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MINNEAPOLIS — A majority of the leadership team at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned on Jan. 13 over the direction of the Justice Department under the Trump administration. Among those who resigned was Joe Thompson, the lead federal prosecutor and public voice on uncovering rampant fraud in Minnesota. The departures of several prosecutors stemmed from directives from top federal ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate depictions of them that were generated by artificial intelligence. The bill’s passage comes in the wake of intense criticism of Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, for allowing the Grok AI chatbot to generate sexualized images of real people, including children. The ...

After admitting last week that the Los Angeles Fire Department’s after-action report on the Palisades fire was watered down so as not to reflect poorly on top command staff, Fire Chief Jaime Moore said Monday he does not plan to determine who was responsible. 

The Supreme Court justices sounded ready Tuesday to uphold state laws that forbid transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams for girls. Idaho, West Virginia and 25 other Republican-led states say a student's biological sex at birth should determine who can play on the girls' or boys' teams...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) threatened Tuesday to hold Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after the former president declined to appear before the panel for a closed-door deposition related to its investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Tesla business mogul Elon Musk is seeking custody of his 1-year-old son, Romulus, with conservative influencer and author Ashley St. Clair following her post on social media supporting the transgender community.

The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer calculate the monetary value of saving human lives, among other health impacts, when setting new clean air rules.

The Trump administration is putting pressure on Canada to end a boycott of US-made alcohol that’s hurting distillers. Most Canadians want their governments to hold firm.

Greenland's prime minister said on Tuesday his nation would rather remain part of Denmark than become a territory of the United States, amid President Donald Trump's push to take control of the sprawling Arctic island.

President Donald Trump urged Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting and said help was on the way, without giving details, as Iran's clerical establishment pressed its crackdown against the biggest demonstrations in years.

NEW YORK – New York City nurses walked out of 10 major private hospitals across the city on Monday to demand increased staffing, funding of health benefits and protection from workplace violence often coming from patients.

MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota and Illinois sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday, seeking to block a surge of immigration-enforcement officers into their states, following the fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an ICE officer last week.

WASHINGTON — A compromise fiscal 2026 funding bill released Sunday would provide major increases for federal public defenders as well as a court security account, matching requests from the judiciary in those two areas. Federal public defenders would see a nearly 22% increase in funding under the bill, a proposed figure that comes amid long-running concerns about financial strains imposed on ...

The Venezuelan man shot by a border patrol agent last week in Portland, Oregon, was charged on Monday with assaulting federal officers, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Two online fundraising sites are collecting large amounts of money on behalf of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.

WASHINGTON — After months of pressure from rank-and-file members, a House panel will consider a new Republican-led bill this week that aims to prohibit members of Congress from trading stocks. The bill, unveiled Monday by House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., would ban members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from buying new stocks. But it would allow them to keep ...

Jessica Rader knew she was getting a car. Still, when the keys to a 2007 gold Prius were handed to her, she wept. “It’s not just about the car,” said Rader, 40. “It’s about community.”

Lawyers for the oil giant Chevron and a small Louisiana parish squared off Monday in a case that could have major consequences for how local communities can rectify environmental damage that may have been caused by oil company operations going back decades.