HARTFORD, Conn. — Prompted by the recent shootings in Minneapolis, state Senate Democrats called Monday for a new state civil rights law that would allow Connecticut citizens to sue federal immigration agents.

The measure would permit civil lawsuits against federal officials if citizens believed that their civil rights had been violated.

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An Edgewater, Maryland, man and former Voice of America employee accused of threatening to kill former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene pleaded guilty last month to anonymous telecommunications harassment and threatening to kidnap or injure across state lines.

Seth Jason, 64, has a sentencing hearing scheduled for June 18. He faces up to seven ...Read more

UPS has retired its MD-11 fleet, the model of McDonnell Douglas airplane that was involved in a fatal crash in Louisville in November.

The announcement was shared in the company’s quarterly earnings report Tuesday. UPS said it has accelerated its fleet modernization plans, and as part of that, will retire the MD-11 during the quarter.

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NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani named three new commissioners on Tuesday, vowing that they’d help him establish a “new era” in city politics — but some of the picks offered only lukewarm answers on how they’d address problems of the previous era.

He announced Sharun Goodwin will serve as commissioner of the Department of Probation, ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Traffic congestion is getting worse. Utilities race to generate energy. Public safety departments and resources are strained. These are the concerns of South Carolina leaders as the state’s population swells.

Between July 2024 and 2025, South Carolina grew more than any other state in the country by percentage, according to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in more than a year, the hill on which Palisades Charter High School stands was awash with students Tuesday, an early morning homecoming for a school community still recovering from a year of upheaval after the Palisades fire maelstrom damaged and shut down the popular campus by the sea.

Parents decked out in ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to roll back federal particulate matter pollution standards will harm Michigan residents, particularly those who live near emitters such as manufacturing plants and refineries in Wayne County, health and environmental advocates warned Tuesday.

The move is a "clear giveaway to corporate polluters...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Tuesday, California lawmakers held a news conference introducing a bipartisan environmental bill — Assembly Bill 1624 — aimed at strengthening protections for the Golden State’s public lands from federally backed “privatization and irreversible development.”

Led by Assembly member Rick Chavez Zbur, D-...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Gov. Brad Little in his annual State of the State speech called for budget cuts in a year of “budget pressures.” He proposed the extension into fiscal year 2027 of 3% cuts that many state agencies made to their budgets in August.

Now, lawmakers have signaled that they may cut even deeper — up to 5% of the state’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation said it paid $65,000 to hire a celebrity public relations firm to help the LAFD shape its messaging after the deadly Palisades fire.

The foundation addressed the controversy Tuesday in an email blast to supporters, about a week after the Los Angeles Times disclosed that charitable ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance will be in Miami Beach for a private event Wednesday, sources confirmed to the Miami Herald.

Miami-Dade GOP party officials were alerted that Vance would be in town. The White House has not provided details about the vice president’s visit.

But the Secret Service warned residents that there will be road closures ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger or Lori Vallow Daybell might one day get a book deal, but they’ll never receive the proceeds if an Idaho lawmaker’s proposal becomes law.

Over the past several years, the state has generated national headlines from a series of high-profile murder cases, and state Sen. Tammy Nichols, R-Middleton, wants to ...Read more

Gerber recalled 21 batches of Gerber Arrowroot Biscuits for babies nationwide because there’s a “potential presence of soft plastic and/or paper pieces that should not be consumed.”

That’s from the recall notice on the Gerber site that Publix reposted to the recall portion of its website. As of Tuesday at 3:15 p.m., none of the other ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In an escalating confrontation between the federal judiciary and immigration authorities, Minnesota’s Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz ordered the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear personally in court, accusing the agency of repeatedly defying court orders and declaring that the court�...Read more

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is turning up the heat on federal officials after Border Patrol agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Paul, who is chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called for an investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, in a social media post Tuesday.

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Despite the daily hourlong blackouts and gasoline rationing in Cuba, the island’s government sold most of the subsidized oil it received from Venezuela last year, a senior U.S. government official told the Miami Herald.

Venezuela provided Cuba with about 70,000 barrels per day of crude oil and refined products worth as much as $1.3 billion ...Read more

A Virginia judge has dealt a blow to Democrats efforts to redraw the commonwealth’s 11 congressional districts ahead of this year’s mid-term election in a bid for Democrats to pick up seats.

Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley, Jr. ruled Tuesday that the General Assembly acted illegally when it failed to make a proposed redistricting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California's population stalled in 2024 and growth across the county slowed amid widespread immigration raids in the first year of the new Trump administration, U.S. Census Bureau data shows.

After years of slow growth in the post pandemic era, California's population stayed essentially flat from July 2024 to July 2025, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff visited the California City immigration detention center last week, they were appalled.

“We saw firsthand today at California’s largest detention center the inhumane conditions that detained individuals are facing, violating basic standards for access to health care, food, water, and ...Read more

MIAMI — The leader of an association for Florida criminal defense attorneys urged a panel of state senators on Tuesday to reconsider a bill intended to protect law enforcement officers making arrests while “acting in good faith,” warning that it would also enable bad actors with badges.

At issue: the deletion of a provision in state law ...Read more