California Democratic state lawmakers and advocates are vowing to “fight back” against President Donald Trump’s opening salvo of executive orders on his first day in office, which target immigration, transgender rights and several California environmental policies.

“We’re in for a rough four years,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, ...Read more

India’s government is prepared to work with Donald Trump’s administration to identify and take back all its citizens residing illegally in the U.S., an early signal from New Delhi that it’s willing to comply with the incoming American president and avoid a trade war.

The U.S. has identified some 18,000 illegal Indian migrants to be sent ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The city on Wednesday will officially launch what it is calling a “neighborhood wellness court” in Kensington, an initiative in which police will arrest people who are openly using drugs, issue them summary citations, and then offer addiction treatment and diversionary services before a judge the same day.

Mayor Cherelle L....Read more

Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan was fired on the second day of the Trump administration, an action Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen called “politically motivated.”

A Department of Homeland Security memo said Tuesday that the agency had “relieved Admiral Linda L. Fagan of her duties as Commandant of the United States Coast Guard” and ...Read more

The Trump administration has expanded the authority of immigration agents, allowing them to make arrests at previously protected locations such as schools and churches.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman revoked a directive that restricted agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as Customs and Border ...Read more

Hours into his second presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship despite more than 100 years of legal precedent guaranteeing citizenship to every person born in the country.

Trump’s order Monday declares that future children born to undocumented immigrants will no longer be treated as citizens — a long-...Read more

Alaska legislators on Friday unveiled a second batch of measures that were prefiled ahead of Tuesday's start to the legislative session.

Eighty-one measures were announced last week. A further 20 bills were unveiled Friday — 10 are set to be introduced in the state Senate and 10 in the House.

Reforming Alaska's election system is expected to...Read more

BALTIMORE — State Senate President Bill Ferguson doubled down on his support Monday of the law that could leave Maryland liable for $3.1 billion in settlement payments to survivors of child sexual abuse — despite the state’s massive budget deficit.

“I think that we understood that there could be a cost,” Senate President Bill Ferguson...Read more

The TV viewership for President Trump’s historic second inauguration fell far short of the audience for his first ceremony in 2017 and former President Biden’s 2021 event.

Nielsen data showed Trump’s festivities averaged 24.6 million viewers across 15 networks from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern, a decline of 27% from four years ago. The ...Read more

Seeking to curb fraud in government programs, Minnesota House Republicans unveiled a plan Tuesday to establish a new Office of Inspector General, track whether agencies are implementing audit recommendations and require state employees to report suspected fraud to law enforcement and legislators.

The GOP proposals come as the FBI investigates ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to visit Las Vegas at the end of a trip he will be making to North Carolina, then California, two states devastated by natural disasters, he told reporters Tuesday.

Las Vegas will be his final stop in a whirlwind trip set to begin in North Carolina, which has yet to recover from last year’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump issued a dozen executive orders cracking down on illegal immigration, advocates and a coalition of states led by California are preparing for court battles against an administration that appears to have learned from previous legal missteps made during Trump’s first term.

Among the many ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — In light of the U.S. Border Patrol’s operation in the Central Valley earlier this month, the Consulate of México in Fresno wants to inform immigrants and families of their rights, including the right to “consular notification” if detained by federal immigration enforcement agents.

When foreign nationals are arrested or...Read more

​WASHINGTON — Rep. Elise Stefanik’s Senate confirmation hearing to be the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations went smoothly on Tuesday, a departure from the frequent partisan tussles with Democrats common in her previous post as a top-ranking House Republican.

The Stefanik who appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexico will not object to President Donald Trump’s plan to force asylum-seekers detained at the southwest border to wait in Mexico until their cases are heard in U.S. immigration courts, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday.

Sheinbam did not endorse Trump’s controversial Remain in Mexico policy but said Mexico ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s reversal on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has led to dramatic 180-degree turns from Republican supporters, most prominently by his national security adviser Mike Waltz, a former Florida congressman.

During his first term, Trump initiated an effort to ban TikTok in the United States unless it was sold. But ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ingrid Lewis-Martin told investigators she was innocent and the Department of Correction would “take care” of her after her arrest last month, according to court filings from last month.

“Corrections will take care of me,” Lewis-Martin, former chief adviser to the mayor, told investigators during her arrest processing, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams will appear on far-right pundit Tucker Carlson’s show Tuesday evening despite criticizing Carlson four years ago as someone who “perpetuates racist, anti-immigrant propaganda.”

In a preview of the interview, taped recently at Gracie Mansion, the mayor acknowledged he has recently ruffled the feathers of many ...Read more

President Donald Trump kick-started his second tenure at the White House on Monday with a slew of policies aimed at fundamentally reshaping the United States immigration system. He declared a national emergency in the U.S.-Mexico border, issued limits on birthright citizenship, ended Biden-era parole programs and indefinitely paused refugee ...Read more