LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday her intention to sue the fossil fuel industry for its role in changing Michigan's climate and threatening the state's environment, infrastructure, health and economy.

The oil and gas industry profited while knowingly selling products that cause climate change, Nessel’...Read more

ATLANTA — Cobb County’s electoral map, controversially passed by the county commission after a map redrawn by the Republican state Legislature would have moved a sitting Democrat out of her commission district in the middle of her term, will stay in place for now.

The Georgia Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit challenging the county map’...Read more

CHICAGO — The third and final member of a family of great horned owls living in Lincoln Park’s North Pond was found dead Thursday morning. Experts said the bird is suspected to have died from rodent poisoning.

The adult female owl was found covered in blood, Annette Prince of Chicago Bird Collision Monitors said, a condition that indicates ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Washington grand jury has indicted former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., on charges he made false statements during a campaign finance probe, months after a federal appeals court threw out his 2022 conviction on similar charges in California.

The indictment, released Thursday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — University of Pennsylvania researchers undertook the most comprehensive review yet on the algorithms that doctors and health systems use to help make decisions on patient care and whether they contribute to long-standing racial biases in health care.

Their wide-ranging review of more than five dozen studies on algorithms and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Queens courtroom Thursday morning as prosecutors fought an extradition request to send him back to California following the stunning overturning of his New York rape and sex assault conviction.

California authorities have requested that New York City law enforcement officials bring the disgraced media...Read more

LOS ANGELES — State and local officials trying to reduce the lethality of the Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu launched a public education campaign this week to get drivers to "slow the fast down" — or get pulled over.

The message, which Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said will be delivered on billboards, lawn and beach signs, fliers, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels, facing tough questions from Donald Trump’s defense team as she returned to the witness stand following her bombshell testimony on the alleged Lake Tahoe tryst with the former president, fended off accusations she’d made the story up.

Keying in on a central part of Daniels’ testimony about her encounter with ...Read more

Two climbers died after going missing while hiking on Mount Whitney, California’s highest peak, authorities confirmed to The Sacramento Bee.

The hikers were identified by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office as Andrew Niziol, 28, a resident of South Lake Tahoe, and Patty Bolan, who had just completed her doctoral studies in physics at UC ...Read more

DETROIT — A west Michigan newspaper editor who earned kudos for her blow-by-blow coverage of Ottawa County government’s takeover by right-wing activists last year said she has been fired by her employer, Gannett Co.

The removal of Sarah Leach as group editor of the Holland Sentinel and two dozen other newspapers came after she vented to a ...Read more

CHICAGO — A new family of COVID variants nicknamed “FLiRT” is spreading across the country, as vaccination rates in Chicago — as well as nationwide — remain concerningly low for some public health experts.

While symptoms and severity seem to be about the same as previous COVID strains, the new FLiRT variants appear to be more ...Read more

MIAMI — After hours of contentious debate, Doral city council members voted Wednesday to move toward shuttering bars earlier in CityPlace Doral — a month after a mass shooting at Martini Bar killed two people and injured seven others.

Under the newly approved ordinance, most bars, nightclubs and entertainment venues would have a last call ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to give innocent owners of seized cars a right to an immediate hearing to reclaim their vehicles.

Instead, the justices in a 6-3 decision said the Constitution requires a "timely hearing" to consider whether the police had properly arrested the driver and seized the vehicle, but that may take...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels is facing tough questions from Donald Trump’s defense team as she returned to the witness stand following her bombshell testimony on the alleged Lake Tahoe tryst with the former president as his hush money trial resumed Thursday in Manhattan.

Keying in on a central part of Daniels’ testimony about her encounter ...Read more

ATLANTA — A congressional committee has asked former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade to testify behind closed doors about his relationship with DA Fani Willis.

In a letter dated Thursday, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked Wade to appear for an interview and to produce numerous ...Read more

DETROIT — A Michigan man accused of planning to blow up The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts last year has been indicted, federal officials said.

Luke Isaac Terpstra, 30, of Grant, was charged Tuesday with transporting an explosive and possessing a destructive device, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten said in a ...Read more

MIAMI — A proposed new voting map that will go before the Miami City Commission on Thursday as part of a settlement in a racial gerrymandering case makes minor changes to demographics and political affiliations in districts for the city’s five nonpartisan seats, drawing one commissioner out of his district and affirming the residency of ...Read more

MIAMI — City governments across South Florida moved quickly last October to express support for Israel and condemn an unprecedented and brutal attack by Hamas, which killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took another 250 hostage.

In the months since, however, local politicians have largely avoided passing proclamations as ...Read more