In the United States, where religion is “very” or “somewhat” important according to nearly two-thirds of adults, one racial group stands out when it comes to practicing their faith, a new poll found.

The Public Religion Research Institute American Values Atlas poll based religious activity on three categories: how often people pray, how...Read more

Could Miami Mayor Francis Suarez be the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia?

That possibility appears to be gaining momentum after Suarez joined President Donald Trump in the capital city of Riyadh this week as the president kicked off his multi-day Gulf tour. Footage from this week’s events shows Suarez chatting with Trump and Saudi Crown ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has developed a draft architecture and plan to implement the proposed “Golden Dome” air and missile defense system, its spokesman said, as questions mount about the Trump administration’s ambitious project.

Following President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order, the Pentagon “gathered the brightest ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In his revised budget plan for the upcoming year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom did not commit any funding for Proposition 36, the state’s new crime and drug treatment measure, despite calls from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to do so.

Instead, during a news conference Wednesday, Newsom put the onus on county and ...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials on Thursday confirmed a Denver7 report that the Denver Air Traffic Control Center lost communication with pilots on Monday afternoon but say the outage was for 90 seconds, not the six minutes first reported.

The station reported Wednesday that pilots flying into Denver International Airport couldn’t communicate ...Read more

President Donald Trump has stated that birthright citizenship — which his administration is trying to overturn in court — was originally intended for a narrow group of people: the children of slaves.

But multiple experts disagree, arguing that, from the very beginning, the legal principle was meant to apply far more broadly.

“Birthright ...Read more

A coalition of California lawmakers is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reverse its decision to close nine agency offices in the state as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to cut costs.

The USDA field offices house programs that provide services, including disaster assistance, conservation of natural ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — One of the nonprofits that received millions from a Medicaid settlement steered through a Hope Florida charity by the DeSantis administration took in and spent the money without the knowledge of its Board of Directors, the group’s chairman wrote Wednesday in a resignation letter.

James Holton said publicly for the first ...Read more

STARKE, Fla. — Glen Rogers, who almost 30 years ago stabbed a woman to death in a Tampa motel room, died Thursday evening as chemicals coursed through his veins.

Rogers was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a mother of two who’d met him in a Gibsonton bar. It was one of several ...Read more

It’s been more than 100 days since President Donald Trump took office. He vowed during the campaign to bring down food prices on day one, and while egg prices are finally falling, the cost of other consumer goods remains high.

Now $6 per pound, the average price of ground beef hit a record high for the third consecutive month, jumping 15 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Prosecutors set the stage Thursday for Harvey Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann to take the stand in the disgraced movie mogul’s sexual assault retrial in Manhattan.

Mann, now 39, testified at Weinstein’s trial in 2020 that she was trying to break into acting in 2013 when he raped her in a New York hotel on March 18, 2013, and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A first-of-its-kind audit report released Thursday revealed that 36 deaths in police custody should have been deemed homicides. Instead, they were misclassified as undetermined, accidental or natural by the Maryland Office of the Medical Examiner, or OCME. under Dr. David Fowler.

Nearly all cases examined were men, and three-...Read more

A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s attempts to apply the president’s Jan. 6 pardons to a separate, but similar gun case against a YouTuber from Baltimore County.

Elias Costianes Jr. was one of hundreds of people — and dozens of Marylanders — arrested after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. Unlike most of them...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Trump's executive order calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to house thousands of homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus by the end of his term promises the relief veterans have been seeking in federal court for more than a decade.

But the May 9 order gave no insight into how the president planned ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — The conclusions of the medical examiner who performed John O’Keefe’s autopsy left more questions than answers, which both the prosecution and Karen Read‘s defense team seized on to promote their own theories.

Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello could determine the cause of death “to be blunt impact injuries of head and hypothermia,...Read more

The City University of New York could lose up to $17 million in federal research funding after the Trump administration issued dozens of stop-work orders, school officials said Thursday.

The federal agencies’ directives touched 78 grants — from environmental research to studies about the impacts of diseases on minority groups — and 98 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Thursday to place some limits on the power of single federal district judges to freeze presidential actions nationwide, in oral arguments over the future of President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

However, the justices appeared divided on just how to do so in...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Thursday to a lawyer for President Trump who was appealing rulings that blocked his plan to deny citizenship to newborns whose parents were in this country illegally or temporarily.

None of the justices spoke in favor of Trump's plan to restrict birthright citizenship, and several were ...Read more