TORONTO — The western Canadian province of Alberta will appeal a court ruling that blocks a potential vote on separation from the country, after a judge found the government failed to meet its obligation to consult with Indigenous peoples.

The decision from the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta on Wednesday is a major setback for the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the days after she killed two boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk with her SUV, Rebecca Grossman never admitted culpability in the crash to her lover Scott Erickson, despite testimony from another witness saying she did, the ex-Dodgers pitcher testified from the stand Wednesday.

Erickson, who was driving his AMG Mercedes in ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court sent shock waves across the Palmetto State and beyond Wednesday when it announced it was overturning Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction in the 2021 deaths of his wife, Maggie, and youngest son Paul.

While the S.C. Supreme Court justices, who were unanimous in their ruling, said the ...Read more

Poor weather conditions Wednesday forced another scrub of a launch attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to International Space Station, which will have to wait until at least Friday for a backup attempt that could bring a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

Bad weather had already forced a scrub of a Tuesday attempt called ...Read more

United Launch Alliance is running short on usable hardware this year, having to rely on its dwindling supply of Atlas V rockets while it continues an investigation into what went wrong on the last launch of its successor rocket Vulcan.

Its next two launches will be the final Atlas V rockets set aside for commercial customer Amazon.

The first ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday morning the federal government will withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California.

The announcement came at a news conference about the government’s ongoing efforts to combat what it says is widespread fraud in social services. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prosecutors will move “aggressively” to retry Alex Murdaugh on murder charges by the end of the year, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told a news conference Wednesday.

Wilson and Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor who tried Murdaugh for the murders of his wife, Maggie, and son Paul, addressed the media just...Read more

Days after the state of Florida and federal government engaged in talks to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, officials told vendors the Everglades detention center is closing and detainees are expected to be moved out by early June, according to The New York Times.

The center held about 1,400 detainees and cost more than $1 million a day to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida commencement speaker’s speech praising artificial intelligence was meet with thunderous boos from graduates during a ceremony last week, a sign of how some young people dislike the technology’s encroachment into the workforce.

Gloria Caulfield, an executive from Tavistock Development Company...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — About 30 Minneapolis Fire Department employees, or roughly 7% of the 435-member force, are out on leave due to post-traumatic stress disorder, pushing up overtime costs and stretching resources.

PTSD has been an issue for Minneapolis police officers and firefighters since the 2020 riots over George Floyd’s killing by a police ...Read more

The U.S. State Department reiterated Wednesday that it remains willing to provide $100 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, after senior officials in Havana denied that the island’s government had previously received such an offer.

“Today, the Department of State is publicly restating the United States’ generous offer to provide an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans using platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket won’t be able to cast bets on who will win the governor’s race or how many posts Elon Musk will make on X in a given week for much longer.

A public safety bill that includes a ban on prediction markets is headed to Gov. Tim Walz’s desk. If it’s signed into law, ...Read more

The latest reports from “Little St. Jeff’s,” the notorious Caribbean hideaway of Jeffrey Epstein, are startling.

One recent visitor was allegedly hog-tied naked. Would-be interlopers on jet skis have been chased away. Another, apparently, was bound with duct tape and assaulted in the presence of police officers.

Epstein has been dead for...Read more

MIAMI — A lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court accuses Cuban American influencer and former Miami-Dade Republican mayoral candidate Alexander Otaola of helping publicly expose and defame a minor who had accused one of Otaola’s political allies of unlawful sexual conduct.

The 35-page complaint, filed by Ronaldo Mosqueda Toledo, claims Otaola ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Federal agents on Tuesday were searching the former Everman home of Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, the mother of missing 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez.

FBI agents were seen using excavators to dig up the yard of the property in the 3700 block of Wisteria Drive, and they had multiple canopies set up, according to helicopter ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out the state-run immigrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” last July with all the spectacle of a presidential campaign stop.

But less than a year after its launch, the controversial detention center is winding down operations. State officials have notified private contractors that the facility will ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Gov. Abigail Spanberger intends to veto legislation that would allow public sector employees to collectively bargain. That’s according to state Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, who sponsored the bill in the state Senate.

Virginia has had a long-standing ban on allowing public employees to organize and collectively negotiate ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Planned Parenthood of Michigan is asking Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to use her executive authority to provide a one-time $5 million allocation to its health centers amid a federal funding crunch.

Because of an influx of changes to Medicaid and Title X dollars, the abortion provider is "facing a critical funding gap that...Read more

Voters in The Bahamas have handed Prime Minister Philip Davis and his Progressive Liberal Party a historic second consecutive five-year term in office, while delivering crushing defeats to the country’s national security minister, a former prime minister running as an independent and a one-time NBA champion.

Unofficial results from Tuesday’...Read more