A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore journalists’ access to the White House on Sept. 24, 2026. As he had in a similar case in 2018, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly decided the revocation of the reporters’ press passes likely violated their Fifth Amendment right to due process.

His decision ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A nonprofit that steered nearly $100 million to fraudsters has agreed to hand over $18.5 million to the state of Minnesota to settle a lawsuit by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Under the settlement agreement, which was filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court, Partners in Nutrition will dissolve and turn over ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The next phase of a highly successful satellite mission led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has burned through its rainy day fund and now risks cost and schedule overruns, according to a new report.

One of the culprits: the 2025 Eaton fire, which came within a mile of the La Cañada Flintridge research facility.

The ...Read more

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s trustees want the university to grow.

By a lot.

On Thursday, the board passed a resolution to recommend UNC enroll 5% of North Carolina’s high school seniors by 2030.

That would increase the number of students from North Carolina enrolling at UNC by up to 46%.

The university already had a ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday it will not change its stance that the state General Assembly wrongfully tried to impeach Lexington Judge Julie Muth Goodman.

Facing significant criticism from Republican lawmakers over decisions she made in court, Goodman was impeached by the Kentucky House earlier this year. The ...Read more

A U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty to stealing mail from a Johnson County post office location, federal court records show.

David Alan Boutte, 60, of Olathe, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of theft or receipt of stolen mail, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.

According to court ...Read more

With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems – a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in Ukraine when a doctored video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his soldiers to lay ...Read more

Most Americans know that in all criminal cases – those filed by the government against an accused individual – the defendant has a constitutional right to a lawyer. The Supreme Court established this right in 1963 in the landmark case Gideon v. Wainright.

What many people may not know is that no such right exists in civil cases. ...Read more

At least a quarter of Americans suffer from high levels of cholesterol or fatty acids in their bloodstream, a condition called dyslipidemia. Uncontrolled cholesterol levels increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD: a group of diseases that result from the buildup of plaque in the blood vessels, preventing blood ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administraton's most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

But the showdown is far from over. Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were still denied access to the...Read more

MIAMI — The man arrested at Miami-International Airport after chaotic reports of an active shooter Wednesday afternoon was firing rounds toward the crowded terminal before he was detained by deputies, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Deputies found three bullet holes in a trash can and one through the windshield of ...Read more

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to maintain a trade truce until early 2027, with neither ready to upend relations between the world’s biggest economies even as tensions persist over rare earths, technology curbs and Taiwan.

Just as Xi landed in the U.S. on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that an agreement struck by ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administraton's most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said in his ruling that the administration's ban is likely unconstitutiona...Read more

Oil surged as Iran threatened to expand the war in the Middle East, worsening the outlook for a deal to reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz.

Brent futures jumped more than 3% to trade above $106 a barrel, after a top Iranian military official said Tehran may broaden the war to the Indian Ocean if attacked. Prices pared some gains later in the ...Read more

Prior to his capture this year, Sebastian Marset was reputed to be one of the world's most prolific drug traffickers, allegedly sending mountains of cocaine — 10 tons or more per shipment — from South America to Europe.

A native of Uruguay, where authorities say he proclaimed himself "King of the South" and led a criminal network dubbed "...Read more

DENVER — Metro Denver and the northern Front Range this summer documented one of the worst ozone pollution seasons of the past 30 years, jeopardizing the region’s standing under federal air quality standards and possibly placing a higher financial burden on businesses.

The nine-county region logged 66 days during which ozone pollution ...Read more