Alaska hit by strong earthquake, tsunami warning canceled
A powerful earthquake shook southern Alaska on Friday morning, buckling roads, disrupting traffic and knocking television stations off the air in its largest city.
N.Y. judge strikes down policy tying funds to immigration compliance
The Trump administration cannot compel states and cities to cooperate with federal immigration authorities as a condition for receiving millions of dollars in federal law enforcement funds, a New York federal judge ruled on Friday.
Hymns then blood: victims testify at Charlottesville rally trial
Before the car hit him, there was an upbeat atmosphere among those protesting a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year, a student has recalled in court.
Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes Alaska: USGS
A magnitude 6.7 quake struck just south of Point MacKenzie, Alaska on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Whitaker alerts U.S. trade regulator to his justice role in fraud query response
Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker responded to a 2017 fraud query from the Federal Trade Commission by noting his new senior level position at the Justice Department and agreeing to be “very helpful,” records released on Friday show.
Trump’s ex-campaign chairman faces March sentencing
U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will tentatively face sentencing on March 5, a federal judge ruled on Friday, after the U.S. special counsel investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia said Manafort …
Trump demand that asylum seekers wait in Mexico may turn on legal clause
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented proposal to keep migrants waiting in Mexico while seeking U.S. asylum will likely face challenges that it endangers refugees and denies them due process, and may be decided by an obscure provision of U.S. imm…
Catholic archdiocese in New Mexico, facing abuse cases, to file for bankruptcy
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will file for bankruptcy protection as it faces litigation arising from accusations of sexual abuse by clergy, its archbishop said on Thursday.
Search for remains in California’s deadliest wildfire officially ends
Three weeks after flames incinerated most of a Northern California town in the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century, the search for more human remains has officially ended with at least 88 people confirmed dead and nearly 200 still listed as missing.
Handful of caravan migrants launch hunger strike at U.S. border
A handful of the thousands of Central American migrants camped out at the U.S.-Mexican border waiting to plead their case for asylum in the United States launched a hunger strike on Thursday to protest the Mexican police blocking their way.
