CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A once-dismissed lawsuit claiming Charlotte Latin School pushed “politicized curriculum” after the 2020 death of George Floyd has been renewed by the Republican-led N.C. Supreme Court — despite pushback from its Democrat judges.

Parents Nicole and Doug Turpin filed the lawsuit in 2024 saying the south Charlotte private...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to a Trump administration request to temporarily set aside an appellate court ruling that would have stalled above-ground construction on the planned White House ballroom.

The one-sentence order, signed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., did not provide any explanation for his decision, which...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Friday began tracking an area of low pressure that has a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory, the weak area of low pressure was located over the central subtropical Atlantic a few hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda and is producing ...Read more

The Trump administration is pushing to end the American Bar Association’s role in accrediting law schools, claiming the group is too liberal and is controlled by supporters of “woke” diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

The Department of Education suggests in a 500-page report it may not renew the group’s authorization to oversee ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis church is asking a federal judge to hold the Department of Homeland Security Investigations in contempt after it discovered the agency had infiltrated it as part of an effort to investigate alleged violence against federal immigration agents — despite a court order forbidding the feds from conducting immigration ...Read more

DENVER — Coloradans’ share of the Colorado River will not change under the federal government’s new operating plans for at least the next two years.

The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday published a highly anticipated plan for the Colorado River that will guide how the basin’s two major reservoirs will operate and how the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state’s workplace safety agency fined Blackbird Mountain Guides $151,300 for violations around the Feb. 17 avalanche near Tahoe that killed three of the company’s guides and six clients.

Cal-OSHA issued six citations to the company on Aug. 12, just ahead of the agency’s six-month deadline for completing an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday outlined potential changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, suggesting kids shots should be spread farther apart in contrast to recommendations from pediatric groups.

The request for information fulfills directives outlined in President Donald Trump’s executive order ...Read more

WASHINGTON — By continuing to tease a bid for a legally prohibited third term, President Donald Trump could delay what every second-term president resists: becoming a lame duck.

Any president approaching the final two years of their second term eventually becomes that weakest of political birds. Lawmakers, foreign governments, political ...Read more

What comes to mind when you think about preventing teen suicide? Crisis hotlines, maybe. Emergency interventions. Those matter – but prevention often starts earlier, in everyday relationships at home, school and in the community. A parent asking about a teenager’s day over dinner, for instance. Or a teacher helping a student find purpose ...Read more

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2026 nearly 11 million people will contract the virus that causes measles. Most of these cases will occur in Africa and Asia, but many countries in the Americas and Europe are reporting outbreaks affecting hundreds or thousands of people.

There is no treatment for measles, but vaccines ...Read more

The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of an early closing.

The fishing industry has said these developments are evidence that the management system is working as intended:...Read more

Growing up, my brothers were fascinated by the first “Rocky” movie. They were trying to get stronger and excel in sports, so one scene stood out almost as much as Rocky sprinting up the museum steps: Before sunrise, Rocky cracked raw eggs into a glass and drank them.

To a teenager, this raised some questions. Why raw eggs? Was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On the heels of the death of his longtime mate Jackie, bald eagle Shadow has been perching, singing and lounging at his Big Bear nest with a new companion. It’s all being captured on a world-famous livestream, spurring mixed reactions from fans who are still reeling from Jackie’s passing.

Pete Bloom, a raptor biologist who ...Read more

Natalie Harp gushes over President Donald Trump as her “Guardian and Protector” in newly unearthed letters that underline the unusually close personal relationship the 35-year-old White House aide has with the commander-in-chief.

“You are all that matters to me,” Harp writes to Trump in one missive, the Daily Beast reported. “I don’...Read more

It was a good day for Idaho Libertarians.

A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday ruled that the party would no longer have to follow state laws that limit how much it can spend on legislative and statewide candidates in coordination with their campaigns.

Other state political parties are still bound by the rules, which allow them to spend ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden was found dead in an office inside the Edward J. Schwartz federal building in San Diego on Wednesday, shortly after being reported missing. There were no signs of foul play involved, authorities said.

Haden, 48, had worked for the U.S. attorney’s office since 2010 and twice served as acting...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In 1996, Tupac Shakur was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip. Then, less than a year later, Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G., was killed in a drive-by shooting in front of the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard.

The two killings have long been tied together in popular culture.

Now...Read more

MEXICO CITY — In her previous job as mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum expressed outrage when a conservative critic proposed publicizing a list of prominent supporters of her leftist Morena political party.

“This is a fascist position,” then-Mayor Sheinbaum declared in 2021. “Who makes lists? McCarthyism. Nazism. Those are the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Like most prosecutors, Creighton Waters, the lead prosecutor in the Alex Murdaugh retrial case, is not hesitant about making a point.

But when it comes to expressing a preference for a county to retry Murdaugh on double murder charges, Waters will let state Judge Debra McCaslin be the decider.

“We leave it to the court’s...Read more