Groups that work with refugees say they worry about a backlash and xenophobia after officials say an Afghan national shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington D.C. apnews.com/article/nati...

BREAKING: Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.

Many immigrants forced to stay locked up, even without a criminal record, are giving up hope and volunteering to leave the U.S. Many have lived in the U.S. for years, or decades, and have been a positive influence on their communities. apnews.com/article/immi...

A coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications. apnews.com/article/immi...

CA Gov. Newsom signs new law prohibiting most law enforcement officers from wearing masks or neck gators while conducting official business -- the first such law in the nation. DHS says it would put officers at risk of doxing. apnews.com/article/cali...

Lawyers for Oregon firefighter detained by Border Patrol while working at WA wildfire are asking a federal judge to order his release from an ICE facility. They say his arrest was illegal. Homeland Security says he wasn't a firefighter - just cutting wood. apnews.com/article/fire...

Four soldiers with an elite special operations unit are dead after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Army officials say the cause is under investigation. apnews.com/article/army...

Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic teen more than a dozen times as he waved a knife inside a fence in his backyard in April will not face criminal charges, according to the state attorney general. apnews.com/article/poli...

Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California, critical of the Trump administration's CDC policies, have formed a West Coast Health Alliance that seeks to provide science-based recommendations on vaccines apnews.com/article/cdc-...

Lawyers for one of the wildland firefighters arrested by Border Patrol are demanding he be released, saying his detention was illegal and that he was on track for a special visa that was still being processed. apnews.com/article/immi...

2 Firefighters battling a blaze on Washington's Olympic Peninsula were arrested by Border Patrol agents during a BLM investigation into 2 Oregon contractors, sparking outrage over the Trump administration's immigration policies. apnews.com/article/immi...

As ICE deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to view and track the planes used to carry shackled migrants across the country and around the world, according to groups monitoring the flights. apnews.com/article/ice-...

I'm thrilled to share that our AP Lethal Restraint project has won a 2025 Edward R. Murrow Award in the category of News Series. apnews.com/projects/inv...

A dozen Democratic members of Congress are suing the Trump administration after being denied access to ICE detention centers and field offices. They say they have a legal right to oversight of these facilities apnews.com/article/ice-...

German biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died on a mountain peak in northern Pakistan after a climbing accident, a government spokesman said Wednesday, and efforts are underway to retrieve her body. apnews.com/article/paki...

The Trump administration is investigating Oregon's transgender policies after a conservative group filed a complaint with the Dept of Education saying the state was violating civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams. apnews.com/article/trum...

Tyler Hassen, the former TX oil executive and DOGE team member, who was named to overhaul the Department of Interior, is leaving the the agency, according to the NYT (citing my AP story) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/c...

The 20 year old who fatally shot two Idaho firefighters and then himself had been turned away from the Army in the previous two years, and left a fire station frustrated and angry the month before after learning that he couldn't just sign up immediately apnews.com/article/fire...

Volunteers have flocked to immigration courts after ICE officers started arresting people who showed up for their hearings. They collect family information, provide safe-keeping for personal belongings and monitor ICE actions. apnews.com/article/immi...

Dept of Homeland Security is defending using ICE agents to arrest people at their immigration court hearings, after advocates sued the agency to stop the practice. HS says they can arrest lawbreakers where they find them, but lawyers say the migrants are following the law apnews.com/article/ice-...

A group of immigrants and advocates have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop ICE agents from arresting people at immigration courts. The arrests are part of an expedited removal process that advocates say violates the immigrants' rights apnews.com/article/immi...

Seventeen immigration court judges were fired in recent days amid a major backlog in cases apnews.com/article/immi...

Homeland Security is fast-tracking immigrants to deportation by dismissing their cases in immigration court, which allows ICE agents to immediately take them into custody. Many don't have lawyers and had filed for asylum, fearing for their safety should they be sent back apnews.com/article/immi...

