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U.S. National Guard direct Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Los Angeles.

Trump deployment of 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to LA will cost taxpayers $134 million

By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press

Multiple Waymo taxis burn near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night’s immigration raid protest. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

Los Angeles tensions escalate as thousands take to the street to protest Trump’s National Guard deployment

By Jason Dearen, Jaimie Ding, and others

U.S. National Guard are deployed outside the federal prison in downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following a immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Jae Hong)

Trump warns of ‘troops everywhere’ and vows to charge any California officials who obstruct deportations

By Eric Thayer, Jake Offenhartz, and others

Rep. LaMonica McIver, center, demands the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside an ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J

ICE agents arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at detention center protest

By Jake Offenhartz, Claudia Lauer, and others

This 2024 photo provided by John Santoro shows, from left, Dr. Michael Groff, Karenna Groff, Dr. Joy Saini, and James Santoro. (Courtesy John Santoro via AP)

2022 NCAA woman of the year was one of 6 family members killed in small plane crash in upstate New York

By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press

A New York Police Department scuba team looks for debris, Friday, April 11, 2025, where a sightseeing helicopter crashed a day earlier into the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Helicopter sightseeing company whose chopper crash off Manhattan killed 6 is shutting down immediately

By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press

In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)

Turkish doctoral student at Tufts handcuffed and detained by masked DHS agents: ‘It looked like a kidnapping’

By Jake Offenhartz, Kathy McCormack, and others

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 29: Columbia faculty members protect students in the Pro-Palestinian “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in the West Lawn of Columbia University on April 29, 2024 in New York City. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched around the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University as a 2 P.M. deadline to clear the encampment given to students by the university passed. The students were given a suspension warning if they do not meet the deadline. Columbia was the first elite college to erect an encampment in support of Palestine with students demanding that the school divest from Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war, in which more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The Trump administration just gave Columbia University a list of demands it must complete if it wants to reclaim $400 in lost funding

By The Associated Press and Jake Offenhartz

A protester chants during a demonstration in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, Monday, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump warns arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia University will be ‘first of many’ deportations of ‘terrorist sympathizers’

By Jake Offenhartz, Philip Marcelo, and others

FILE – Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

ICE agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests—and say they are revoking his green card

By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press

A Columbia University student walks on campus

Fearing retribution from Trump, Columbia University is cracking down on students who are critical of Israel: ‘It’s operating as a business by protecting its assets’

By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press

FILE – New York City Mayor Eric Adams exits from federal court in New York, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Kena Betancur, File)

NY Gov. Hochul weighs removing NYC Mayor Adams after 4 of his top deputies quit amid DOJ push to end his corruption case

By Jake Offenhartz, Michael R. Sisak, and others

FILE – New York City mayor Eric Adams departs Manhattan federal court after an appearance, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Justice Department orders prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

By Jake Offenhartz, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

A teenage boy with a serious expression

A 15-year-old went to a parade in Brooklyn. Then the NYPD wrongly accused him of a mass shooting, causing death threats and driving the family into hiding

By Jake Offenhartz and The Associated Press

FILE – Former President Donald Trump walks to make comments to members of the media after a jury convicted him of felony crimes for falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election, at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)

Trump set to be sentenced in hush money case after Supreme Court turns down his last minute plea for delay

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, and others