President Donald Trump tore into Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again Monday, saying, “This guy doesn’t want there to be peace.”

The comment came after Zelenskyy expressed a willingness to meet with Trump again, despite Friday’s open confrontation at the White House, if the U.S. president invites him for a “serious” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Donald Trump will become the first president to walk into the House chamber and deliver a second first address to a joint session of Congress.

“What the heck happened to Roll Call’s fact-checking standards?” some of you might be thinking. “Surely, they haven’t forgotten about Grover Cleveland, the first man ...Read more

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Robert Crimo III nearly pleaded guilty in June to the Highland Park mass shooting, but then changed his mind in court. On Monday, on the eve of trial in the July 4, 2022 parade shooting, he did another about-face and this time pleaded guilty to 69 felonies.

Crimo’s 11th-hour decision to plead guilty to 21 counts of first-...Read more

BALTIMORE — Power was restored at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Monday after a fire near the airport caused outages in the main terminal, leading to delays and long lines.

A Maryland Aviation Administration spokesperson said that full power had been restored by around 11:15 a.m. after the outages killed ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge Monday granted a new trial on some counts in the “ComEd Four” case involving former House Speaker Michael Madigan, saying the Supreme Court’s ruling last year on a key bribery statute means the jury was not instructed properly.

In making his ruling, however, U.S. District Judge Manish Shah left intact the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — New leadership at the Department of Justice dropped a case last week that accused Maryland State Police of violating federal employment discrimination laws, leaving any decisions on reforming the agency’s hiring practices to the state.

Federal prosecutors filed to dismiss the case as President Donald Trump’s administration ...Read more

ATLANTA — A bill that would withhold public funding from any K-12 public school, college or university in Georgia that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion programs cleared a key committee Monday.

Lawmakers on the state Senate’s Higher Education Committee met as the sun was rising and finished voting on Senate Bill 120 around 7:15 a.m. ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas City Council members reported accepting tickets to Vegas Golden Knights and Las Vegas Raiders games in their annual financial disclosure statements, though state ethics officials have cautioned that some gifts may be inappropriate.

The law requires disclosing gifts with an aggregate value of more than $200 from a donor ...Read more

ADRIAN, Mich.— A probate court hearing to declare three Lenawee County brothers missing since 2010 legally dead began Monday with a former police official testifying that a woman who the boys' dad said was caring for them didn't exist.

Tanner, Alexander, and Andrew Skelton were last seen in the backyard of their father's home in Morenci, near...Read more

LAS VEGAS — In federal court, Christian Conrad Claus is accused of organizing an elaborate insurance fraud scheme with two other men while working as a New Orleans police officer.

In the Clark County court system, Claus is a criminal defense attorney known by his middle name, licensed to practice in Nevada since 1998 and unfettered by any ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Aimee Bock compared her nonprofit, Feeding Our Future, to the “mob” in text messages to her business associates and continued to pay fraudulent food distribution operators even when her employees raised questions about their legitimacy, an FBI agent testified Monday.

As the federal trial of Bock and co-defendant Salim Said ...Read more

DENVER — After drawing national attention by suggesting he would mobilize Denver police to stop mass deportations, Mayor Mike Johnston will travel to Washington, D.C., this week to defend the city’s migrant-friendly immigration policies to members of Congress.

Johnston is set to appear before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony, acquitted in 2011 of murder charges in the death of her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony, has created a TikTok to tout her role as a “legal advocate.”

The video posted on March 1 from what Anthony said was her car encouraged viewers to connect with her account set up on Substack. By Monday morning, her account ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A highly-anticipated jury trial against two ex-Antioch cops is underway and officers once accused of committing crimes alongside them are expected to be star witnesses.

Morteza Amiri and Devon Wenger face charges of conspiracy to violate civil rights and violation of civil rights, alleging that the two plotted with other ...Read more

It will likely take weeks to sort out the death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife as authorities revealed new details about the case.

The Oscar winner and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead with one of the family’s three dogs in their New Mexico home by maintenance workers on Wednesday. Authorities said there were no obvious signs of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The last time Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped her copy of his speech into pieces.

While the speaker emerita won’t be seated behind him during his return to the House chamber Tuesday night, fireworks are likely. Trump’s four appearances in the chamber during his first term ...Read more

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Robert Crimo III unexpectedly pleaded guilty Monday to all charges in the July 4, 2022, Highland Park parade shooting that killed seven people.

Crimo’s trial was set to begin Monday in Lake County Court when his defense attorneys informed Judge Victoria Rossetti that Crimo wished to change his plea to guilty.

The judge ...Read more

Five people were injured on a United Airlines flight Sunday amid turbulence so severe that multiple flights were diverted to Waco Regional Airport in central Texas.

United 5690 had departed Springfield, Missouri, en route to Houston at 4:48 p.m. and made an emergency landing an hour and 40 minutes later at Waco Regional Airport. Two American ...Read more