Brad Brooks

Hurricane Isaias strengthened on Thursday as it barreled ​toward the US Gulf Coast, prompting mandatory evacuations in parts of Florida and emergency declarations in Alabama as forecasters warned of life-threatening storm ‌surges, tornadoes and flooding.

A Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration ​agent in Austin, Texas, was treated at a hospital on Tuesday for paralysis on his ‌left side after he had spent a night in ICE detention with a bullet lodged in his back, according to his lawyer.

More than 15 years after the U.S. Supreme Court reshaped American politics with its Citizens United campaign finance ruling, Montana voters will decide whether to make their state the first in the nation to bar corporations from spending money on ​elections through a ballot initiative.

The body of Nolan Wells, 18, was found on a Mississippi barrier island that he visited over the July 4 weekend with three white friends.

The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved mandated reading lists for public school children that include passages from ​the Bible - the latest effort by leaders there to infuse ‌the education system with conservative and religious ideals.

Democrats are trying to cast Trump as the leader of an administration losing touch with an anxious public as the Iran war pushes the price of gas and other goods higher. These voters in rural Colorado say they're sticking with their man.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of ‌herself in what a trademark attorney said is an attempt to protect her voice and likeness from deepfake videos and audio created by artificial intelligence.

A Colorado appeals court on Thursday overturned the nine-year prison sentence, but not the conviction, given to Tina Peters, a former county ​clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines in her pursuit of claims the 2020 presidential ‌election had been stolen from Donald Trump, as Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed.

Relative calm belies the lasting damage caused by ICE and other federal agents.

A Minnesota prosecutor on Monday said her office is investigating the "potentially ​unlawful behavior" of federal agents during a crackdown earlier this year on undocumented immigrants that met widespread resistance and ‌in which agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens, sparking nationwide outrage.

Investigators are working to determine if criminal negligence played a role in the avalanche that killed at least eight people on a guided backcountry ski trip in California, but emphasized it is too early to determine if any charges would be warranted, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said on Thursday.

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, which celebrated Latino culture in Spanish, offered an uplifting moment of cultural pride for many Hispanic residents in Aurora, Colorado, where daily life has been reshaped by fears of immigration raids and deportations.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Minneapolis and students across the United States staged walkouts on Friday to demand the withdrawal of federal immigration agents from Minnesota following the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, describing himself as a political "lightning rod," said on Wednesday he would never run for elective office again.

U.S. border czar Tom Homan, newly installed as commander of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, said on Thursday that federal agents would focus on targeted operations, shifting away from the broad street sweeps that have drawn widespread outrage.

President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, met with the Minneapolis mayor and the Minnesota governor on Tuesday in a show of detente, as the White House sought to ease unrest gripping the city after two U.S. citizens were shot dead by federal agents.

People who normally might be organizing parent-teacher association meetings are arranging security patrols at their kids' schools to watch for immigration agents.

Police maintained their distance as the dueling protests played out.

In one panicked call after another, witnesses told police what they had seen.

The Venezuelan man shot by a border patrol agent last week in Portland, Oregon, was charged on Monday with assaulting federal officers, the U.S. Justice Department said.