A group of Democratic state attorneys general and governors won a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of illegally using a budget loophole to block billions of dollars in federal grants for public services that were already approved by Congress.

The grant terminations improperly trampled the spending authority of Congress, which ...Read more

Washington’s air improved slightly on Friday while New York City could be blanketed by more wildfire smoke later in the day, though forecasts indicate skies will be clear enough for Sunday’s World Cup final to take place in New Jersey.

As smoke from scores of wildfires raging in Canada spread across the Great Lakes into the Mid-Atlantic ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran traded attacks again on Friday, pressuring oil prices and making a quick return to the fragile ceasefire deal signed last month even less likely.

U.S. Central Command said a new round of air strikes were underway beginning at 3 p.m. ET on Friday with the goal of “degrading Iranian military capabilities.” No other details ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In less than three weeks Los Angeles school officials must show, under state law, how they will carry out the steepest budget cuts in a generation after county education authorities concluded they lack confidence in district leadership to prevent bankruptcy.

The options are painful and stand to dramatically downsize the nation's...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore County staff report recommends some of Maryland’s toughest regulations for data centers, giving county lawmakers a blueprint they’ll consider before deciding later this year whether to lift or extend the current moratorium.

The recommendations, released this week, stop short of calling for an extension of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Air regulators have slapped Lineage Logistics with multiple violations related to the putrid odor at its Boyle Heights facility after receiving more than 720 complaints from residents since Sunday.

So far this week, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued five notices of violations to the company as it works ...Read more

CHICAGO — It’s been more than a week since Jackie Gonzalez ate the bag of prepackaged salad mix she suspects left her tied to the bathroom and doubled over with debilitating stomach pain.

As the infection leaves her system, the physical symptoms of the illness her doctor told her to assume was cyclosporiasis are fading. What’s left is a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The National Park Service removed early Wednesday the few panels that remained from the slavery exhibit at the President’s House, and replaced them with new panels.

The original displays were deemed to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” following President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order on “...Read more

The resumption of U.S. strikes against Iran has thrust incoming UK prime minister Andy Burnham into a potential day one decision on how much to support Britain’s closest ally in its controversial military campaign.

Even as Burnham was installed as leader of the governing Labour Party on Friday, outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ...Read more

Taylor Farms, the California company that is being investigated for the cyclosporiasis outbreak, according to multiple news outlets, has responded to concerns about the safety of its lettuce and announced it is taking the produce in question off the market.

The outbreak has been caused by a food and waterborne parasite and has made thousands of...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday increased its forecast chances a system forming off the Florida coast could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said that a large area of showers and thunderstorms has congregated over the eastern Gulf associated with an upper-...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the increasingly transactional world of college athletics, ACC commissioner Jim Phillips remains incurably, unapologetically and, most important, genuinely relational.

Conversations begin, and close, with questions about family. Kids and spouses. School, vacations and weddings.

He guides the conference in the same manner...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration terminated dozens of health research grants this week, telling grantees it is shifting priorities to issues like the “overmedication of children” and autism, according to a prominent research organization.

The cuts hit projects at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, many of them ...Read more

DETROIT — The U.S. Department of Education has launched three more investigations into Michigan school districts, all in Metro Detroit, this time related to possible "staff on student sexual misconduct."

The Detroit Public Schools Community District, Taylor School District and the School District of the City of Pontiac are facing scrutiny ...Read more

President Donald Trump threw his support behind Darline Graham Nordone for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, a position opened up by the sudden death of longtime lawmaker Lindsey Graham.

A special election will be held August 11. Filing for the position opens at noon July 21 and closes July 28.

Darline Graham has not formally announced a ...Read more

For a couple reportedly plotting to “reverse Megxit,” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle certainly had some interesting ideas about how to make the British public like them again during their visit to the U.K. last week.

Harry created weeks of “psychodrama” over his family’s travel plans by raising alarms about long-settled security ...Read more

New findings about an alien asteroid are out, and it’s all thanks to a New Jersey couple after an uninvited hazard crashed into their home two years ago.

In July 2024, a meteorite shot through the sky. Observers across the Northeast said they witnessed a fireball at the time.

Before reaching Earth, the asteroid had a mass of 115 pounds, ...Read more