SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California banned state officials from making bets on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday.

The executive order, which took effect immediately, bars government appointees and their family members (including spouses and children) and their business partners ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tommy Zeigler — who has been on Florida’s death row for nearly 50 years — is asking an Orange County court to dismiss his convictions in the brutal killings of his wife, parents and customer in his furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975 and grant him a new hearing.

It’s the latest move by Zeigler’s attorneys, who have...Read more

On Feb. 24, The Conversation hosted a webinar titled, “What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements.”

Executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Oliver Kaplan, associate professor at...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Newly released police body camera footage captures in vivid detail the moment when a gunman barricaded in a Burnsville home abruptly ended negotiations to surrender and opened fire on first responders, killing three of them.

The line-of-duty deaths early on a frigid morning two years ago marked the most casualties in a Minnesota...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Secret Service agent has been hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning.

The agent was injured at 8:42 a.m. while traveling in an unmarked Chevrolet SUV near an access point at the airport, the Philadelphia Police Department said. It was not immediately clear what...Read more

During his first Cabinet meeting since launching the U.S. war on Iran, President Donald Trump spent 10 minutes talking about the price of ceremonial White House pens — which he claimed to have brought down, from $1,000 to $5, by switching to his favored Sharpie brand.

Trump was trying to make the point during the Thursday meeting that he’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said.

Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based message, Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20% in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the planning.

The budget request, slated for release next week, reflects President Donald Trump’s policy priorities and acts as a ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD and federal authorities have arrested a man who planned to firebomb the home of Nerdeen Kiswani, the head of one of the city’s most active pro-Palestinian protest groups, the Daily News has learned.

Alexander Heifler was arrested late Thursday after an NYPD undercover cop who learned of the plot befriended him and helped...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Most Idaho legislators agree: Housing in the Gem State is too expensive.

They just don’t see eye-to-eye on what, if anything, state government should do about it.

Twice in 24 hours a closely divided Senate considered a bill aimed at spurring affordable housing through tax breaks, and twice senators voted down, including a ...Read more

The U.S. and Israel exchanged missile fire with Iran as the war across the Middle East approached the one-month mark, with no sign of Tehran accepting U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands for a ceasefire.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the military would escalate its assault on the Islamic Republic in response to the targeting of...Read more

MIAMI – Two U.S. senators are launching an investigation into the controversial Everglades detention center, Alligator Alcatraz. The senators announced Thursday that their inquiry will focus on allegations of torture at the facility.

In a three-page letter addressed to the recently sworn-in Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the second time in recent months, the civilian commission that oversees the LAPD has overruled Chief Jim McDonnell in a police shooting, concluding that officers were in the wrong when they shot at Jillian Lauren, an author and the estranged wife of Weezer bass player Scott Shriner.

McDonnell wrote in a report made public ...Read more

NEW YORK — Following the revelation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement misrepresented its authority to arrest people in immigration court, Congressman Dan Goldman Friday demanded ICE and the Department of Homeland Security provide a full accounting of everyone swept up by the aggressive practice.

​In a letter to federal immigration ...Read more

The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow – is at a virtual standstill. Oil prices have climbed, briefly topping US$119 a barrel.

The largest release of oil from countries’ ...Read more

Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is coming quietly to a close. Her passing marks more than the loss of a scientist – it’s the end of one of the most extraordinary ...Read more

Two months ago, Terez Metry arrived at a Department of Homeland Security office in Nashville with her husband, a U.S. citizen, expecting a routine step in beginning her green card application. The couple had prepared documents for a Form I-130 petition and anticipated an interview about their marriage.

But the appointment took a ...Read more

Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to renew restrictions on its nuclear program.

This is not the first time the United States has bombed Iran during nuclear negotiations.

In June 2025, while its representatives were in...Read more