ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Health care advocates are warning that a bill under consideration by Congress could cause two clinics providing abortions and other reproductive health care services in Alaska to close.

Rose O’Hara-Jolley, Alaska director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, said that the budget reconciliation bill adopted by the U....Read more

Rep. Carlos Giménez plans to tour Florida facilities holding immigration detainees following a Miami Herald investigation into harsh conditions and use of force at the Federal Detention Center in Miami.

The federal lawmaker said that he first learned about the reported conditions at FDC Miami when a journalist from the Washington Journal’s C...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Mermaid hasn't turned a profit since Saturday.

The aquatic-themed Little Tokyo bar is typically open daily and a hub for regulars, community events and off-duty workers of the hospitality industry, all bathed in soft blue lighting meant to replicate the ocean's waves. But the Mermaid is closing. Many restaurants and bars in ...Read more

Extreme heat is already killing people this year as Southern Nevada braves its first string of days in triple-digit temperatures.

Heat has been a factor in three deaths so far, according to a Wednesday news release from the Clark County coroner’s office. Helping prevent heat-related death has been a priority of local governments and ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida child welfare authorities turned over a 17-year-old foster child to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, sparking intense criticism that the action could hinder efforts to protect children in the state’s large immigrant communities.

The Honduran teen was removed from his Pensacola foster home Monday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced eight members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, populated mainly by critics of the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine policies or those who don’t specialize in vaccine science.

In a post on...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — José has shuttered his store so many times in the last three months amid rumors that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was poised to strike the venerable Italian Market, he has lost count.

The undocumented 45-year-old business owner, who declined to provide a last name out of fear of deportation, operated out of an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor brought charges against eight people who allegedly attacked police, vandalized buildings and robbed stores during recent protests against immigration sweeps.

At a news conference Wednesday afternoon, District Attorney Nathan Hochman vowed to “fiercely protect people’s rights to ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department is considering changing rules to revoke tax-exempt status for colleges that consider race in student admissions, scholarships and other areas — potentially threatening the financial stability of hundreds of institutions.

The proposals would bar private, nonprofit schools from remaining tax exempt if they favor any...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration cannot for now deport or detain Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian activist being held in a Louisiana detention center, a federal judge in New Jersey ruled Wednesday.

Judge Michael Farbiarz, granted Khalili’s motion for release and said immigration authorities for now ...Read more

BOSTON — Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said the feds are happy to comply with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s executive order that seeks greater transparency around its immigration enforcement, in order to show Wu how her “lack of cooperation hurts” her city.

“We look forward to showing the great work of ICE and the criminal illegal ...Read more

President Trump said Wednesday that Chinese college students, who two weeks ago were threatened with losing their visas to study in the U.S., can stay here as part of a trade deal negotiated with China.

The announcement, though, did little to quell the anxiety and uncertainty brought on by months of the administration targeting international ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he intended to send letters to trading partners in the next one to two weeks setting unilateral tariff rates, ahead of a July 9 deadline to reimpose higher duties on dozens of economies.

“We’re going to be sending letters out in about a week and a half, two weeks, to countries, telling them what ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Roberto Recinos, a 21-year-old downtown Los Angeles resident, works at It's Boba Time right by the Metropolitan Detention Center, where protests have been going on for six days.

Recinos said the demonstrations and curfew had resulted in far less foot traffic in recent days. By 2 p.m, the shop usually would have sold around 120 ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Karen Read’s defense rested its case after calling 11 witnesses, with three of the last four being experts who testified that in their examination a vehicle strike could not have killed John O’Keefe.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, faces charges including second-degree murder in the Jan. 29, 2022, death of O’Keefe, her boyfriend...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers were back in court Wednesday to renew their push to dismiss the New York jury verdict that makes him the only person convicted of a felony to serve as president.

Trump was convicted last year in Manhattan state court of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult ...Read more

BOSTON — Mayoral candidate Josh Kraft criticized the Wu administration’s handling of what he called “deplorable conditions” found by a federal audit of Boston Housing Authority homes Wednesday — to which the Wu campaign responded he should be “ashamed of misleading the public.”

“In February, the federal Department of Housing and...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amid a new curfew and signs that the unrest in downtown Los Angeles was easing, the sweeping federal immigration crackdown that sparked days of protests appeared to be gaining stream across many parts of the region — from suburban retail centers to farmland in Ventura County.

The White House confirmed on Wednesday that 330 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of eighth-graders in freshly ironed button-down shirts and flowing dresses filed into Andrew Carnegie Middle School with their families Tuesday morning in high spirits.

But the graduation festivities at the school in Carson had an ominous undertone, as word had spread ahead of the event that U.S. Immigration and Customs...Read more

CHICAGO — Aldermen took a step Wednesday toward giving themselves the power to ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals from opening in their wards.

The City Council’s License and Consumer Protection Committee advanced the ordinance that would allow aldermen to unilaterally block new short-term rentals one precinct at a time. It could now ...Read more