OTTAWA, Kan. — Kendal Anderson had just moved from Kansas City to Ottawa two months ago, bringing his wife, Natalie, and their five children to their new home after securing a job at TruComp Pipe, a manufacturer of high-pressure gas and oil pipes.

On Monday evening, a EF-2 tornado from the west swept through four blocks of the Franklin County...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho officials are encouraging high school students to start or join chapters of a conservative group that has in the past advocated for political candidates including President Donald Trump and has called to mobilize the country’s most “spirited, anti-woke warriors.”

Last week, Gov. Brad Little signed a proclamation ...Read more

Israel and Lebanon met for their first high-level talks in more than 30 years in what the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. called a “victory for sanity,” even as officials played down hopes for an end to the war with Hezbollah.

The Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to Washington met under U.S. mediation for “productive discussions on steps ...Read more

With the World Cup kickoff less than two months out, Miami-Dade labor leaders want to ensure that the benefits of hosting games reach the people who staff them.

At a press conference Tuesday, organizers presented a letter signed by 30 labor leaders and addressed to Alina Hudak, the president of Miami’s World Cup Host Committee. In it, they ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran are looking to arrange a second round of peace talks in the coming days, with Tehran mulling a pause in shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to help ease the path toward an agreement on time and place.

The objective is to hold more discussions before an April 7 ceasefire expires next week, according to people familiar with ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the first time since filing an impeachment petition against a Fayette Circuit Judge in January, former lawmaker Killian Timoney has spoken out about the proceedings, saying he did so in pursuit of justice.

Timoney — who is seeking election again for a Lexington-area house seat — said in a Facebook post on Tuesday he ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The NAACP’s city branch on Tuesday called on Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore to investigate whether recent deaths of city jail inmates could be the result of criminal neglect — or even negligent homicide — by city employees and contractors.

Chapter President Adolphus Pruitt said local hospital staff told his group that inmates ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rising levels of noroviruses, a highly contagious infection, have been detected in wastewater in several California cities, testing shows.

WastewaterSCAN data shows “high concentrations” of noroviruses in Sacramento, Davis, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Vallejo, Novato, Redwood City, Turlock and San Rafael.

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is hiding behind her exemption to the public records law to withhold hundreds of entries sent to the ICE Misconduct Portal she created last month with Attorney General Andrea Campbell, as the Bay State keeps up its reputation as the least transparent state in the country.

The Boston Herald had requested the first ...Read more

The Justice Department on Tuesday said federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden “weaponized” the law to target people with anti-abortion views, and said one of the key examples was a case in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia charged a Bucks County activist with seeking to intimidate workers and patients outside a...Read more

CHICAGO — Just hours after hearing arguments, a Chicago federal appeals court on Tuesday announced it will grant new trials to former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain and ordered them released from prison on bond.

The extraordinary development comes nearly three years after Pramaggiore and McClain were convicted as part...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – A new study by University of Minnesota researchers found no evidence to support fears that childhood consumption of fluoride and fluoridated water reduces intelligence.

Utah and Florida in 2025 banned the use of fluoride in public water supplies, despite its well-documented benefits for oral health, after a report showed an ...Read more

A Los Angeles woman came forward Tuesday with new sexual assault accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, deepening the onetime rising political star’s legal woes.

As Swalwell prepared to resign from Congress in disgrace, accuser Lonna Drewes said Swalwell attacked her following a Hollywood meeting in 2018. She also believes he ...Read more

CHICAGO — Three years after the historic “ComEd Four” bribery trial, the convictions of former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain appeared to be on thin ice Tuesday as a federal appeals court indicated recent Supreme Court rulings could force a retrial.

During consolidated arguments for McClain and Pramaggiore before ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota lawmakers renamed a solar energy program prized by the late House Democratic-Farmer-Labor leader Melissa Hortman in her honor following her killing.

Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday that he had privately signed the legislation but said more public efforts to recognize Hortman were yet to come.

The legislation renames ...Read more

OTTAWA, Kan. — Randy and Gwen McCurdy stood on their porch off Main Street on Monday night in Ottawa, Kansas, scanning the sky for signs of the storm.

Then the sirens sounded.

“There was no rain,” said Randy McCurdy, 70. But then it descended. In sheets. “You couldn’t see the other side of the street.”

Moments later, they ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — The junior Mexican diplomat, part of an official delegation to Washington, was caught in an undiplomatic moment: munching on peanuts piled on a napkin as he sat with political heavyweights including Mexican Cabinet secretaries and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The 2019 image of the peanut-chomping envoy quickly went viral, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former UCLA gynecologist pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing five of his patients during examinations, and the once-renowned cancer expert was sentenced to 11 years in state prison.

James Heaps, 70, pleaded guilty to 13 felonies, including multiple counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person, and must register...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eight years ago, President Donald Trump’s mediocre job approval rating created a difficult national political environment for Republicans, who lost more than 40 seats in the House. But GOP senators bucked the midterm backlash and gained two seats. Could they do it again?

The April 20, 2018, edition of Inside Elections led with ...Read more