The Michigan House and Senate are floating conflicting plans this week for how to address the use of cellphones in schools with one proposal aiming to ban the devices in elementary grades and another attempting to leave the matter up to individual districts.

The disagreement could be a test of whether Republicans, who control the House, and ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — A 103-year-old, single-lane bridge that leads to Mount Rainier National Park and the Carbon River Ranger Station is permanently closed due to safety concerns, the Washington State Department of Transportation said in a news release on Tuesday.

This closure stops public access from state Route 165 to popular areas such as ...Read more

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday echoed Trump administration talking points on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident whose accidental deportation to El Salvador has become a major flash point in the ongoing fight over the president’s hard-line immigration agenda.

Adams’ comments, made alongside Trump border Czar Tom Homan, came...Read more

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that the Trump administration’s moves to downsize the Internal Revenue Service, along with other changes, are likely to incentivize reduced tax-payment compliance — potentially costing the federal government $1 trillion in lost revenues over a decade.

“We are threatening the basis of our tax...Read more

At least two Venezuelan immigrants who were detained by ICE and deported from the U.S. have completely disappeared, their families said Tuesday.

Relatives of Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel, 27, spoke with the Miami Herald, while family and friends of Ricardo Prada Vasquez, 32, told his story to the New York Times.

Leon Rengel arrived in the U.S....Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he’d like to meet Donald Trump at the Vatican on Saturday where global leaders will attend the funeral of Pope Francis.

The Ukrainian leader’s push for a meeting with Trump comes just days after the American president warned he was ready to walk away from efforts to end the war in Ukraine if a deal can’t be ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. questioned the need for all children to get Covid shots amid reports that the U.S. government is considering revoking its current vaccine recommendations.

“The recommendation for children was always dubious,” Kennedy told Fox News when asked to comment on considerations by the Trump...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore and Maryland’s legislative leadership signed a slew of bills into law Tuesday afternoon with a particular focus on criminal justice and protection for federal employees facing job losses under the Trump administration.

Moore, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson, all Democrats, signed...Read more

A former oil executive and representative of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been given wide authority to make significant changes to the Department of Interior, the agency tasked with overseeing national parks and more than 500 million acres of federal land.

The move has alarmed conservation groups, including some who ...Read more

U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday called for Mexico and the U.S. to develop a “100% solution” to stop the flow of raw sewage from Tijuana that has polluted the Tijuana River and left communities near the border coping with foul odors and beaches that are often closed because of high bacteria levels.

“Americans on our side of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, on Tuesday announced a plan to ban synthetic food dyes that color everyday snack items such as Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and M&Ms.

The first step in the plan is for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to revoke authorization of citrus red No. 2 and orange B.

After...Read more

The feds’ request to visit Boston Wednesday to probe the city’s response to “incidents of antisemitism” at its schools and colleges was not accepted by the Wu administration, at a time when Harvard and the Trump administration are battling.

U.S. Department of Justice officials met with city lawyers, department chiefs and a leader from ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Legislature on Tuesday failed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $1,000 increase to the Base Student Allocation, the state’s per-student funding formula.

Lawmakers voted to sustain Dunleavy’s veto in a 33-27 vote on Tuesday afternoon, seven votes shy of the 40-legislator threshold.

School ...Read more