MINNEAPOLIS — Retailers selling edibles with low doses of cannabinoids derived from hemp can ship products directly to customers, rather than require in-person transactions, a judge with the Minnesota Court of Administrative Hearings ruled on Thursday.

The order stems from a complaint filed by Leili Fatehi, a cannabis lobbyist, business owner...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 2,000 protesters descended on the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village on Thursday afternoon to hoist the pride flag back up again, after the Trump administration removed it earlier this week.

In a fired-up scene reminiscent of the resistance of the Stonewall Riots of 1969 that sparked the start of the gay ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confessed to snorting cocaine off toilet seats during a chat with his old rehab buddy Theo Von.

“Good to see you, bro,” Von said to Kennedy at the start of Thursday’s “This Past Weekend” podcast.

Kennedy then asked Von if it was OK to tell listeners how they know one another, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced an effort to crack down on fraud targeting California military veterans as the White House has singled out Democratic states for allegedly allowing waste and abuse to run rampant.

Newsom signed Senate Bill 694 from Sen. Bob Archuleta, D-Pico Rivera, and Assembly member Pilar Schiavo, D-...Read more

WASHINGTON — ​In what President Donald Trump is calling the “single largest deregulatory action in American history,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said at a White House event Thursday that his agency would repeal the 2009 endangerment finding that underlies regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

The repeal also would invalidate any ...Read more

DETROIT — A University of Michigan undergraduate student is suing the school, claiming she was falsely accused of using artificial intelligence in her coursework and denied disability accommodations during the appeal process.

The unnamed student, referred to as "Jane Doe" in the lawsuit, said she was unfairly accused of using AI in coursework...Read more

Savannah Guthrie on Thursday shared a few short home video clips of her mother, Nancy, as authorities continued searching for the missing 84-year-old and her suspected captor.

“Our lovely mom,” Guthrie captioned the Instagram post. “We will never give up on her. Thank you for your prayers and hope.”

The post included old clips of Nancy...Read more

A retired homicide and cold case sergeant is analyzing the “huge break” in the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie’s ailing mother who disappeared from her Tucson home nearly two weeks ago.

Troy Hillman, formerly of the Phoenix Police Department, told Us Weekly that the eerie footage and photos ...Read more

California lawmakers announced a slate of bills Thursday that advocates say is the largest push to strengthen drunk driving laws in over two decades.

The proposals include AB 1605, a bill by Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom, D-Tracy, which would give judges the discretion to add a “no alcohol sale” designation to the IDs of people who have ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal immigration judge ended the deportation case against Narciso Barranco, a Mexican father of three U.S. Marines, whose arrest on video showing masked federal agents pinning him down and punching him outside an IHOP in Southern California went viral last year.

Rigo Hernandez, 44, told The Times that the judge terminated ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein gains new scrutiny, questions have emerged on Haverford College’s campus about how to address their mega donor’s involvement.

Lutnick, a 1983 Haverford graduate who has donated $65 million to the college and whose name is on the school’s ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A proposed ballot initiative would ask Lemon Grove, California, residents if the retail sale of commercially bred birds should be banned.

Led by a local group of animal rights activists, the initiative would extend current state law — which applies to dogs, cats and rabbits — to forbid bird sales in Lemon Grove unless they ...Read more

Rejecting science, Trump reverses conclusion that climate change is harming Americans

The Trump administration on Thursday reversed the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific assertion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, erasing a foundational piece of the country’s efforts to address climate change.

The repeal ...Read more

A federal judge Thursday blocked the Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for appearing in a social media video that urged U.S. troops not to obey illegal orders.

District Judge Richard Leon ruled that Pentagon officials violated the retired Navy pilot’s free-speech rights by taking steps to cut his retirement rank and pay over ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the state and federal government were close last week to announcing a joint investigation into the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but the Trump administration appeared to pull back after the Minnesota Star Tribune reported an agreement was imminent.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tariffs that have driven down Minnesota exports by double-digits are growing increasingly unpopular in Capitol Hill, as evidenced by a vote this week in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

In a rare rebuke from the House late on Feb. 11, six Republican members joined all but one of the Democrats to approve a resolution ...Read more

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to take concrete steps to facilitate the return to the U.S. of Venezuelan men who were deported to a Salvadoran mega prison after he ruled they were denied their constitutional rights in U.S. immigration proceedings.

In March 2025, the United States deported hundreds of Venezuelans ...Read more

MIAMI — Lech Walesa, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was president of Poland, was honored Thursday with the title of “ambassador of freedom in Cuba” and a standing ovation at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami.

Walesa, who revolted against communism in Poland and became the first democratically elected president of the ...Read more

Authorities are examining security camera footage from a home in the Tucson area near Nancy Guthrie’s property that shows a man wearing a backpack trying to scale a wall near a home the morning of her disappearance.

The video, which was captured on a Ring camera about 1:54 a.m. Feb. 1, shows a bald man wearing a gray jacket and a backpack ...Read more

The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Renee Good and Alex Pretti were not domestic terrorists, contradicting what other top Trump administration officials said in the immediate aftermath of the fatal shootings in Minneapolis.

“To my knowledge, no,” acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said when asked if Good and Pretti were ...Read more