The U.S. and Iran are looking to arrange a second round of peace talks in the coming days, with Tehran mulling a pause in shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to help ease the path toward an agreement on time and place.

The objective is to hold more discussions before an April 7 ceasefire expires next week, according to people familiar with ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the first time since filing an impeachment petition against a Fayette Circuit Judge in January, former lawmaker Killian Timoney has spoken out about the proceedings, saying he did so in pursuit of justice.

Timoney — who is seeking election again for a Lexington-area house seat — said in a Facebook post on Tuesday he ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The NAACP’s city branch on Tuesday called on Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore to investigate whether recent deaths of city jail inmates could be the result of criminal neglect — or even negligent homicide — by city employees and contractors.

Chapter President Adolphus Pruitt said local hospital staff told his group that inmates ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rising levels of noroviruses, a highly contagious infection, have been detected in wastewater in several California cities, testing shows.

WastewaterSCAN data shows “high concentrations” of noroviruses in Sacramento, Davis, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Vallejo, Novato, Redwood City, Turlock and San Rafael.

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is hiding behind her exemption to the public records law to withhold hundreds of entries sent to the ICE Misconduct Portal she created last month with Attorney General Andrea Campbell, as the Bay State keeps up its reputation as the least transparent state in the country.

The Boston Herald had requested the first ...Read more

The Justice Department on Tuesday said federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden “weaponized” the law to target people with anti-abortion views, and said one of the key examples was a case in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia charged a Bucks County activist with seeking to intimidate workers and patients outside a...Read more

CHICAGO — Just hours after hearing arguments, a Chicago federal appeals court on Tuesday announced it will grant new trials to former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain and ordered them released from prison on bond.

The extraordinary development comes nearly three years after Pramaggiore and McClain were convicted as part...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – A new study by University of Minnesota researchers found no evidence to support fears that childhood consumption of fluoride and fluoridated water reduces intelligence.

Utah and Florida in 2025 banned the use of fluoride in public water supplies, despite its well-documented benefits for oral health, after a report showed an ...Read more

A Los Angeles woman came forward Tuesday with new sexual assault accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, deepening the onetime rising political star’s legal woes.

As Swalwell prepared to resign from Congress in disgrace, accuser Lonna Drewes said Swalwell attacked her following a Hollywood meeting in 2018. She also believes he ...Read more

CHICAGO — Three years after the historic “ComEd Four” bribery trial, the convictions of former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain appeared to be on thin ice Tuesday as a federal appeals court indicated recent Supreme Court rulings could force a retrial.

During consolidated arguments for McClain and Pramaggiore before ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota lawmakers renamed a solar energy program prized by the late House Democratic-Farmer-Labor leader Melissa Hortman in her honor following her killing.

Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday that he had privately signed the legislation but said more public efforts to recognize Hortman were yet to come.

The legislation renames ...Read more

OTTAWA, Kan. — Randy and Gwen McCurdy stood on their porch off Main Street on Monday night in Ottawa, Kansas, scanning the sky for signs of the storm.

Then the sirens sounded.

“There was no rain,” said Randy McCurdy, 70. But then it descended. In sheets. “You couldn’t see the other side of the street.”

Moments later, they ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — The junior Mexican diplomat, part of an official delegation to Washington, was caught in an undiplomatic moment: munching on peanuts piled on a napkin as he sat with political heavyweights including Mexican Cabinet secretaries and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The 2019 image of the peanut-chomping envoy quickly went viral, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former UCLA gynecologist pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing five of his patients during examinations, and the once-renowned cancer expert was sentenced to 11 years in state prison.

James Heaps, 70, pleaded guilty to 13 felonies, including multiple counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person, and must register...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eight years ago, President Donald Trump’s mediocre job approval rating created a difficult national political environment for Republicans, who lost more than 40 seats in the House. But GOP senators bucked the midterm backlash and gained two seats. Could they do it again?

The April 20, 2018, edition of Inside Elections led with ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran are looking to arrange a second round of peace talks in the coming days, with Tehran mulling a pause in shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to help ease the path toward an agreement on time and place.

The objective is to hold more discussions before an April 7 ceasefire expires next week, according to people familiar with ...Read more

A Los Angeles woman came forward Tuesday with new sexual assault accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., deepening the onetime rising political star’s legal woes.

As Swalwell prepared to resign from Congress in disgrace, accuser Lonna Drewes said Swalwell attacked her following a Hollywood meeting in 2018. She also believes he ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another woman came forward Tuesday to describe rape allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell, who said Monday that he would resign from Congress amid a torrent of sexual assault accusations.

Lonna Drewes said at a news conference called by her attorneys that she had contact with Swalwell on three different occasions in 2018 while ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s warm-weather plan for tackling the open-air drug market and related crime at Mass and Cass puts a heavy focus on diverting drug users breaking the law into addiction treatment programs.

The plan was laid out by the mayor’s coordinated response team Monday in a memo filed with the City Council. It calls ...Read more