It had been 53 years, 3 months and 17 days since the Apollo 17 crew — the final moon landing mission — left lunar orbit, headed back to Earth and ended an era.

But a new era has finally begun with the Wednesday launch of the Artemis II mission from Kennedy Space Center, an event that will kickstart the agency’s plans to venture back to a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge will decide whether to once again dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit against Charter Communications for the killing of Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, after a hearing Thursday in which she seemed skeptical of arguments to allow it to go forward.

The hearing took place after Senior District Judge Anne ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A sit-in to demand that Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal act to help stop ICE arrests at the Criminal Justice Center turned chaotic Thursday, when deputies handcuffed and physically removed demonstrators from the foyer area outside the Sheriff’s Office.

They were escorted on elevators to the street-level floor, then loaded...Read more

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday signed an executive directive that instructs state agencies to assess the impact of tariffs on Michigan industries and consumers and to aid businesses in seeking refunds from the federal government.

The order was signed on the one-year anniversary of Liberation Day, when President Donald Trump imposed wide-...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general on Thursday, ending a tumultuous 14-month tenure marked by mass firings of career prosecutors, a bungled handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation and a string of investigations into the president’s political foes, including prominent California Democrats. ...Read more

The Trump administration will impose tariffs of as much as 100% on certain imported medicines, albeit with several key exemptions, a maneuver to pressure drugmakers to manufacture more in the U.S.

The new levy, which President Donald Trump authorized on Thursday, applies to patented drugs made in countries that lack tariff deals with the U.S. ...Read more

When Artemis II took off from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, it had one especially cute crew member aboard — "Rise," a stuffed toy created by an 8-year-old boy from California that will indicate for astronauts when they have reached weightlessness.

Lucas Ye, from Mountain View, won an international competition to design the toy, which...Read more

Don Lemon appeared on ABC’s “The View” Thursday where he attempted to turn the tables on President Donald Trump.

The former CNN host told the talk show’s panels that he feels he’s being targeted by the Trump administration as evidenced by the president having called him “the dumbest man on television.”

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared an energy emergency Thursday in response to high gas prices — a move that will allow gas stations in certain southeast Michigan communities to continue delivering lower-cost motor fuel blends in the coming months.

The emergency declaration, implemented through an executive order on Thursday, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A bill that would name portions of Kentucky highways after public figures, including one for Charlie Kirk, passed both chambers of the General Assembly Wednesday night .

The bill, Senate Joint Resolution 139, passed 32-2 in the Senate and 86-4 in the House of Representatives. The resolution honors dozens of Kentucky public ...Read more

CHICAGO — Many Chicago building owners finally got the green light this week to build coach houses and “granny flats” on their properties, though a split ward-by-ward legalization means lots of Chicagoans will not have the option.

After a bitter City Council fight last year, 34 aldermen opted to allow additional dwelling unit construction...Read more

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission around the moon got some relief overnight after troubleshooting a malfunctioning toilet on the Orion spacecraft.

It’s not as if there was a plumbing backup on the toilet that will make history as the first ever in deep space. Instead, the crew reported a blinking fault light.

“We had a ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced new initiatives to tackle microplastics in the human body and drinking water Thursday.

Kennedy said the government will create a new $144 million program called STOMP, for the systematic targeting of ...Read more

Environmental groups have filed multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration over its decision earlier this week to broadly exempt the oil and gas industry from requirements that protect all endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico.

In one federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington, D.C., a coalition of four Gulf advocacy organizations ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation that seeks to simplify tariffs on metal imports and address efforts by producers of metals outside of the United States to circumvent the import taxes, according to seniors administration officials.

The 50% duties on aluminum, steel and copper imports that Trump imposed last year have ...Read more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen shot her dead at their home with a shotgun that had been muzzled with a pillow, according to police records released Thursday.

Officers found the vice mayor’s body, wrapped in a comforter and black trash bags, in the bedroom of her home in the 800 block of ...Read more

MIAMI — Nancy Metayer Bowen was a politically ambitious trailblazer for a new generation of Haitian Americans in South Florida before her tragic death, which is being criminally investigated, was announced Wednesday.

A twice-elected member of the Coral Springs City Council and the town’s current vice mayor, Metayer Bowen, 38, made history ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ousted Pamela Bondi as attorney general Thursday, closing out a tumultuous tenure punctuated by rolling controversies and attacks against the Justice Department’s traditional independence from the White House.

Trump, who made the announcement in a social media post, said his former personal attorney, ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. government from ending parole and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the country using the CBP One app.

District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Massachusetts ruled that the Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by terminating parole en masse without ...Read more