A Venezuelan man told an immigration judge in Seattle that he would be killed if sent back to his country, a Haitian man made the same plea. Despite their asylum requests, the gov't lawyer dismissed their cases, and they were taken into custody by ICE outside the courtroom apnews.com/article/immi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

A judge has granted an injunction to stop HS Secretary Kristi Noem from killing a collective bargaining agreement for TSA workers saying the move was retaliation against the union "for its unwillingness to acquiesce to the Trump Administration’s assault on federal workers" apnews.com/article/tsa-...

Cities big and small, red and blue reacted to the Trump administration’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions" - some saying they shouldn't be on it and places like Seattle saying "we will not hesitate to protect our people and stand up for our values." apnews.com/article/immi...

A Texas oil executive and DOGE team member is overhauling the federal agency that manages vast tracks of resource-rich public lands, but hasn't been confirmed by the Senate or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest apnews.com/article/hass...

Trump says he is pardoning a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted on bribery charges. He posted on his social media site that Scott Jenkins was dragged through hell by a corrupt Biden DOJ. A jury found him guilty of deputizing several men in exchange for cash payments apnews.com/article/sher...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students, says thousands must transfer.

"In immigration courts from New York to Seattle this week, Homeland Security officials are ramping up enforcement actions in what appears to be a coordinated dragnet testing out new legal levers deployed by President Donald Trump’s administration to carry out mass arrests" apnews.com/article/immi...

AP NewsAlert: US immigration officials appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, attorneys say

People involved in wildland firefighting say federal worker cuts in the Forest Service, National Parks and other public lands are impeding their ability to prepare for what they say could be a “a pretty significant wildland fire season" apnews.com/article/wash...

I'm humbled and thrilled to announce that our AP, three-year project Lethal Restraint is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting! apnews.com/projects/inv...

I'm thrilled to announce news about our 3-year investigation into deaths in police custody: National Headliners Award - Online First Place and BEST IN SHOW “Lethal Restraint” - AP, PBS Frontline, Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism Judges: "The Associated Press hit this out of the park..."

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Employee finds a strange device attached to a wire that snaked across the roof and into a window below. "It didn’t take long for the employee — an IT specialist — to figure out the device was a transceiver that communicates with Elon Musk’s vast and private Starlink satellite network."

A California law firm has notified the City of Pocatello, Idaho of its intention to file a federal wrongful death lawsuit on the behalf of the family of a 17-year-old intellectually disabled boy who was shot multiple times by police apnews.com/article/poli...

A disabled 17-year-old boy who was shot by four southeast Idaho police officers died after being taken off life support. Test had shown no brain activity. An investigation by an independent agency is underway. apnews.com/article/idah...

Workers across the Department of Interior, including National Parks, have been offered buyouts and early retirement. Deadline is today. They were also told that the agency will be doing "reductions in force" or layoffs at some point. apnews.com/article/nati...

The Associated Press wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing the 1st Amendment.

Interior secretary orders the nation’s National Parks to remain open and to provide visitor services amid workforce cuts. apnews.com/article/trum...

Lawmakers in Washington state and Oregon are considering bills that would provide unemployment benefits to striking workers. Supporters say it would level the bargaining table while opponents say businesses shouldn't have to pay striking workers apnews.com/article/stri...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow drops 1,680 in its biggest wipeout since 2020 as fears of fallout from tariffs shake markets and S&P 500 sinks 4.8%.

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US Olympic and Paralympic officials have fired the Paralympic coach the AP reported on in December, along with a Paralympics director who was an official at the Maine Winter Sports Center when he was accused of sexually abusing a young biathlete. apnews.com/article/sexu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge says he will order government agencies to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

State budget shortfalls, federal cuts to the workforce that helps fight wildfires and the tension between the Trump administration and Canada are combining to make planning for the upcoming wildfire season a challenge. apnews.com/article/wild...

Fired federal workers who were offered their jobs back under court order face a variety of scenarios: Some declined fearing another cut; some were immediately placed on administrative leave; some returned -- believing their jobs are important and willing to take the risk. apnews.com/article/trum...