BOSTON — A judge called in all the attorneys involved in the wrongful death suit against Karen Read to scold them over leaked impounded information on former State Police Trooper Michael Proctor.

Plymouth County Superior Court Judge Mark Gildea held a hearing Wednesday afternoon and ordered all the lawyers involved to submit certifications ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States won’t renew its trade deal with Canada and Mexico, choosing instead to conduct annual reviews of the pact in a decision that risks adding uncertainty for companies producing goods across North America.

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, will remain in force for another decade provided no one country ...Read more

BOSTON — Mayor Michelle Wu has touted Boston as the “safest major city” in America for two years, but the city’s largest police union says the recent spate of violence and attack on cops has it trending more toward Chicago’s lawlessness.

“Safest city in America? Not so much,” the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association posted on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Murders and shootings in the city continue to drop, but rapes are still up halfway through the year, according to statistics.

The NYPD said its continued push to encourage more victims to report what happened to them, coupled with an expanded definition of what constitutes rape, has fueled the increase — up 6% this year through ...Read more

BOSTON — A town manager is shooting down “online trolls” who he says are posting misinformation that his Cape Cod community has banned American flags ahead of the Fourth of July.

Provincetown Town Manager Alex Morse has found himself caught in the middle of a rift between the North Shore town of Newbury and Plum Island residents over a ...Read more

While the LGBTQ+ community and allies celebrated June as Pride month across much of the country, one community in Central California was living in a different reality.

Following a 3-2 vote on June 16 by its Board of Supervisors, Fresno County recognized June as "Traditional Nuclear Family Month," declaring that the nuclear family unit is "God's...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged New Yorkers to stay out of the heat in the coming days as temperatures are expected to rise into the 100s.

Feels-like temperatures could rise as high as 112 degrees in the coming days, the mayor said, and the city is under an extreme heat warning until 9 p.m. on Friday.

The city has taken a slate of ...Read more

MIAMI — After the Texas Board of Education approved Bible passages as required reading for public school students last week, Florida education officials indicated the state could be open to similar policies.

Florida often adopts conservative policies on the heels of the Lone Star State, and the state’s Department of Education indicated it ...Read more

CHICAGO — One day before announcing his retirement, Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Tuesday promoted Antoinette Ursitti, chief of detectives for the Chicago Police Department, to first deputy superintendent.

“During her time as the Chief of the Bureau of Detectives, she has led efforts to strengthen investigations as CPD ...Read more

North Carolina lawmakers took key votes on the long-awaited $34 billion budget Wednesday. Both the House and Senate gave tentative approval to the major spending plan, with final votes set for Thursday.

The bill passed the Senate on a bipartisan 36-13 vote with several Democrats in favor, but two Republicans against it.

In the House, debate ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The homicide rate last year in California dropped to its lowest level on record as overall violent crimes showed a continued decline, keeping the state well below its peak in violence reached more than 30 years ago.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said transparent and accurate statewide crime data released each year...Read more

MIAMI — Almost a year after telling Miami Gardens they would file a class-action whistleblower lawsuit, five Hispanic male police officers have made good on their promise and are suing the city for alleged racial discrimination.

In their lawsuit filed Sunday, the five Miami Gardens police officers, Juan Gonzalez, Christian Vega, Francisco ...Read more

MIAMI — Venezuelan Americans in South Florida urged the Trump administration on Wednesday to intensify efforts to remove the Venezuelan regime from power, arguing that the recent earthquake has made the need for a democratic transition even more urgent.

The disaster, which struck Venezuela’s central and coastal regions with twin quakes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director John Brennan sued the Trump administration, asking a federal judge to ensure government records are preserved in case he’s criminally indicted so he can seek to prove the charges are “vindictive.”

“President Trump has been condemning and calling for Director Brennan’s prosecution for years,” ...Read more

Donald Trump may have taken over events in Washington around the nation’s 250th birthday, but the president is far removed from most activities in the states that have been part of America from the beginning — the 13 original colonies stretching from New Hampshire to Georgia.

Among the thousands of events planned in those states to ...Read more

If you have ever hiked in the high peaks of Colorado, the Wasatch Range in Utah or the Tetons in Wyoming, you’ve almost certainly seen a rock glacier, perhaps without even knowing it.

Rock glaciers are slow-moving masses of rock debris and ice that flow downhill the same way that glaciers do, but they are covered by a thick layer of...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit, the statewide agency that reviewed potential wrongful convictions, has closed, Attorney General Keith Ellison told board members in a letter Wednesday.

Ellison said he chose to wind down the CRU due to budgetary constraints.

“I am very proud of the work our CRU has done, work which has ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear toured flood damage in two Kentucky communities Wednesday, and said he believes the request for financial relief from the federal government to victims to be a “slam dunk.”

Beshear made stops in Cumberland County and Madison County to get a better understanding of how much damage there was from the ...Read more

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said AI data centers must be prohibited from being built in rural neighborhoods.

Speaking Tuesday at a campaign event in Bullard, Texas, Abbott said he has already made it clear that data centers wanting to build in Texas need to bring their own money, power, and water.

“We must prohibit them from building AI data ...Read more