BALTIMORE — An Anne Arundel County judge ruled Wednesday that Maryland’s proposed congressional redistricting amendment should be kept off the November ballot, handing Republican challengers a victory after finding that lawmakers failed to follow state election law when they rushed the measure through a special session earlier this month.

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A coalition of Democratic-led states sued again Wednesday to block the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new nationwide rules for mail ballots, arguing they usurp state authority over elections at President Donald Trump’s behest, expose voter information unnecessarily and threaten chaos in the rapidly approaching November election.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentuckians convicted of felonies could have their gun rights restored —if they meet a strict set of criteria — after the federal government revived a program defunded by Congress in 1992.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it will consider firearm rights restoration for convicted felons, who are...Read more

A violent flash flood at the border between Nepal and China tore through a checkpoint and left hundreds missing, including 291 foreigners who were identified by local authorities.

The mudslide struck at around 8:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday, according to preliminary data released by the Nepal Tourism Board, with a total of 384 travelers ...Read more

Iran’s military said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides push for a wider deal on the management of the crucial waterway.

“Agreements have been reached regarding each country’s share of the strait’s waters as well as Iran and Oman’s share of its revenues,” the Islamic ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Democrats are demanding the state’s emergency managers explain how they’ve spent nearly a billion dollars in disaster money and why they’re 41 days late on a new report detailing those tabs.

“This is not a complicated request,” Orlando Rep. Anna Eskamani said in a Tuesday news release. “We are in the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday was back to tracking just one Atlantic system, but also dropped its chances that it could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave, dubbed Invest 96L, was located ...Read more

Iran said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides push for a wider deal on the management of the crucial waterway.

“Agreements have been reached regarding each country’s share of the strait’s waters as well as Iran and Oman’s share of its revenues,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...Read more

Russia is expanding its campaign of hybrid attacks against countries that supply weapons and money to Kyiv and has caught Europe without a plan to respond.

From cyber attacks to armed drones and mysterious cases of arson, tensions are rising across the continent as the war in Ukraine is set to enter its fifth winter. Just this month, Poland ...Read more

A former Compton gang homicide detective testified Tuesday in the trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis that he had "no doubt" that the gang Davis led was behind the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur because of the bloody gang war that followed.

Shakur was riding with Death Row Records mogul Marion "Suge" Knight on Sept. 7, 1996, just off the Vegas Strip. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX drove the Space Coast’s record 109 launches last year with a frenetic pace of missions dedicated to its Starlink internet constellation.

That spigot has been turned off, the company’s vice president of launch said after a Starlink mission that launched early Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

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SAN FRANCISCO — At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting insulin pens from California’s new prescription drug label, CalRx, emblazoned with the state’s iconic grizzly bear.

Although she hasn’t dispensed any, On plans to keep them on hand. “It’s good to ...Read more

California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs.

If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The first significant test of a new Minnesota law making it illegal to charge children under 13 with a crime came this month when an 11-year-old stabbed an 18-year-old multiple times in the entrance to a St. Cloud grocery store.

The victim and store patrons held the 11-year-old down until police arrived and took the boy to St. ...Read more

Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him very ill.

For six months in 2022, Manski received monthly infusions of nivolumab to fight advanced melanoma. The drug ruined...Read more

Dolly Parton had reportedly been battling cancer before her death.

A spokesperson for Parton's estate confirmed the cause of death to the New York Times.

In a statement, also shared with People, a representative for the country music icon said: "After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Tuesday that her office will not file felony riot charges against far-right activist Jake Lang and others over Lang’s latest confrontation in Minneapolis, citing “prior communication” between police and Lang’s security detail.

Moriarty’s office did not detail the nature of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House said it is set to take away as many as 200,000 visas from foreigners, in what it called the largest mass revocation in U.S. history.

The move, which the White House previewed on social media Tuesday, is expected to target asylum-seekers who hold U.S. visas. It would escalate President Donald Trump’s second-term...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a jolt to the impending midterm elections by reviving President Donald Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting while creating a tangle of new legal and logistical questions as states prepare to make ballots available.

The court’s conservative majority on Monday agreed with the Justice ...Read more