ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The husband of 22-year-old Hallie Tobler was charged Tuesday with stabbing her to death in their St. Cloud residence.

Tobler is the daughter of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson, who suspended his campaign Monday in the wake of Tobler’s death.

Dylan M. Tobler, 23, was charged with one felony count of second...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday he is asking fellow Democratic governors to convene and discuss ways to hold President Donald Trump and his administration accountable in the courts for their aggressive immigration enforcement actions — even if that accountability comes after the president is scheduled to leave office in 2029.

While ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.

The marquee initiative, set to be announced Wednesday, will come through an executive order, as Trump directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The EPA said Tuesday it would rescind the agency’s 2009 endangerment finding and all regulations based on its determination that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to public health requiring regulation under the Clean Air Act.

The final rule is still under interagency review and hasn’t been made public or signed by ...Read more

Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon will be represented by Minnesota’s former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in a federal criminal case tied to a demonstration at a St. Paul church last month.

Thompson notified the court on Tuesday about joining Lemon’s defense team alongside his initial lawyer, Abbe Lowell. The announcement comes weeks after the ...Read more

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie believe the person responsible for her apparent abduction lives in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona.

Soon after Guthrie went missing from her home on Feb. 1, a ransom note from the possible kidnapper was received by two local TV stations as well as TMZ. A second letter was sent only to...Read more

California reported its first confirmed measles outbreak since 2020 on Tuesday.

The highly contagious disease infected 2,276 people nationwide in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far in 2026, the U.S. has confirmed 733 cases, and 93% of those infected were unvaccinated.

The heightened spread of the disease ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI claims it seized voting records from a Georgia county due to alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election, part of a probe that originated with a lawyer who helped President Donald Trump unsuccessfully challenge results of that race.

Information about the investigation was included in a U.S. Justice Department ...Read more

Maryland Republican lawmakers are urging Democratic leaders to slow down emergency legislation that would end local cooperation agreements with federal immigration authorities, arguing the General Assembly is moving too quickly amid shifting national conditions and legal uncertainty.

The identical bills — House Bill 488 and Senate Bill 245 �...Read more

The United States and Iran each struck a positive tone about the start of diplomatic talks, though analysts remain skeptical that the engagement will be enough to head off U.S. airstrikes.

The timeline and terms of the negotiations remain unclear after an opening round of talks on Friday that President Donald Trump cast as “very good” and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Chancellor Kamar Samuels spent Tuesday defending mayoral control of New York City’s public schools‚ a system the mayor campaigned against but now largely supports.

During a closely watched City Council hearing, Samuels praised the system despite disagreement with some Mamdani political allies who remain...Read more

No one ever promised the grief that followed the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would go away. But no one predicted the never-ending frustration the surviving families would feel toward a legal system that sometimes seems determined to prolong their suffering.

Nearly eight years after a gunman murdered 17 students and ...Read more

U.S. regulators have refused to review Moderna Inc.’s novel mRNA flu vaccine, dealing a major blow to the company as it seeks more products beyond its COVID shot.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected the company’s application, which was submitted in December, saying the studies conducted in support of the application didn’t ...Read more

NEW YORK — The death count in NYC amid the frigid conditions of the past few weeks jumped Tuesday with city officials acknowledging seven additional deaths, the news coming after the Mamdani administration came under fire for its response to the freezing weather at a Council oversight hearing.

The seven new deaths all occurred at private ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom is heading to a conference of world leaders in Germany later this week as part of his ongoing effort to use the global stage to urge investment in California's climate-related initiatives and challenge President Trump's isolationist policies.

Newsom will appear at the Munich Security Conference to talk about trade and jobs and...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security would have begun deporting Haitians had its order terminating their legal protections from deportations not been halted by a federal judge, an assistant director for field operations told a federal court Tuesday.

But the agency also had no specific plans “to mobilize members of Immigration and Customs ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County, home to one of the nation’s largest foreign-born populations, will soon feel the effects of a new state policy requiring driver’s license tests to be given exclusively in English, eliminating multiple language options, a change that has left many residents navigating a limited transition period for preparation.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz predicted on Feb. 10 that the federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota could end in a matter of days, citing recent conversations with top officials in the White House.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor said he spoke to both White House border official Tom Homan and President Donald Trump’s chief of ...Read more