RALEIGH, N.C. — The Trump administration has singled out two western North Carolina school districts as part of a nationwide push during Pride Month targeting schools over their bathroom policies for transgender students.

Buncombe County and Cabarrus County are among 13 school districts across the country in June that have had federal Title ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Prairieland Detention Center domestic terrorism case will be appealed, promised families and friends of eight defendants who were sentenced Tuesday morning. They also warned that a dangerous precedent has been set.

The eight defendants, described by federal prosecutors as antifa operatives, were convicted after three ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office announced criminal fraud charges against seven Medicaid providers on Tuesday, including a former Roseville schools employee who allegedly billed for personal care services for two years while living in Kansas.

The state fraud charges come from investigations by the attorney...Read more

MACUNGIE, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s speech on manufacturing in a key Pennsylvania swing district repeatedly veered into other topics and musings about elections in other states, like Maine and California.

It took the president nearly an hour to even reference by name GOP U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, the vulnerable incumbent whose district...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Tuesday to adopt a House-approved war powers resolution calling for a halt to any additional military action against Iran that Congress has not authorized.

The Senate voted 50-48 to adopt a concurrent resolution by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., that the House had adopted by a 215-208 margin earlier this month...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly one year after the Esparto fireworks explosion killed seven workers, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday formally rejected the central conclusions of a civil grand jury report that faulted county officials for allowing the illegal operation to flourish.

The board unanimously adopted the county’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — After six months in an ICE facility in Pennsylvania and a 31-hour train ride from Pittsburgh, Islam Aly on Monday stepped onto the platform of the Amtrak station in Orlando with a beaming smile.

“It’s freaking hot, how long have you guys been here?” he said with a laugh as his friends embraced him.

He returned looking ...Read more

NBC’s “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie made a tearful, emotional plea Tuesday after revelations that a second ransom note sent following her mother’s abduction revealed she died sometime after the abduction.

The note described Nancy Guthrie, according to two sources, as being with nature after her death and made no demand for money...Read more

A gunman who entered a library in Northern California and opened fire Monday night was hoping to commit a massacre akin to the Columbine High School shooting, Chico police officials said.

The Chico Police Department received a 911 call at 5:12 p.m. about an active shooter inside the Chico Branch of the Butte County Library, police Chief Billy ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Eight defendants from North Texas received the maximum possible sentences Tuesday for their roles in a domestic terrorism case in which they were found guilty of charges including rioting and attempted murder of a police officer at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado.

Attorneys and families of the defendants ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Iran will be able to use funds released from frozen accounts only to purchase food and medical supplies from the U.S., seeking to ease concerns about peace negotiations that both sides say are making progress.

Yet Trump’s comments were quickly disputed by Iran, the latest instance where both sides are making ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new sanctions on two Cuban mining companies and three key enterprises in Cuba’s military conglomerate, GAESA, as the Trump administration continues putting pressure on Cuban leaders to enact significant changes in the country.

Rubio also sanctioned Annalie Lilliam Rueda, the wife of Gen. Alejandro ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan legislative leaders reached an agreement Monday night on the framework for the state budget, about a week before the statutory deadline for passing the multibillion-dollar spending plan.

Few details were given of the "framework" agreement announced by House Speaker Matt Hall, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — MTA Chairman Janno Lieber blasted President Donald Trump’s Penn Station Czar Andy Byford over the plans for a rebuilt and renewed Penn Station over what he called a “simply bizarre” process to rebuild the facility that is tainted with “the appearance of impropriety.”

Lieber, whose Long Island Rail Road is the primary ...Read more

NEW YORK — A New York hospital security guard and his son were indicted alongside two others in Manhattan this week for allegedly funneling scores of guns to the city and, unwittingly, into the hands of an undercover NYPD detective.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the charges at a press conference Monday alongside NYPD Chief...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that federal border officials can use an indictment or other accusation to temporarily strip green cards from immigrants as they reenter the country.

The 6-3 opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, says the officials do not need to have “clear and convincing” evidence of offenses at the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Iran will only be able to use funds released from frozen accounts to purchase food and medical supplies from the U.S., seeking to ease concerns about peace negotiations that both sides say are making progress.

The billions of dollars of unlocked financing will go “into escrow, controlled by the U.S.A.” and will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren learned Tuesday morning that implying Sen. Thom Tillis is a chicken, gets her his full attention.

Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, had already grabbed his energy drink — a Celsius — and his name plate from the dais in front of him preparing to leave a Senate hearing, when Warren, a Democrat from...Read more

More than 10,000 lawyers, many of them from the U.S. Department of Justice, have left the federal government during the second Trump administration. “Their departures show how rapidly the president has eroded the image of the federal government as the gold standard for lawyers seeking public service roles,” writes The New York Times.

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NORFOLK, Va. — A sailor who went missing from the USS Harry S. Truman on June 14 has been found dead.

According to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Isaac Benjamin Morris’ body was discovered Friday in the water near the piers at Naval Station Norfolk.

“The entire Truman team is grieving the loss of Fireman Apprentice Isaac ...Read more