WASHINGTON — Rep. Andy Harris said on Monday that the cost of rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge was expected to nearly double the $5 billion estimate before the project’s main contractor was let go. Now, he’s urging the federal government to reconsider funding as delays continue.

A fiscal conservative and member of the committee ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in the Persian Gulf in a flareup of violence on Monday that also drew in the United Arab Emirates, prompting calls for renewed strikes on Iranian targets and casting doubt on the fate of a four-week ceasefire.

The U.S. military fought off attacks from Iranian drones, missiles and armed small boats...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota officials offered a rare, last-minute pardon to a Laotian refugee in the hopes of halting his deportation after he was swept up in the federal government’s unprecedented immigration crackdown.

The man, Ricky Chandee, was detained by immigration officials in January and remains in detention in Louisiana. He faces ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — “Striking” purple waves are crashing onto the Northern California coastline, according to an online news feed.

“(It’s) not something you see every day, a purple wave in Point Reyes” in Marin County, The West Marin Feed wrote in a Sunday, May 3, on X.

According to experts, the violet-colored waves aren’t the ...Read more

Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown on Monday was honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for her groundbreaking and impactful investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the people and institutions that enabled him to abuse girls for decades.

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes also recognized the Miami Herald and WLRN journalists as...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis’ office is pursuing legislation that would allow state agencies to invest enterprise fees and other public money in privately managed investment funds, instead of investing through the Colorado treasurer — and it’s relying on what a lawmaker called a “super-secret memo” for legal backing.

The memo to the ...Read more

MIAMI — Palm Beach County commissioners will take their first public vote Tuesday on the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump, now that county officials have reached a tentative trademark deal with the president’s companies following weeks of negotiations.

The controversial deal is unusual: other airports named ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a newly passed congressional map that gives his fellow Republicans four pickup opportunities in this fall’s midterm elections.

A spokeswoman for DeSantis confirmed his action Monday after he posted a photo of the map on social media with the message: “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland state Sen. Arthur Ellis is calling for a special session to review and address Maryland’s congressional maps following the recent Supreme Court decision prohibiting the use of race in redistricting decisions.

“The urgency (of) this issue is underscored by actions already underway in other states,” the Charles County...Read more

BEIRUT — Confusion reigned on Monday over the fate of a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran after a wave of fresh strikes on the United Arab Emirates and Oman, along with reports of attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, undermined confidence in the truce.

The drone and missile strikes, the first since a ceasefire halted ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.

Awarded by Columbia University, the prize – the country’s top journalism honor – recognizes exceptional coverage of ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach areas have had one of their driest Aprils in state history. Farmers are taking the brunt of it.

The South Carolina Drought Response Committee met Thursday morning to discuss the state’s drought status, now severe. This month’s data shows that it will take months of above-average ...Read more

NEW YORK — Broadway’s famed Eugene O’Neill Theatre caught fire Monday, with the blaze quickly escalating to three alarms and causing substantial damage, FDNY officials said.

The electrical fire broke out in a rear mezzanine of the historic theater on W. 49th Street near Times Square about 10 a.m. The theater is currently home to the hit ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Star Tribune has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its newsroom-wide coverage of a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church last summer.

Marjorie Miller, administrator of the Pulitzers, said in announcing this year’s awards Monday that the coverage included “powerful stories marked by thoroughness ...Read more

NEW YORK — A United Airlines flight hit a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, sending the truck driver to the hospital with minor injuries, authorities said.

Despite the collision, the aircraft en route from Italy landed safely, and ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law the congressional map his office created.

Within hours, opponents filed a lawsuit.

DeSantis’ plan could add four more seats for the Republican Party. It also threatens to dismantle Florida’s Fair Districts Amendment, a voter-approved part of the constitution adopted in 2010....Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a first step Monday to consider anti-abortion challenges to medication that has been commonly used to end early pregnancies for 25 years.

The justices moved quickly to put on hold an appeals court ruling that would block the mailing of abortion pills nationwide. Justice Samuel A. Alito issued a temporary "...Read more

Americans’ views on crime often don’t match reality — and a new report suggests those perceptions are shaped as much by personal experiences and economic conditions as by crime itself.

The analysis, released by the nonprofit think tank Council on Criminal Justice, draws on decades of Gallup survey data to examine how people perceive crime...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Charges against two Brooklyn Park women who sprang into action to help save an ICE agent having a seizure have been dismissed.

Despite their heroics in January, Tiffany “Tippy” Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were charged at the time with assaulting, resisting and impeding officers, according to federal court records. ...Read more

Sending humans out past the moon for the first time in more than half a century enticed nearly 350,000 people to descend on Florida's Space Coast for the Artemis II mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center.

NASA’s powerhouse Space Launch System rocket, topped with the Orion spacecraft with four astronauts, shot into space from KSC’s ...Read more