ORLANDO, Fla.— Florida released its annual A-to-F school report card Monday, but this year bad marks carry no negative consequences for schools because the state transitioned to a new series of standardized exams and could not fully run grade calculations.

School grades, first issued in 1999, are based on student performance on state math and...Read more

ATLANTA — Two retired New York City police officers who detained a woman accused of trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta last week were recognized by their former department over the weekend.

Brothers Kenny and Axel Dodson, who were in town visiting their father, were taking a stroll Thursday evening through ...Read more

ATLANTA — The slow-moving Young Slime Life trial involving Atlanta rapper Young Thug and his alleged associates faced yet another delay Monday after one of the defendants was stabbed over the weekend at Fulton County’s troubled jail.

Shannon Stillwell, also known as Shannon Jackson, was stabbed multiple times Sunday night during a fight ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A drill sergeant at Fort Jackson was found dead at the military base on Friday, the U.S. Army said.

Staff Sgt. Allen M. Burtram, a 34-year-old with 2nd Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment, was identified as the soldier who died, Army officials said in a news release.

Unit members found Burtram’s body shortly after he failed ...Read more

WASHINGTON – Attorneys for two former Fulton County, Georgia, election workers Monday urged a jury to make Rudy Giuliani pay tens of millions of dollars for falsely accusing their clients of voting fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell has already found Giuliani – the former New York city mayor and ...Read more

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and quickly decide former President Donald Trump’s claim that he enjoys blanket immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken while he was in the White House.

The aggressive prosecutor says the conservative-led top court should deliver a timely decision to ...Read more

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Alleged Highland Park parade shooter Robert Crimo III dismissed his attorneys Monday and said he planned to represent himself at trial, which is now scheduled for February.

In a surprise move at a Monday case management conference, Crimo’s attorneys from the Lake County public defender’s office told Judge Victoria ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Opening arguments are expected to begin Monday afternoon in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former Fulton County, Georgia, election workers against Rudy Giuliani.

The election workers — Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss — are seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages because Giuliani falsely accused them of ...Read more

Members of Congress agree that the administration needs to consider the concerns of indigenous communities when taking actions on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic. There is just disagreement on whose concerns should be prioritized.

The Biden administration’s slate of actions announced in September included canceling the remaining oil and gas...Read more

On a Monday morning at the Loudermilk Conference Center downtown, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens told the city’s rotary club that later in the day, he’d be heading less than a mile up the road to the Georgia State Capitol.

There’s not too many reasons for the mayor to venture outside of City Hall to the Gold Dome. But state lawmakers are ...Read more

Prosecutors are expected to rest their case in chief Monday in the corruption trial of former Ald. Edward Burke, potentially setting the stage for the highly anticipated testimony of Burke’s former City Council colleague, FBI mole Daniel Solis.

Some 33 witnesses have testified over 15 days so far in the high-profile trial, including the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Christian group's free-speech challenge to the laws in California and 21 other states that forbid licensed counselors from using "conversion therapy" with children and teenagers.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. filed dissents, and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said he ...Read more

Argentina agreed to host a summit with Latin American leaders early next year as President Volodymyr ZelenskYy seeks to win support from the so-called Global South in the war with Russia, Ukraine said.

ZelenskYy discussed the summit with Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, on Sunday in Buenos Aires, Ihor Zhovkva, the Ukrainian leader’...Read more

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy is headed to Washington for talks with President Joe Biden and U.S. congressional leaders, signaling a push to energize support among his country’s allies almost two years into Russia’s invasion.

With Biden’s request for further military assistance to Kyiv stalled in Congress, the Ukrainian president will ...Read more

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was best known for its sit-ins against segregation in the Deep South. But in the summer of 1967, the civil rights group used its newsletter to weigh in on a different topic.

In an article headlined “The Palestine Problem,” the group wrote: “Do you know that Zionism, which is a world-wide ...Read more