Florida politicians insist their efforts to punish Floridians over comments they don’t like about Charlie Kirk’s assassination aren’t flying in the face of the First Amendment.

Free speech advocates aren’t so sure.

“It’s a massive free speech problem,” Florida International University law professor Howard Wasserman said. “This ...Read more

A Texas Tech student has been arrested and expelled after yelling at a group of people mourning Charlie Kirk’s death on campus, state leaders confirmed Monday.

Camryn Booker, an 18-year-old freshman at the West Texas school, is no longer enrolled at the university, local CBS affiliate KCBD reported. She was also charged with assault and ...Read more

California is staggeringly wealthy; home to major agricultural businesses and influential global tech companies, it boasts an economy larger than many nations. But the state also struggles with a persistent poverty crisis.

A new report released this week by the California Budget and Policy Center, a Sacramento-based think tank, found that 7 ...Read more

Maryland House Republicans on Monday demanded the state attorney general investigate the State Highway Administration after an audit determined the agency spent over $350 million in unauthorized funds.

House Republicans called on Attorney General Anthony G. Brown to probe the findings of the Department of Legislative Services, released Sept. ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed five more members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ahead of the panel’s meeting this week, the department said Monday.

Among them are a skeptic of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and another affiliated ...Read more

Over the weekend, lawmakers in Sacramento passed a suite of energy-related bills pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that came forward in the final days of the California legislative session.

The measures that extended proceedings into Saturday include legislation that clears the way for California to join a regional electric grid, tries to boost ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Monday that U.S. forces carried out a second strike on Monday against what he called “positively identified, extraordinarily violent” drug trafficking groups operating from Venezuela, saying the operation killed three “narcoterrorists” who were transporting narcotics in international waters.

“This morning, ...Read more

Over the next two weeks, surfers and beachgoers in Santa Monica may spot waves that have a pink, fluorescent hue — but officials say not to worry.

The luminous, pink color spreading across the Santa Monica Bay is from a temporary, nontoxic dye that researchers are using to study how ocean circulation might contribute to the bay's poor water ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck a second vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela, showing his determination to proceed with an aggressive strategy that’s ratcheted up tensions with the country and prompted questions about its legality.

U.S. forces “conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily ...Read more

The FBI in July investigated social media accounts connected to the 16-year-old who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School last week, but did not identify the boy or take any further action before the attack, the agency confirmed Monday.

The FBI “opened an assessment into a social media account user whose identity was ...Read more

Local authorities in Texas have arrested a Cuban immigrant in the case of a gruesome murder of a motel employee, the latest high-profile criminal case the Trump administration is using to double down on its mass deportation efforts.

Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, admitted to killing Chandra Nagamallaiah with a machete at the Downtown Suites motel...Read more

Malia Kimbrell is still changing the dressings daily on her daughter’s bullet wounds. Carla Maldonado’s children flinch at loud noises. Brock Safe’s daughter was grazed by bullets that flew past her forehead and neck.

All three parents’ children survived the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School last month. Now, the ...Read more

City council members were furious after the Adams administration skipped on a hearing reviewing the impacts of Trump’s budget cuts on New York City on Monday.

Local reps accused Mayor Eric Adams of abdicating his responsibility as mayor by ignoring the dangers Trump’s bill poses to the city, which include drastic cuts to health insurance ...Read more

President Donald Trump promised Sunday night that a Cuban immigrant accused of beheading his manager at a Dallas motel with a machete last week “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I am aware of the terrible reports regarding the murder of Chandra Nagamallaiah, a well respected ...Read more

Lawmakers charged through dozens of bills as the legislative session neared a close late Friday night, and had to reconvene Saturday to pass a wide-ranging climate and energy deal that came through late in the week.

The deadline to pass the legislation forced action on bills to regulate artificial intelligence, reign in immigration enforcement ...Read more

A 19-year-old was tracked down by the FBI and arrested after federal prosecutors said he threatened “mass murder” against Jews and minorities following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Jace Allen of Jamestown, New Mexico, promised to “shoot up unspecified locations” in the series of public threats he posted to X, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck a second vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela, showing his determination to proceed with an aggressive strategy that’s ratcheted up tensions with the country and prompted questions about its legality.

U.S. forces “conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kash Patel is set to face lawmakers twice this week as he navigates criticism of his leadership as FBI director on politically charged issues such as the Charlie Kirk murder investigation, the unreleased investigative materials related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and the firing of some agency officials.

A pair of ...Read more

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo says he does not want mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be available in Florida.

In a podcast interview published Sunday, Ladapo was asked about the state’s announcement this month that officials intended to end all vaccine mandates. He said the controversy over the announcement was overblown because vaccines ...Read more