WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he expects the United States to end its involvement in the war with Iran within three weeks, declaring there will likely be “no reason” for American forces to stay in the region even as top defense officials maintain Tehran’s military capabilities have not been fully eliminated.

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WASHINGTON — The Michigan chapter of a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization criticized Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin for her weekend appearance on comedian and pundit Bill Maher’s television program, which the senator sidestepped by rejecting religious hate against Jews and Muslims.

The first-term Michigan senator from Holly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom on the former site of the White House’s East Wing cannot move forward without authorization from Congress, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard J. Leon said when issuing a preliminary injunction on Tuesday.

Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, found that the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers got what some of them have been wanting to do since 2025: The city of Boise took its Pride flag down.

Idaho legislators first passed a law in 2025 preventing the state and local governments from flying most flags. During debate, supporters shared photos of Boise’s flag as an example of what they hoped the law ...Read more

All six New England governors to outline a regional commitment to explore advanced nuclear energy technologies and to continue supporting existing facilities.

A joint statement issued Tuesday by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, Maine Gov. Janet Mills, New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte, Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee and ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump’s presidential library tower in Miami will likely include a hotel and could have an office component, too, the president told reporters Tuesday.

“It’s gonna be most likely a hotel, you know? This concept could be office, but it’s most likely gonna be a hotel with a beautiful building underneath and a 747...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — House Republicans voted against a bill that seeks to require counties in Idaho to allow citizens to carry firearms into courthouses — but still ban them from courtrooms — and sent it along for possible amendment, leaving its prospects in doubt.

House Bill 621 aims to grant gun owners the ability to bring their concealed ...Read more

King Charles III will not see his son Prince Harry when the British monarch visits the United States in April.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will host the King and Queen of the United Kingdom’s “Historic State Visit” on April 27.

That three-day visit won’t include a meeting between the King and his 41-year-old son, who lives ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he foresaw the United States ending the war on Iran within two to three weeks, suggesting the U.S. had largely accomplished its military goals and would leave it to other nations to resolve issues with the Strait of Hormuz.

“I would say that within two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three,” Trump ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — State senators on Tuesday softened a controversial bill that would make eligibility and cost changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid program, which provides health coverage to 30% of the state’s 4.6 million people.

The Senate Health Services Committee unanimously approved a substitute version of House Bill 2 and sent it to the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — “Coming soon to a canal bank near you”: rats.

That was Middleton Republican state Sen. Tammy Nichols’ warning to the Idaho Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee on Tuesday if the Idaho Legislature doesn’t take action to curb the spread of the pest that’s already snowballing across the Treasure Valley.

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WASHINGTON — National Public Radio Inc., Public Broadcasting Service, and others demonstrated that President Donald Trump’s anti-media funding executive order is unlawful, a Washington, D.C., federal court said Tuesday.

The executive order is unconstitutional because the president can’t use governmental power to direct federal agencies to...Read more

Amid ongoing talks between the Trump administration and Cuban leaders, Sandro Castro, the controversial grandson of Fidel Castro, told a major U.S. television news network that most Cubans on the island want to embrace capitalism and that the country’s handpicked president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has done a poor job.

His statements to CNN’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s plan for a glitzy new $400 million White House ballroom was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who ruled that only Congress can approve such a dramatic change in the presidential compound.

After presiding over months of litigation, District Court Judge Richard Leon ordered Trump to immediately stop construction of the...Read more

Convening a rarely used committee for the first time in more than three decades, top Trump administration officials voted Tuesday to exempt oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements that protect endangered species.

It’s a striking move that advocacy groups say could further imperil gulf wildlife like the Rice’s whale, one of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Four people were arrested Tuesday in connection with a federal corruption investigation that has ensnared NYC Council member Farah Louis and BHRAGS Home Care, a nonprofit providing homeless services to the city, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office said.

The feds are looking into whether Louis and her sister Debbie Louis, an aide ...Read more

MIAMI — The captain of the tugboat pushing a large construction barge that crashed into a sailboat full of summer campers, killing three young girls last summer, has been charged with their deaths.

Yusiel Lopez Insua, 46 , was charged with seaman’s manslaughter for operating the barge with obstructed visibility and without assigning a ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado held a closed-door meeting Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss a roadmap toward a democratic transition in the South American country.

The State Department did not immediately comment on the meeting, which appeared on Rubio’s official ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is recognizing Tuesday as Farm Workers Day after lawmakers rushed through a renaming of the state holiday that previously honored disgraced civil rights and labor leader César Chávez.

Gov. Jared Polis’ office signed the legislation into law in a private signing ceremony with sponsors Tuesday morning, according to his ...Read more