CHICAGO — A federal judge has blocked efforts by the Trump administration to withhold $600 million in health care grants from Illinois, California, Colorado and Minnesota, while the states’ lawsuit over the cuts proceeds.

The judge had previously issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the federal government from holding back the ...Read more

DENVER — Several crosswalk audio signals were hacked in Denver over the weekend, surprising pedestrians with not only a verbal indication that the walk light was on, but with an anti-President Donald Trump message.

“The walk signal is on, (expletive) Trump. The walk signal is on, Trump murders children,” the robotic voices of the hacked ...Read more

DENVER — A consortium of universities filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration’s planned dismantling of Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, alleging that the planned reorganization violates the Constitution and federal law.

The plaintiff is the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a nonprofit ...Read more

Lawyers in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case against immigration protesters in Broadview asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss the main conspiracy charge, saying it criminalizes First Amendment rights to speech and assembly and creates a “chilling” effect on the public.

The 18-page motion is the latest attack on an ...Read more

BORJ QALAOUIYA, Lebanon — His evening meal done, Ali Jishi, a nurse serving in the health center of this southern Lebanese town, figured it was calm enough to deliver supplies to the civil defense crew down the road.

He was walking back Friday when he watched the Israeli missile lance through the building’s four floors, killing his father ...Read more

After decades of being stripped of many of their rights for leaving the country, Cubans living in Miami and elsewhere will be able to invest and own private businesses on the island, the country’s deputy prime minister said Monday, confirming earlier reporting by the Miami Herald.

Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga told NBC News Monday morning that �...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has restarted efforts to deport Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi after an immigration judge tossed the case against him, his attorneys said in a court filing Monday.

Mahdawi, a lawful permanent resident, was arrested last April at his U.S. citizenship test and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the Trump administration’s effort to remove deportation protections for immigrants from Syria and Haiti, the latest in a series of emergency cases over Trump’s sprawling immigration enforcement effort.

Lower courts had prevented the administration from revoking the temporary protected...Read more

A coalition of states sued the Trump administration Monday over its efforts to roll back fair housing rules that bar certain types of discrimination by landlords, including against LGBTQ+ people.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rule change threatening funding for states that offer ...Read more

Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 15, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made headlines and sparked controversy for decades.

Sometimes called a “prophet of doom” by his detractors, Ehrlich was ...Read more

The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than buildings – they are sending toxic debris into the air in cities that are home to millions of people.

Military strikes have hit Iran’s missile stockpiles, nuclear ...Read more

DETROIT — A Colombian drug ring laundered at least $14.9 million through banks in Metro Detroit, including one Bank of America account belonging to a successful Latin American musician, federal prosecutors allege.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized the money from Bank of America, Truist Bank, JPMorgan Chase Bank and Regions ...Read more

MIAMI — Two brothers found guilty of buying tens of millions of dollars worth of black-market HIV drugs and reselling them to numerous pharmacies in the Miami area and other locations will be imprisoned for a couple of decades.

Defendants Charles and Patrick Boyd were sentenced to 20 years and 18 years in prison, respectively, on Friday after...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are poised to pass legislation requiring social media companies to more swiftly respond to search warrants, months after law enforcement said they were slow to provide information on a student who later shot two classmates at a Jefferson County high school.

Senate Bill 11 passed the state House with bipartisan ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s College Republicans chapter filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the university of violating the First Amendment after administrators abruptly shut down the student group last week over antisemitic remarks attributed to one of its members.

In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts House Committee on Energy and Commerce is requesting information from Gov. Maura Healey related to “concerning” reports of Medicaid fraud in the state as part of a cross-country probe after hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud has been uncovered in Minnesota.

The committee, in a letter sent to Gov. Maura ...Read more

BOSTON — The administration of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is considering dropping GLP-1 coverage for weight loss for City of Boston employees due to “skyrocketing” health insurance costs that are straining the city’s finances.

Chief Financial Officer Ashley Groffenberger said in a letter to the Boston City Council Monday that the city has...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is considering poaching the New York City Council’s finance division head to be his finance department commissioner, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News — coming in the midst of budget negotiations between the two sides of City Hall.

Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have assumed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former California Highway Patrol officer was charged with murder on Monday for his role in a chain-reaction crash that left four people dead on the 605 Freeway near Norwalk last summer, authorities said.

Angelo Rodriguez, 24, allegedly slammed his patrol car into a Nissan Versa near the Rosecrans Avenue exit of the 605 Freeway...Read more

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.

Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive ...Read more