The North Carolina state budget continues to be late, with the state joining only Pennsylvania as the two holdouts without a comprehensive spending plan.

Democratic Gov. Josh Stein said the General Assembly is “failing” by not passing a new budget.

This isn’t a partisan debate between a Democratic government and Republican-controlled ...Read more

The Bay State is giving a $155 million bond to a private college, as the campus leader rips President Trump for his “attacks” on DEI.

MassDevelopment issued a $154.7 million tax-exempt bond to Mount Holyoke College for a campus renewal project on Monday — the same day that Mount Holyoke College President Danielle Holley slammed Trump in ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a stark warning Monday that food assistance benefits for millions of low-income Californians could be delayed starting Nov. 1 if the ongoing federal shutdown does not end by Thursday.

The benefits, issued under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and formerly called food stamps, include federally ...Read more

As the details of large-scale instances of government fraud continue to emerge in Minnesota, Republican candidate for governor Kristin Robbins has made combating the problem central to her campaign.

A state representative from Maple Grove, Robbins is the latest Republican candidate in a growing field of challengers to Democratic-Farmer-Labor ...Read more

Small businesses challenging many of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm lower court rulings that the import levies amount to a massive illegal tax on American companies.

Trump usurped the power of Congress to tax when he issued levies in February and April under an emergency law that was never ...Read more

SEATTLE — A nude beach at Denny Blaine Park can stay open to the public until at least next spring after a King County Superior Court judge ruled Seattle had done enough this summer to curb behaviors that neighbors called illegal and lewd.

Denny Blaine Park for All, an anonymous group of neighbors, sued the city and its park department in ...Read more

The full U.S. appeals court in San Francisco will vote on whether to reconsider a ruling Monday by a three-judge panel that for now allows President Donald Trump to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, over the objection of state and local leaders.

The panel decided 2-1 that a lower court judge who temporarily blocked the deployment of 200 Oregon...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if “habitual drug users” should lose their gun rights under the Second Amendment.

The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any “...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — One man was injured in a shooting at the Walmart Supercenter in Midtown on Monday afternoon, Anchorage police said.

Police said in an online statement that officers responded to the store on A Street near Benson Boulevard just before 2 p.m. for a report of a shooting inside the building. Officers found a man with a gunshot...Read more

DENVER — Joining a wave of similar rulings elsewhere in the country, a federal judge in Denver ordered the release of a man held for five months in Aurora’s detention center and ruled that federal immigration authorities’ new policy of denying bail to longtime, undocumented residents of the United States “likely violates federal law.” ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A 35-year-old U.S. Marine Corps pilot based out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar who died in a training crash last week was identified as a California native.

Maj. Tyler R. Braconi died when the AH-1Z Viper he was piloting went down around 7:05 p.m. Thursday in Imperial Gables, a remote area east of Glamis in Imperial County, ...Read more

TOKYO — Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is poised to become the nation’s first female prime minister, taking on the challenges of quelling discontent over the cost of living, dealing with the Trump administration and reviving the fortunes of a ruling party that has lost its dominance at the ballot box.

Her appointment will mark a watershed moment ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been installing deadbolt locks on subway cars of the No. 7 line in an effort to reinforce the control cabs against break-ins, the Daily News has learned.

The locks — high-security deadbolts manufactured by Medeco — have started appearing on cab doors across the line in recent months...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cast doubt on Ukraine’s ability to defeat Russian forces, backing off an earlier upbeat assessment as he looks to bring the war to an end and prepares for another meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks.

“I don’t think they will, but they could still win it,” Trump told reporters ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — For decades, Colombia and the United States have been devoted allies, sharing military intelligence, a robust trade relationship and a multibillion-dollar fight against drug trafficking.

Now that is all at risk as the U.S. ramps up deadly airstrikes off Colombia's coast and the leaders of both nations trade scathing verbal ...Read more

Around the world, rainforests play a critically important role in climate regulation.

Trees and plants absorb and store a massive amount of carbon dioxide from the air, and in return, through photosynthesis, produce oxygen upon which all life on earth depends.

Rainforests also regularly release carbon dioxide through processes like respiration...Read more

A small portion of the shocking heist at the Louvre was apparently captured on cellphone video by a daring visitor.

The video, obtained by French network BFMTV, shows a person in a high visibility vest appearing to use a small battery-powered saw to cut through glass at the world famous museum.

In the clip, the person’s back is turned to the...Read more

Attorneys for former FBI Director James B. Comey sought Monday to throw out an indictment accusing him of lying to Congress, arguing that President Donald Trump engineered the charges to retaliate against a vocal critic.

In a pair of motions, the attorneys argue U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed and should not be able to ...Read more