Gov. Tim Walz appointed Theodora Gaitas as chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday and named Reynaldo Aligada Jr. as the court’s newest associate justice.

Gaitas, a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, is in her first term as an associate justice of the court after Walz appointed her in 2024. She previously ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The two gunmen who opened fire at a San Diego mosque on Monday, killing three people, had met online, where they were radicalized and left behind a hate-filled manifesto, authorities revealed Tuesday.

According to a witness, the pair were “fully armored” and rushed toward the entrance with handguns and rifles before a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has formally — and harshly — answered the House Judiciary Committee, telling the GOP leadership that its inquiries into the city’s handling of immigration issues lack any legal or factual basis.

The Republican-led committee had set a Monday deadline for a reply to letters that ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is bulking up patrols around city mosques in the wake of the fatal shooting outside an Islamic center in San Diego, police said Tuesday.

More cops will be found around city mosques, and local precincts will be increasing patrols going past these houses of worship, even though there are no specific threats to the city’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The former president of a now-shuttered, anti-LGBTQ organization was arrested Tuesday for seeking sex from an undercover deputy posing as a 14-year-old boy, according the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Alan Chambers, 54, of Winter Park, was booked in the Orange County Jail without bond on charges of soliciting a minor, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a year after the deadly Eaton fire swept through Altadena, killing 19 people, a new, outside review of firefighters’ decision-making concluded “there was no failure” by L.A. County fire officials in ordering evacuations.

The report, released Monday and commissioned by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, found...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Tuesday advanced two constitutional amendments that would strip power from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

One amendment, introduced as House Bill 144, would remove Stein’s appointments to the State Board of Education — making all of those positions elected instead. The other, filed as House Bill ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans this week filed a bill to reduce the state’s early voting period from 17 days to 10.

If passed this session, the bill, Senate Bill 1084, would apply to the upcoming midterm elections in November.

Legislative leaders have not yet given the bill a committee hearing, but Senate leader Phil Berger has...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday the Luigi Mangione supporters who celebrated the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should not have been issued New York City press credentials, adding that his administration is looking into “what the immediate next steps are” for changing the system of handing out the passes.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a federal prison sentence for her role in a sex trafficking scheme involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The head of the Justice Department made the remark during a budget hearing on Capitol...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California and a coalition of other Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration over new limits on federal borrowing by aspiring nurses, physician’s assistants, therapists, social workers, mental health practitioners and other healthcare workers, arguing the changes will further reduce a struggling but vital ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The National Transportation Safety Board has released surveillance footage that shows the engine popping off a UPS airplane before it crashed after takeoff near Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville.

The crash happened Nov. 4, 2025, and killed 15 people, including the three crew members and 12 people on the ground....Read more

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche offered a staunch defense of a new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” on Tuesday, while Democrats condemned the effort as a slush fund aimed at funneling taxpayer money to supporters of President Donald Trump.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers during a budget hearing on Capitol Hill ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Investigators believe that two teens who killed three people at San Diego’s largest mosque before fatally shooting themselves had been radicalized online, where the two became virtual friends before meeting up in person, authorities said Tuesday.

A manifesto had been recovered, and the incident is being investigated as a hate ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Eric Adams could be among those who seek payouts from President Trump’s controversial $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who faced federal investigation and prosecution under the previous presidential administration.

The two former mayors did not immediately respond to requests ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory over the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday as the agency he has long reviled was barred by the Justice Department from continuing any “known and unknown” probes into his tax returns.

The one-page agreement signed Tuesday by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche adds to a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Attorney General Dave Sunday appealed a Commonwealth Court ruling that struck down Pennsylvania’s ban on public funding for abortion and recognized “a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy” in the state constitution.

The case now heads back to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where three justices previously signaled ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The two gunmen who opened fire at a San Diego mosque and killed three people inside Monday were “fully armored” and rushed toward the entrance with handguns and rifles before a security guard shot at and struck one of them, a witness and member of the mosque said.

But in the chaotic exchange of gunfire Monday morning, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the second time in less than four weeks, the House passed a proposal that could raise the retirement age for Capitol Police officers, part of an effort to address persistent staffing issues that have plagued the agency.

The House cleared a bill by voice vote Tuesday that could allow Capitol Police officers to work until they...Read more

NEW YORK — Long Island Rail Road service came back online Tuesday with passengers aboard the 12:03 train from Penn Station to Ronkonkoma the first to ride the rails since 3,500 workers walked off the job Saturday morning in the first strike on the nation’s busiest commuter railroad in 32 years.

The three-day strike ended with a handshake ...Read more