BALTIMORE — Attorneys for Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming asked a judge Monday to hold the city in contempt and impose daily fines for failing to restore her office’s access to government records, even as Mayor Brandon Scott said he had directed his team to comply.

The petition escalates a months-long battle over the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The attorneys for Vance Boelter on Monday asked a Hennepin County judge to issue a gag order on state Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, and their daughter, Hope, to prevent them from speaking publicly as his state case on murder and attempted murder charges proceeds.

Public defenders Bryan Leary and Raissa Carpenter filed the...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning and made it to orbit for the first time ever despite losing one of its engines on its trip up to space.

“Insertion. Starship is orbital,” was the callout from mission control during the company’s livestream followed by cheers from employees watching the event.

“Huge ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Multiple people were injured overnight in a shooting at a nightclub in South Carolina, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

At about 1 a.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a call about a shooting at La Rumba, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. That’s a nightclub at 1745 Decker Boulevard, ...Read more

LONDON — President Donald Trump criticized the UK’s move to release on bail five men held over an alleged terror plot against a Royal Air Force base used by the U.S. for strikes against Iran, as British police continue to investigate foreign links to the incident.

“I’m surprised that they released them, I wouldn’t have done that,” ...Read more

Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with Washington and reopen the Strait of Hormuz before the U.S. midterm elections in November, according to people familiar with the matter.

Iran and the U.S. made little progress during talks in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General ...Read more

NEW YORK — A homeless woman savagely beaten to death with a stick in Central Park was once the sad subject of an eye-opening documentary about a gifted artist brought low by a tragic cycle of drugs, prostitution and mental illness.

Nearly two decades before her body was found in a gazebo not far from the Central Park’s popular boathouse ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan-based pastor who led a prayer at Donald Trump's second inauguration is advising people not to cast absentee ballots in the November election and is calling on the Republican president to declare a national emergency to allow for only a single day of voting.

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell made the comments while speaking at ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he does not expect the United States to need military force against Cuba and predicted the two countries would “make a deal,” in comments that came a day after CBS News reported that the Pentagon was laying the groundwork for possible operations on the island.

Asked whether any military action was planned, Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend using Air Force One to buzz the tower at major sporting events after last week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and as the Senate takes a final vote on a college athletics bill the chamber has spent weeks on.

He is slated to emphasize domestic issues as the midterm elections ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department released a final rule Monday that aims to “reset” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s fuel economy standards, rolling back substantial required mileage increases for automakers’ fleets implemented under the Biden administration.

Dubbed “Freedom Means Affordable Cars” by ...Read more

DETROIT — A Warren man died Sunday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle while teaching his daughter how to drive, police said.

In the incident, which happened on Warner Avenue near Stephens Road, a 62-year-old man was showing his 18-year-old daughter how to operate a motor vehicle. During the lesson, the young woman struck her father ...Read more

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. — For Chris Pangerl, Monday, Sept. 28, was his second groundbreaking for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in this bedroom community of Flint.

Pangerl said he attended the old church's first groundbreaking in 1981. He said he "did a lot of growing up" in the building as one of the youths who worshiped...Read more

Tropical Storm Hanna on Monday became the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, but is no threat to land, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. Eastern time advisory, the center of Hanna was located in the central subtropical Atlantic about 870 miles east-northeast of Bermuda moving east at 17 ...Read more

BOSTON — In a new interview, the attorney for the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case called the defendant “demonic,” and said her attorney Kevin Reddington has “lost his mind.”

Edward Paltzik slammed Reddington and defended his client Michael Peguy Desronvil during an interview with Fox New’s Kayleigh McEnany that aired ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man taken into police custody after a 63-year-old woman was found beaten to death in a Central Park gazebo has now been arrested in her murder, police said Monday.

Jonathan Robles, 36, was charged Sunday night with murder and weapons possession for the slaying near the Ramble and Central Park boathouse.

While cops initially said...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Transportation hopes to partially reopen N.C. 12 through the north end of Hatteras Island on Wednesday, helping people trapped since last week’s coastal storm forced the state to close the highway.

NCDOT says it initially plans to allow northbound traffic only on a single lane through the Pea...Read more

Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.

This followed several calls from within the industry itself: Earlier in September, ...Read more

Anyone with ovaries who lives long enough will experience menopause. While menopause is a natural transition in midlife, it can strongly affect a person’s quality of life and their current and future risk of heart disease, osteoporosis and other issues. So you might think that whether someone is experiencing or has gone through menopause ...Read more

When our second child was born, my spouse had several weeks of paternity leave under his parental leave policy at work.

I’m a certified family life educator, and parental leave comes up regularly in my teaching and community work. So I was aware of the benefits his leave could have for our family – in theory.

Still, I ...Read more