Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will be in Minneapolis on Thursday to announce a “significant” law enforcement action involving fraud in Minnesota.

A release Wednesday did not provide any other details about the coming announcement. Blanche and Kennedy will be ...Read more

A Democratic state lawmaker was removed from her House committee assignments Wednesday for what Republican leadership maintained was disrespectful behavior on the committee, but what the lawmaker believed to be retaliation.

State Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou, D-East Lansing, said she was informed Wednesday afternoon of her removal from the House ...Read more

Barnes & Noble was turning a page on the chain's history of declining sales, but recent comments have stirred bad blood for the bookseller.

James Daunt, the chief executive credited with breathing new life into the retailer, is clarifying the store's stance on stocking its shelves with AI-generated books, saying its not true that he's embracing...Read more

MIAMI — In a watershed moment for the Cuban American community, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday in Miami that a federal grand jury has indicted Cuba’s longtime ruler Raúl Castro, charging him with the murders of four people in the 1996 shoot-down of two civilian planes belonging to the Cuban exile organization Brothers to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is poised to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at bolstering artificial intelligence cybersecurity and has asked tech industry leaders to join for the event, according to people familiar with the matter.

The order that Trump is expected to sign would revamp existing cybersecurity ...Read more

MIAMI — In the moments after he announced that a grand jury had indicted Raúl Castro for the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996, Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked the same question over and over again: Will the Trump administration attempt to bring the 94-year-old from Cuba to be prosecuted in Miami?

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CHICAGO — Aldermen passed a measure Wednesday banning officers with ties to extremist and hate groups from working in the Chicago Police Department.

The City Council voted 28-to-21 to approve the ordinance that requires the Police Department to fire officers with ties to groups like the Three Percenters or Proud Boys. It also prohibits the ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — With 11 days remaining in their spring legislative session, Illinois lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a state panel empowered to review the costs of prescription drug prices and whether medicine is inaccessible to those who need it the most.

The bill to establish a Prescription Drug Affordability ...Read more

Airbnb Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky defended his company’s use of Chinese artificial intelligence models, saying U.S. lawmakers who worry Chinese firms can access Americans’ user data are “misunderstanding” the technology.

Airbnb is not a customer of Alibaba or other Chinese companies, he said in a Bloomberg TV interview on...Read more

Federal prosecutors have leveled their latest fraud charges against a group of people accused of stealing millions from Minnesota’s housing and child care programs.

Fahima Egeh Mahamud faces one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, alleging that from October 2022 through December 2025, she collected $4.6 million by submitting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California has seen an uptick in wildfires, from Siskiyou County to San Diego.

Southern California has caught the brunt of the surge. Nearly a dozen fires have, together, consumed more than 26,000 acres of varied terrain in the region over the last week, in remote island chaparral as well as brushy foothills bordering ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Iran traded threats of escalation on Wednesday as the weeks-long stalemate in the Middle East dragged on without resolution.

President Donald Trump told reporters the U.S. was in the “final stages” with Iran, sparking investor hopes that a deal was close. Treasuries surged and oil dropped sharply.

But the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A St. Paul attorney representing the ICE agent charged with pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge said Wednesday that his client will turn himself in after prosecutors issued a nationwide warrant for his arrest in April.

Criminal defense attorney Ryan Pacyga filed a certificate of representation for Gregory ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Tuesday that will allow water managers to build a $2 billion pipeline under a national conservation area.

The Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Water Pipeline Act was championed in Congress by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Rep. Dina Titus, both Democrats. Ultimately, the pipeline will meet ...Read more

JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature is poised to adopt a balanced budget on the final day of the regular legislative session, sending Alaskans $1,200 in cash payments.

The House voted Tuesday evening to adopt a $12.8 billion spending plan to fund agency operations and state services. The Senate is expected to take up the vote on Wednesday.

The ...Read more

NEW YORK — After years of advocacy, New York lawmakers are changing the state’s primary school aid formula to drive much-needed resources to the city’s growing population of homeless students.

The revised formula, known as Foundation Aid, establishes a new weight for students who are homeless or in foster care, according to an education ...Read more