ATLANTA — On Sunday, President Joe Biden will step foot on a college campus for the first time since student protests over the war in Gaza at dozens of American universities, including some in Georgia, escalated to encampments, arrests and concerns about rising antisemitism.

Biden’s remarks at Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he is ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than 112,000 Illinois residents have been deemed too dangerous to own guns, but the state doesn’t know if 84,000 of those people still have them, according to a new analysis by the Cook County sheriff’s department.

The number lays bare a public safety risk that authorities have warned about for years, as the state remains ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Asma Naeem, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, has an unexpected take on the climate protests that have shaken the art museum world in recent years.

The protests, meant to convey the severity of climate change, have seen precious works of art from Sweden to Washington, D.C., doused in paint and cans of soup by impassioned ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The ship that caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge to collapse in March, killing six construction workers, is expected to move soon, with officials setting a target of early next week for the refloat.

Moving the ship out of its current position is a critical step in Key Bridge Response Unified Command’s current efforts to reopen ...Read more

The outspoken sister of North Korea’s leader blasted accusations her nation is exporting weapons to Russia as a “fiction,” shortly after the U.S. imposed new sanctions on the arms trade that Washington says is powering the Kremlin’s assault on Ukraine.

“The hostile forces are misleading the public opinion with a false rumor that the ...Read more

The Texas grid operator said that there’s the potential for emergency conditions early next week because of a risk of low power reserves.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or Ercot, said it may need to call on generators that are scheduled to be down for maintenance starting Monday, May 20 at 8 p.m. through Wednesday, May 22 at 10 p....Read more

The California Assembly on Thursday voted to issue an official apology for the state's role in slavery and the systemic racism that ensued, but other bills meant to offer reparations died shortly afterward in the Senate.

The apology is in a bill authored by Assemblymember Reggie Jones Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, that accepts responsibility for "all ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife Nadine, who’s a key player in the alleged bribery scheme he’s on trial for in Manhattan, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a statement from the senator.

The statement, which Menendez sent out Thursday, came as the powerful 70-year-old N.J. Democrat faces a Manhattan Federal Court ...Read more

DETROIT — The Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office charged four people with resisting, obstructing and assaulting police following a protest at the University of Michigan last fall related to Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

Prosecutors accused the suspects, whose names weren't released, of making "sustained physical contact with officers in ...Read more

DENVER — Groundwork for possible car-free living along Colorado’s Front Range got done Thursday as Gov. Jared Polis signed four bills into law to boost public transportation.

The new laws let state leaders pump tens of millions into transit projects, foremost a multibillion-dollar rail system linking Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins and, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyer at his hush money trial grilled Michael Cohen for hours on the witness stand Thursday about possible inconsistencies in his testimony and his well-documented history of lying under oath.

Defense attorney Todd Blanche took a far more aggressive tone with Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, than earlier in the week...Read more

WASHINGTON — Posing as Americans, North Korean technology workers secured remote work contracts with hundreds of U.S. companies as part of a scheme to help fund Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs, the U.S. government said on Thursday.

For three years, starting in October 2020, a U.S. national named Christina Chapman of...Read more

Leaders and lawmakers in Missouri must do more to protect vulnerable youth inside the state’s unlicensed boarding schools, advocates said at a Thursday news conference in Kansas City.

And that should start, they said, with Attorney General Andrew Bailey. He could do more to bring attention to the alleged abuse at schools across the state, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California bill to regulate therapeutic psychedelic use and another that would require employers to allow employees to disconnect from work in their off hours were the latest victims of a process used to kill bills without public comment.

The bill involving psychedelics, SB 1012, was the latest attempt by Sen. Scott ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer lied to government investigators and likely obstructed justice during a massive federal probe into a fraudulent lawsuit orchestrated by his office, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent that was made public this week.

Feuer, who has not been charged with any crimes, maintained his ...Read more

After a few weeks of finger pointing and viral social media posts, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has found claims that the state was illegally attempting to register non-citizens to vote are unfounded.

State Rep. Adam Morgan, R-Greenville, who is running for Congress in District 4, sparked a frenzy of questions regarding non-citizens ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Rocklin Unified School District Board of Trustees voted Wednesday night to enter into a legal agreement with the Liberty Justice Center in its ongoing legal battle with the California Department of Education.

Four members of the five-person board voted Wednesday to work with the group, which has offered to represent ...Read more