DENVER — Colorado lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to expand protections for undocumented immigrants in the state, including by further limiting where federal immigration authorities can operate and how information can be shared with those authorities.

Senate Bill 276’s Democratic sponsors have been drafting the measure for weeks, ...Read more

BOSTON — The federal case against the Turkish Tufts graduate student arrested last month by ICE agents while walking down the sidewalk has been transferred to Vermont from Massachusetts.

Six officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehended Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, as she walked down the street in Somerville at around 5:25 p.m. on...Read more

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing additional counts related to sex trafficking from federal prosecutors, according to a superseding indictment filed this week.

Combs was hit with a three-count indictment in September that accused him of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.

On Thursday, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was quiet at the Bristol SEPTA station the day after three family members were killed after being struck by an Amtrak train Thursday evening, with passengers calmly boarding cars heading toward Philadelphia and the Bucks County community mourning the deaths.

There were no obvious signs of the Thursday night tragedy that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fresh off of announcing he’ll seek reelection as an independent, Mayor Eric Adams assailed Democrats on Friday for not focusing on “items that are crucial to working class people” like affordability — but he stayed clear of criticizing President Donald Trump’s hardline tariff policy, which is driving up prices on various ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A second day of market devastation shook Washington on Friday, prompting a small but influential group of Republican senators to partner with Democrats in a nascent effort to wrest back control over tariff policy from President Donald Trump.

The policy, announced by Trump on Wednesday, would levy steep tariffs on nearly every ...Read more

As President Donald Trump launches a global trade war by imposing sweeping double-digit tariffs on major trading partners, Caribbean governments are trying to understand what it means for their already vulnerable economies, while bracing themselves for the ripple effects.

“We need to work these things out,” Trinidad and Tobago Prime ...Read more

NEW YORK — Embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with two new criminal counts in his sweeping sex trafficking and RICO case Friday, including allegations he brutalized women as recently as 2024.

The superseding indictment filed in Manhattan federal court includes a new Mann Act count related to one of the victims in the case....Read more

SAN DIEGO — Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in San Diego are facing federal charges for allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to allow vehicles carrying undocumented migrants to pass unchecked through their inspection lanes at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, according to a criminal complaint unsealed ...Read more

NEW YORK — A two-stop ride on the B train Friday wasn’t enough to change the mind of Sean Duffy, the head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation, about how dirty and dangerous he thinks the New York City subway system is.

“We’re not where this needs to be,” Duffy said of the subway’s cleanliness and safety after ...Read more

In a dramatic turn of events, former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli finds himself caught in a high-stakes diplomatic standoff after his safe-passage permit that would have allowed him to leave for Nicaragua expired Thursday at midnight, leaving him stranded in a legal and political limbo.

Despite receiving all necessary documentation ...Read more

Legislators on both sides of the aisle outraged over drastic cuts to the agency that oversees the World Trade Center Health Program have fired off a letter to President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. demanding the pivotal services be restored.

In their letter, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Senate ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill earlier this week that would compel district attorneys around the commonwealth to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they encounter a criminal who’s in the country illegally.

The legislation passed 31-18 with all Republicans present and four Democrats signing on.

The bill...Read more

With a deadline to sell itself or be banned in the United States just hours away, TikTok got another last-minute reprieve from President Donald Trump on Friday.

"My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "The Deal requires more work to ensure all ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey made history on April 1, 2025, when he stood on the Senate floor and spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, delivering the longest floor speech in the history of the U.S. Senate.

Booker’s speech detailed his concerns about President Donald Trump’s new executive orders, other policies ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday asked world leaders to spare California from levying retaliatory taxes on goods imported from the Golden State, invoking its economic power as the world’s fifth largest economy.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” Newsom said in a video, referring to the president’s new �...Read more

MIAMI — Wealthy Miami Beach twins and a friend ensnared in a widely watched sex crimes scandal asked the court this week to charge the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and its lead prosecutor with criminal contempt for willfully withholding evidence.

Attorneys for business moguls Oren and Alon Alexander and friend Ohad Fisherman have ...Read more

DETROIT — The aftershocks from President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs have reverberated around the globe as trade partners unveiled retaliatory tariffs, stock market indices plunged and automakers announced plant shutdowns and other production changes.

Tariffs of 25% on vehicles imported into the United States began being collected ...Read more

MIAMI — The mayor of Miami-Dade County is asking the Trump administration to let South Florida officials visit the Krome Detention Center, after the Miami Herald and other outlets reported that immigrants are being housed at the facility in overcrowded and unsafe conditions.

“Some of the immigrants now being held in federal facilities, ...Read more