Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday that state prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot helped a gunman plan a shooting at Florida State University that left two people dead last year.

At a press conference in Tampa, Uthmeier said ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended his administration’s decision to close the 30th Street homeless intake center after an East Village community group sued the city over the planned replacement intake site in that neighborhood.

The suit, filed Monday, claims the plan to open a new city men’s intake center at 8 East 3rd Street was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Student classroom screen time would be cut way back under a proposal expected to win approval Tuesday from the Los Angeles Board of Education, a remarkable reversal of yearslong initiatives to equip students with computers and internet access — and a move that comes amid growing parental pushback on devices.

The resolution ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers hope to establish guardrails around how state agencies can use artificial intelligence and other technologies to speed up the delivery of public services, such as the approval of Medi-Cal applications and certifying nurse and teacher licenses.

California has already started using “automated decision...Read more

DENVER — For the second time in 10 months, a Denver judge on Tuesday prohibited Gov. Jared Polis from directing state labor officials to provide records to federal immigration officials about the sponsors of immigrant children.

Denver District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones found that the new subpoena sent to the state Department of Labor and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia has made progress on some of its most troublesome issues like gun violence and poverty, but don’t pop any bottles yet.

The city’s major successes have come as it has stagnated in areas that recently have buoyed the city, like income and population growth, according to The Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2026 State of ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Jalen Aybar and his girlfriend, Jaslim Landaverde, had just smiled for pictures atop the Pyramid of the Moon at the famed Mexican archaeological site of Teotihuacán on Monday when they heard the crackle of gunfire.

A woman lay sprawled on the ground nearby. A man wearing a black mask was approaching, holding a raised handgun.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced he was extending a ceasefire with Iran indefinitely a day before it was set to expire, even as plans for a fresh round of talks between the two countries fell apart.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said Tuesday he would maintain a blockade over ships coming to and from Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid growing national security concerns, the FBI said Tuesday it has launched a broad investigation in the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 scientists and staff connected to highly sensitive research, including four from the Los Angeles area.

"The FBI is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and ...Read more

MIAMI — An appeals court on Tuesday overturned a Miami judge’s order that briefly required the Florida Division of Emergency Management to begin shutting down Alligator Alcatraz last summer and barred new detainees from being held at the site.

The split decision by the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said District ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A near-total abortion ban penalizing doctors and women easily cleared a full state Senate panel on Tuesday, but its chances at taking another step forward are unlikely.

While a majority of Republicans on the committee voted in favor of further restricting abortions in South Carolina, state Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, said he ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A coalition of lawyers and activists rallied outside the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center on Tuesday to demand greater protection from ICE for immigrants going to court.

The ICE Out of Courts organizers called on the sheriff’s office and leaders of the First Judicial District, which oversees the Philadelphia courts, to ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Rosa María Carranza leaned forward to hold a 3-year-old’s back as the girl climbed a rock in the forested hills of northeast Oakland.

Dressed in hiking gear and beaded necklaces, Carranza, 67, maneuvered between trees and children on a sunny morning in December. “Hold on to that branch,” she said in Spanish. “You ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kevin Warsh, the nominee to be next chairman of the Federal Reserve, promised senators Tuesday that the central bank would maintain its independence from the White House under his leadership and that he would divest assets that raised conflict-of-interest concerns among Democrats.

Warsh tried to reassure lawmakers at the Senate ...Read more

The satirical faux-news site The Onion has inked a new, restructured deal to take over Infowars from conspiracy peddler Alex Jones.

Under the new terms, the Onion would license Infowars from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site since August 2025, instead of buying its assets outright for $1.75 million, as parent company ...Read more

DENVER — Stephen Martinez is no longer a convicted murderer.

Denver District Judge Andrew Luxen erased his conviction Tuesday and ordered that Martinez, 58, be immediately freed from prison, where he has spent the last 27 years behind bars, convicted of first-degree murder in the 1998 death of 4-month-old Heather Mares.

After vacating the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States is still awaiting a green light from Iran for peace talks to take place before a ceasefire expires on Wednesday, with the sides deadlocked on issues including access to the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance was primed to fly to Pakistan on Tuesday but his trip was put on hold as Iran failed to ...Read more

SEATTLE — The U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into the University of Washington’s “handling of antisemitism” in response to planned events by a protest group UW says isn’t affiliated with the school.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon posted on X that she authorized an investigation and cited the group ...Read more

MIAMI – Two weeks after the Miami Herald published an investigative series revealing how elderly Floridians are taken into state custody and moved into substandard elder care facilities with almost no court oversight, state leaders issued a statement criticizing journalists for “a fundamental misrepresentation” of how Florida’s elder ...Read more

DETROIT — The University of Michigan is opening an investigation into Regent Jordan Acker's purported Slack messages, in which he appeared to make obscene sexual comments about a Democratic strategist and lewd comments about a female UM student.

Regent Chair Mark Bernstein said in a message posted to the university's communications website ...Read more