MIAMI — In a first such decision, a Miami federal jury has found that travel booking company Expedia Group owes $29.85 million to a Cuban American family in damages for having promoted and sold bookings to Floridians at hotels in land confiscated by the Cuban government during the early days of Fidel Castro’s revolution.

The case was filed ...Read more

The families of the 2022 fatal shooting at an Uvalde, Texas elementary school have agreed to a settlement with the city ahead of the massacre’s three-year anniversary.

The May 24, 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary left 19 fourth-grade children and two teachers dead, as well as the 18-year-old gunman after law enforcement finally acted to stop ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia Police officer escorted a Dominican national out of Philadelphia’s criminal courthouse and into custody of U.S. immigration authorities last week, shortly after a judge had dismissed all criminal charges against the defendant.

The Defender Association of Philadelphia and other advocates questioned what the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Barrow County residents won’t decide the fate of Colin Gray, the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect. But those up for jury duty in one of Georgia’s other 158 counties may find themselves traveling to the Atlanta exurb for the trial.

Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm is set to decide whether he ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Before it was fired by Florida in 2023, a politically connected Mississippi law firm negotiated a $67 million settlement with the state’s largest Medicaid managed care plan provider that had overcharged for prescription drugs.

But the final settlement, negotiated in-house by state executives after the law firm was fired,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Despite decades of progress in reducing air pollution, Los Angeles is still the nation's smoggiest city, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Assn.

The association's annual "State of the Air" report noted that Los Angeles held on to the infamous title for the 25th time even though the number of unhealthy...Read more

The Justice Department's move last week to fire at least eight immigration judges, including four from California, is raising fears among Democratic leaders, academics and others that the Trump Administration is chipping away at due process protections for immigrants.

"These firings made no sense," said Matt Biggs, president of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to be “very nice” to China in any trade talks and that tariffs will drop if the two countries can reach a deal, a sign he may be backing down from his tough stance on Beijing amid market volatility.

“It will come down substantially but it won’t be zero,” Trump said Tuesday in Washington, following ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Since President Donald Trump took office in January, Head Start centers have been unnerved by an escalating series of threats, including, most recently, total annihilation.

An end to the historic federal early childhood program would leave about 800,000 low-income children across the U.S. without access to child care, medical ...Read more

A former top Maryland federal prosecutor with ties to the Trump administration is one of the attorneys representing Harvard University in its legal battle against the administration after officials froze billions of dollars of the university’s federal funding.

Robert Hur, who was appointed by President Donald Trump as the U.S. Attorney for ...Read more

While the most serious measles epidemic in a decade has led to the deaths of two children and spread to 27 states with no signs of letting up, beliefs about the safety of the measles vaccine and the threat of the disease are sharply polarized, fed by the anti-vaccine views of the country’s seniormost health official.

About two-thirds of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dick Durbin, whose tenure as one of Illinois’ longest serving U.S. senators has also been a testament to the power of seniority in the chamber, announced Wednesday he would not seek a sixth term next year, setting up a scramble among potential successors vying for a politically coveted six-year term.

“The decision of whether to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bill that would add a black box warning to social media home screens moved forward in the California Legislature Tuesday, after emotional testimony from witnesses and Assembly members.

AB 56, authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-Orinda, would show users of all ages a black box warning for 10 seconds when ...Read more

New Jersey's Acting Gov. Tahesha Way declared a state of emergency Wednesday morning in response to an a massive wildfire in Ocean County in a wildlife management area within the state's Pinelands and near the coast.

"Due to its accelerated growth, with an estimated burn of 8,500 acres, threatening more than 1,000 structures, requiring the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two Central Florida men were sentenced to 11 years in prison for trafficking guns, including AK-47 assault rifles, to smuggle out of the country, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

Derick Yamir Perez Diaz, 22, of Orlando, and Ernesto Vazquez, 23, of Kissimmee, were sentenced after pleading guilty to conspiracy ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A federal appeals court ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to partially halt its statewide program that kills off coyotes, mountain lions and other livestock predators until a more thorough environmental review is completed.

Since the 1880s, some version of the USDA’s Wildlife Services program has worked to protect ...Read more

Gunmen killed as many as 26 people in the northern Indian region of Jammu and Kashmir, one of the worst attacks in years on civilians in the region that prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cut short his trip to Saudi Arabia and summon an urgent meeting with his top ministers.

Local officials confirmed at least 16 dead, although people ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. has issued a “very explicit proposal” to Russia and Ukraine on a path forward to a peace deal, adding “it’s time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.”

“The current lines, somewhere close to them is where you’re ultimately, I think, going to draw ...Read more

Gunmen killed as many as 26 people in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, one of the worst attacks in years on civilians in the region that prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cut short his trip to Saudi Arabia and summon an urgent meeting with his top ministers.

Local officials confirmed at least 16 dead, although people familiar with ...Read more