international outrage over Israel’s curbs on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, although it’s unlikely to have an immediate impact on the war against Hamas in the territory.

Macron said in a social-media post late Thursday he will announce the change of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump selected Alina Habba to continue running the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey on a temporary basis, the latest twist in a succession drama after federal judges had picked her top assistant to take her place.

Trump chose Habba, his former personal attorney, amid an eventful week in which her 120-day ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two staff members from an Ontario surgery center have been charged with allegedly interfering with U.S. immigration officers trying to detain landscapers who ran into the center to escape.

Jose de Jesus Ortega, a 38-year-old Highland resident, was arrested Friday morning and is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in ...Read more

British actor Micheal Ward, known for the Netflix series "Top Boy" and and most recently Ari Aster's movie "Eddington," is facing charges of allegedly raping and sexually assaulting a woman in the United Kingdom in 2023.

London's Metropolitan Police announced in a Friday statement that prosecutors had charged BAFTA winner Ward, 28, with two ...Read more

President Donald Trump Friday refused to rule out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell as the sex-trafficking accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein met for a second day with a top Justice Department official behind closed doors.

As he left the White House for a trip to Scotland, Trump dodged a reporter’s question about whether he was considering cutting short...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Secretary of State’s office has told the U.S. Department of Justice that it will not share the state’s voter registration list, as the federal government had requested last month.

The DOJ asked Minnesota election officials for voter rolls and other information to show proof it was complying with federal ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — About two weeks after their adult son, Timothy Garlington, died in November 2023, Lawrence and Abbey Butler retrieved his possessions from a North Philadelphia funeral home.

Among his belongings was an unmarked white box encasing a smaller, hard-to-open red box.

The couple drove home and left the box in their car. After a few ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A 9-year-old child died on Thursday evening after an incident at Hershey Park’s waterpark, according to the amusement park’s CEO.

“Tonight, a nine‑year‑old guest was tragically lost at The Boardwalk at Hersheypark. From the moment our lifeguard team recognized that a child was in distress, they performed an immediate ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., — Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that the federal government has begun sending flights in and out of the airstrip that is attached to the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as Alligator Alcatraz.

The governor said the federal government has deported about 100 people who were held at the detention ...Read more

ATLANTA — The FBI had long been watching the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

They bugged his hotel rooms, tracked his movements and scrutinized his relationships — all in the name of what some in the bureau considered national security.

To them, King was more than the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He was, in the words of one top ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration will soon release more than $1 billion in federal grant money for infrastructure projects across Pennsylvania, according to Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who has been pushing for the funding to be released.

The department confirmed Friday that some of the funding has been committed, ...Read more

MIAMI — Julie K. Brown’s 2018 "Perversion of Justice" investigation revealed how the U.S. Justice Department gave the now-deceased sex trafficker the deal of a lifetime and cut his victims out of the process.

That reporting led the Southern District of New York to bring new sex crime charges against Epstein in 2019, but he died in federal ...Read more

MIAMI — With the peak of hurricane season only days away, Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his administration’s lack of a public hurricane evacuation plan for Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention facility in the heart of the Everglades.

In a press conference at the site on Friday, the governor pushed back at criticism that the state was ...Read more

MIAMI — The Mayor of Miami-Dade County is once again demanding access to Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center in the Everglades that was rapidly built on property seized from the county.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s letter to the state, issued Friday, was a stern call for “immediate access and oversight authority” and ...Read more

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels, based in Pensacola, Florida, are being sued for violating constitutional free speech rights after their performances allegedly terrorized a woman’s pet to death.

On Monday, Lauren Ann Lombardi, of Seattle, filed a lawsuit against the governmental agency, according to WEAR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Pensacola.

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