RALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican bill filed this week that proposes making abortion illegal in North Carolina at any stage of pregnancy won’t move forward, House Speaker Destin Hall said Tuesday.

“I don’t think there’s any real desire in our caucus to hear that particular bill, and so, it’s not going to be heard in committee,” Hall ...Read more

South Bow Corp.’s Keystone oil pipeline has been shut after a spill in southeast North Dakota, curtailing a conduit that carries as much as 15% of Canada’s crude exports to the U.S.

South Bow estimates 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near the pump station. The affected segment has been isolated and the release has been contained, ...Read more

As the Trump administration makes it harder for Haitians to leave their country or remain in the United States, the Dominican Republic is announcing its own tougher immigration directives toward Haitians to discourage them from going over to the next-door neighbor that shares the island of Hispaniola.

Dominican President Luis Abinader has ...Read more

FBI Deputy Director and former Fox News host Dan Bongino could soon be getting a 20-person team of bodyguards for a job that doesn’t typically come with a security detail.

The FBI is reportedly seeking agents to temporarily leave their jobs to serve as muscle for the brash ex-pundit, according to NBC News.

Sources told the outlet that a ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In just 16 months, a new nursing program in Meridian will usher its first class of nurses into the health care workforce. In Idaho, that workforce is waiting with open arms — and a deficit of hundreds of workers.

Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university based in Phoenix, celebrated the onset of its accelerated ...Read more

Gov. Joe Lombardo vowed to “put the teeth back into Nevada’s penal code” through a proposed crime and public safety bill he introduced this week.

The Republican governor said Senate Bill 457 – which he calls the “Safe Streets and Neighborhoods Act” — has provisions that increase criminal penalties in a variety of areas including ...Read more

Edward Goodrich sees himself in the text of Nevada’s Assembly Bill 414.

“As I read the contents of AB 414, I quickly realized that this legislation was actually about me,” Goodrich told lawmakers on behalf of a Northern Nevada chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Goodrich, who has worked in convention ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged a River Rouge man with a gun crime and said he is a suspect in the homicides of three people found in a burning vehicle in Detroit.

The case against Edward Delorean Redding, 29, was filed two days after the remains of three people were found when firefighters responded to a car blaze in an alley ...Read more

Colorado legislators are fast-tracking the creation of a $4 million fund to help Gov. Jared Polis’ office defend against actions by the Trump administration — including potential criminal investigations — as policymakers grapple with frozen funding and uncertainty from the federal government.

Using money from the federal Infrastructure ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The US Defense Department is offering an apology, back pay and a welcome back to former military personnel who were forced out of the armed forces over their refusal to be vaccinated against the coronavirus during the Biden administration.

“Former service members who were involuntarily separated solely due to their COVID-19 ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Michigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar's office this week turned over copies of receipts for the more than $484,000 that he was reimbursed by the House of Representatives last year.

The office of the congressman had initially declined to provide receipts for the 21 transactions to The Detroit News last week, but did so after The News ...Read more

A woman who worked as a nurse for a Connecticut surgical center pleaded guilty to stealing pain medication from the clinic and swapping the drugs with saline or water, federal prosecutors said.

Kristen Carotenuto stole vials of hydromorphone and fentanyl from the Stamford outpatient surgical center in December, then brought the vials home, ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Areli Perez keeps a small handwritten note inside her kitchen cabinet. The note lists a phone number and a short message that reads: “En caso de emergencia, llama aquí” (“In case of emergency, call here”).

“When someone is in trouble, fear and stress can make them feel alone, like there’s no help, but there is,” ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Carnaval de Puebla, the big annual celebration of Mexican culture in South Philadelphia, has been canceled this year out of fear that ICE might target the event to make immigration arrests.

The festival was scheduled for April 27, and expected to draw the estimated 15,000 revelers who have made it one of the largest ...Read more

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged deeper cooperation with Panama on a visit to the Central American country’s canal zone, striking a conciliatory tone after months of tension over Donald Trump’s vow to take back control of the waterway.

In a news conference Tuesday, Hegseth pointed to ports operated by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison...Read more

MIAMI — The man who carjacked, sexually assaulted and murdered a beloved Miami Herald employee in 2000 was executed Tuesday evening.

Michael Tanzi, 48, died by lethal injection at 6:12 p.m Eastern time at Florida State Prison in Raiford, about 45 minutes north of Gainesville. He was on death row for more than two decades.

On April 25, 2000, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s steeper-than-expected tariffs have traumatized financial markets and triggered recession fears all over the world.

His White House weighed the option of going even bigger.

Trade adviser Peter Navarro urged the president to implement either an across-the-board 25% tax on imports or a so-called “...Read more

Ukrainian officials will visit the U.S. at the end of this week for talks on a deal governing post-war plans to exploit mineral deposits and rebuild infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter.

The delegation will include deputy ministers from Ukraine’s economy and justice ministries but no higher-level politicians, as talks...Read more

In the midst of a spiraling risis in which hospitals are struggling to provide care amid U.S. aid freezes and gang attacks have left several medical facilities in flames, the French charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières has practically been the only choice for Haitians needing care.

Since the beginning of the year, two of ...Read more