LANSING, Mich. — A Traverse City hair salon that posted a Facebook message shunning transgender patrons was found to have violated a new tenet of Michigan's anti-discrimination law, the first test of the statute's new protections against discriminatory advertising based on gender identity.

After a three-year investigation and adjudication ...Read more

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is pressuring U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune to address Sen. Mitch McConnell’s ongoing absence and encouraging others to join him in the effort.

During a live call-in broadcast that aired on SiriusXM Progress Wednesday afternoon, Beshear said it’s up to Thune to make sure the GOP members of the Senate have...Read more

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has until 4 p.m. Wednesday to appease two GOP holdout senators and unlock a key vote scheduled for Thursday morning that would bring him a step closer to heading the Justice Department permanently.

Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn said he is waiting for Blanche and the DOJ to nail down ...Read more

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged, but a fractured vote signaled growing conviction among some policymakers that higher rates are needed to curb resurgent inflation.

The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to hold the benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.5% to 3.75%. Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, Cleveland�...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Abdoulaye Cherif was asleep when his phone rang that morning, and answered only because the display showed the call was coming from a prison.

He was shocked to hear the voice of his father, who was supposed to be at work, driving for Uber.

Mamadou Fadel Cherif told his son he had been arrested by ICE as he left the family home...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Senate and House Democrats are reintroducing nine bills that Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed earlier this month at the end of an 18-month legal fight between the legislative chambers.

The bills are unlikely to have much of a chance of moving through the Republican-led House, where the majority has largely ...Read more

A federal judge has ruled that a former Fort Worth ISD principal’s First Amendment lawsuit is unlikely to succeed after she was reassigned during an investigation of her social media posts, and denied her request to be immediately reinstated.

Shayma Alzubi was reassigned shortly after being announced as principal of Western Hills High School ...Read more

Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and journalist Brian Glenn tied the knot during a ritzy ceremony in Las Vegas this week, according to reports.

The conservative couple exchanged vows Tuesday at the Terrazza di Sogno in The Bellagio, TMZ reported.

In images published by the outlet, 52-year-old Greene can be seen sporting an elegant ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The City of St. Paul, Minnesota, has hired an outside law firm to investigate sexual harassment allegations against Mayor Kaohly Her, including claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees.

The Minnesota Star Tribune obtained an April 1 letter sent by Henry’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California offered seats to a record number of Californians this year, according to new figures released Wednesday, as it faces intense scrutiny of its admissions practices, including pressure from Sacramento to enroll more state residents and investigations by the Trump administration.

UC admitted 102,031 ...Read more

DENVER — The Denver City Council is weighing the addition of a “slavery acknowledgment” at the beginning of its meetings to recognize the forced labor of enslaved Africans and the legacy of that practice.

Councilwoman Shontel Lewis brought the proposal forward during a committee meeting Tuesday, originally calling it a “labor ...Read more

Glen Hansard, the Irish singer and songwriter best known for starring in the hit 2007 film “Once” — and for winning an Academy Award for original song with the movie’s “Falling Slowly” — died Wednesday in a motorcycle crash in Dublin. He was 56.

In a statement, Hansard’s representatives at ATC Management said he died “in the ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been placed in solitary confinement after a fight at his New Jersey prison, TMZ first reported.

The harsh punishment followed an altercation at FCI Fort Dix, unnamed sources told the outlet.

Fort Dix’s Admission and Orientation Inmate Handbook, lays out what this means.

While in “Disciplinary ...Read more

The U.S.’s conflict against Iran looks set to drag on, possibly for months, with the sides unable to break a deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz and achieve a lasting ceasefire deal, according to several current and former officials from the US, Iran and Europe.

The stark assessments from the people, who asked not to be named discussing ...Read more

DETROIT — The total number of reported cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan surpassed 10,000 on Wednesday as health officials continue to investigate the state's worst-ever outbreak of the parasitic illness.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 397 new cases of cyclosporiasis, which usually causes frequent, watery and ...Read more

The clock is ticking on the end of Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants in the United States, meaning that it’s only a matter of time before the Trump administration can begin escalating their deportations to Haiti.

Technically, the administration’s policy ending TPS for Haitian and some Syrian ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would hit Iran hard after a recent attack that targeted a military base in Jordan, as the war in the Middle East flared up once again following a recent pause in hostilities.

“We’ll be hitting them hard,” Trump said in a phone interview, Fox News reported Wednesday, adding that “they’re going to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nicholas Shapiro, a professor at UCLA, was scrolling the city of Los Angeles' online data portal one day this spring when he noticed something odd.

A trove of Los Angeles Police Department records that were once regularly posted online was suddenly nowhere to be found. The records — everything from audio recordings of ...Read more