LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky would enact a state ban against a thumbnail-sized device that can convert semi-automatic handguns into automatics under a measure moving to the House floor.

The House Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection on Tuesday approved House Bill 299, which would make possession of the devices a Class C ...Read more

BOSTON — Cape Cod and the South Shore are still coping with the wrath of the Blizzard of ’26.

The 11 o’clock tally for power outages remains above a quarter of a million customers without power. The exact number is 251,541, according to the MEMA database update.

Up and down the Cape power remains out with Barnstable the worst in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare moment of political alignment last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump vowed to crack down on corporate homebuying. Now, a new bill aims to make it a reality.

AB 1611, introduced by Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, in January, would eliminate a "tax loophole" that Haney says corporate ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday her family is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to her kidnapped mother, saying it’s possible Nancy Guthrie is “already gone.”

“But we need to know where she is. We need her to come home. For that reason we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us...Read more

BOSTON — Cape Cod and the South Shore are still coping with the wrath of the Blizzard of ’26.

The 10 o’clock tally for power outages remains above a quarter of a million customers without power. The exact number is 252,490, according to the MEMA database update.

Up and down the Cape power remains out with Barnstable the worst in the ...Read more

A potentially “aggressive” police dog defied stereotypes when he escaped his kennel and joined up with a gang of goats, according to investigators in North Carolina.

The dog, named K-9 Macho, went on the run after high winds seriously damaged his kennel in the Lexington area, the Thomasville Police Department reported in a Feb. 23 news ...Read more

In Portland, Oregon, people wearing inflatable frog costumes – The Portland Frog Brigade – danced outside immigration offices. In Chicago, parents and neighbors walked children to and from school, forming “magic schoolbuses” for families who feared detention.

Thousands of Americans have taken to the streets since fall 2025 to...Read more

More than 128,000 Floridians are living with HIV. The state has the second-highest rate of new HIV diagnoses after Georgia, with approximately 4,500 new diagnoses in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available.

But access to treatment could be in jeopardy if potential budget cuts, announced in January 2026 by the Florida ...Read more

What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government – with implications that go far beyond the fate of a technical legal conflict.

The question arose after a 2010 Enbridge Energy oil spill in Michigan. The ...Read more

Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two white Minneapolis residents killed in January 2026 by federal agents while protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policy, have become household names. National media outlets continue to focus on their deaths and the circumstances around them.

Neither of them was the first person to be shot ...Read more

In 2024, spending on federal elections totaled almost US$15 billion in the United States. The United Kingdom, in contrast, spent approximately $129 million on its 2024 parliamentary elections – less than 1% of 2024 U.S. spending – despite having a population one-fifth the size of the U.S.

Indeed, most other democratic countries ...Read more

For the past eight years, the Colorado Springs City Council has issued proclamations and recognitions paying homage to the achievements of its African American citizens.

In 2005, the Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor Yemi Mobolade jointly issued a Black History Month proclamation.

This year, the mayor’s office issued ...Read more

Amid growing demands by Democrats to overhaul U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after federal immigration officials killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in early February 2026 that agents in Minneapolis will be issued body-worn cameras.

But can body cameras on federal officials ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will deliver his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night at a moment of unusual upheaval, confronting a cascade of crises that have left Washington unsettled and his own political standing diminished early in his second term.

When lawmakers gather to hear the president's agenda for the year ahead, ...Read more