DETROIT — A cyberattack against Michigan Ascension hospitals continues to cause issues, forcing it to divert some ambulances to other hospitals for certain medical issues, delay diagnostic imaging and affecting its ability to fill prescriptions.

A spokesperson for Ascension didn’t respond to a request for comment Monday about how the attack...Read more

BOSTON — Nearly 500 faculty and staff at Harvard called on university leadership to drop disciplinary actions against pro-Palestine student protesters following their encampment at the school in a letter Monday.

“We, the undersigned Harvard faculty and staff, are alarmed that Harvard undergraduate students who engaged in peaceful protest ...Read more

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Out of the fog that claimed the life of Iran’s president, some clarity is emerging about Tehran’s next steps.

The bad news for Western capitals and those Iranian activists pushing for change is that there’s little hope of a relaxation of political oppression, or of the antagonism directed at the U.S. and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The family of a Black teen who was executed decades ago for a murder prosecutors now say he did not commit has filed a federal lawsuit, saying Delaware County authorities coerced him to falsely confess and conspired to hide key evidence from a jury.

Alexander McClay Williams was 16 when he was convicted and sentenced to death ...Read more

Monday, nearly 50 mayors, village presidents and other municipal leaders representing nearly 4.5 million suburban Chicago residents, gathered outside the quad of Elmhurst University to call on the Illinois General Assembly to raise the Local Government Distributive Fund and roll back on a myriad of unfunded mandates passed in the last decade.

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ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans believe they have an answer to a former Democratic lawmaker’s attempt to turn his quest for a Georgia Supreme Court race into a referendum on abortion rights.

They are stepping up their support for incumbent Supreme Court Justice Andrew Pinson, who is facing a stiff challenge from former U.S. Rep. John Barrow ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Swarthmore College for the first time since its founding in 1864 will hold commencement off campus, due to a pro-Palestinian encampment on Parrish Lawn where the ceremony was to be held.

The commencement, Swarthmore’s 152nd, has been relocated to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, ...Read more

HIALEAH GARDENS, Florida — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott used a campaign stop in Hialeah Gardens on Monday to rebuke President Joe Biden over his approach to Cuba and democracy in Latin America, accusing the president of appeasing authoritarian regimes throughout the region.

Flanked by U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, state Rep. Alex Rizo and Miami-Dade ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians, also known as the Kizh Nation, is suing Los Angeles County, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the nonprofit La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, saying that their ancestors' remains were mishandled when they built the Mexican American museum in downtown L.A..

The Kizh Nation alleges in the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The 58-year-old woman couldn’t bear to share the details of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, but its effect on her came across loud and clear Monday in a Baltimore courtroom as she faced the leader of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

“Do you see me now?” she cried toward Archbishop William Lori, who was seated across ...Read more

HARTFORD, Connecticut — The state Supreme Court on Monday overturned a campaign finance law that limits who candidates can criticize in political ads, giving a win in a free speech case to two Republican legislators fined for attacking former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s fiscal policy a decade ago.

Former state Sen. Joe Markley and current Sen. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Dwarfing the tugboats to which it was tethered, the container ship Dali returned to the Port of Baltimore Monday morning after crews freed the vessel that had been stranded in the Patapsco River since it struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26.

Crews had refloated the vessel around 6:40 a.m, and 20 minutes ...Read more

A high-ranking Florida A&M official resigned last week as fallout from the university’s recent announcement of a dubious donation continues.

Shawnta Friday-Stroud resigned as the Tallahassee school’s vice president for university advancement and executive director of the FAMU Foundation, said university President Larry Robinson at a board ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The coalition behind efforts to put abortion protections on the ballot in November announced they submitted more than 200,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, a coalition of groups heading the initiative to enshrine abortion protections in the Nevada Constitution, filed the signatures with ...Read more

Every election year, thousands of voters in Orange County, California, flock to vote centers to carry out their civic duty, but a lawsuit is challenging whether the convenience of having multiple choices of locations that open for days ahead to cast a ballot breaks California election law.

That’s what three registered Republican voters in ...Read more

After 33 activists were arrested and two professors detained, after student tents and Palestinian flags were loaded into a dump truck, after dozens of Philadelphia police in riot gear departed, the student reporters from the University of Pennsylvania’s independent newspaper peered through a chain-link fence at the empty College Green. They ...Read more

NEW YORK — The price of halal meat in Egypt took center stage at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez Monday, as defense lawyers tried to chip away at prosecutors’ allegations that the veteran lawmaker helped broker a sweetheart monopoly for a U.S. businessman in exchange for bribes.

The 70-year-old Democrat’s trial entered its second week in ...Read more

Seventy years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended legal school segregation in America, researchers say school segregation has increased over the past three decades in major cities across the country.

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which struck down the “separate but equal...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest local school hit with a federal civil rights complaint, as a free speech group calls out the Cambridge campus for a “women of color” program that excludes white students.

The MIT program, “The Creative Regal Women of kNowledge” (CRWN), is at the center of the civil rights ...Read more