WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s law banning gender-transition procedures for minors, ruling 6–3 that the statute does not violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause.

A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettuccine alfredo products sold at Kroger and Walmart stores, federal health officials said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Downtown Los Angeles businesses hoped customers would return quickly on Tuesday after Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew she had imposed last week in the wake of vandalism and break-ins during riots against Federal immigration enforcement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider an appeal from First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which wants to block a 2023 subpoena from Democratic New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin seeking information about the crisis pregnancy center's donors, advertisements, and medical personnel. It has not yet been enforced.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The Supreme Court has ordered New York courts to reconsider some of their previous decisions in light of the High Court’s ruling in the Wisconsin Catholic Charities case earlier this month.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another went to the homes of two other legislators on the night of the shootings, intending to inflict more carnage against those on his hit list, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

Flash flooding caused by torrential rains killed five people in northern West Virginia, and rescue crews were searching for three other people who were missing Sunday as authorities assessed damage to roads, bridges, natural gas lines, and other infrastructure.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks, and plazas across the United States on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. Violence broke out between authorities and protesters in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.

BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) — The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, bringing an end to a massive, nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following riots in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police swiftly enforced a downtown curfew, making arrests moments after it took effect, while deploying officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public K-12 schools, universities, and colleges and exposed educators who violate the new rules to discipline and lawsuits.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted Tuesday on federal charges alleging she assaulted and interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center while Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at the facility.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Riots that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Donald Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and Marines have begun to spread across the country, with more planned into the weekend.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another 2,000 National Guard troops, along with 700 Marines, are headed to Los Angeles on orders from President Donald Trump, to protect federal buildings from rioters angry over Trump's stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he planned to file a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump in response to the administration's deployment of the National Guard to confront violent immigration protesters who took to the streets in Los Angeles.

MIAMI (AP) —A new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect Monday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Law enforcement officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday as they gathered downtown. The clashes came on the third day of demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the region.

Two people were killed by falling trees and tens of thousands were left without power as severe storms rolled through the South over the weekend.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives want to keep under wraps in the national archives.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed his administration to investigate Joe Biden’s actions as president, alleging aides masked his predecessor’s “cognitive decline” and casting doubts on the legitimacy of his use of the autopen to sign pardons and other documents.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The number of victims in a Boulder firebombing attack carried out by an illegal immigrant from Egypt on a group demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists has climbed to 15, plus a dog, authorities said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI arrested a Washington state man accused of providing large amounts of chemicals to make explosives for last month’s bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, federal authorities said Wednesday.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The wife and five children of an Egyptian man accused of firebombing an event in Colorado in support of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists were taken into custody Tuesday by U.S. immigration officials and threatened with swift deportation.