Cerina Fairfax, a Virginia dentist and mother of two, spent nearly two years living in the same house as her husband while she was trying to divorce him.

Virginia state law required couples with children, like the Fairfaxes, to wait a year before being allowed to file for divorce. Cerina’s husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, had...Read more

WASHINGTON — Even before she won her hotly contested Georgia congressional seat in 2020, Carolyn Bourdeaux was always something of a budget nerd.

As director of Georgia’s Senate Budget and Evaluation Office during the Great Recession, the Democrat won recognition from a Republican-controlled Senate for her work to cover a budget shortfall. ...Read more

WAIANAE, Hawai‘i — Native Hawaiians will need to comply with new work requirements to qualify for Medicaid after being excluded from exemptions carved out for other Indigenous groups, an omission that clinicians fear will exacerbate the challenges the marginalized population already faces in getting healthcare.

In 43 states and the District...Read more

Mail voting in the 2026 midterm elections will go on as usual – now that the Trump administration’s major efforts to disrupt how Americans vote by mail have been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Postal Service had recently implemented new rules placing unprecedented restrictions on the practice of mail voting in federal...Read more

California and other Democratic-led states and localities filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new Trump administration rules giving immigration officials more power to deny green cards to applicants whose families have relied on public assistance programs in the past.

The challenge mirrors another by a similar coalition that ...Read more

Boston high school students can apply for over 1,600 school year jobs through the city’s new public-private partnership program – as the city continues seeks additional partnerships to reach their goal of 2,000 “learn-and-earn” jobs available for teens.

“Today, I’m proud that we are now at more than 1,600 jobs for the upcoming ...Read more

Nearly 80 detainees were held in small metal cages at the Everglades detention site state leaders called “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog.

“The use of such restrictive spaces is highly unconventional and does not align with standards for humane treatment,” ...Read more

Former State Trooper Michael Proctor can invoke the fifth amendment during a hearing to dismiss a Milton murder case he investigated, a judge ruled Monday.

“Clearly, something exposed him to criminal liability,” defense attorney Rosemary Scapicchio said of the ex-cop.

When Proctor left the Norfolk Superior Courthouse, his lawyer said he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to restrict voting by mail, ruling it is too late to impose new postal service rules for the November election.

The justices on Monday turned down an emergency appeal from Trump’s lawyers, who argued the government needed a new and untested system of unique bar ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance rallied supporters and Republican officials in Olathe, Kansas, on Monday, his second visit to the Kansas City area in four months.

Much like his May appearance at Milbank Manufacturing in Kansas City, Vance promoted President Donald Trump’s manufacturing agenda, immigration enforcement and “America First” economic ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is targeting tax breaks toward four housing developments that have been approved by the city but stalled due to financial constraints, as part of a larger plan to kickstart lagging construction.

Wu on Monday proposed $31.5 million in collective tax abatements for the four market-rate projects, which are ...Read more

MIAMI — Alex Saab, the Colombian businessman accused of serving as a financial front man for Venezuela’s government, appears poised to plead guilty Tuesday in a new federal money-laundering case in Miami, after a judge scheduled a change-of-plea hearing and canceled his upcoming jury trial.

The hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. before U.S. ...Read more

The city of Oak Grove is allowed to use paper voter rosters in the upcoming November election despite serious objections from Anoka County, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.

The state’s highest court on Friday decided that the northern suburb has the authority to choose whether to check in voters with paper rosters during the general ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate floor Monday, voting for the first time in nearly three months after an extended absence following an injury from a fall earlier this summer.

“My recovery has been a long and often frustrating process, and the lingering effects of childhood polio haven’t made it any easier,” he ...Read more

MIAMI — Months before Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s 2021 assassination in the hills above his nation’s capital, Rafael Guerrero signed as a witness to a $175,000 line of credit provided by a Broward County businessman to a Doral-area security company to help finance support for Christian Emmanuel Sanon, the Haitian American pastor ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to restrict voting by mail, ruling it is too late to impose new postal service rules for the November election.

The justices on Monday turned down an emergency appeal from Trump’s lawyers, who argued the government needed a new and untested system of unique bar ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday forcefully rejected calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence, dismissing concerns about its risks as a "hoax" and warning the United States remains locked in a fierce technological race with China.

The president's position has put him at odds with a growing chorus of industry leaders and ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Illinois’ new medical aid-in-dying law against Catholic healthcare providers, siding with a lawsuit from Cardinal Blase Cupich a day after a different judge refused to block the law entirely in a separate case.

The Friday ruling from U.S. District Judge Franklin U. Valderrama temporarily ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Santa Barbara County man on Monday admitted to detonating a bomb at a courthouse in 2024 in retaliation for law enforcement seizing his firearms earlier that year.

Nathaniel James McGuire, 22, pleaded guilty to the use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of a building using an explosive, according to the ...Read more