LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to join a federal lawsuit accusing the Los Angeles school district of discriminating against white students.

At issue is a long-running effort to help disadvantaged students of color in Los Angeles by providing somewhat smaller classes to the vast majority of schools — leaving out ...Read more

When James Uthmeier suddenly became one of Florida’s most powerful leaders, few people outside Tallahassee had heard of him.

Now, a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis made him the state’s attorney general, Uthmeier is a ubiquitous media presence as he seeks to ingratiate himself with Florida’s conservative-leaning electorate. He’s brought ...Read more

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the brother of the U.K.’s King Charles, was released under investigation on Thursday after being arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The Thames Valley Police confirmed it had released a Norfolk man in his sixties, without mentioning the former royal by name. Last week, the police force said it was...Read more

A California agency that regulates workplace safety has opened an investigation into a skiing and rock climbing company following Tuesday’s Sierra Nevada avalanche that killed nine people, including three of the firm’s backcountry ski guides.

California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has until mid-August to investigate ...Read more

Almost a month after abruptly dismantling exhibits about slavery from the President’s House, National Park Service employees began reinstalling the panels late morning on Thursday ahead of a court-imposed deadline.

Just before 11 a.m. a four Park Service employees carted glass panels from a white van to a barricaded area at the site. They ...Read more

The U.S. military is stationing a vast array of forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers, fighter jets and refueling tankers, with President Donald Trump saying that Iran had 10 to 15 days at most to strike a deal over its nuclear program.

“We’re either going to get a deal, or it’s going to be unfortunate for them,” ...Read more

Minnesota is struggling to achieve its climate goals despite decades of falling greenhouse gas emissions, newly released state data shows.

State law requires Minnesota’s electric utilities to reduce their carbon emissions to zero by 2040. Minnesota lawmakers also set a series of statutory goals to cut overall emissions compared to the state�...Read more

The Truckee company whose guides and ski group were swept away Tuesday in the deadliest avalanche in California history said it was grieving the tragedy as it worked to learn more about the catastrophe.

“This was an enormous tragedy, and the saddest event our team has ever experienced,” said Zeb Blais, founder of Blackbird Mountain Guides. ...Read more

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia could be poised to become the next state to legalize online gambling after a last-minute scramble ahead of crossover in the General Assembly kept two iGaming bills afloat.

One bill that would legalize internet gaming narrowly failed the Virginia Senate on Monday. Then, Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg, D-Henrico, moved to ...Read more

It will be business as usual for SpaceX when it tries to send up a rocket from the Space Coast Thursday night, but not so much for when the rocket comes back down.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-36 mission with 29 Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:41 p.m. near the ...Read more

Some New Jersey high school students who walked out of class to protest ICE operations will face detention time for their activism as well as possible other discipline.

North Plainfield High School students were informed in a letter that those who cut class without permission, left school grounds and created “a disruptive school environment�...Read more

CHICAGO — The Cook County state’s attorney’s office on Thursday released a protocol outlining the steps for filing charges against federal immigration agents, marking the first official policy from the office on the topic amid uproar over agents’ conduct in the Chicago area and a public feud between the mayor and State’s Attorney ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Republican-backed bill establishing a statewide public charter school system was unconstitutional.

In a unanimous opinion authored by Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Michelle Keller, the state’s high court struck down 2022’s House Bill 9, which would have allowed approved ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado has joined another multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time to claim approximately $600 million in federal energy funds approved by Congress.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is seeking an estimated $2.7 billion appropriated to 13 states through the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a new “Public Integrity Unit” Thursday dedicated to rooting out public corruption throughout the state.

The unit will be housed within the Office of Statewide Prosecution, which Uthmeier oversees, and will be tasked with conducting an audit of “legislative ...Read more

The bodies of eight backcountry skiers who died in the largest avalanche in state history Tuesday will not be recovered Thursday due to hazardous weather conditions, officials said.

Recovery operations to extract the group off the mountains are expected to continue into the weekend, according to a social media post from the Nevada County ...Read more

They were as young as 3 and as old as 71. A strikingly large share had neither criminal convictions nor pending charges against them in the U.S. Many would be forced out of the country.

These were the people taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody last year in Washington state between the start of President Donald Trump's second ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state appeals court Thursday sided with Democrats in a contentious New York voting rights case that could wind up flipping the Staten Island-based seat held by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in the fall midterm elections.

The five-judge panel ordered the state’s independent redistricting commission to redraw the NY-11 ...Read more

At least 1,100 dead or sick birds, mostly Canada geese, have been reported across New Jersey in an outbreak that started on Valentine’s Day, according to state officials.

At least 50 geese have died at Alcyon Lake in Pitman, Gloucester County. Officials have closed the lake and the adjoining Betty Park out of precaution.

The fish and ...Read more