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Democrats pivoted Wednesday from a divisive fight over a border bill to what they label the government’s “willful neglect” and “callous” treatment of thousands of detained migrants, even as President Donald Trump defended Border Patrol agents and said many people being held “are living far better now than where they came from.” Democratic outrage was fueled by lawmakers who reported...

Puerto Rico’s Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said President Donald Trump was getting “misleading information” and should stop “with the insults,” hours after Trump told GOP allies at a Capitol Hill meeting Tuesday that the U.S. island territory has gotten too much rebuilding money compared with mainland states like Florida and Texas. Trump’s opposition to further disaster aid for hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico...

Complex agreements among water users in California and Arizona haven’t been signed, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman said. She declared that the states missed her Thursday deadline to complete the work, which could allow the federal government to step in and decide the rules.

Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who hoped to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction. The runoff was rocked by the video, in which Hyde-Smith said of a supporter, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on...

Thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan through southern Mexico resumed their journey toward the United States by hitchhiking and walking along highways on Saturday, after a governor reneged on a brief offer to provide dozens of buses to take them to Mexico City more quickly. Gov. Miguel Angel Yunes announced Friday evening that authorities in the Gulf...

A federal judge denied the Justice Department’s efforts to halt legal proceedings in a case accusing President Donald Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution — opening the door for Trump’s critics to soon gain access to financial records related to his Washington, D.C., hotel. Trump has been fighting multiple lawsuits that argue that foreign representatives’ spending money at the Trump...

Ian Power was among the first to buy legal recreational marijuana in Canada but he has no plans to smoke it. He plans to frame it. Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday in Newfoundland. Power was first in line at a store in St. John’s, Newfoundland. “I am going to...

On 9/11, Stephen Feuerman saw the World Trade Center aflame through the window of his Empire State Building office and watched, transfixed, as a second fireball burst from the twin towers. He ran through the 78th floor urging everyone to get out, thinking their skyscraper could be next. With transit hubs shut down, he couldn’t get home to his family...

A federal judge is allowing Maryland and the District of Columbia to proceed with their lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of unconstitutionally accepting gifts from foreign and state interests through his Washington hotel. The decision Wednesday clears the way for the plaintiffs to seek financial records from the president’s company. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte rejected...

A private contractor arrested when he showed up for work at the White House Tuesday is accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend last month.

A man wanted on an attempted murder charge was arrested Tuesday morning outside the White House, where he was working as a contractor and had a White House pass, law enforcement officials said.

President Donald Trump and Democratic critics traded outraged, sometimes plainly false accusations about immigration Tuesday as the debate over “lost” children and the practice of separating families caught crossing the border illegally reached a new boiling point. False charges flew on both sides. The White House wrongly blamed Democrats for forcing his administration to separate children from parents. Liberal activists...

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers arrested at least one person in Berkeley this morning in furtherance of an ongoing criminal investigation, authorities said.

Activists want pedestrians crossing into the U.S. to know their rights when it comes to U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees.

Even as investigators struggle to unravel the mystery of what motivated a gunman to open fire on a Las Vegas concert crowd, confusion surrounds the sequence of events in the fatal few minutes of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. On Thursday, the hotel where gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from his high-rise hotel suite disputed the official...

More than a week after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history investigators are stumped about the key question: What led a 64-year-old high-stakes gambler to kill 58 people and wound hundreds of others at a country music concert? It’s an answer they may never find. The FBI and Las Vegas police have sorted through more than a thousand...

The federal agency overseeing President Donald Trump’s lease for a luxury hotel in Washington, D.C., ruled his election as president doesn’t violate the terms of his agreement barring government officials from profiting from the property.

The U.S. and British governments, citing unspecified threats, are barring passengers on some international flights from mostly Middle Eastern and North African countries from bringing laptops, tablets, electronic games and other devices on board in carry-on bags. Passengers flying to the United States from 10 airports in eight countries will be allowed only cellphones and smartphones in the passenger cabins,...

The gunman who killed a federal security officer and wounded three other people during a rampage three years ago at Los Angeles International Airport was sentenced Monday to life in prison, plus 60 years.

As expected, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney charged with a bizarre kidnapping pleaded guilty Thursday to snatching a young woman from her Vallejo home last year.