ATLANTA — Former prosecutors and legal observers in Georgia are asking questions as they try to make sense of reporting that the Justice Department has sought out travel records from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Several are raising concerns that it could represent political retribution against Willis for her election ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of people gathered across Southern California beaches on Saturday for a "Hold the Line" demonstration, a movement protesting Donald Trump's presidency and promoting Gov. Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50, which calls for redrawing of California congressional districts to give Democrats more voting power.

Early Saturday ...Read more

Denmark registered more drone activity at military sites including its biggest air force base, the latest in a spate of incidents that have raised alert levels in the country.

Drones were observed “at several of Danish Defence facilities last night,” Denmark’s military said in a statement on Saturday. “Several capabilities were deployed...Read more

DENVER — Heading into the next legislative session, state budget writers face an agonizingly familiar problem: How to cut nearly $1 billion in projected spending.

Only now, Democratic leaders warn that federal policy changes are heaping on uncertainty as they prepare to kick over more couch cushions and contemplate new policy changes to close...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been relieved of his duties after he was recorded shoving a hysterical woman onto the floor during a clash inside 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, officials said Friday.

Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the move, saying the conduct seen in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The MTA is revising its fare-hike proposal after weeks of public comment, lowering the price for a week of subway and bus rides.

The new proposal, expected to face a vote by the transit agency’s board next week, would cap the price of unlimited subway and bus rides at $35 over a seven-day period with the OMNY fare-payment system ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — To hear prosecutors tell it, Jose Landa-Rodriguez was public enemy No. 1.

A reputed Mexican Mafia member called "Fox," Landa-Rodriguez was charged in three cases between 2011 and 2018. The allegations included a murder plot, overseeing rackets in the Los Angeles County jails and pursuing an alliance between his U.S. prison gang ...Read more

When Colombia’s outspoken President Gustavo Petro took up a megaphone at a pro-Palestininan rally on the streets of New York to call on U.S. troops to disobey President Donald Trump, he must have anticipated a backlash.

“I ask all the soldiers of the United States not to point your guns at humanity,” Petro declared on the sidelines of the...Read more

Syria issued an arrest warrant for former Syrian President Bashar Assad, paving the way for the circulation of the order to Interpol to allow for international action.

The warrant cites charges including premeditated murder, torture leading to death, and the deprivation of liberty, according to the state-run Sana, and is based on lawsuits ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

MIAMI — A stretch of the Florida coast from Martin County to Volusia County was placed under a tropical storm watch Saturday morning — though the strongest winds of soon-to-be Tropical Storm Imelda were expected to stay well offshore.

The long-term forecast for the system, which reached depression strength and was expected to become a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has launched an investigation into allegations of antisemitism across all 22 campuses of the California State University system, prompting concerns about the chilling of free speech on campus and the violation of staff members’ privacy.

In an email to the CSU community Friday afternoon, Chancellor ...Read more

The family at the center of TLC reality show “Meet the Putmans” was torn apart Saturday after a deadly car crash killed three relatives and left five others hospitalized.

The Putmans announced on Saturday that patriarch Bill “Papa” Putman, his wife Barb, better known as “Neenee,” and Aunt Megan had all died “in a tragic car ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Every morning for the past two months, a husband and wife from Tijuana have started their border commute by inspecting their vehicle. First, the husband checks the trunk, then he checks the underside of their SUV, which is usually parked overnight on the street of their gated neighborhood. At one point, they had browsed Amazon ...Read more

CHICAGO — Following weeks of increasingly tense protests at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in suburban Broadview, village officials on Saturday said ICE was retaliating against the suburb and its residents because the mayor asked the federal agency to stop “making war on my community.”

In a statement ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

At a tense political moment in the wake of conservative lightning rod Charlie Kirk's killing, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum focusing federal law enforcement on disrupting "domestic terrorism."

The memo appeared to focus on political violence. But during a White House signing Thursday, the president and his top advisers...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

“At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Singer D4vd broke his lease to a multimillion-dollar home in the Hollywood Hills and moved out just days after police searched the property in connection to the death of a 15-year-old girl, the owner confirmed to The Times.

Police found the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez on Sept. 8, a day after her birthday, in the trunk of a ...Read more