Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman on Wednesday announced he filed a brief in support of upholding a state law that bans the possession of child sex dolls and child porn generated by artificial intelligence.

Kenneth Moore, 50, of Sturgis, filed a motion to dismiss his charges in February after he was arrested in July 2025 and charged ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman known as the "Ketamine queen" who provided the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison.

Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said operated a high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood home, pleaded guilty in September to one count of maintaining a drug-...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has an approval rating of 48%, with a majority of New Yorkers thinking the city is headed in right direction under his leadership, a poll by Marist University found Wednesday.

The poll comes as Mamdani is rounding out his first 100 days in office. Conducted over the last week in March, the Marist survey is the ...Read more

Republican hawks and supporters of Israel Wednesday expressed uneasiness over President Donald Trump’s shaky ceasefire deal with Iran, suggesting it was negotiated without Israel’s input and could allow Tehran to rebuild its military threat.

As new rounds of attacks threatened to derail the agreed two-week truce, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key ...Read more

SEATTLE — Jim Whittaker, a Seattle-born and -raised mountaineer who achieved legendary status when he became the first American to summit the world’s tallest peak in 1963, died Tuesday in Port Townsend at the age of 97.

Cascadia Daily News reported Whittaker’s death in an obituary published Wednesday morning.

Whittaker reached the top of...Read more

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz was a central pillar of the delicate ceasefire deal between Iran and the United States, but questions arose Wednesday about when commerce will begin to flow unimpeded through the vital waterway.

Fars News, an Iranian media agency closely associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported Wednesday ...Read more

Two Pennsylvania teenagers accused of instigating an ISIS-inspired terrorist plot outside New York’s Gracie Mansion last month watched “radical content” online and hoped to kill up to 60 people in the attack, according to new court documents.

Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, of Newtown, were charged in federal court ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pam Bondi will not appear for her scheduled deposition next week as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a panel spokesperson said Wednesday.

The panel stipulated the April 14 deposition date in a letter to the then-attorney general last month, ...Read more

Once upon a time, Donald Trump apparently was not so crazy about his son-in-law Jared Kushner and went so far as to enlist a former friend and ally, Chris Christie, to supply him with damaging information about Kushner’s family.

Christie, the former governor of New Jersey and the leader of Trump’s 2016 transition team, revealed Trump’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that were deployed to Philadelphia International Airport last month amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown are set to leave as soon as Thursday.

Tracy Borda, the airport’s chief financial officer and interim CEO, discussed the ICE agents’ expected departure during a...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the United States’ and Israel’s 40-day war on Iran entered its first ceasefire Tuesday, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori condemned the antagonism that propelled it and urged prayers for peace.

“At a time when the threat of expanded conflict and the suffering of innocent lives weigh heavily upon the conscience of the ...Read more

Among the most disorienting things about President Donald Trump’s public language is how easily it can feel numbing and shocking in the same moment. He says something outrageous, the country recoils, and then the recoil itself begins to feel familiar.

As a scholar who studies presidential rhetoric, I know that over time that rhythm ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman known as the “Ketamine queen” who provided the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison.

Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said operated a high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood home, pleaded guilty in September to one count of maintaining a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum reiterated Tuesday that the federal government favors a negotiated deal between the seven states that share Colorado River water over the resource’s allocation rather than a protracted legal battle.

During a Las Vegas Valley visit, Burgum said the federal government will continue pushing for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A day after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, the tentative truce showed early signs of strain amid continuing attacks across the region and reports that Iran moved to restrict traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

The developments tested President Donald Trump’s ability to convert a fragile pause in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Secret warrants obtained by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to seize more than 650,000 ballots in a controversial investigation of election fraud allegations will soon be made public.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gail O’Rane on Tuesday ordered the warrants unsealed after several media organization, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Defense Department ordered the National Guard Bureau federal agency last week to permanently close three Guard-run camps for at-risk teens, among them the Maryland National Guard Freestate Challenge Academy, to boost national defense spending, a bureau spokesperson said in an email to The Baltimore Sun.

Citing national defense...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet backed out of a weekend gubernatorial forum hosted by Colorado Muslims because he didn’t want to address questions about the war in the Gaza Strip, the event’s organizers said.

While a state senator backed up that account, Bennet’s campaign disputed the characterization on Tuesday.

For the Sunday event...Read more

Three weeks after Sophia Bassan’s mastectomy, she felt a stabbing pain beneath her right armpit. In the following months, painful shocks radiated through her chest and back. Her body became so sensitive that at times she couldn’t wear a shirt or lift a fork to her mouth.

Bassan slept sitting up because it hurt to lie down, and she would ...Read more