MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz woke around 4 a.m. Saturday to a call from his chief of staff, who delivered the news: Two Minnesota lawmakers, including one of the governor’s closest political friends, had been shot in their homes.

The state’s chief executive had little time to process. By 6 a.m., Walz and his team were at a newly formed ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has spent nearly $830 million this fiscal year on the state-run emergency shelter system housing local families and a declining number of migrants from outside of Massachusetts, according to a report released Monday.

The latest data for the emergency assistance program was released as state ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Despite an $85 million city deficit, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s final fiscal 2026 budget found funds for 271 more full-time positions and accounts for some big paydays recently inked by city leaders.

That was part of the criticism leveled against the $4.6 billion plan by District 5 Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, ...Read more

Ideally, Haitians should be preparing to head to the polls to elect a new president —their first since the brazen assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in his bedroom nearly four years ago.

But eight months before the volatile Caribbean nation is supposed to see the February 7, 2026 swearing-in of a new head of state and a new Parliament,...Read more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi disputed President Donald Trump’s claims that trade deals were used to clinch a recent ceasefire with Pakistan, the latest sign of possible strain in the relationship between New Delhi and Washington.

Modi held a 35-minute call with Trump on Tuesday night in the U.S. after the two leaders failed to meet in ...Read more

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said his country won’t surrender to Israel after U.S. President Donald Trump called for the Islamic Republic’s capitulation amid growing speculation that Washington could enter the conflict.

“The Americans should know that the Iranian nation is not one to surrender,” Khamenei said in a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – The alleged assassin was in a hurry.

Federal criminal charges claim that Vance Boelter believed he was at war last weekend in the Twin Cities and he acted as such.

After shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the doorway of their Champlin home in the early hours of Saturday morning, Boelter climbed into his black ...Read more

It started with her neighbor frantically knocking on her front door panicking at the sound of explosions. Then she taped her windows to prevent them from shattering and packed an emergency backpack.

By Tuesday, Neda was on a gridlocked highway, joining thousands of other Tehranis trying to flee the Iranian capital. Their aim was to find ...Read more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi disputed President Donald Trump’s claims that trade deals were used to clinch a recent ceasefire with Pakistan, the latest sign of possible strain in the relationship between New Delhi and Washington.

Modi held a 35-minute call with Trump on Tuesday night in the U.S. after the two leaders failed to meet in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that is installed annually during Pride Month on top of the city's landmark Twin Peaks.

Police arrested the suspect after receiving a report around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday of someone vandalizing portions of the dozens of ...Read more

MIAMI — The Florida Keys is poised to see a flurry of new development — despite warnings that island chain is already overpopulated with worsening traffic and rising flooding risks — thanks to a new bill set to become law at the end of the month.

Senate Bill 180, which primarily focuses on hurricane recovery and emergency response, would ...Read more

NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to collect dirt it places in tubes and leaves on the ground.

Engineers designed Perseverance to be the first step in the agency’s exploration of the Red Planet. In the future, more robotic spacecraft would arrive to sweep up...Read more

Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds the cupboard was left unlocked. They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction.

The irony stung: When Dean was born, he was so weak and floppy he survived only with feeding tubes because he couldn�...Read more

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Outside the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Pennsylvania and Pacific avenues, Benjamin Rojas, 32, described the pride he took in demolishing this 19th-century building.

As lead foreman for S.J. Hauck Construction, Rojas has been part of a planning process that’s taken a year. The Hauck team is stripping the ...Read more

MIAMI — Josefina Muralles works a part-time overnight shift as a receptionist at a Miami Beach condominium so that during the day she can care for her three kids, her aging mother, and her brother, who is paralyzed.

She helps her mother feed, bathe, and give medicine to her adult brother, Rodrigo Muralles, who has epilepsy and became disabled...Read more

ROLLA, Mo. — The immigration officer called on a Tuesday.

He told Willians Alvarenga-Calix that he needed to come check in. It’d be quick, the officer said; he just needed to verify some paperwork.

Now, nearly two weeks later, Alvarenga-Calix is locked up at a county jail here, 100 miles from his home. He was arrested at the immigration ...Read more

As Nevada and its neighbors argue and a deadline looms, the Trump administration has chosen the official who will oversee contentious Colorado River negotiations if approved by the U.S. Senate.

Ted Cooke, who managed the Central Arizona Project from 2015 to 2023, would be the leader of the federal agency that manages water and dams in the West,...Read more

The city of Miami has moved one step closer to postponing the upcoming November election without voter input.

On Tuesday night, the Miami City Commission voted 3-2 in favor of switching the city from odd- to even-year elections, pushing forward a proposal that entails moving the November election to 2026 and giving the city’s current elected ...Read more

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes for the first time this year in the Bay State, according to the Department of Public Health.

The confirmed virus in a mosquito sample collected last week in Shrewsbury is “a little early,” DPH officials said.

“Mid-June is earlier than we typically first find West Nile virus-infected ...Read more