NEW YORK — The City Council voted Tuesday to start the process of giving local elected officials pay bumps with the formation of a commission.

The bill will establish a three-person commission that will decide if raises are in order for the city’s mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough presidents, council members and district ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With a month left in the 2026 legislative session, the lingering rift between some Democratic members of the General Assembly and Gov. Wes Moore is unlikely to significantly affect this year’s legislative session.

But it might alter the next if Moore wins a second term, political professors told The Sun.

“Your second term is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has for decades been shifting toward outsourcing management of its social services system. Gov. Tim Walz is now looking to reverse that trend in an effort to prevent fraud.

But the proposals, including having the state take on some work now handled by counties and eliminating the use of managed care organizations, like...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Emanuel Shaleta from his role governing the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle of San Diego, Catholic officials announced one day after Shaleta’s arraignment on embezzlement charges.

His resignation was accepted in February and announced Tuesday, according to a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore is encouraging Marylanders to explore how eating less meat can improve their health, conserve the environment, and prevent harm to livestock through plant-based diets.

Moore signed a proclamation Tuesday, naming March 20, 2026, “MeatOut Day in Maryland,” according to a news release from the Farm Animal Rights ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters are being urged to put a poison-pill effort on the November ballot that would nullify a controversial proposed tax on the state's billionaires.

Neither proposal has yet qualified for the ballot — supporters of each need to gather the verified signatures of hundreds of thousands of voters. But petitions that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops evacuated a city park next to Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side on Tuesday after an unattended package was discovered — near where two ISIS-inspired protesters were arrested three days earlier for throwing homemade bombs, police said.

Cops responded to a promenade overlooking the water in Carl Shurz Park near East End ...Read more

With U.S. and Israeli forces continuing offensive strikes on Iran, federal counterterrorism authorites are warning that the desperate theocracy could launch retaliatory strikes on American soil using sleeper cells, affiliated Iranian terrorist groups, lone wolf sympathizers or targeted cyberattacks.

Within days of the killing of Iranian Supreme...Read more

NEW YORK — A budget battle is unfolding in Albany as state lawmakers in their budget proposals unveiled a push for tax hikes on both wealthy individuals and corporations to supply New York City with more money, aligning with Mayor Zohran Mamdani but posing a challenge to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The proposals, known as “one-house” resolutions, ...Read more

MIAMI —Wearing a black dress, the wife of Haiti’s slain president immediately began to sob on Tuesday as the U.S. government’s star witness testified against four South Florida men standing trial on charges of conspiring to kill her husband more than four years ago at the couple’s home outside Port-au-Prince.

“I am Martine Moïse, I ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who was shot and killed in the mass shooting that erupted at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally in February 2024, left the Jackson County courthouse in tears on Monday afternoon.

When told on Tuesday that 20-year-old Dominic M. Miller — who was originally charged with second-degree felony ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Three state officials integral to the Hope Florida saga whose confirmations were held up last year amid a House probe were cleared by the Senate on Tuesday to officially hold appointments made by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Shevaun Harris was confirmed, 32-5, as secretary for the Agency for Health Care Administration, which ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office is behind a bill blasted by free speech advocates that would give him new powers to target college students.

Emails obtained through a records request show that DeSantis staffers last year wrote an original draft of SB 1632, which would allow the governor to label groups as “domestic terrorist...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore police officer is in stable condition after being shot Tuesday in Northwest Baltimore and taken to the Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland.

Police officials said a suspect was also shot and killed in the incident, advising people to avoid the surrounding areas.

According to Baltimore Police Department ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s proposed budget would kick some seniors off a new property tax relief program that she said will save the state hundreds of millions of dollars as the new Democratic governor looks for ways to address a projected $3 billion deficit this year.

Sherrill has pledged not to raise taxes, despite warning of a dire ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said President Donald Trump agreed in a Tuesday meeting at the White House to provide additional federal disaster aid in response to last year’s ice storms that caused extensive damage in northern Michigan.

The commitment is an apparent reversal of the decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The body of a Kentucky solider killed in combat earlier this month in the conflict with Iran was returned to U.S. soil Monday night.

Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, of Hardin County, was honored March 9 during a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force base in Delaware. Vice President JD Vance and Department of Defense ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some 140 American service members have been wounded since start of the Iran war, with eight of them "severely injured" and receiving medical care, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

"The vast majority of these injuries have been minor, and 108 service members have already returned to duty," Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with a 19-year-old man accused of assaulting a deputy U.S. marshal during a traffic stop in suburban Hazel Crest last fall, making it the latest case related to Operation Midway Blitz on track to an end without a conviction.

Oscar Jesus Rosales Vergara was ...Read more

The FBI conducted controlled detonations Monday night of explosive materials found in a Pennsylvania storage facility, police said — part of the ongoing investigation into two Bucks County teens who have been charged with trying to detonate homemade bombs outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan over the weekend in support of ISIS.

Middletown ...Read more