Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. are living in uncertain times. On June 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could proceed with a plan to end Temporary Protected Status – a federal program that allows people to stay in the United States when the government considers their own country unsafe – ...Read more

Washington’s Gulf Arab allies are increasingly frustrated as hostilities between the U.S. and Iran intensify, jeopardizing their national security and economies.

The Gulf states’ exasperation is underscored by their wide-ranging views on what the U.S. should do next.

Some officials believe President Donald Trump should escalate military ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress told The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday that he is skeptical the Francis Scott Key Bridge can be rebuilt by late 2030 and wants clearer answers about the project’s cost as the federal government is being asked to provide additional funding.

Rep. Andy Harris declined Gov. Wes Moore’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Grisly photos of the dismembered corpse of a teenage girl were made public Tuesday morning at a preliminary hearing in the murder case against the singer D4vd, who prosecutors say used a chainsaw to mutilate the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez after he killed her to cover up years of alleged sexual abuse.

Hernandez’s body was ...Read more

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it is withholding more federal Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California, citing suspected fraud and compliance concerns involving more than a dozen high-risk Medicaid programs.

The pause includes $199 million in payments to Minnesota and $867.5 million to California. Officials said a review of ...Read more

California and 19 other attorneys generals are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for reversing action on high-polluting refrigerants.

President Donald Trump announced in May that grocery stories and air conditioning companies would get several more years to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, a class of very climate-damaging ...Read more

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed off on the annual state budget Tuesday, giving the final stamps of approval to the last yearly state spending plans in her eight years as governor.

The Democratic governor signed the education budget Tuesday morning in Southfield and signed off on the omnibus budget, which funds all of the ...Read more

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, have fallen to their lowest combined levels on record, a grim marker in the deepening water crisis across seven states that depend on the Colorado River.

The two reservoirs are now lower than the previous record in 2023, researchers say.

“It’s a hell of a milestone,” said...Read more

MIAMI — The operator of a tugboat that was pushing a construction barge that ran over a sailboat last summer in Biscayne Bay, killing three summer campers, pleaded guilty to seaman’s manslaughter in federal court on Tuesday.

Yusiel Lopez Insua, 47, faced 10 years in prison if convicted at trial. Prosecutors are recommending he serve a year ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened Tuesday as it moved closer to the Gulf Coast, and the National Hurricane Center extended tropical storm warnings into Florida.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory, the center of Bertha was located about 90 miles southwest of Panama City and 125 miles southeast of Mobile, Alabama moving northwest at 5 mph ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Grisly photos of the dismembered corpse of a teenage girl were made public Tuesday morning at a preliminary hearing in the murder case against the singer D4vd, who prosecutors say used a chainsaw to mutilate the corpse of Celeste Rivas Hernandez after he killed the young girl to cover up years of alleged sexual abuse.

Hernandez�...Read more

The government of Guyana continued to search its coastal waters Tuesday for dozens of people still missing after a government ferry capsized over the weekend in one of the deadliest disasters to it the South American country.

“Search and recovery operations continued throughout the night, as teams remained on the water in the ongoing effort ...Read more

MIAMI — Despite ongoing diplomatic tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Cuba, a flight carrying the first batch of $100 million worth of U.S. humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people was scheduled to depart from Miami on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s 7Air Cargo flight will carry hygiene kits and food for 700 families, the...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump minimized the prospect of immediate talks with Iran as the two sides exchanged strikes and Houthi militants in Yemen threatened shipping in the Red Sea.

Trump vowed on Tuesday to respond if the Iran-backed group disrupted that waterway, but didn’t specify how.

His comments came after the 10th day ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Crews battled several wildfires Tuesday across Northern California, including the Biscar Fire in Lassen County, which has grown to nearly 59,000 acres, the Rumsey Fire near the Colusa-Yolo county line and the Chute Fire in Yuba County.

The Biscar Fire burning northeast of Susanville in Lassen County grew to 58,878 acres, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a lower court’s decision to release Columbia University and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi from immigration detention.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled 3-0 that a federal district judge in Vermont lacked the authority to let go of Mahdawi, deciding his case ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Convicted former Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty has taken a variety of steps to try to cut his six-year prison term short, including taking the witness stand this spring to tell a federal judge about the unique health challenges faced by his wife.

But one other avenue he pursued last year — an appeal to the White ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — An expected vacancy on Kentucky’s federal bench after the hiring of the University of Kentucky’s new law school dean makes way for President Donald Trump to further cement the state’s conservative judiciary.

Gregory Van Tatenhove is still a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, according...Read more

WASHINGTON — The late Sen. Lindsey Graham will be honored with a ceremony in the Capitol’s Rotunda ahead of a funeral at the National Cathedral next Tuesday.

“For so many of us in the Senate and the House, myself included, Lindsey was more than a colleague, he was a friend,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said in a statement...Read more