President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to cut more than $100 million in federal health care grants for Illinois, a step that was quickly met with a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Kwame Raoul and his peers in three other states.

Illinois, California, Colorado and Minnesota sued the Trump administration Wednesday over the Office ...Read more

For the first time on Wednesday, the DeSantis administration acknowledged that it used opioid settlement money to campaign against a recreational marijuana amendment on the 2024 ballot.

Shevaun Harris, the secretary for Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, made the admission during an appearance before a Senate committee as part ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration says their removal of a rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village is merely reinforcing a decades-old policy — but during the Biden presidency the feds installed a flagpole specifically to fly the LGBTQ flag at the historic site, the Daily News has learned.

On June 1, ...Read more

LIMA, Peru — The Trump administration warned that Peru is losing sovereignty over a Chinese-owned port near its capital city, after a local judge ruled that the port is exempt from some regulatory oversight.

The sprawling Chancay port on Peru’s Pacific coast was conceived as a crucial new trade link between Asia and Latin America, but its ...Read more

President Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order directing the Department of Defense to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. He also announced new funding to restart and upgrade coal plants in several states.

The executive order directs Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to enter into long-term...Read more

A Yale University professor has been removed from teaching classes while university officials review a six-year correspondence he had with Jeffrey Epstein, which included his description of a student to the accused sex trafficker as a “goodlooking blonde.”

The back-and-forth dialogue was discovered within numerous emails released in recent ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The DeSantis administration dramatically escalated spending last summer on a years-old immigration emergency — with expenses ranging from private jet flights and restaurant tabs to custom badges, according to a state accounting of how his office is using an expiring emergency fund.

That spending included more than $166,...Read more

Possible signs of ancient Martian life: What did NASA really discover?

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say.

In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered oily chemicals on Mars. These chemicals, called decane, undecane, and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is inviting all U.S. governors to meet with him after the White House had sought to keep Democrats out of the annual bipartisan gathering, the National Governors Association said.

The change announced Wednesday came after Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt, the NGA’s chairman, held talks with Trump ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s fight with aldermen about the 2026 budget continued Wednesday as a City Council majority said they are organizing themselves to monitor his administration’s execution of the spending plan that passed over his objections.

The announcement from 29 aldermen who labeled themselves the “Budget Accountability...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Wednesday came down hard on various sectors of the U.S. prescription drug supply chain during a hearing to shed light on the reasons for rising costs.

At a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing, Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., touted changes in the fiscal 2026 spending package ...Read more

Investigators trying to find Nancy Guthrie are posed with a daunting but familiar challenge in law enforcement: how to identify a masked person.

Authorities got a huge break on Tuesday with the release of footage of an armed individual wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack approaching the front door of Guthrie’s Arizona home and ...Read more

Eight measles cases in Northern California have been classified as an outbreak of the highly contagious disease, state health officials said.

The outbreak is part of a national surge in measles cases that has the California Department of Public Health “strongly urging” Californians to be sure their measles vaccinations are up to date, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers targeted by the Justice Department over a video they made informing service members of their obligation to reject illegal orders were leaving their options open Wednesday to pursue their own legal action to head off any further attempts at prosecution by the Trump administration.

An attorney for Rep. Jason ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Wednesday to provide $90 million to Planned Parenthood, a move intended to help offset the losses from recent federal cuts targeting abortion providers.

"These cuts were designed to attack and assault Planned Parenthood," said Newsom, speaking at a news conference near the Capitol. "They were not abortion cuts...Read more

DENVER — Denver is a step closer to enacting a new law banning all law enforcement officers — including U.S. Immigration and Customs agents — from wearing face coverings while detaining people after a City Council committee advanced the proposed ordinance Wednesday.

The full council is set to take an initial vote on the measure, which isn...Read more

CHICAGO — A long-awaited analysis of the Chicago Police Department’s staffing and deployment calls for the hiring of hundreds more officers while urging scores of other positions be shifted to civilians.

Citing “real and uneven staffing pressures,” the study and model developed by California-based Matrix Consulting Group found that “...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio, after a report that federal prosecutors had tried and failed to indict him and five of his colleagues over statements that drew President Donald Trump's ire last fall, said once again Tuesday night that he would not back down from speaking out against the president.

"I will not be intimidated for a single...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is proposing a small increase in spending for the city’s police force, but far less than what the department requested.

Lucas laid out his spending priorities during his annual State of the City address on Wednesday. Public safety spending makes up 75% of the city’s general fund budget.

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LAS VEGAS — About 3 million people visit Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas every year, but few have noticed the tiny yellow sunflower that has called it home for centuries. It may face extinction without federal protection, two groups say.

On Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity and Save Red Rock filed a petition with the U.S. Fish...Read more