ATLANTA — QR codes must be eliminated from Georgia’s ballots by July 2026, but less than a year away from midterms, the state hasn’t figured out how to comply.

State lawmakers passed the bill in 2024 to eliminate the codes, but they didn’t allocate any money to do so this year. And election officials warn it’s too late to make ...Read more

As food prices remain high, the Trump administration has made it easier for farmers to hire foreign guest workers and to pay them less. Now, other industries with large immigrant workforces also are asking for relief as they combat labor shortages and raids.

Visas for temporary foreign workers are a quick fix with bipartisan support in Congress...Read more

CHICAGO — When you look across a field of miscanthus, it’s “hypnotically beautiful,” says Emily Heaton, whose family farm has for two decades grown the first commercial field of this grass in Illinois. Dense, sun-loving and often called “giant,” it blooms in late summer to fall with a showy silver flower.

Just like cornstalks across...Read more

BAYPORT, Minn. — The B-East cell hall at Stillwater prison was once a place of echoing lockdowns and razor-edged tension.

“Some things that’ll never leave,” said Lt. Sam Marks, recalling the stabbings, self-harm and overdoses that reverberated through the four tiers of steel and concrete.

But since the Department of Corrections began ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Colorado prisons are violating the constitutional rights of the state’s adult inmates and youth detainees through excessive force, inadequate medical care and nutrition, and policies surrounding the housing of transgender offenders, the federal agency announced Monday.

The Trump ...Read more

Haiti’s corruption investigators are calling for criminal charges against former President Michel Martelly, accusing him of filing false statements about his wealth.

A review of Martelly’s asset disclosures covering the period from his election in 2011 to his financial declaration two years after leaving office in 2016 found major ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Monday evening designating two Muslim groups as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

The executive order, which was posted on DeSantis’ social media accounts, states that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Society of Muslim Brothers (Muslim Brotherhood) would be classified ...Read more

The former Eastern Kentucky sheriff caught on camera gunning down a district court judge in his office last year has admitted to the slaying but claims his actions were unintentional.

Attorneys for former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines say he “lacked the capacity to intend” to shoot and kill District Court Judge Kevin ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on imports from Mexico if the country did not release water that his administration says must be allowed to flow under a treaty, escalating a fight with a major trading partner.

“I have authorized documentation to impose a 5% Tariff on Mexico if this water isn’t released, ...Read more

After avoiding it for nearly two decades, wildlife officials say that the illness wiping out millions of bats may have reached Nevada.

The fungal disease is known as white-nose syndrome, and it’s considered to be the single most deadly wildlife disease outbreak in North American history. Scientists first documented the disease in New York in ...Read more

President Donald Trump granted Nvidia Corp. permission to ship its H200 artificial intelligence chip to China in exchange for a 25% surcharge, a move that lets the world’s most valuable company potentially regain billions of dollars in lost business from a key global market.

The decision was announced by Trump in a post on his Truth Social ...Read more

BOSTON — A nativity scene in Dedham with the message “ICE was here” in front of the missing Holy Family will remain up pending a conversation with Archbishop Richard Henning, a local priest said Monday, despite the Archdiocese of Boston’s statement against the display over the weekend.

“That some do not agree with our message does not...Read more

BERKELEY, Calif. — A UC Berkeley professor smelled a rat — over the years there had been $46,855 in damage from computers that failed, and nearly all of it seemed to affect one particular Ph.D. candidate at the college’s Electronic Engineer and Computer Sciences department.

The professor wondered if the student’s luck was really that ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration has endorsed the Aukus security agreement with Australia and the UK following a lengthy review of the Biden-era pact that would sell nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.

“At the direction of the president, Aukus is full-steam ahead,” Rubio said at a meeting with Defense ...Read more

A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration’s ban on federal permits for wind energy projects in what supporters said was an important victory for the embattled industry.

President Trump issued the ban on his first day in office through an executive order that called for the temporary withdrawal of nearly all federal land ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Less than a year after President Donald Trump banned new wind projects, a federal judge ruled the president’s executive order was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Patti Saris said Monday the order is “arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law,” siding with more than a dozen U.S. states and a clean energy group that had ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A dozen FBI agents sued the Trump administration over their firing in September for having taken a knee during a 2020 demonstration in Washington following the police killing of George Floyd.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had investigated the incident and concluded there was no wrongdoing by the agents, who explained that ...Read more

European leaders are increasingly confident they will reach a deal to use frozen Russian assets before the end of the year following talks in London, even as a gulf remains between Europe and the U.S. on providing security guarantees for Kyiv.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his allies made “positive progress” to use immobilized Russian sovereign ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Commerce Committee advanced Monday a slate of transportation nominees, including Jared Isaacman, the on-off-on-again nominee to head NASA.

Isaacman, who was nominated to lead NASA earlier this year only to be withdrawn and renominated again in November, advanced on an 18-10 vote.

Isaacman said in a confirmation ...Read more