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Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and attorneys general from North Carolina and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday, alleging the agency unlawfully cut congressionally approved ...Read more

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for canceling $50 million in education grants to 18 Tar Heel school districts, including in Durham and Orange ...Read more

It was just a couple of years ago that the minimum wage landscape in California reached a major milestone — fast food workers would begin earning $20 an hour, a monumental boost in pay over the state’s then hourly rate...Read more

New Jersey’s minimum wage will increase on Thursday.

The new rate of $15.92 an hour is a $0.43 increase from the previous standard, which was set in 2025.

“Eight years ago, Governor Murphy pledged a stronger, fairer ...Read more

California wants to use ChatGPT to make state employees’ daily work easier and more efficient.

That’s the goal of Poppy, a new “digital assistant” powered by ChatGPT and other publicly available generative ...Read more

Mayor Adams vetoed 19 City Council bills late Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to block the measures, which carry significant implications for city policy on immigration, housing, street vending, police accountability and ...Read more

Maryland has secured more than $2.6 million in philanthropic grant funding to launch artificial intelligence tools aimed at streamlining access to public benefits such as food assistance, Medicaid and unemployment services...Read more

Rain was falling over the Southland on Wednesday afternoon as the region headed into the New Year soggy and with the virtual certainty of a wet 2026 Tournament of Roses parade.

Forecasters warned of a "near 100% chance" ...Read more

With just hours left in office, Mayor Eric Adams launched a Charter Revision Commission stacked with political allies on Wednesday afternoon, tasking the panel with considering changing city law to allow for open primaries...Read more

Inside a single-story brick building in Sorrento Mesa is a small lab sprinkled with beakers, test tubes and incubators that is worth billions of dollars.

This is where Cidara, a small San Diego pharmaceutical company, ...Read more

Mayor Brandon Scott announced Tuesday that the City of Baltimore has filed a lawsuit against digital lender Dave Inc., accusing the company of luring cash-strapped residents into high-cost, short-term loans through ...Read more

BAY LAKE, Florida — A Walt Disney World cast member was injured blocking the massive boulder prop from hitting the audience Tuesday at the Indiana Jones attraction at Hollywood Studios.

Disney confirmed the employee was...Read more

Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl has been diagnosed with dementia and will withdraw from public life, he announced Tuesday.

“I was blessed to represent the people of Arizona in Congress and to have numerous other ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.

Trump said in...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said he held a “productive call” with European leaders on the next steps in President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring a halt to Russia’s war in Ukraine, following new challenges in the ...Read more

The Trump administration’s pledge to freeze $185 million in child care payments to Minnesota could put a financial squeeze on thousands of low-income families as federal and state leaders spar over how to address a ...Read more

The day after Christmas is typically quiet in the nation's capital. But President Trump's decision to acknowledge a covert U.S. strike on Venezuelan territory, in an interview with an obscure local news outlet on Friday, ...Read more

The state Supreme Court has turned back a weapons possession challenge when it ruled that courts can issue protective orders barring gun ownership in cases where subjects of the orders are not explicitly accused of crimes ...Read more