House Republicans released their first stab at a bill to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, which would help pay for them by overhauling much of President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law.

The draft framework put out Monday by the Ways and Means Committee takes aim at billions of dollars of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, ...Read more

Key pillars of the Trump administration's policy toward Mexico involve large-scale deportations and a crackdown on cartels.

But reports in the Mexican media suggest that U.S. authorities recently orchestrated the secret, cross-border move of at least 17 relatives of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin — Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — to ...Read more

The one-time ‘king’ of one of Haiti’s most violent criminal gang, already looking at spending 35 years in a U.S. prison for his role in a gunrunning conspiracy that funneled high-powered weapons to gang members using kidnapping proceeds, will soon learn if he will face more prison time in the United States for his alleged role in the ...Read more

The residents of a California town are raising the alarm after dozens of birds appear to have exploded without explanation.

The phenomena appears to be limited to a single neighborhood in Richmond, about 10 miles north of Oakland.

Neighbors claim that more than 50 birds have suddenly fallen dead to the ground after sitting on a stretch of ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom's Office said Tuesday that President Trump's tariff policies will reduce state revenues in California by $16 billion through next year.

Despite personal income tax and corporate tax receipts in the state coming in $6.8 billion above projections through April, the Newsom administration is predicting that overall revenues will ...Read more

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka returned to the gates of an ICE detention center days after he was arrested for allegedly trespassing at the same facility.

Baraka, a Democrat running for New Jersey governor, was turned away shortly after he arrived outside Delaney Hall on Tuesday. He was blocked from getting within 20 feet of the entrance by eight ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrated Mother’s Day with his family by swimming in a contaminated Washington, D.C., creek used for sewer runoff.

“Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick, and Jackson, and a swim with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius in Rock Creek,” Kennedy ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams Tuesday announced a new city Office to Combat Antisemitism amid a surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes and an increasing focus on the issue in this year’s mayoral race.

The mayor said NYPD stats show that more than half of hate crimes are antisemitic despite Jewish New Yorkers making up about 10% of the city’s ...Read more

The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a closely watched case to decide if housing authorities in the state are shielded from liability when tenants sue them over violent crime or other dangerous conditions.

Christina Guy, a former tenant at the Dogwood Terrace apartment complex in downtown Augusta, sued the city’s housing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Menendez Tuesday featured emotional testimony from family members, several of whom said in court that the brothers should be freed from prison for the shotgun killing of their parents more than 30 years ago.

The result, announced at the end of the day by Judge Michael Jesic, was a ...Read more

President Donald Trump has spent the first major overseas trip of his second administration — next stop Wednesday in Qatar — beating back allegations that he was personally profiting from foreign leaders by accepting a $400-million luxury airliner from the Gulf state’s royal family.

Trump has bristled at the notion that he should turn ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida rapper YNW Melly must remain behind bars until his double murder retrial, a has judge ordered.

In a March motion, Melly, whose legal name is Jamell Demons, had sought release for the second time since his 2023 trial ended in a hung jury. By that point, he had been imprisoned for more than 2,000 days, his ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — After years of opposing such a measure, Pennsylvania Democrats on Tuesday were poised to allow a vote in the state House on a bill that, if passed, would create new ID requirements to vote in the state — acquiescing on a top GOP priority and marking the first step towards breaking a yearslong stalemate over election law in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Qatar’s offer of a luxury Boeing 747 to President Donald Trump has set off alarm bells within the U.S. intelligence and diplomatic community, where gifts from foreign powers have long been viewed with suspicion.

Aside from any legal and ethical qualms about Trump accepting the plane — an 89-seater with a sumptuous French-...Read more

ATLANTA — With the stroke of a pen Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a measure aimed at ensuring intellectually disabled people aren’t executed in Georgia.

House Bill 123, which passed both legislative chambers with bipartisan support, lowers the legal threshold required to show someone has an intellectual disability in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan Court of Claims judge on Tuesday ruled that state laws that mandate a 24-hour waiting period and informed consent before a pregnancy can be terminated violate the state's constitutional right to abortion.

Court of Claims Judge Sima Patel also found unconstitutional the state's prohibition on advanced practice ...Read more

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a former Missouri governor and U.S. senator who, over 24 years, changed the face of Kansas City, died Tuesday in his native St. Louis at age 86 .

A Republican who was served two terms as Missouri Governor (1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985) Bond, while in the U.S. Senate, was responsible for supporting or shepherding ...Read more

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Reed D. Rubinstein of Maryland as the State Department’s senior adviser.

Rubinstein was confirmed in a party-line vote, 52-46. No Democrats supported his nomination. Sens. Cory Booker and Lindsey Graham did not vote.

This will be Rubinstein’s second time serving in Trump’s administration. During Trump...Read more