BOSTON — Canton says it placed ex-cop Sean Goode on leave upon hearing of his alleged involvement in vile and racist text message exchanges but that it “did not and still does not” have a copy of the messages.

“Claims that the Town knowingly ignored misconduct or failed to take these allegations seriously are inconsistent with the ...Read more

The United States and Iran remained at loggerheads over any potential truce heading into the weekend, with the conflict nearing the 100-day mark and Tehran saying that it and Oman have sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

Following skirmishes overnight between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon, Iran continued to insist on a ceasefire ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won’t say how much he’s spent to carry out his vision for state-run immigration detention centers, but his office has signed at least 55 contracts worth $1 billion over the past year for the effort, a Miami Herald analysis found.

The vast majority of those contracts were for building and maintaining the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge dismissed a murder indictment Friday against a former Los Angeles police officer in the 2015 killing of an unarmed homeless man.

Judge Ronald S. Coen said prosecutors failed to meet the standards for a murder charge and failed to present exculpatory evidence to the 2024 grand jury that ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The sailor accused of killing Angelina Resendiz appeared in court for the final time Friday before he pleads guilty next week.

The accused, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jermiah Copeland, is expected on Monday to plead guilty in a Navy court to killing Resendiz, as well as to other counts related to assaults on four other women ...Read more

Astronauts are sheltering on board a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon as cracks in need of repair got worse on the International Space Station on Friday, according to NASA.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has opted to try to repair to the worsening leaks on its Zvezda service module tunnel, which “has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and...Read more

An overloaded boat carrying 240 Haitian migrants was interdicted near the Turks and Caicos Islands on Sunday as Haiti’s humanitarian crisis deepens amid escalating gang violence and continued forced deportations from neighboring countries.

The small vessel was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine ...Read more

DETROIT — A man from Honolulu faces federal charges for threatening to attack the state Capitol and kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, along with "as many people as possible," officials said.

Ronald Saville was charged Monday with sending threats by interstate communication, according to Ken Sorenson, U.S. Attorney for the District of ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A 57-year-old man has been arrested for stalking and threatening South Carolina state Rep. Seth Rose and his family.

The man, Dewayne Simmons, of Blythewood, is being held at Richland County’s Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on Bluff Road. His alleged motive not known.

Rose and his family, which includes three children, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — High school students in the Davis Joint Unified School District could be required to keep their cellphones put away throughout the school day next year under a proposed new policy that district staff presented to the school board Thursday.

The “away for the day” policy extends the district’s cellphone ban to lunch ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS - People who own property near George Floyd Square are upset that the city notified them they are picking up part of the tab for an overhaul of streets and infrastructure in a part of Minneapolis drastically altered by what happened there in 2020.

City leaders have debated for the past six years how to manage, renovate and ...Read more

CHICAGO — A nearly $56 billion state spending plan is headed to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk after the Democratic-controlled Illinois legislature approved it in the early-morning hours of another overtime spring session.

The Democratic governor called the budget package one that would make “people-first investments while maintaining our ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – U.S. Sen. Tina Smith took to the Senate floor this week to take a final stand against additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, even though she knew her opposition was likely to be in vain.

It had been months since the Department of Homeland Security shut down while Senate Democrats ...Read more

Texting while driving. Bullying people on social media. Buying into the latest conspiracy theory. Passing off AI-generated work as your own.

That may seem like a random list of 21st-century vices. But I’d argue they’re all examples of the loss of one particular virtue: sophrosyne.

An ancient Greek concept, sophrosyne – ...Read more

In May 2026, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration filed suit against Character Technologies Inc., the company behind the popular chatbot platform Character.AI. A state investigation found that a chatbot character named “Emilie” claimed to have a medical degree, seven years of practice and a Pennsylvania medical license – ...Read more

The state of New York could meet its goal of building 46 gigawatts of large-scale solar by midcentury, but not without making difficult choices in how land is used across the state.

That’s the overall finding of an analysis several colleagues and I have made in that state. It’s an issue that other states, and the U.S. as a whole, ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran have made little progress in talks over an interim peace deal this week, with the sides seeing their worst clashes since an April ceasefire began and fighting continuing in Lebanon.

Skirmishes continued overnight between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon after the Iran-backed group rejected a U.S.-brokered proposal ...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, marking his inaugural overseas trip of the year after recently hosting Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Beijing.

Xi will travel to Pyongyang for the first time since 2019 from June 8-9 at the invitation of Kim Jong Un, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday...Read more