Maryland officials say they are gathering the data needed to pursue federal disaster aid for the state’s struggling oyster industry, as watermen and Eastern Shore lawmakers press for relief under both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fishery disaster process and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

For weeks, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t need to go to Congress to restore his sweeping global tariffs after the Supreme Court decision Friday that struck them down.

Asked if he would go to Congress on the matter, Trump told reporters at the White House “I don’t need to” because the authorities he is seeking are already approved. Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at Supreme Court justices who struck down his tariffs agenda, calling them “fools” who made a “terrible, defective decision” that he plans to circumvent by imposing new levies in a different way.

In a defiant appearance at the White House, Trump told reporters that his ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors said Friday, Feb. 20, that the U.S. government has yet to formally decide whether to seek the death penalty against Vance Boelter, the man accused of shootings two Minnesota state lawmakers and their families last summer.

During a brief appearance in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, assistant U.S. ...Read more

Understanding one another can be hard. There is a big difference between someone snapping at you out of contempt, and calling you out for a mistake because they believe in you and know you can do better. One of these cases calls for anger, but the other for humility or even embarrassment. Or maybe they are only snapping because they’re “...Read more

About half of the global population menstruates at some point in their lives. Disposable products, such as tampons and pads, are some of the most popular products used around the globe to manage menstrual flow.

Unfortunately, studies have shown that many personal care products, including shampoo, lotion, nail polish and menstrual ...Read more

In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as the result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year.

Radon is present nearly everywhere outdoors, yet typically at levels that are not harmful. It becomes dangerous when it gets trapped and ...Read more

As the actions of agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement come under intense scrutiny, it’s worth noting that a little more than 100 years ago, another expansion of federal policing – to enforce national Prohibition – also sparked nationwide concern.

As a U.S. history scholar, I know both the government agencies ...Read more

President Donald Trump faces daunting odds of convincing the U.S. Congress to restore his sweeping global tariffs after the Supreme Court decision Friday that struck them down.

The slim Republican majority in both chambers and heightened anxiety around the economic impact of the duties will make enshrining the tariffs into law challenging.

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BOSTON — Acting Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) Director Michael Cole has been appointed as the agency’s official head, effective immediately, as a flurry of SNAP-EBT fraud schemes have been uncovered in Massachusetts and just days after the Herald published a DTA whistleblower’s account of “rampant” fraud within the ...Read more

OTTAWA, Kan. — When Kansas began requiring residents to prove their U.S. citizenship before voting more than a decade ago, Steven Wayne Fish tried and failed.

A first-time father in his 30s at the time, he wanted a say in debates over public school funding despite having never voted before. But Fish, who was born on a since-decommissioned Air...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego County supervisor is proposing seismic changes to how county government works, who controls it and how many terms they can serve.

Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer wants to ask voters to overhaul the county’s charter — effectively its constitution — in a way that could hand additional power to supervisors and strip ...Read more

The four astronauts set to venture farther than any human has ever traveled from Earth are set to enter quarantine Friday with the chance to launch on the Artemis II moonshot mission early next month.

NASA officials announced the new target after completing a redo of a simulated countdown Thursday night at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39...Read more

WASHINGTON — Immigrant advocates fear a Trump administration proposal released Friday amounts to an indefinite pause on new work permits for asylum seekers.

The draft regulation from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would halt the acceptance of work permit applications when average processing times at the agency exceed 180 days.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers are moving forward with legislation, supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis, that would prohibit local governments from supporting any “diversity, equity, and inclusion” activities.

But local governments and residents across the state worry that the bill could stop innocuous government activities, including ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court invalidated much of the Trump administration’s worldwide tariff regime in a ruling released Friday, dealing a major setback to one of President Donald Trump’s signature domestic and foreign policy efforts.

The 6-3 ruling found that Trump overstepped the emergency authority Congress gave to presidents in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Yosemite National Park is closed through Friday because of impacts from the winter storm, including heavy snowfall and heavy trees.

The National Park Service announced Thursday that the park is closed and that visitors with lodging reservations may still enter the park through Highway 140 at the Arch Rock entrance.

Since Monday...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The same day the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled a GOP bill creating a funding mechanism for charter schools was unconstitutional, House Republicans introduced legislation critics see as another assault on public education.

House Bill 1, filed Thursday and sponsored by Rep. Kim Moser, R-Taylor Mill; Rep. TJ Roberts, R-Burlington...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A man with a reported history of aggression toward Muslims has received a nearly seven-year prison term for setting fires on successive days that damaged two Twin Cities mosques.

Jackie Rahm Little, 39, of Edina was sentenced on Feb. 19 in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis after pleading guilty to one count each of arson and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vance Boelter, the man accused in the shootings of two state lawmakers and their families last summer, is due in federal court Friday morning.

Boelter faces six federal charges connected to the June 14 shootings that killed Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at ...Read more