MIAMI — Byron Donalds has built his campaign around Donald Trump’s endorsement, but he’s willing to split with the president on at least one issue: He said in Miami Monday that he’d rather see state-level regulation of artificial intelligence and data centers than the national policy framework Trump wants.

“If you’re going to talk ...Read more

BOSTON — A “trans period pride” event that caused an uproar on right-wing social media channels will no longer be hosted by the Boston Public Library, and will be moved to a new location, city officials said.

A notice for the June 17 event that was initially set to be held at the Central Library in Copley Square “with support from the ...Read more

Florida Democrats came out swinging on Monday, filing amendments on the first day of a special session hoping to mitigate the damage they say will be caused by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposal to slash property taxes and radically overhaul how Floridians pay for essential local services.

“As you all know, we are here for the next three days to ...Read more

Financial institutions seeking to stop Illinois’ novel law banning certain credit card fees notched wins in both the state legislature and federal court on Monday, after a federal judge issued a permanent injunction on the law in question.

The action by Chief Judge Virginia M. Kendall in the Northern District of Illinois followed Illinois ...Read more

MIAMI — In the days since she helped secure her father’s release from Alligator Alcatraz, Arianne Betancourt received a number of congratulatory messages from friends, family, and even strangers.

On Sunday, she received a message from someone she never expected she’d hear from: President Donald Trump.

“Welcome home to Justo Betancourt,...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — In the aftermath of attacks resuming Sunday and Monday in the Middle East, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner gathered representatives from veterans organizations and families of sailors who recently returned from the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group’s 11-month deployment — where they were supporting conflict operations — to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday that the city will hire over 550 new officers this year — despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani previously saying he’d hold the NYPD headcount flat.

The increase marks a turnaround for Mamdani, whose campaign promises are often at odds with the direction his police commissioner wants to ...Read more

DETROIT — The construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge and its customs plazas in Detroit and Windsor is nearing completion, setting the stage for a potential standoff with President Donald Trump over the opening of the new Detroit River span, The Detroit News has learned.

The construction and testing of all systems at the massive ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Speaking in his ceremonial office at the Illinois State Capitol hours after lawmakers voted early Monday morning to approve a nearly $56 billion election-year state spending plan, Gov. JB Pritzker made his case that eight years of his financial stewardship have put a once-struggling state on sounder footing.

Pointing to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration prepared to abandon its $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” Monday after intense pushback from GOP lawmakers, potentially removing the biggest obstacle to a reconciliation bill for immigration enforcement.

The administration will comply with a Friday order from a federal judge that temporarily ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — After more than a decade of construction in the Central Valley, the California High-Speed Rail Authority could be fewer than six months from laying the system’s first tracks.

The rail authority’s board on Monday awarded a track and systems construction contract of up to $3.5 billion to an operation between rail and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has one of the highest rates of uninsured children younger than 6 across the country, according to a new report.

The report, released Monday from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, found that in 2024, nearly 8% of Idaho children younger than 6 were uninsured, the fifth-highest rate across the U.S. ...Read more

NEW YORK — City Hall and NYPD officials have yet to have discussions about shifting police responsibilities for issues such as dealing with people having psychiatric emergencies to Mayor Mamdani’s Office of Community Safety, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch testified before the City Council on Monday.

Tisch, who is often ideologically at ...Read more

President Trump is nominating Florida’s outgoing House speaker to be ambassador to Brazil, the latest Miami Republican named to a prominent diplomatic post.

Speaker Daniel Perez, who is finishing out his final term in the House this year as the chamber’s leader, was on a list of ambassadorial nominations released by the White House on ...Read more

U.S. Customs and Border Protection named Rosario “Pete” Vasquez as chief of the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to sustain a sharp decline in illegal border crossings.

Vasquez most recently served as chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol’s Blaine Sector in Washington state. During his 26-year career, he ...Read more

Four Republicans are vying to face U.S. Sen Cory Booker, despite his popularity in New Jersey and his campaign’s massive bank account.

New Jersey has not elected a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate since 1972 — two were appointed in 1982 and 2013 — and Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 859,000. Meanwhile, President Donald ...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to host European leaders later this month with a goal of crafting a plan to smooth relations with President Donald Trump at a NATO summit in July, according to people familiar with the matter.

Leaders of the so-called E5 — Germany, France, the U.K., Italy and Poland — will gather in Berlin to assemble...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered differing accounts of a call about the fighting in Lebanon, as the U.S. struggled to get efforts toward an Iran peace deal back on track.

The mismatched statements were the latest example of confusing signals on progress to end a war, now in its fourth ...Read more