HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area city that banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles did not violate the Constitution, a judge said. U.S. District Judge David Lawson dismissed a lawsuit against Hamtramck, two years after the city council voted to allow only five flags, including the American flag, the Michigan flag and flags that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was trying to walk a delicate line following Israel’s attack on Hamas officials in Qatar, distancing himself from the strike Tuesday but stopping short of condemning Israel for carrying out an audacious strike on the soil of another major U.S. ally. Trump said the unilateral action directed by Israeli […]
POOLER, Ga. (AP) — After more than 300 South Korean workers were taken into custody during a raid on an electric battery plant in Georgia, the country’s foreign minister traveled to the U.S. this week in hopes of bringing them home. Law enforcement agents detained some 475 workers during the raid Thursday at the battery […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former CVS Health executive Helena Foulkes announced her second campaign for Rhode Island governor on Tuesday, challenging incumbent Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary. Foulkes finished a close second to McKee in the 2022 primary after a late surge in the polls and a last-minute endorsement from The Boston Globe’s […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The streets in some of Chicago’s liveliest neighborhoods are quiet these days. Public schoolteachers want online learning for families scared to venture out. And houses of worship are urging people to carry identification everywhere they go. As the nation’s third-largest city awaits a much-hyped federal intervention, residents are making changes in their […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Israeli-Russian graduate student from Princeton University who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released, according to her family and President Donald Trump. Elizabeth Tsurkov was freed Tuesday and turned over to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad following more than 900 days in captivity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an unusually quick hearing on whether President Donald Trump has the power to impose sweeping tariffs under federal law. The justices will hear arguments in November, lightning fast by the typical standards of the nation’s highest court. The small businesses and states that challenged the tariffs […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration’s decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. Roberts acted on the administration’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in case involving billions of dollars in congressionally approved aid. President Donald Trump said last month that he would […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Images of a deadly stabbing of a young Ukrainian woman killed on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, have sparked intense scrutiny of the city’s mayor right as she is seeking the Democratic nomination on Tuesday in her bid for a fifth term. The loudest criticism of Democratic Mayor Vi […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has courted foreign investment to his state and has also talked so tough about immigration he once offered to use his own pickup truck to round up “criminal illegals.” Those key issues collided this past week when immigration authorities raided a battery plant and detained foreign workers, putting […]
CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland (AP) — A new rule allowing a U.S. immigration agency to scrutinize a person’s “anti-American” views when applying for a green card or other benefits isn’t designed to target political beliefs, but to identify support for terrorist activity, the organization’s director told The Associated Press. In a wide-ranging interview on Monday, the […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom used his State of the State address Tuesday to blast President Donald Trump administration for a “relentless, unhinged California obsession” while also touting the state’s achievements on its 175th anniversary of statehood. The Democratic governor opted to send the letter to the state Legislature instead of delivering […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is imploring the nation’s public health agencies to prioritize investigations of vaccine injuries, prescription drug use, and the cause of autism in a new “Make America Healthy Again” report focused on children released on Tuesday. The 20-page report, overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for president in 2028, officially announced his reelection campaign for governor on Tuesday, criticizing Republican President Donald Trump in a video announcement. The governor said that while he stands up for the middle class in Maryland, the president “is […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led House turned aside Democratic objections Tuesday and passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump to redraw the state’s congressional districts so that Republicans could win almost all of them. The rare mid-decade redistricting plan, which now heads to the state Senate, is aimed at bolstering Republicans’ national […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.” Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said he does not believe Republican Attorney General Chris […]
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News has a new ombudsman assigned to look into public complaints, but the job being assumed by Kenneth Weinstein bears little resemblance to how this watchdog role has traditionally operated in journalism. Weinstein, appointed Monday by CBS’ parent company Paramount, has little background in journalism and his duties include no […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has rejected a challenge to two provisions of a Georgia election law related to absentee ballot applications. The provisions were part of a sweeping elections overhaul passed by Republican state lawmakers in Georgia in 2021, months after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. Advocacy […]
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Potential jurors on Tuesday returned for a second day of screening in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. Potential jurors being selected for the trial of Ryan Routh were asked whether they had hardships that […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s, according to an independent report released Tuesday. The Inuit victims, many of them teenagers, were either fitted with intrauterine contraceptive […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge dismissed criminal charges Tuesday against a group of people who were accused of attempting to falsely certifying President Donald Trump as the winner of the 2020 election in the battleground state, a major blow to prosecutors as similar cases in four other states have been muddied with setbacks. […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United Nations is issuing an emergency appeal for nearly $140 million in desperately needed funding to help nearly a half-million people affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan authorities have said the 6.0 magnitude quake on Aug. 31 and ensuing aftershocks killed more than 2,200 people in the […]
Donald Trump isn’t the only U.S. president to appear in a collection of birthday messages that were sent to Jeffrey Epstein. An entry attributed to former President Bill Clinton is among some 50 greetings that appear in a 50th birthday book compiled for Epstein in 2003, years before the disgraced New York financier faced charges […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s announcement that immigration agents will flood Chicago in “ Operation Midway Blitz ” is stirring up fresh confusion and anxiety over threats of federal intervention in the nation’s third-largest city. President Donald Trump said Monday that he intends to send in National Guard members from other states as well. The […]
