NEW YORK — Council member Vickie Paladino has agreed to drop her lawsuit against the New York City Council, which will now end disciplinary proceedings against her — the latest step in an ongoing saga over a series of anti-Muslim tweets posted by the councilmember.

Under the settlement agreement, Paladino must delete the tweets, remove ...Read more

While one school district in Johnson County, Kansas, recently agreed to change its rules around sports participation and bathroom usage in order to conclude a U.S. Department of Education investigation into its policies regarding students’ genders, another refused to sign the agreement — calling the investigation a “sham process” — ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fire broke out on an inactive oil platform along Southern California’s coast early Monday, briefly endangering more than two dozen workers aboard the offshore rig.

Emergency crews were able to safely evacuate the 26 workers on Platform Habitat, an oil rig about eight miles offshore from Carpinteria, though two minor injuries...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a lower court ruling that found Alabama’s congressional map illegally and unconstitutionally discriminated against Black voters, potentially paving the way for the state to adopt a map with one less district where Black voters have an opportunity to influence the result.

The unexplained, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn has signaled his intent to plead guilty this week to a federal charge of attempted enticement of a minor following his arrest last year in an underage prostitution sting.

The change of plea notice for Eichorn was filed in Minnesota U.S. District Court on Monday. The Grand Rapids father...Read more

DENVER — A bill that would regulate AI-powered chatbots cleared the Colorado Senate on Monday, while the legislation faces renewed calls for a veto from a mother whose daughter died by suicide following sexual grooming by one of the chatbots.

House Bill 1263 would require chatbots to announce to users regularly that they operate on artificial...Read more

A federal judge has ordered officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to drop a campaign aimed at getting Meta and Apple to shut down a Chicago-based ICE monitoring page and app, according to court records.

The preliminary injunction order filed last week follows a mid-April ruling from U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate moved a step closer to confirming Kevin Warsh, the nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, with a procedural vote Monday.

The Senate voted 49-44 to invoke cloture on Warsh’s nomination to the Fed board. The chamber will later need to take a distinct vote on his separate nomination as chair. Confirmation to...Read more

ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer encouraged the Michigan Legislature to pass funding for Selfridge Air National Guard Base as the Harrison Township base prepares for a new fighter mission during an event in Macomb County on Monday.

Some lawmakers want to quickly invest $152 million into runway improvements at Selfridge in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved a legislative package to create new restrictions on federal immigration agents, including a ban on face coverings and new options for residents to sue federal agents for violating their rights.

Addressing the effects of the Trump administration’s unprecedented immigration crackdown this ...Read more

BOSTON — An eruption of gunfire in Cambridge locked down Memorial Drive on Monday afternoon, as police investigated an officer-involved shooting.

State Police responded at about 1:20 p.m., according to Massachusetts State Police.

Video obtained by WBZ shows a man holding what appeared to be a gun while standing in the middle of the road, ...Read more

A U.S. citizen who was infected with hantavirus from the Hondius cruise ship is being cared for in a biocontainment unit in Nebraska, U.S. health officials said Monday, while another who developed symptoms despite not testing positive is being treated at Emory University in Atlanta.

Fifteen U.S. citizens who were exposed to the rare disease ...Read more

TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Senate health committee voted Monday to advance legislation that will protect gender-affirming care in the state after other states have sought restrictions, emboldened by President Donald Trump’s administration.

The 5-2 vote came after two hours of emotional testimony from transgender New Jerseyans and allies...Read more

LONDON — Keir Starmer was facing a decision to step down as prime minister as dozens of members of Parliament, including his own home secretary, joined the calls for him to set out a time table for his departure.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who has overseen Starmer’s controversial immigration crackdown, told the prime minister that he ...Read more

MIAMI — Wildfires continued to burn up large areas of Broward and Miami-Dade counties on Monday.

While there have been no reported injuries, the smoke from the fires is reducing visibility on the roads, officials said. Firefighters from several departments, including Miami-Dade and Broward, as well as the Florida Forest Service, battled the ...Read more

A new wave of violence by armed groups fighting for territorial control in Haiti has left at least eight people dead in the Lower Artibonite region north of the capital over the weekend, and forced the evacuation of neighborhoods along with one of the few operational hospitals in Port-au-Prince.

The French medical charity Doctors Without ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is directing local police agencies in Florida to get federal approval before releasing information related to partnership agreements, according to a report by the newsletter Two Can Be True.

The partnerships, known as 287(g) agreements, give law enforcement agencies the ability to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court extended a temporary order that lets medical providers keep dispensing a widely used abortion pill by mail while the justices debate privately how to handle the issue.

The order keeps a pause on a federal appeals court decision that would require patients to visit a provider in person to get a prescription ...Read more