University of Michigan President Santa Ono has been called to testify before a Republican-led congressional committee to address how colleges are addressing antisemitism on campus amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations, though the conditions for him to answer questions have been changed.

Ono was slated originally to appear May 23 before the U.S. ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All four Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers who were hospitalized after suffering injuries in last week’s deadly shooting in east Charlotte are now at home recovering, the CMPD said Tuesday.

CMPD officers Christopher Tolley, Michael Giglio, Jack Blowers, and Justin Campbell suffered injuries after responding ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Last week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would bring forward a motion to remove Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker when the House reconvened Monday evening, but those plans have been on hold following a series of meetings with the House leader.

Greene, R-Rome, and Johnson, who met behind closed doors for two hours Monday, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters called for the University of Central Florida to divest itself from companies with ties to Israel and urged a ceasefire in Gaza during a day-long on-campus rally Tuesday.

As has been the case with earlier rallies at UCF — and in contrast with some around the country, including at the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A day after Gov. Kathy Hochul said Black kids in the Bronx don’t know the meaning of the word “computer,” Mayor Eric Adams gave her a pass on the gaffe, saying Tuesday he knows the governor’s “heart.”

“When you make thousands of speeches, when you’re in front of the cameras all the time, when you’re trying to be ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police on Tuesday released recordings of 911 calls made by two convenience store employees reporting an attack on a customer, and later the “gruesome” scene that police allege involved the same suspect eating parts of a man’s face.

Colin Czech, 29, was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on ...Read more

Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska released a resolution Tuesday in an attempt to censure Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar following remarks she made about Jewish students during a visit to Columbia University last month.

The progressive lawmaker's comments at a university encampment sparked criticism from the right, with Bacon's resolution, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose officials are proposing to spend $120 million over the next fiscal year to combat homelessness — about 2% of the city’s expected $5.3 billion budget.

In addition to funding ongoing efforts to build more tiny home shelters and provide outreach services, the money could also help launch entirely new programs — ...Read more

The last thing most business owners want is to be taxed and regulated, but hemp business owners are asking for just that — as a way to keep their industry alive.

Hemp entrepreneurs came out Tuesday in favor of a state legislative proposal to license hemp sales, require testing and labeling of their products, prohibit products that look like ...Read more

Israel entered Rafah, a city that marks Gaza’s southern border crossing with Egypt, on May 7, 2024, launching a military offensive that the U.S. and others have cautioned Israel not to pursue.

President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 6 against expanding the Gaza war into Rafah, indicating that this...Read more

CHICAGO — Recurring anti-abortion protests outside a downtown women’s health clinic may soon be dampened by a new ordinance limiting nearby loud sounds.

Protesters have targeted the West Loop’s Family Planning Associates clinic at the intersection of West Washington Boulevard and North Desplaines Street for years, said Ald. Bill Conway, ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case issued an order Tuesday postponing the May 20 trial date. The order did not set a new date.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in the five-page order that the date will be reset by a separate order.

“The Court also ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Authorities on Tuesday found the body of José Mynor López, the final victim of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to be pulled from the Patapsco River.

Six weeks to the day since a massive cargo ship struck a support beam, sending the bridge and a construction crew fixing its potholes into the river, the bodies of all six men...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A woman thought she was being helpful when the Serbian man she had met on a dating app asked her to translate a message into Colombian Spanish, saying he needed it for a novel his friend was writing.

“I met someone wonderful,” the message began. “He has a summer house about 2h from Madrid. We are going there now ...Read more

California police officers will no longer be required to disclose their own gender identity when they report details of traffic stops to the state in an effort to end a lawsuit over the issue.

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Christopher Krueger last week approved a permanent injunction barring California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's office ...Read more

The New York Civil Liberties Union argued Tuesday that a judge should suspend Nassau County’s sports ban on transgender women and girls.

The civil liberties group made its case in a court more than 10 weeks after Nassau County issued the ban, which forbids transgender women and girls from participating in sports consistent with their gender ...Read more