The Trump administration is nearing a rescue package for Spirit Airlines that could give the U.S. government the option to own as much as 90% of the carrier once it emerges from bankruptcy, according to people familiar with the matter.

The agreement, which has not yet been finalized, would offer as much as $500 million in financing in exchange...Read more

DENVER — Colorado’s wolves roamed a smaller slice of the state in April as spring denning activity began.

All of the wolves tracked by the state remained largely in the northwest quadrant of the state between March 24 and April 21, according to a new map released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

Their territory stretched west from...Read more

NEW YORK — A judge temporarily blocked the city from opening a new intake shelter in the East Village Wednesday after a group of neighborhood residents filed a court challenge over how the Mamdani administration went about closing the existing 30th Street shelter.

The temporary restraining order, issued by Justice Sabrina Kraus, does not mean...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn.— After months of clashes and hours of debate, the state House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Tuesday to ensure the status quo in a state that already has one of the highest vaccination rates in the nation.

Democrats who favored the bill said they were trying to reinforce the status quo at a time when the ...Read more

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer will likely be the next U.S. ambassador to Belize.

Bauer, who served under Gov. Mark Sanford, was appointed by President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday. The nomination needs approval from the U.S. Senate.

President Donald Trump previously nominated Bauer to a diplomatic post at the end of ...Read more

A Florida state college’s plan to build a data center near Lake Okeechobee has stoked fierce pushback from residents and an about-face from the DeSantis administration, which granted $1.5 million in state funds to the project and now says it was deceived. But college leaders say that the conflict is just a misunderstanding.

Indian River State...Read more

Michigan and parts of Wisconsin are in the midst of a historic flooding event in spring 2026. Days of heavy rainfall on top of snow have sent lakes and rivers over their banks and threatened several dams in both states, forcing people to evacuate homes downstream. By April 20, 2026, nearly half of Michigan’s counties were under a state of ...Read more

Washington is buzzing with the possibility that President Donald Trump might name one or more Supreme Court justices before the November midterm elections.

In a conversation with Fox Business TV host Maria Bartiromo on April 15, 2026, Trump discussed the potential retirement of Justice Samuel Alito, 76, the reliably conservative ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices grappled over a president’s power over immigration enforcement Wednesday during oral arguments over a technical challenge to the government’s ability to take away someone’s green card as they enter the country.

Over the course of more than an hour of oral arguments, the justices delved into what ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran are locked in a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz after failing to meet for a fresh round of peace talks, with both sides blocking the waterway to gain leverage during an extended ceasefire.

President Donald Trump said the truce agreed April 7 would stay in place indefinitely while Washington waits for Iran to submit...Read more

A petition signed by prominent media figures, including Dan Rather and Ann Curry, is urging organizers at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner to send a message to President Donald Trump, who plans to attend the annual Washington, D.C., gathering for the first time as the nation’s leader.

“These are not normal times...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. David Scott, a 12-term congressman representing Georgia’s 13th District, has died. He was 80.

Combined with prior stints in the Georgia statehouse, Scott was in public service for over 50 years. He was first elected to the House in 2002 and became the first African American chair of the Agriculture Committee ...Read more

Illinois voters could get a chance this fall to decide whether residents who earn more than $1 million a year should pay more in taxes, as some Democratic lawmakers are trying to convince a supermajority of their colleagues that it will resonate with families squeezed by rising costs.

The millionaire’s tax is one of two proposed ...Read more

NEW YORK — An Earth Day protest outside Trump Tower in Midtown ended in arrests on Wednesday, cops said.

A group of about 35 protestors sat in traffic outside the Fifth Avenue skyscraper near East 56th Street to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies around 12:50 p.m., according to law enforcement.

Video uploaded by APT ...Read more

A jury in Alameda County, California, on Wednesday delivered a $16 million verdict against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, in a key lawsuit that could have far-reaching consequences for hundreds of people claiming decades of abuse by the church’s priests.

The jury ordered the payout to a former Union City altar boy — now a 61-year-...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey continues to push for $1,745 in refunds from the Trump administration for every Massachusetts household while urging businesses to apply for their own federal refunds through a new online portal over what she calls Trump’s “illegal tariffs.”

It’s the latest in a series of attempts by Healey to pass the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The couple at the heart of an embryo mix-up case centering on a Seminole County fertility clinic has identified the genetic parents of their baby girl.

Tiffany Score and Steven Mills of Melbourne said in a statement late Tuesday that the identity of the other couple and other information about their case, which prompted ...Read more

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals slapped down a California law that would have forced immigration agents and other law enforcement officers to display ID while on duty, with a ruling Wednesday finding that the measure “attempts to directly regulate” the federal government.

“(The law) purports to override the federal government’s power ...Read more