Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at President Donald Trump Tuesday in a mushrooming social media spat after he called her dumb.

“I’m a Bronx girl,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.”

The back-and-forth started over the weekend when the progressive congresswoman ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had plenty of opportunities Tuesday to tell lawmakers definitively the central bank will cut interest rates soon. He didn’t take any of them.

Instead, Powell reiterated his view that policymakers need not rush to adjust policy, a counter to President Donald Trump’s demands and recent statements from Fed ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A panel of Superior Court judges sided with Democratic Gov. Josh Stein on Tuesday in his effort to block a new law limiting his ability to fill vacancies on the state’s appellate courts.

“Plaintiff has demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that the amendments ... are unconstitutional and is entitled to judgment as matter of...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina has its first case of measles this year, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday.

A child from another country where measles has been reported became ill while visiting Forsyth and Guilford counties, according to a news release.

State officials are working with the Forsyth County ...Read more

The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify whether it can proceed with deportations to South Sudan after a Boston-based federal judge continued to block them in what the government calls “unprecedented defiance” of the high court.

The move was foreshadowed Monday night by Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — School funding in Kentucky has not kept pace with inflation in recent years, resulting in an annual statewide shortfall of $1.3 billion, according to new reports from a group of superintendents who lobby for public school funding.

The Council for Better Education, comprising superintendents from across Kentucky, released ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Washington state man facing terrorism charges related to the bombing of the Palm Springs fertility clinic in Palm Springs has died in custody inside a federal detention facility in Los Angeles, officials said.

Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles at ...Read more

The USS Gerald R. Ford shoved away from its moorings at Naval Station Norfolk around 9 a.m. Tuesday. Tugboats slowly pushed the bow of the 1,092-foot aircraft carrier eastward, toward the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and its next missions across the Atlantic Ocean.

The flagship of the Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 12, the Ford will be met at sea...Read more

A New Jersey man is suing Tesla after his parents and teenage sister were killed in a Garden State Parkway crash he blames on a “defective and unreasonably dangerous design.”

According to plaintiff Max Dryerman, the 2024 Model S was equipped with features including forward collision warning, lane departure avoidance and emergency lane ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A day ahead of a confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s choice of former defense attorney Emil Bove for a lifetime spot on a federal appeals court, a former Justice Department attorney said Bove had discussed plans to defy potential court orders that may frustrate the president’s deportation plans.

Bove, who was ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A pair of controversial right-wing advocacy groups are challenging Minnesota lobbying laws that require organizations to disclose spending meant to urge individuals to influence lawmakers, arguing they chill free speech.

Minnesota Right to Life and Minnesota Gun Rights — both run by executive director Ben Dorr — filed a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents arrested an Iranian national with “admitted connection” to Hezbollah in St. Paul over the weekend as part of a sweep of detainments across the country.

Mehran Makari Saheli, 56, was arrested by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with 11 others in nine U.S. cities, the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office has sued a Maryland woman with over 400 unpaid traffic citations in Washington, totaling nearly $170,000 in delinquent fines.

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb wrote in the complaint that Ashley Kibler, a resident of Maryland, accumulated 414 traffic citations ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One over the Atlantic on Tuesday, President Donald Trump turned his attention for a brief moment from the diplomatic victory he had brokered between Israel and Iran to one that has proven far more elusive.

"I'd like to see a deal with Russia," Trump told reporters before arriving in the Netherlands for a NATO ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will offer a voluntary buyout program and implement a hiring freeze for state employees, according to an internal letter from the governor obtained by The Baltimore Sun Tuesday.

In the letter, Moore said the passage of his fiscal year 2026 budget will require the executive branch to make “$121 million in...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, will lie in state on Friday in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda in St. Paul, along with their golden retriever, Gilbert.

Gov. Tim Walz announced on Tuesday that the rotunda will be open from noon to 5 p.m. for the public to pay their respects to the Hortmans, who were ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, will lie in state on Friday in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda in St. Paul, along with their golden retriever, Gilbert.

Gov. Tim Walz announced on Tuesday that the rotunda will be open from noon to 5 p.m. for the public to pay their respects to the Hortmans, who were ...Read more

ATLANTA — Earlier this spring, Dalton residents Jose Arias-Tovar and his teenage daughter, Ximena, were both housed in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the country.

Being reunited with his wife and children wasn’t the only reason Arias-Tovar said he was happy to be released on bond last month. ...Read more

ATLANTA — There’s something in the water — and in the gators.

A University of Georgia ecotoxicology study found there may be elevated levels of mercury in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp.

Researchers from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology and Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant analyzed blood samples of more than 100 ...Read more