ATLANTA — The Georgia General Assembly on Monday approved an amended 2025 budget that includes hundreds of millions of dollars for hurricane relief, tax refunds, prison security and other priorities. Here’s what you need to know.

—Hurricane relief: The budget includes $862 million for expenses related to last September’s Hurricane ...Read more

The last time SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket, the upper stage disintegrated spectacularly over the Atlantic. Two months later, SpaceX is set to try again today, Monday, with less explosive results.

The Jan. 16 launch saw a successful catch of the Super Heavy booster back at the Texas launch site, but the Starship spacecraft...Read more

ATLANTA — Two years after assuring parents of transgender children that legislation passed in 2023 to ban certain procedures to assist minors in their gender transition was “just a pause,” Republican senators voted Monday to restrict more treatments available to children.

The legislation, sponsored by Senate Health and Human Services ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Setting up a showdown with the Legislature, Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that he would veto $40 million in spending for special education and $2.8 million for nonprofits that are threatened with spending cuts by Republican President Donald Trump.

Lamont is employing his powers by using a line-item ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress for years backed additional immigration judges to address a yearslong backlog of deportation and asylum cases, but the sharply different views of two of the newest members of the Senate Homeland Security panel show a consensus on that approach has fractured.

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said in an interview about joining the ...Read more

Chris Wicker isn’t quite sure which emotions will bubble to the top when he walks into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday night for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress.

He knows he’ll be humbled. As a six-year Air Force veteran who has saluted the American flag more times than he can count, the 40-...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Republican-led bill to bar transgender girls from competing on girls and women’s elementary and secondary school sports teams in Minnesota is expected to be hotly debated on the state House floor Monday afternoon.

And if the morning’s events at the Capitol are any indication, the battle lines are starkly partisan.

The...Read more

ATLANTA — Fed by blustery winds and dry conditions, more than 100 wildfires sparked across Georgia over the weekend, scorching roughly 2,390 acres.

The Carolinas were hit even harder. Firefighting crews on Sunday were battling more than 175 blazes that had erupted in recent days, prompting evacuations in several counties, including near ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would plow ahead with new tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Tuesday, a broadside against the two biggest U.S trading partners that underscores his push to remake global trade.

“No room left for Mexico or for Canada,” Trump told reporters Monday when asked if the United States' North American...Read more

NEW YORK — Ten months after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, a student at its sister school, Barnard College, has been expelled, the campus protest group Columbia University Apartheid Divest announced Monday. Another student was suspended.

Barnard administrators reportedly told the individual they ...Read more

Americans are divided over the scope of the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting task force established by President Donald Trump, according to new polling.

The latest CBS News/YouGov poll asked respondents how much influence DOGE should have on government spending and how much access it should have to government data.

The ...Read more

Fire crews battled hundreds of wildfires that prompted evacuations across the Carolinas on Monday, including a 400-acre fire in Western North Carolina.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a state of emergency. Heavy, low-hanging smoke blanketed parts of the Myrtle Beach area.

In North Carolina, families in Tryon, a town of about 1,500 in...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — An administrative law judge has sided with the state in a longstanding legal battle between the Cannabis Regulatory Agency and one of Michigan's largest marijuana testing facilities, Viridis.

In a proposal for decision issued last month, the judge found the state’s actions, which triggered a massive marijuana recall in 2021...Read more

ATLANTA — A group of crime victims, attorneys and security experts on Monday denounced Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed overhaul of the state’s civil litigation system, saying the bill would make it harder for victims to get justice in the courts.

Advocates say Senate Bill 68 would limit excessive claims while still allowing people to recover ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fed by blustery winds and dry conditions, more than 100 wildfires sparked across Georgia over the weekend, scorching roughly 2,390 acres.

The Carolinas were hit even harder. Firefighting crews on Sunday were battling more than 175 blazes that had erupted in recent days, prompting evacuations in several counties, including near ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey took her fight against Donald Trump and the onslaught of policies released by his administration to the national stage over the weekend, telling the New York Times in a featured interview that it’s time for Democrats to rebrand and reclaim their working class base co-opted by the president.

“Let’s take this ...Read more

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