In April of last year, Alianna Grant was walking back to her dorm near the student union at Florida State University when she made eye contact with a young man who would fire three bullets into her chest, stomach and finger.

Wearing an AirPod in one ear, she managed to tell her iPhone to call her mother in Miami.

“I could see I was bleeding,...Read more

BALTIMORE — Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan did not commit to supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox, whom he also declined to endorse in 2022, renewing questions about whether Maryland Republicans can win statewide without the coalition Hogan built.

In a Sunday Fox 5 interview, Hogan said Maryland Republicans are “...Read more

A SpaceX launch Sunday night sent up a Sirius XM satellite under a nearly full moon, capping off the final launch planned from Florida in the first half of the year.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the SiriusXM SXM-11 mission headed to geosynchronous transfer orbit lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:25 p.m...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson added pressure to aldermen Monday as they began to vet his plan to overhaul Chicago renters’ rights with changes like capped move-in fees and a rental registry.

Johnson pitched the plan as a way to strike back at corporate landlords who he blamed for soaring housing costs. His proposal won support from allies...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A crowd of North End beachgoers hurried to the water’s edge at 47th Street on Thursday afternoon as an aquarium team released a rehabilitated loggerhead turtle.

Wearing blue shirts and gloves, two team members lifted the animal out of a plastic bin they had carried to the shoreline. They lowered it onto the wet sand ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — A suite of habitat restoration goals on a federal wildlife refuge offshore Pinellas County promised big benefits for human and animal residents alike:

More eastern oyster reefs to clean Tampa Bay’s water and curb erosion; more marsh grasses to soften storm surge and give shelter for nesting birds; more hardened shorelines for ...Read more

Temple University has asked its schools, colleges, and administrative units to cut a total of $60 million to help offset a projected deficit for 2026-27.

President John Fry shared the plan in a message to the campus community Friday and said a reduction in employees is “inevitable.”

The message did not reveal how many layoffs the ...Read more

LIMA, Peru — Conservative Keiko Fujimori won Peru’s presidential election by a slim margin in her fourth bid for the highest office in the copper-rich nation.

Fujimori received 50.14% of the vote, according to the full count by the electoral agency ONPE on Monday, after a lengthy review of thousands of disputed ballots from the June 7 ...Read more

BOSTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Massachusetts over a state law that it says provides in-state college tuition rates and financial aid to “illegal aliens” while denying out-of-state students the same cost-cutting benefits.

The DOJ lawsuit was filed Monday in Boston’s federal court against the Commonwealth of ...Read more

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis delivered the ax to a portion of the state budget dedicated to funding security measures in Miami-Dade County Catholic schools — and local Catholic leaders aren’t happy about it.

On Monday, DeSantis vetoed $15 million allocated for security grants for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Miami, the total amount...Read more

A San Diego-based Marine lost at sea during training exercises last week was identified by Marine officials Monday as a 21-year-old from Minnesota.

Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco went missing early Thursday from the USS Anchorage and was declared dead Friday following an extensive search spanning 2,400 miles off the Southern California coast,...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Three years after he was led out of court in chains, convicted of brutally murdering his wife and son, disgraced Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh returned to a South Carolina courtroom Monday for the first hearing since his murder conviction was overturned.

On May 13, the South Carolina Supreme Court set aside Murdaugh’s ...Read more

The San Francisco Archdiocese will pay out nearly $400 million to survivors of clergy sexual abuse, encompassing 70 years of children falling prey to priests, lawyers announced Monday.

The settlement sets up a trust to compensate 530 survivors of childhood sexual abuse — all of whom are now adults — and establishes extensive child ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — “This guy’s no serial killer. He’s not Ted Bundy,” an animated defense attorney Dick Harpootlian told Judge Debra McCaslin during an hourlong pretrial hearing Monday morning at the Lexington County courthouse for accused double murderer Alex Murdaugh.

“Potential jurors are watching this right now,” Harpootlian ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a legal battle over one of Colorado’s critical water sources as a neighboring state seeks to use more water from the South Platte River.

The nation’s highest court on Monday announced it would hear the case, in which Nebraska officials claim Colorado water administrators are violating a century-old ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to ensure that the 160 members of the Michigan Army National Guard that she deployed to Washington, D.C., this month are helping to support the celebrations around the country's 250th birthday and not President Donald Trump's effort to fight crime and beautify the capital city.

In a letter Monday to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is expanding the role of artificial intelligence in state government by providing state employees access to Anthropic’s assistant Claude to help supplement day-to-day work.

The governor announced an agreement with the AI company that allows state agencies to use the technology to analyze information, ...Read more