NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a major overhaul of the agency’s Artemis mission plans on Friday, adding an extra mission next year to help the program better prepare for a moon landing in 2028.

And less than a year after nearly one-fifth of NASA’s workforce took a voluntary departure amid government-wide cuts, Isaacman now ...Read more

BOSTON — Bay State health officials have confirmed the first measles cases of the year amid a large national outbreak of the life-threatening virus.

The first case was reported in a school-aged Massachusetts resident who was exposed and diagnosed out-of-state, and remains out of state during the infectious period, according to the state ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — When lights flashed in Luis Duque’s rearview mirror as he drove his boyfriend Oscar to work in Charlotte on Wednesday, he assumed it was police.

But within two minutes, that traffic stop turned into a chaotic interaction with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ended with his boyfriend being taken away.

The Charlotte ...Read more

A legal challenge is underway attempting to block enforcement of the new Kansas law that requires transgender residents to surrender their driver’s licenses and to use public restrooms on government property in accordance with their sex assigned at birth.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed the lawsuit in Douglas County ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s looming budget shortfall has turned into a small projected surplus, but state budget officials say shifting federal policies and incomplete data means they’re not confident in those estimates.

Minnesota Management and Budget announced in a news release Friday, Feb. 27, that the state’s “budget outlook has ...Read more

The U.S. has told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they’re allowed to leave Israel, citing heightened safety risks.

Other countries including the U.K., China and India have advised citizens or diplomats to leave some parts of the Middle East.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran remain high, with the two engaged in talks to...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Police in Plymouth are crediting two ICE agents with racing to the rescue and saving the life of a 4-year-old boy who had been underwater for several minutes in a hotel pool.

The swift actions by the off-duty agents occurred in the evening on Feb. 20 at Ramada by Wyndham Plymouth near Interstate 494 and Hwy. 55, according to ...Read more

DETROIT — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whom some see as a potential candidate for president in 2028, will be the special guest at a Michigan Democratic Party dinner in Detroit on April 18, the party announced Friday.

Michigan Democrats plan to recognize Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is in her eighth and final year as the state's governor, at ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four years ago, Boyle Heights and Skid Row had something to celebrate: state grants to build new sidewalks and protected bike lanes.

But now, more than $100 million from the state for the transportation projects in some of the neediest parts of Los Angeles is in jeopardy because city officials say they don't have enough staff to...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The owner of a Minnesota construction company who has earned millions of dollars in recent years from his business and gambling success has allegedly avoided paying taxes for much of his life.

Richard Ray Hoffman, 48, of St. Louis Park faces 12 felony counts in Hennepin County District Court alleging he failed to to file and pay...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C, threatened on Thursday to place a hold on additional presidential nominees if he doesn’t get data he requested from the Department of Homeland Security on immigration enforcement in his state.

Tillis had sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem more than three weeks ago with questions ...Read more

Bill Clinton is to become the first former U.S. president forced to testify to Congress as he faces questioning Friday on connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton will be deposed behind closed doors by a House committee investigating Epstein. The questioning will take place in Chappaqua, New York, where he lives with his ...Read more

The U.S. has told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they’re allowed to leave Israel, citing heightened safety risks.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran remain high, with the two engaged in talks to avert American strikes on the Islamic Republic. Israel may join in on any attack and be targeted by Iranian retaliation.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Unified schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho introduced “Ed” the AI chatbot amid fanfare in March 2024, touting a revolutionary tool that would put the district at the leading edge of school technology.

But the multimillion-dollar project failed within months and never fully launched.

Now, the deal to bring Ed to the ...Read more

The Trump administration’s move to ease fuel shipments to Cuba’s nascent private sector is part of a plan to make the island more reliant on the U.S. for supplies, increasing Washington’s leverage to bring about political and economic change, according to people familiar with the strategy.

A quarantine on sending crude to Cuba brought the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles firefighter said in sworn testimony that he sounded the alarm about the inadequate mop-up of the Lachman fire — and was blown off by a captain — days before the embers reignited into the deadly Palisades fire.

The firefighter, Scott Pike, testified last month in a lawsuit brought by Palisades fire victims ...Read more