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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...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 ...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 ...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, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former Republican Ryan Crosswell, who resigned his post as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in February in a break with the Trump administration, has announced that he is running for ...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 ...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 ...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 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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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...Read more

Wary of wildfire threats, the U.S. Forest Service is asking as many as 1,400 employees who left the agency in recent months to help fight wildfires this summer.

The request is to employees who resigned amid the Trump ...Read more

The Trump administration is considering withholding federal education funding to California schools over the state’s policies on transgender athletes, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, contending California’...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Four of the six people killed in Sunday’s crash of a small Cessna plane into the ocean off Sunset Cliffs have been identified in a fundraising campaign as members of the same Arizona family.

A verified ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. ordered some staff to depart the embassy in Baghdad and allowed military service members’ families to leave the Middle East, officials said, after Iran threatened to attack U.S. bases if talks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators from both parties denounced Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Wednesday for relying on Republicans’ partisan budget reconciliation bill to meet his spending objectives in fiscal 2026.

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Pleasant Hill, California, technology and staffing company Epik Solutions — a federal contractor certified as a “small disadvantaged business” — has agreed to pay a $72,000 fine after allegedly getting caught ...Read more

Britney Spears has slammed two of her exes as "complete a***holes."

The 43-year-old pop star- who was initially married to childhood friend Jason Alexander for a period of 55 hours in 2004 and was then married to Kevin ...Read more