LOS ANGELES — A federal jury this week convicted a man accused of being a member of a white supremacist group on rioting charges, bringing to a close a case that dragged on for seven years.

After a five-day trial, Robert Boman, 31, was convicted on Tuesday of conspiracy to violate the anti-riot act and violating the anti-riot act, charges ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn federal prosecutors announced 25 arrests in a series of crimes behind bars at the troubled MDC Brooklyn federal jail — including a half-dozen men charged in the bloody brawl that left Jam Master Jay’s killer, Karl Jordan, repeatedly stabbed.

Photos released by federal prosecutors show the chaotic Feb. 22 fight in MDC ...Read more

The White House is doubling down on President Donald Trump’s recent claim suggesting the Biden administration spent more than $8 million “making mice transgender.”

The rodent remarks came during the president’s address to Congress on Tuesday, as he highlighted what he called wasteful federal spending uncovered by the Department of ...Read more

Democrats on Thursday rallied behind U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat after a Republican group branded the trailblazing New York lawmaker as an “illegal immigrant.”

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries led a chorus of Democratic outrage over the jab aimed at Espaillat, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is the first member of Congress born in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s interscholastic athletic group’s revised position on transgender athletes is “unnecessary and unlawful,” advocates say.

Several groups, including the Women’s Law Project, Education Law Center, ACLU of Pennsylvania and Planned Parenthood Association of Pennsylvania have signaled they will “work to ...Read more

The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute.

The left-leaning think tank, based in Washington, D.C., used 2023 federal and nonprofit data to compare the monthly cost of infant child care to that of tuition at ...Read more

If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination.

From 2000 to 2020, the number of butterflies fell by 22% across the continental United States. That’s 1 in 5 butterflies lost. The findings are from an analysis just published in the journal Science by the U.S. Geological Survey’s ...Read more

Nine bodies, believed to be the remains of missing students, were discovered dismembered on the side of a Mexican highway earlier this week.

The remains of four women and five men, originally from Tlaxcala, were found in San José Miahuatlán, in the state of Puebla, in an abandoned Volkswagen Vento, according to Central Puebla Irreverente.

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MEXICO CITY — In a dizzying turn, President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. would temporarily reverse the sweeping tariffs it imposed just days ago on most Mexican products.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would delay for one month the imposition of 25% taxes on Mexican imports that fall under a free trade agreement that he...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Authorities have identified three men who died Tuesday after being buried by a massive avalanche during a guided heli-skiing trip in the Chugach Mountains near Girdwood.

The Alaska State Troopers on Thursday said the men were 39-year-old David Linder, of Florida; 39-year-old Charles Eppard, of Montana; and 38-year-old ...Read more

A private company attempted to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looked to follow up Firefly Aerospace’s recent lunar landing success, but this time on the south pole.

The Houston-based company’s Athena lander on the IM-2 mission was targeting a 12:31 p.m, touchdown in a lunar plateau called ...Read more

DENVER — Children who attend Denver’s Place Bridge Academy discovered federal immigration officers with military-style rifles banging at their doors one morning last month as armored vehicles blocked streets. They still went to school, fearful the agents would follow.

They didn’t follow, but the students’ fears did. The next day, two ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom — an outspoken champion of LGBTQ+ rights since he was mayor of San Francisco — publicly criticized the “unfairness” of transgender athletes participating in women’s sports in his new podcast Thursday.

The Democratic governor made the comments during an hourlong interview with ...Read more

MIAMI — A trio of Colombians who pleaded guilty in Miami federal court to drugging and kidnapping two U.S. Army soldiers at a sports bar in Bogotá five years ago face long prison sentences.

On Wednesday, Pedro Jose Silva Ochoa, 47, was sentenced to more than 27 years by a federal judge after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to kidnap...Read more

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the only person charged in the Las Vegas killing of Tupac Shakur, is maintaining his innocence in his first jailhouse interview since he was arrested in September 2023.

The 61-year-old former Crips member, who has also been questioned in relation to the 1997 slaying of Shakur’s East Coast rival Biggie Smalls, spoke ...Read more

MONROE, Mich. — The attorney for a woman accused of drunkenly driving her car through the wall of a Monroe County boat club in April 2024, killing two children and injuring a dozen other people, continued presenting his case Thursday morning with an expert on blood testing.

Marshella Chidester, 67, is charged with second-degree murder charges...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some members of Congress have expressed a mix of frustration, fear and outrage at the recent string of Capitol Hill appearances from figures associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, after a sweeping clemency order from President Donald Trump.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of right-wing anti-government group the Oath...Read more

President Donald Trump was poised Thursday to order the elimination of the federal Department of Education although the move would likely face fierce opposition from Congress and in the courts.

A draft of an executive order reportedly instructs newly confirmed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to take all available steps “permitted by law�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to censure Rep. Al Green for heckling President Donald Trump during the joint address to Congress this week.

After the vote, a group of members gathered around the Texas Democrat on the House floor and sang “We Shall Overcome,” a song long associated with civil rights protests.

The House agreed to ...Read more