RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Donald Trump agreed to a set of commercial agreements with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in what amounts to the largest economic pact ever signed by the two countries, the White House said, hailing a new era in a partnership that had been fraught in recent years.

On the first day of the president’s visit to the ...Read more

Immigration interviews are suddenly moved up, sometimes by phone, or with last-minute notice by letter. People in legal limbo and with deportation orders are caught off guard. They show up thinking it’s just another annual check-in, a routine interview. Instead, they’re arrested and deported within days.

Advocates and immigration attorneys ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams pointed to his dyslexia as the reason he couldn’t unlock his phone for federal investigators who requested access amid a corruption investigation into political contributions to the mayor’s campaign, he said Tuesday.

“Hey, folks, I’m dyslexic. I couldn’t get numbers. That’s a byproduct,” the mayor ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman touted a pledge for $1 trillion in commercial deals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, a staggering figure that doesn’t quite stand up to scrutiny.

“With the help of the people of the Middle East, the people in this room, partners throughout the region, the golden age of ...Read more

A Massachusetts college student died this week after falling from a hotel balcony during a senior class trip in the Bahamas.

Gaurav Jaisingh was with fellow Bentley University students in their room at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort when he fell Sunday night around 10 p.m.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force said he was found unresponsive on a...Read more

WASHINGTON — The California attorney general’s office said Tuesday it will seek a preliminary injunction in its case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, a move that could result in a court order freezing sweeping import duties on worldwide products that have rocked the global economy and U.S. markets since last month.

The...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’ll lift U.S. sanctions against Syria following the toppling of former President Bashar Assad, a boost to the war-ravaged country’s ambitions of rejoining the international community.

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump said in an...Read more

Stanford University students and faculty launched a hunger strike Monday, joining a broader statewide movement calling for universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel in protest of the ongoing war in Gaza.

At least 12 students and three faculty members are participating in the hunger strike, which also calls for local authorities ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Is spray painting graffiti on a Tesla to criticize Elon Musk a valid form of protest — or domestic terrorism?

President Donald Trump and his administration have denounced widespread attacks on Tesla vehicles, charging stations and dealerships.

Musk has faced ire in recent months for his role in the U.S. Department of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Casandra “Cassie” Ventura took the stand as the star witness at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial in New York on Tuesday, relaying horrific beatings she endured by the multimillionaire hip-hop mogul and being forced to participate in dayslong, demoralizing and disgusting sexual performances with male sex ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A plane carrying dozens of South Africans claiming to face anti-white discrimination landed in the United States on Monday. Nine will be resettled in Idaho as refugees, making them some of the only refugees to the state since President Donald Trump ordered pauses in January.

Nearly 50 Afrikaners — a term that refers to South ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to expand the state’s ability to stockpile brand-name drugs to safeguard against potential federal intervention and shortages.

The governor said Tuesday he will propose expanding the California Department of Health Services’ ability to buy brand-name and generic drugs, citing the need to “...Read more

Former President Joe Biden’s regular medical evaluation earlier this month turned up a “small nodule” on his prostate that required he undergo “further evaluation,” according to his spokesperson.

Biden spent Friday night at a hospital in Philadelphia after doctors spotted the nodule during his “routine physical exam” last week, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that an independent outside official will take control of Rikers Island from New York City in a sweeping ruling aimed at fixing years of violence and deteriorating conditions.

In her 77-page ruling, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain didn’t immediately identify the official who will ...Read more

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday put a hold on President Donald Trump’s Justice Department appointees over the gift of a $400 million luxury plane from Qatar that could be used as his Air Force One.

The Brooklyn Democrat slammed as “blatant corruption” the present from the oil-rich Gulf Arab state to Trump, who admits he plans...Read more

WASHINGTON — California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed two lawsuits Tuesday challenging a Trump administration policy that would deny the state billions of dollars in transportation grants unless it follows the administration’s lead on immigration enforcement.

“Let’s be clear about what’s happening here,” Bonta said in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Scientists have released some of the first independent test results confirming that drinking water in fire-affected areas around Altadena and the Pacific Palisades is largely free of harmful contaminants, as an Altadena utility lifted the last “do not drink” notice left in the burn zones.

Researchers with the LA Fire HEALTH...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in for an eight-year term Tuesday morning at the state Capitol, days after her Republican challenger conceded the race — capping a months-long legal battle.

Justice Anita Earls, the only other Democrat on a court controlled by Republicans, administered the oath of ...Read more