WASHINGTON — “Abolish ICE.” Democratic lawmakers and candidates for office around the country increasingly are returning to the phrase, popularized during the first Trump administration, as they react to this…
Read more ‘Abolish ICE’ messaging is back. Is it any more likely this time?WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Trump’s second term with a record of rulings that gave him…
Read more The Supreme Court broadly expanded Trump’s power in 2025, with key exceptionsCalifornia joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia on Monday in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from being defunded…
Read more California, other states file suit to prevent shutdown of federal consumer agencyTravelers through some of the busiest U.S. airports can expect to learn Thursday whether they’ll see fewer flights as the government shutdown drags into a second month. The…
Read more FAA readies to list airports getting reduced flights during the government shutdownThe head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday after federal officials began reviewing “serious concerns about his personal conduct,” according to a government…
Read more FDA’s top drug regulator resigns after federal officials probe ‘serious concerns’WASHINGTON — Late last month, an immigrant seeking asylum in the U.S. came across social media posts urging her to pay a new fee imposed by the Trump administration before…
Read more Asylum seekers face deportation over failure to pay new fees — before being notifiedMan taken into custody after driving his car into security gate outside White House, authorities say Updated: 12:48 AM EDT Oct 22, 2025 Editorial Standards ⓘ A man…
Read more Man taken into custody after driving his car into security gate outside White House, authorities sayU.S. congressional lawmakers have failed to agree on a spending package for the new fiscal year, which triggered a federal government shutdown on Wednesday.Many Americans are wondering how…
Read more Can I still get a passport or driver’s license during the government shutdown?Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government…
Read more Government shutdown begins as nation faces new period of uncertaintySenate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near-certain path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday for the first…
Read more Senate adjourns after failed funding votes as government heads for shutdown at midnightGeorge Retes Jr. grew up in Southern California, and when he turned 18, he decided to serve in the U.S. Army, he said, because he wanted to be…
Read more A U.S. veteran spoke out against his wrongful arrest by ICE. Now he’s being accused of assaultThe return of Jimmy Kimmel to ABC’s airwaves flipped the political script, for a time aligning the late-night comedian with several conservative figures who staunchly disagree with federal…
Read more Trump’s attacks on Kimmel and ABC put him at odds with high-profile conservativesImmigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday that a Mexican national and former DACA recipient had died in their custody after being transferred to a local hospital in Victorville.…
Read more Former DACA recipient dies in ICE custody after being hospitalizedIn the push to expand as quickly as possible, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively wooing recruits with experience slapping handcuffs on suspects: sheriff’s deputies, state troopers…
Read more ICE offers big bucks — but California police officers prove tough to poachWASHINGTON — Early in his first term, President Trump held a modest ceremony directing NASA to return humans to the moon for the first time in 50 years. It was…
Read more In a race back to the moon, U.S. and China see a fast-approaching finish lineAbsent a Hail Mary, Glenn County’s only hospital is set to close its doors in October. Tucked between two national forests, the rural county is home to 28,000…
Read more Another California county is losing its only hospital after feds refuse to step inExposing years-old concerns about California’s resilience to wildfires, a government whistleblower and other witnesses in a recent state trial alleged that cleanup operations after some of the largest…
Read more Allegations of mismanagement, overspending in California fire cleanups raised in whistleblower trialThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is urging nicotine pouch manufacturers to use child-resistant packaging on their products. This comes as a rise in nicotine pouch exposure cases…
Read more FDA urges child-resistant packaging for nicotine pouchesThe landscape around immigration is shifting again under the Trump administration.Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released a memo bringing back “neighborhood investigations,” a method once used…
Read more Future of citizenship applications, USCIS reinstates decades-old policy to vet immigrantsBenjamin Guerrero-Cruz’s family was stunned and heartbroken when the 18-year-old was grabbed by immigration agents while walking his dog in Van Nuys just days before he was set…
Read more L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledge