WASHINGTON — Two top immigration enforcement officials have been reassigned amid frustrations in the Trump administration about the pace of immigration arrests, according to two officials with knowledge of the […]
North Carolina Democratic activist and onetime US Ambassador Jeanette Hyde has died at age 86
RALEIGH, N.C. — Jeanette Wallace Hyde, a longtime activist and fundraiser in North Carolina and national Democratic politics who served in the 1990s as the U.S. ambassador to several Caribbean […]
Oil and gas advocate named by Trump to lead agency that manages federal lands
BILLINGS, Mont. — President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western […]
Baltimore sues Glock over handguns that can easily be converted to automatic weapons
BALTIMORE — Baltimore is suing gunmaker Glock over design features that allow its handguns to be easily modified to become fully automatic weapons, which enables criminals to inflict more damage […]
White House says judges balking at Trump’s actions are provoking a ‘constitutional crisis’
WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that court rulings going against the Trump administration are coming from “judicial activists” on the bench whose decisions amount to a “constitutional crisis.” […]
North Carolina legislators fleshing out $500M in additional Hurricane Helene relief
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina House members advanced Wednesday a Republican package to boost state recovery funding after Hurricane Helene as committees fleshed out details on how best to spend […]
Alabama governor vows to sign bill that writes definitions of male and female into state law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday gave final approval to legislation that would write definitions of male and female into state law that exclude transgender people from being recognized […]
Attorney for NYC Mayor denies “looming threat” of prosecution after unusual Justice Department order
NEW YORK — A lawyer for New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed confidence Wednesday that the criminal case against the Democrat is dead and buried, even though the Justice […]
Family of Sonya Massey, Black woman shot in home by sheriff’s deputy, accepts $10M settlement
County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by […]
UN rights office estimates up to 1,400 killed in crackdown on protests in Bangladesh
GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last summer in a crackdown on […]