There was no sign of progress in ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran after the worst burst of violence in weeks and as the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected on Thursday a U.S.-brokered truce in Lebanon.

President Donald Trump said ceasefire talks are in the “final” stages. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister said the ...Read more

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday defended his administration’s efforts to ease historically high gas and energy prices during an event at Salisbury University, saying his team is working to reduce household costs while blaming the White House and the war in Iran for broader price spikes.

“You know what would be really helpful? Let’s ...Read more

The Trump administration’s most recently wave of defundings directly affects North Carolinians at one of the most crucial times of the year: hurricane season.

The National Science Foundation has begun descaling their Ocean Observatories Initiative following President Donald Trump’s firing of the NSF’s independent board through an email in...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that Bill Pulte will only serve as national intelligence director on an acting basis, adding that he is interviewing permanent candidates for the position.

“He’s not going to be permanent, because, you know, I don’t think he’d want to be permanent,” Trump told reporters Thursday of Pulte, a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain soft cheese products made by a Southern Maryland dairy over concerns about possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially dangerous foodborne bacterium.

The Maryland Department of Health announced that Clover Hill Dairy, based in Mechanicsville, has ...Read more

NEW YORK — A sophisticated theft ring used hacked data, fake trucking logs and bogus shipping information to steal nearly $5 million in goods from retailers across the Northeast to sell in New York City, officials said.

The retail theft ring targeted logistics sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. They stole everything from ...Read more

BOSTON — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue has earned the endorsement of his once-primary opponent and former fellow GOP candidate for governor, Mike Kennealy, making the announcement in front of a crowd of supporters at Minogue’s campaign headquarters in Burlington on Thursday.

Kennealy’s endorsement comes after failing to ...Read more

BOSTON — Norfolk DA candidate Adam Deitch is calling for current DA Michael Morrissey’s resignation “effective immediately” after concerning text messages between cops investigating Karen Read came to light.

“Michael Morrissey should resign his position as District Attorney effective immediately. Today’s text message revelations ...Read more

Robotics are taking center stage in discussions of national security, which is why U.S. Senators Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and John Hickenlooper, D-Co., introduced a bipartisan National Commission on Robotics Act on Thursday.

Whether the robots that end up on factory floors, folding laundry in homes or fighting wars are U.S.-manufactured robots or...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pushed back against a claim by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt that if he’s elected, L.A.’s homeless population would move to Seattle to take advantage of that city’s drug laws.

Pratt made the comment during an interview with ABC’s Josh Haskell, in which he claimed the city’s more...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”

Attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds, both part of Sethi Law Group in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night at a White House dinner that he wanted to make acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche’s leadership of the Department of Justice permanent.

The president said he thought the confirmation of his onetime personal defense attorney would go “very quickly,” according to a video posted ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700 million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a new West Coast coal export terminal in Oakland.

Speaking from the White House, Trump said he will use the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that grants the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A battle unfolded in the Senate on Thursday over the Trump administration's controversial $1.8 billion payout fund for people who claim the government wronged them, as Democrats and some Republicans sought to block the fund but fell short after they rejected each other's proposals.

The episode underscored how President Donald ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700 million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a new West Coast coal export terminal in Oakland.

Speaking from the White House, Trump said he will use the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that grants the ...Read more

The U.S. State Department imposed new sanctions Thursday on Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and his family, along with Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of Raúl Castro, and several other Cuban entities as the administration ratchets up the pressure on Cuban leaders to undertake democratic reforms on the communist-run island.

The ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the homicide convictions and ordered new trials for the two former Aurora paramedics charged in the death of Elijah McClain, according to court decisions released Thursday.

McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after Aurora police put him in a neck hold and a paramedic injected him with an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — To the surprise of few, President Donald Trump has once again claimed without evidence that Democrats are somehow cheating to win California’s primary elections — writing on social media late Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are investigating the matter.

“The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read filed a lawsuit alleging a string of obscene and racist texts between a former Massachusetts State Police trooper and Canton police reveals a “culture of bias and corruption that they built, tolerated, and hid from the public.”

Read’s lawsuit was filed in Bristol Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages.

Among ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced that he planned to soon make Todd Blanche, who leads the Justice Department on an acting basis, the “permanent attorney general,” a move that would install a fervent loyalist at the top of the nation’s law enforcement apparatus.

A video posted on Wednesday by White House adviser Dan Scavino ...Read more