BOSTON — Hyde Park was left reeling Monday after investigators said someone walked into a restaurant there and “started shooting up the place,” leaving one dead and four others injured in the latest act of violence rocking Boston.

The mass shooting occurred just after midnight at Little Haiti International Cuisine, a creole restaurant ...Read more

Sen. Thom Tillis has agreed to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general after a weekend of publicly sparring with President Donald Trump.

Tillis, a Republican from Huntersville, and Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, had refused to confirm Blanche out of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary until the White House and Blanche agreed to ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Early voting began across Alaska on Monday ahead of the Aug. 18 primary election, but not without hiccups.

In Anchorage, a popular early voting location was moved from the Division of Elections office on Gambell Street to a storefront in the Midtown Mall.

But the mall only opens at 10 a.m., leaving 8 a.m. voters driving ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts is setting out to lower health care costs with steps like investing more state resources in primary care, supporting nursing recruitment, and standardizing out-of-network service rates Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday.

“We know that healthcare costs are burdening people, families, employers, budgets at the state, ...Read more

State lawmakers are spending a rare three-day special session on congressional redistricting even as Maryland families struggle with rising utility bills, housing costs, and grocery prices, prompting critics to argue pocketbook issues could have been added to the agenda.

But Maryland Democratic leaders say constitutional deadlines left them ...Read more

DENVER — “How did it feel to look back at Earth?” a small voice asked the astronauts. A line of children waiting to pop their own questions snaked from the boy standing at the shortened microphone into the wings of Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday.

Christina Koch, one of four astronauts who manned NASA’s Artemis II mission in April, ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday on social media that Aug. 3 has “no legal impact” on his options if a Kentucky U.S. Senate seat becomes vacant this year.

His statement comes amid rampant online speculation that Aug. 3 marks the deadline for holding a special election to complete the term of Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been absent since his ...Read more

A father-son duo accused of abducting two federal wildlife biologists in a remote part of Northern California pleaded not guilty Monday in federal court in Sacramento to charges of kidnapping, assault and weapons violations.

Joseph Henrichsen, 49, and Phoenix Henrichsen, 23, were arrested July 17 after authorities said they held two women at ...Read more

California filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration Monday — one to block President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs on international trading partners, the other to block his administration from sharing needy families' personal data with immigration officials.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, whose office brought the lawsuits...Read more

When will the Las Vegas Valley feel some relief from above-average temperatures? It won’t be this week.

On Monday, the National Weather Service issued an extension of its extreme heat warning through Saturday. The warning was originally issued on July 30 to last Sunday, but has been extended twice.

The forecasted high on Monday is 113 ...Read more

Cyclospora cases in Missouri have nearly doubled for the second consecutive week, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

The gastrointestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite that’s caused havoc on thousands of people’s stomachs nationwide, with the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention Control ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Just as Senate GOP leaders plan to begin moving several big-ticket items ahead of a planned August recess, President Donald Trump will head out west for a Los Angeles-area fundraiser and an economic speech in Las Vegas.

Trump is set to return to Washington, D.C., Wednesday night — when the chamber could be a few votes away from...Read more

Convicted political assassin Vance Boelter was back in a Minnesota courtroom Monday on the state’s charges against him, asking a judge if Sen. Amy Klobuchar would be brought in to testify in his case.

Boelter made a first appearance in Hennepin County District Court in the shootings that killed DFL state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Around 2,000 people have filed for an exemption to the NYC pied-à-terre tax — and 4,800 more have at least started the process amid the new levy’s controversial rollout, City Hall said Monday.

The city sent roughly 17,000 homeowners letters to warn them they may be subject to the new tax, which puts a surcharge on pricey ...Read more

Virginia legislators urged Gov. Abigail Spanberger to call the General Assembly into a special session to address the Department of Environmental Quality’s Groundwater Supply report released in July.

In a joint letter sent last week by Sens. Russet Perry, D-Leesburg, and Richard Stuart, R-Montross, the legislators referred to the report’s ...Read more

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on Monday publicized a letter from the Department of Justice that says the department has not investigated her for allegations involving insider trading in prediction markets.

Luna has for weeks strenuously denied a July Wall Street Journal report in which an unnamed source alleged that Luna said she shared insider ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear joined 23 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration over access to personal information and data of people who receive low-income assistance.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in Washington, D.C., challenges a new regulation from taking affect that would allow the federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump will travel to Los Angeles on Tuesday and Las Vegas on Wednesday as part of a two-day West Coast trip aimed at highlighting his administration's economic record ahead of the midterm elections, a White House official confirmed.

In Los Angeles, Trump is scheduled to attend a Republican National Committee dinner at ...Read more