A monument honoring Black Maryland patriots who served in the Revolutionary War will be unveiled Nov. 1 at the Maryland State House.

The unveiling ceremony for “The Pursuit of Transcendent Liberty” — a sculpture created by the California-based artist Branly Cadet — represents the culmination of a six-year passion project spearheaded by ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As ocean levels rise, waves crash farther inland and the coast continues to crumble, Southern California is on track to lose 30% to 70% of its beaches over the next several decades. Almost half of all beach cliffs are likely to retreat by 30 to 80 feet by 2100. And a 1.6-foot increase in sea level rise by 2060 will leave low-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is deferring an additional $1.2 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California, citing concerns about potential fraud in a state program that helps older adults and people with disabilities with everyday tasks.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho ballot measure that would rewrite the state’s strict abortion laws and enshrine protections for other reproductive healthcare is one of the hottest topics of pre-Election Day debate in the Gem State, with millions of dollars flooding in from supporters and opponents.

Its proposed changes to Idaho abortion ...Read more

The Tulare County elections office in the California's Central Valley was suddenly getting peppered with questions from baffled voters.

On the afternoon of Oct. 13, residents began calling and showing up in person at the registrar of voters’ office in Visalia, worried they would be accused of committing fraud by trying to vote twice.

That’...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson is debuting a new gunshot detection system to replace ShotSpotter in some of the neighborhoods that see the most shootings, his administration told aldermen Tuesday.

In a letter to Ald. Emma Mitts, chair of the Contracting Oversight Committee, Chief Procurement Officer Sharla Roberts informed her “the city is...Read more

MIAMI — Alberto Sierra, who admitted to snuffing the lives of his estranged wife and her two young daughters with a plastic Sedano’s Supermarket bag, should be executed for his crimes, a jury said Tuesday.

Sierra, 42, was stoic as the verdict was read before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez. Sierra admitted to suffocating his ...Read more

Seven Boeing Co. 737-700 jets, acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars and meant to ramp up President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign, have barely left the ground at southwest Louisiana’s Lake Charles Regional Airport.

They are the fleet that was acquired this year by Kristi Noem for the Department of Homeland Security, before she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and some Republicans are signaling their intention to try to enact legislation to force President Donald Trump to reverse what some of them have called his “pro-Putin agenda.”

The groundswell of bipartisan congressional criticism of Trump’s policy toward Russia, particularly as it relates to Ukraine,...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily denied the Republican Party of Florida’s request to block political advertisements mentioning the leaked Hope Florida grand jury report.

Judge Peter F. Estrada in Highlands County said the Republican Party would have to coordinate with the people and groups it is suing to set up a ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than five years after the fatal shooting of an Illinois National Guardsman home from basic training, the Chicago FBI announced Tuesday a reputed gang leader charged in the “senseless” attack has been added to the agency’s “Ten Most Wanted List” and that a reward for his capture and conviction has been increased to $1 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Nearly 100 students at LaGuardia High School, the Manhattan arts school that inspired the movie “Fame,” walked out of class on Tuesday to demand a freeze on artificial intelligence, driven by concerns that the new technology could threaten their future careers.

The walkout was part of a day of anti-AI high school and college ...Read more

In another new interview as part of his return-to-the-U.K. media blitz, Prince Harry continues to say he wants to reconcile with his family, explaining that is one of the main reasons that he and his wife Meghan Markle decided to move back to his home country after six years in California.

Harry expressed his desire to patch things up with his ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Tuesday to keep an eye on a system off the U.S. East Coast with the potential to develop into a more dangerous storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, a storm-force, nontropical area of low pressure, which had formed Sunday night, was located a few hundred miles off the North ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When the Florida Legislature put Amendment 2 on the ballot with the goal of helping cost-burdened farmers, lawmakers did so near-unanimously.

But as Election Day nears, county Democratic Party groups are telling their followers to vote “no” on the proposal.

The state Democratic Party hasn’t weighed in on the ...Read more

Legalizing sports betting is associated with an increase in the number of workers in a state receiving treatment for anxiety or depression, according to a recent Johns Hopkins study.

Johns Hopkins researchers looked at anonymized insurance claims from 30 states that legalized online sports betting between 2016 and 2023. They analyzed the ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought to draw a line under the escalating feud with the U.S. after meeting with Donald Trump’s envoys in Oslo, Norway, while the U.S. president kept up pressure on Kyiv.

At a news conference Tuesday, Zelenskyy struck a more softened tone on relations with the U.S., saying he discussed intelligence sharing and access to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hidden within President Donald Trump’s midterms campaign sales pitch is what amounts to a legislative agenda for his final two years in office, priorities that almost certainly would be met with opposition if Democrats win the majority of one or both chambers of Congress.

Trump spent the months leading up to the election cycle�...Read more

Vice President JD Vance has broken with President Donald Trump over the commander in chief’s unusual endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection.

Vance said he’s staying out of the Oct. 27 elections in Israel because he’s laser-focused stateside on boosting Republicans in the forthcoming congressional elections...Read more

State attorneys are warning Florida television stations that broadcasters could be committing crimes by airing campaign ads about a grand jury’s investigation into Hope Florida.

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Suzy Lopez sent letters to several television stations around Tampa Bay on Friday, the same day the Republican Party of ...Read more