The U.S. Senate has voted to repeal a ban on mining next to northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The vote sidelined a centerpiece strategy for conservationists who had waged a national campaign to put the protection in place and, in recent weeks, to defend it.

President Donald Trump, who campaigned on reinvigorating ...Read more

A Palm Beach County pilot has filed a lawsuit challenging the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

George W. Poncy Jr., of Palm Beach Gardens, has been a Federal Aviation Administration licensed private pilot for nearly two decades, the agency’s records show. He regularly flies in ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating former Rep. Eric Swalwell, a source familiar with the matter confirmed Thursday.

The focus of the inquiry, which was first reported by NOTUS, is unclear. The department did not immediately respond to questions.

Swalwell suspended his campaign for governor on Sunday and resigned from Congress ...Read more

DETROIT — Widespread flooding across Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula has washed out numerous roads, wreaking havoc on county road commissions and local motorists trying to navigate around floodwaters.

South of Traverse City, floodwaters washed away the Beitner Road bridge over the swollen Boardman River. Grand Traverse Road Commission ...Read more

A new study found that fraud risks, weak oversight and the rapid expansion of Massachusetts welfare programs contributed to over $1 billion in SNAP payment errors in just a two-year span and that Medicaid spending now accounts for one out of every four tax dollars spent by Beacon Hill.

The study, entitled “The Welfare State: How Massachusetts...Read more

More than 70 days after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, authorities have announced that they are upping patrols in her Arizona neighborhood in a bid to fend off vloggers and true crime junkies.

Residents complained earlier this week during a recent homeowners’ association meeting for the Catalina Foothills area, where Guthrie was last ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said prospects for a deal with Iran are “looking very good” as the two sides are in discussions to extend a truce ahead of its expiration next week.

“It’s looking very good that we’re going to make a deal with Iran, and it’s going to be a good deal,” Trump told reporters at the White House ...Read more

Governor Josh Stein told north Mecklenburg educators Thursday he’s “hopeful” state lawmakers can pass long-awaited teacher pay raises during the legislative session that begins April 21.

“But, then again, I was hopeful they would pass a budget last year,” he added. “And last year, 49 states passed a budget. North Carolina did not.�...Read more

BOSTON — Four people who testified against Karen Read during her murder trials in the death of Boston police Officer John O’Keefe have filed a defamation suit against the acquitted defendant.

“For years, we have done the right thing by assisting authorities in the hope that John’s family would find justice and peace. As a result, we and...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis woman who was pulled from her vehicle and carried through the street by federal agents after they smashed her window in an incident captured in a viral video has filed a tort claim against the government, alleging the officers used excessive force and violated her constitutional rights.

Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen...Read more

Have you been to a licensed cannabis dispensary lately?

My team and I often visit them in the Greater Lansing area to invite cannabis users to participate in our studies. As soon as we walk in, we are met with a dazzling array of products: high-potency vape cartridges, gourmet gummies, premium marijuana flowers and more.

This ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Town Hall video depicting what a lawsuit says was a pantless Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney with a woman is public record and must be released, a judge has ruled.

The overnight surveillance videos from October 10, 2024, are neither criminal investigative materials nor sensitive public security information, as the town ...Read more

Justin Fairfax, a former Virginia lieutenant governor, fatally shot his wife, Cerina, inside their Annandale home before dying by suicide amid a “messy” divorce, police said.

The deadly violence unfolded early Thursday morning at the Fairfaxes’ residence on the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to take his economic pitch on the road to western U.S. states, as the White House grapples with an increasingly unpopular war with Iran ahead of the November midterm elections.

The president’s trip this week to Nevada and Arizona, two swing states that Trump carried in 2024, reflects a growing ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s job done with Artemis II, as the mobile launcher 1 tower that has sat on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B since the historic moon mission took flight was picked up for a ride back to the garage Thursday to get ready for next year’s Artemis III.

The crawler-transporter 2, which has been hauling NASA’s ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty alleged Thursday that an ICE agent working in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge illegally pointed his gun at two motorists while he was driving to the Whipple Building at the end of his shift in February.

A nationwide warrant has been issued for Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Manslaughter charges were officially dismissed Thursday against two former Torrance police officers charged in the 2018 shooting death of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, a car theft suspect who was holding an air rifle at the time he was killed.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced his intention to drop ...Read more

The Lenawee County man whose wife disappeared at sea while in the Bahamas over Easter weekend has returned to the U.S., according to media reports.

Brian Hooker, 59, of Onsted, was released by the Royal Bahamas Police Force on Monday. He was arrested last week in connection with the disappearance of 56-year-old Lynette Hooker, who went missing ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania will not share disability data with the federal government under a new executive order signed this week by Gov. Josh Shapiro.

Citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to use Medicaid and Medicare data to determine the cause of autism, Shapiro directed Pennsylvania not to ...Read more