BALTIMORE — All of the vessels that were trapped in the Port of Baltimore when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed have now left their berths.

The last ship in that group departed Monday morning, hours before an explosion that cut apart a section of steel truss draped across the bow of the Dali, officials said at a news conference Monday...Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation has been forced to suspend operations at least temporarily after failing to file timely tax returns and other documents and being declared “delinquent” by California authorities.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who founded the charity after stepping back from their royal duties in ...Read more

CHICAGO — The city has closed a South Side migrant shelter that had faced resistance from some neighborhood residents when it opened last year.

All shelter residents have been moved to neighboring shelters or to permanent housing, officials said Monday as the city announced it had “recently decompressed” the migrant shelter at the former ...Read more

NEW YORK — For weeks, jurors have heard about Trump fixer Michael Cohen and the role he played in the hush money saga involving Stormy Daniels. Monday, the star witness took the stand, where he’ll be filling in the final blanks in the prosecution’s case, now is in its final days.

Once among the closest allies of the former president, ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Florida man who helped a U.S. Marine and another man from Orange County build a Molotov cocktail they used to firebomb a Planned Parenthood in Costa Mesa two years ago was obsessed with violence and previously had threatened to commit mass shootings, court documents show.

Xavier Batten, 21, of Spring Hill, Florida, ...Read more

NEW YORK — John Catsimatidis, the CEO of WABC radio, offered a detailed explanation Monday for the station’s decision to pull Rudy Giuliani from its airwaves, saying the former mayor repeatedly violated an agreement prohibiting him from spreading claims that fraud caused Donald Trump to lose the 2020 presidential election.

In a written ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional reaction to the State Department’s report Friday on security assistance to Israel underlined the gap between Democrats and Republicans over whether the U.S. should use weapons transfers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as leverage to curb the killings of Palestinian civilians.

House Republicans ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has taken the highly unusual step of removing the prosecutors who convicted Rebecca Grossman of double murder, outraging the parents of the two young boys she killed in a Westlake Village crosswalk.

District Attorney George Gascón’s office replaced prosecutors Jamie Castro, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen directly connected Donald Trump to the hush-money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels to keep their alleged sexual encounter out of the news ahead of the 2016 election.

Taking the witness stand in the Manhattan criminal trial Monday, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer recalled an October 2016 conversation in ...Read more

As the spring semester comes to a close, protests demanding an end to the Israel-Hamas war continue to spread at Colorado colleges, with a new encampment at the University of Denver and disturbances reported at graduation ceremonies last weekend for the University of Colorado Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver.

A group called DU...Read more

DETROIT — Appeals attorneys for the teen serving a life sentence for fatally shooting four students at Oxford High School have filed a motion with an Oakland Circuit judge, asking him to consider input from lay witnesses about the shooter's family and home life which they say wasn't considered before he was sentenced.

The appeals team for ...Read more

The data is finally flowing, and award letters are being sent, but state leaders and higher education advocates gathered at the State Capitol Monday with a "message of urgency" for Minnesota students: Fill out your college financial aid forms.

"The time is right now," said Dennis Olson, commissioner of the Office of Higher Education.

He joined...Read more

The city of Alameda has indefinitely shut down the Marine Cloud Brightening Program — a study based out of the University of Washington and set up on the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet to utilize the San Francisco Bay’s ideal cloudy conditions — citing concerns over health and safety.

The city asked the Hornet’s administrators and the ...Read more

HILLSDALE, Michigan — About 40 people crammed into a courtroom in Hillsdale Monday to show support for lawyer Stefanie Lambert and former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott, who were arraigned on charges they mishandled voter data as they advanced dubious claims of 2020 election fraud.

Members of the crowd prayed for Scott before the ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — When Erika Brunwasser needed help picking up her daughter from preschool, her friend was shocked to find two security guards posted outside the synagogue that housed the school.

“She thoughtfully asked how it feels as a parent to leave my child every day at a place that is targeted by hate,” Brunwasser said. “Sadly, ...Read more

BOSTON — In defense of their long-standing business model, lawyers for Uber and Lyft say their methods are better equated to those of the travel agent than the cruise line.

The companies do not own vehicle fleets, just as a travel agent doesn’t own the ships they arrange passage on, and rideshare apps are not transportations agencies, but ...Read more

A 23-year-old Fort Carson, Colorado, soldier was killed in a training accident in Louisiana, Army officials announced Monday.

First Lt. Zachary Galli, an explosive ordnance disposal officer, was killed in a “non-combat related training accident” at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Johnson in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.

Army ...Read more

High interest rates. Stubbornly high prices. Wildfires, China-Taiwan tension. Maybe even a recession.

All those risks are cited in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision’s economic outlook. While Newsom boasts that the state’s economy is healthy and growing, his budget offers a more sobering look at what may be ahead for California.

The...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina lawmakers spent nearly a decade working to have Rev. Billy Graham memorialized in the U.S. Capitol.

On Thursday, a statue of Graham — a Charlotte native who died in 2018 at age 99 — will be unveiled as part of the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.

This makes Graham one of the few private citizens ...Read more