Minnesota Senate President Bobby Joe Champion spent more than an hour in front of an ethics committee Tuesday defending his push to fund a north Minneapolis non-profit organization he also represented as a private attorney.

Champion, a Democrat from Minneapolis’ North Side, was adamant that the relationship doesn’t present a conflict of ...Read more

Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 years.

Now, human eyes have finally peered deep inside the doomed vessel, revealing a massive wall mural that is still intact despite the Yorktown being sunk in war in 1942.

The discovery was made Saturday, April 19, when ...Read more

MONTREAL — Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is holding on to a narrow lead in opinion surveys with less than a week to go before Canada’s election, as U.S. tariff threats remain a top issue in the campaign.

Among decided voters, 43% support the Liberals, compared with 39% for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party, according to a new Leger ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked North Carolina election officials from beginning a massive ballot review period stemming from Jefferson Griffin’s challenge of his loss in the 2024 state Supreme Court race.

The 2-1 ruling, which came from a panel of judges on the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, means...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The state Senate voted to oust Treasurer Curtis Loftis over a yearslong accounting error, leaving the statewide official a vote by the House away from being removed from office for willful neglect of duty.

The 33-8 vote in the state Senate is the upper chamber’s culmination of a three-year investigation into the state’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With a pledge to fully back President Donald Trump’s agenda, Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr on Tuesday jumped into the race to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell.

“I’m running for Senate to help our president save this great country,’’ Barr says in a video announcing his campaign. “Kentucky is the heart of ...Read more

Supreme Court appears to favor parents' right to opt out of LGBTQ+ stories for their children

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded ready on Tuesday to give parents a constitutional right to opt out of public school lessons for their children that offend their religious beliefs.

At issue are new "LGBTQ-inclusive" storybooks used ...Read more

Tesla Inc. backed away from an earlier view for 2025 sales growth and pledged to revisit its outlook next quarter, a sign that tariffs, an aging vehicle lineup and the backlash against Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk are having an impact on the electric-vehicle maker.

The company on Tuesday reported adjusted earnings of 27 cents per share ...Read more

BOSTON — The massive spike in antisemitic incidents that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in 2023 continued last year, according to data compiled by the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL recorded a total of 638 incidents of assault, harassment, and vandalism last year in the New England region — the fourth year in a row that ...Read more

U.S. stocks jumped, wiping out Monday’s plunge, as traders unleashed risky bets that the White House will clinch crucial trade deals with top economic partners. The dollar recovered slightly from Monday’s lows while short-term Treasury yields climbed.

The S&P 500 rose 2.5% — notching its best day since April 9 — after a series of ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Nine months following a dramatic mistrial declared under the glare of the national spotlight, Karen Read is on trial again for the murder of her boyfriend, Boston police Officer John O’Keefe.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence, and ...Read more

CHICAGO — Jurors in the federal corruption trial against Illinois state Sen. Emil Jones III sent the judge a series of questions Tuesday before wrapping a first full day of deliberations.

All told, the panel sent U.S. District Judge Andrea Wood five questions that largely centered around the intent and timing of the alleged $5,000 campaign ...Read more

NEW YORK — Three more prosecutors on the team involved with Mayor Eric Adams’ federal corruption case have resigned rather than admit wrongdoing, they wrote in a resignation letter, according to published reports.

Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom, all who were previously placed on administrative leave after they refused ...Read more

The federal Department of Education is cracking down on student loan debt, announcing this week it will resume collecting defaulted federal student loan payments starting May 5.

It’ll be the first time in five years that the government has collected on defaulted loans.

The new policy could mean the department could take funds from someone’...Read more

North Carolina and the nation saw a jump in antisemitic incidents in 2024, with the ADL recording the highest number of incidents nationwide since it began tracking them annually in 1979.

North Carolina saw a 16% rise in antisemitic incidents last year and a 47% jump in bomb threats, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) reported Tuesday.

The ...Read more