SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California on Tuesday advanced a bill that would ban industrial, hormone-disrupting chemicals from receipts.

During a hearing of the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee, lawmakers unanimously voted to advance AB 1604, a bill that would restrict the use of BPA, or bisphenol A, starting in 2027 and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Everyone recognizes the blue-and-yellow historic markers that commemorate important people, places, and events in communities across Pennsylvania, but this one is different.

It stands on Fairmount Avenue near Fifth Street in Philadelphia, where it recognizes not a fabled inventor or bygone colonial battle but something recent ...Read more

Senate Democrats stepped up pressure on Republicans to conduct public hearings on the conduct of the Iran war, but senior GOP senators were noncommittal on whether they would do so.

The partisan tension comes as the Pentagon announced Tuesday that approximately 140 troops have been injured since the U.S. and Israeli strikes began on Feb. 28, in...Read more

A state Senate committee voted Wednesday morning to move Michigan's regular primary election from August to May, a shift that could alter the political landscape in a battleground state.

Under current law, Michigan's primary, through which nominees for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and seats in the Legislature are chosen by their parties' ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two key Trump administration officials huddled with Senate Republicans behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss a powerful but controversial surveillance authority that expires next month, an issue that for years has bitterly divided privacy hawks and intelligence-focused lawmakers.

FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John ...Read more

A bill that would allow unaffiliated voters to change their party affiliation at the polls to vote in primary elections passed the Maryland House on Wednesday.

Currently, registered voters must change their party affiliation by the voter registration deadline, 21 days before the election. According to the Maryland State Board of Elections, ...Read more

HAITI — The widow of Haiti’s slain president testified on Wednesday that her husband’s assailants were speaking Spanish when they fatally shot Jovenel Moïse — bolstering the government’s case that a Colombian hit team was recruited by four South Florida men charged with plotting the attack at the couple’s hilltop home outside Port-...Read more

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced Wednesday an agreement to restore $2.5 million of the $50 million in federal education funding cut from 18 Tar Heel school districts.

The Democratic attorney general had filed a federal lawsuit in December accusing the U.S. Education Department of unlawfully terminating $50 million in Full-...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge in Denver criticized agents who testified in his courtroom this week and who didn’t seem to know what his November order limiting the use of warrantless arrests required them to do.

“Those guys were not examples of what we hope ICE officers would know and do in the field,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke ...Read more

The Missouri House passed a bill on Wednesday giving top state officials more power to rewrite ballot measures less than two months after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a similar law.

The bill is essentially a copy of last year’s Senate Bill 22, which critics dubbed the “let politicians lie act.” It will now head to the Senate.

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The government of Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, was recognized by the U.S. government in ongoing litigation related to the South American nation — another step by Washington toward legitimizing her authority.

The clarification came as part of a “statement of interest” filed in federal court on Wednesday by Manhattan U....Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Christian engineer with L.A. County claims his bosses discriminated against him by forcing him to pass by a Pride flag on the way to his office, the latest legal challenge to the government's policy of requiring many government buildings display the flag throughout June.

Eric Batman, a 24-year veteran of the Department of ...Read more

The Trump administration has been having secret, high-level conversations with several people in Raúl Castro’s inner circle, similar to the discussions held with Venezuela’s strongman Nicolás Maduro before he was captured in a military raid earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, R-Fla., told the Miami Herald.

Though formally ...Read more

After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised to hold firm against data centers and protect consumers, lawmakers on Wednesday watered down a bill designed to regulate the industry — stripping the piece that tech companies had found most objectionable.

The Florida House amended Senate Bill 484 to allow government officials to sign nondisclosure ...Read more

HEBRON, Ky. — President Donald Trump began his stop in Hebron on Wednesday with a focus on his message on affordability heading into this year’s midterm elections, the war in Iran and Kentucky’s loyalty to him.

The start of Trump’s speech was focused more on the economy, current affairs and the state of Kentucky.

“Thank you, and a ...Read more

Both chambers of the Florida Legislature have approved a bill to ban local governments, public schools and state universities from adopting net-zero policies, where the goal is to offset the planet-warming greenhouse gases they emit into the atmosphere.

The Senate passed House Bill 1217 Wednesday. It will now be sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ...Read more

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to end deportation protections under Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians who are living in the United States.

In an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that lower courts had overstepped by keeping the ...Read more

Attacks on multiple commercial ships in the waters around Iran on Wednesday increased global energy concerns, pushed nations to unleash strategic oil reserves and sparked fresh critiques of the Trump administration's readiness for a war it started.

As Trump administration and U.S. military officials continued to claim increasing success and ...Read more

The Trump administration’s demand that colleges and universities provide detailed admissions data broken down by race, gender and other characteristics was challenged Monday in federal court by a coalition of states led by Massachusetts and California.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts, Democratic attorneys general from 17 ...Read more