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Trump says new talks with Iran to seek end of Hormuz standoff
US President Donald Trump promised a quick second round of U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, while again threatening to strike all power plants and bridges in the country if the negotiations fail.
Iran was noncommittal about joining any talks, with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting the Islamic Republic would not attend as ...Read more
Ordered free, still locked up: Judges fume as Trump administration holds ICE detainees
Judge Troy Nunley was fed up.
Federal immigration officials had once again flouted his authority by keeping a man locked up in a California City detention center after Nunley ordered him released. When he was finally set free, the man was booted onto the street with no passport, driver's license or other personal effects. The judge's demand ...Read more
With just 3 homicides in 2026, early intervention efforts by St. Paul police continue to pay off
Pieces of tape still cover the holes where bullet fragments struck the outside of Wanda Turner’s home in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood of St. Paul, Minn., more than a decade ago. For Turner, 69, It’s a visual reminder of the constant shootings she used to hear.
Over the past two years, however, Turner said she’s noticed a sharp ...Read more
Blue Origin launches New Glenn, suffers issue deploying craft
Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.
The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first stage returned...Read more
Trump says new talks with Iran to seek end of Hormuz standoff
U.S. President Donald Trump promised a quick second round of U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, while again threatening to strike all power plants and bridges in the country if the negotiations fail.
Iran was noncommittal about joining any talks, with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting the Islamic Republic would not attend as ...Read more
Bulgarian Russia-sympathizer Radev is heading for election win
Former President Rumen Radev, who opposes sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine, is on track to win Bulgaria’s eighth general election since 2021 and may have a chance to end years of political deadlock, an exit poll showed.
Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is set to win about 38% of the vote in Sunday’s ballot, ...Read more
Supreme Court weighs phone searches to find criminals amid complaints of 'digital dragnets'
A man carrying a gun and a cellphone entered a federal credit union in a small town in central Virginia in May 2019 and demanded cash.
He left with $195,000 in a bag and no clue to his identity. But his smartphone was keeping track of him.
What happened next could yield a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court on the 4th Amendment and its ...Read more
Trump's Department of Justice demands Wayne County, Michigan, 2024 ballots
LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is attempting to obtain all ballots submitted for the 2024 election in Wayne County, Michigan, a Democratic stronghold that's long been a focus of the Republican leader's unproven claims of voter fraud.
Harmeet Dhillon, an assistant attorney general, sent a letter Tuesday to ...Read more
Potomac named most endangered river as sewage spill, data centers loom
The Potomac River was named the most endangered river in the United States in a new report by American Rivers, which pointed to a massive sewage spill this winter and the growing footprint of data centers in Maryland and Virginia.
The report cited the Jan. 19 collapse of the Potomac Interceptor, which state and federal agencies have said ...Read more
UK ministers back Starmer as calls grow for PM to resign
U.K. cabinet ministers emerged to back Keir Starmer as calls for the prime minister to resign over the Peter Mandelson affair grow.
Speaking on behalf of the government on Sunday, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told Sky News she supports Starmer “100%” even after fresh revelations last week that security officials had raised concerns ...Read more
Blue Origin launches New Glenn, suffers issue deploying craft
Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.
The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first stage returned...Read more
China deploys warship for combat drills in Western Pacific
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is pushing beyond a chain of archipelagos to hold rare military drills that could be seen as a challenge to U.S. dominance in the Western Pacific.
The Chinese navy has dispatched a naval task group led by a Chinese warship — the Type 052D destroyer Baotou — to transit through the Yokoate Waterway and ...Read more
Trump says Iran talks in Pakistan this week amid Hormuz standoff
U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll send representatives to Pakistan for talks to end the Iran war on Monday evening, while again threatening to strike civilian infrastructure if Tehran doesn’t agree to a deal.
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is ...Read more
Years of failing teens preceded closure of Maryland's Freestate Academy
BALTIMORE — On her first night at the Freestate Challenge Academy, a state-run program for at-risk teens, retired National Guard Staff Sergeant Tory Griffin said a staff member ordered teens off a bus and into a mile-long walk through pitch-black woods.
The teens — cadets, as the program called its 16- to 18-year-old participants — had ...Read more
Colorado youth mental health emergencies peak in April, hospital says
DENVER — People treating mental health problems at Children’s Hospital Colorado don’t have to look at the calendar or the weather to know that April has arrived.
Kids and teens who previously felt fine are seeking outpatient help, existing outpatients need more support and the number of young people showing up in mental health crisis is ...Read more
Rural Minnesota economies under threat as feds cut safety net programs
MINNEAPOLIS — When the new hospital in Wadena, Minnesota, opened in March 2023, more than 1,200 people showed up to tour it.
After $80 million and two years of construction, the sleek, modern Astera Health building along Hwy. 10 replaced an aging facility with no space to grow. Within months, the nonprofit health care system announced plans ...Read more
New federal Medicaid rules require one month of work. Some states demand more
Millions of people who apply for Medicaid in the coming years will have to prove they’ve been working, going to school, or volunteering for at least a month before they can gain or retain health insurance through the government program.
But Republican lawmakers in some states think the new rules — part of the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill ...Read more
Wildfires killed nearly 20% of the world's giant sequoias. How crews are racing to save the rest
Five years ago, a tragic and depressing environmental story unfolded when thousands of giant sequoia trees, an iconic California species that tower 300 feet high and can live for 3,000 years, were killed during multiple large wildfires that roared across the southern Sierra Nevada.
The fires in 2020 and 2021 at Sequoia National Park, Sequoia ...Read more
Multiple people shot at Sacramento-area park
Multiple people have been shot at a park near Sacramento, California, the sheriff's office said.
The shooting occurred at Howe Community Park, just east of Sacramento's city limits, in the unincorporated community of Arden Arcade.
"This is a very large scene that's involving hundreds of possible witnesses," a sheriff's spokesperson told ...Read more
4 shot in Arden Arcade after gathering of hundreds broken up at Howe Park in Sacramento area
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At least four people were wounded in a shooting as a gathering of “several hundred” people was broken up Saturday evening at Howe Park in the Arden Arcade section of Sacramento County.
The shooting was reported around 6:50 p.m. in the parking lot of the Home Depot on the 2200 block of Howe Avenue, across from the park...Read more
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- Years of failing teens preceded closure of Maryland's Freestate Academy
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- New federal Medicaid rules require one month of work. Some states demand more
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- Colorado youth mental health emergencies peak in April, hospital says





