Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is for two reasons.

First, prior to Roosevelt’s election to a third term in 1940 there was a longstanding American tradition that presidents not serve more than two terms.

This tradition was established by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday over South Carolina’s effort to keep Planned Parenthood facilities from receiving Medicaid funding if they perform abortions, part of a dispute that could impact Congress’ ability to mandate coverage in the program.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to challenge the state�...Read more

ATLANTA — The Federal Emergency Management Agency can’t get out of a lawsuit by the city of Atlanta after approving only $200 of the city’s request for $1.2 million in flood repair costs, a federal judge in Atlanta has ruled.

The city sued FEMA in May 2024, claiming it didn’t properly respond to or assess the city’s 2009 request for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday said the Justice Department would seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione for the December killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination...Read more

NEW YORK — After two Columbia University presidents resigned in quick succession since campus protests began against Israel’s campaign in Gaza, the Board of Trustees is playing it safe and tapping one of their own to lead through federal funding negotiations with the Trump administration.

The board late last week unexpectedly elevated one ...Read more

A Maryland man with legal status in the United States was accidentally deported to El Salvador, President Donald Trump’s administration admitted Monday.

Kilmer Armando Abrego-Garcia was on board one of three flights to El Salvador on March 15 and jailed in the nation’s notorious CECOT prison, ABC News reported.

An immigration judge had ...Read more

Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre remains in an Australian hospital following a crash with a school bus on March 24. Her condition remains serious, according to her spokeswoman.

Western Australian police said that a 71-year-old woman was driving, and a 41-year-old woman, presumably Giuffre, was a passenger in the vehicle when the accident...Read more

DENVER — A group of Colorado lawmakers has unveiled a plan to fundamentally change state tax policy and attempt to eliminate the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR.

The plan, announced Monday afternoon by Democratic legislators, includes reclassifying chunks of Colorado highway funding so it doesn’t fall under the TABOR spending cap, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Some lawmakers who voted in favor of banning cellphones in Georgia public schools for students in grades K-8 said they felt like the legislation would make schools safer.

“This is indeed … the first and only school safety bill, true school safety bill, that we’ve heard this year,” said Sen. Jason Esteves, D-Atlanta, before ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Some records from the investigation into the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, can be released to the public as long as they do not clearly show the couple’s bodies after they were discovered in their Santa Fe home in February, a New Mexico judge ruled Monday.

Redacted videos of the couple’s mummified ...Read more

DENVER — Psychedelic-assisted therapy is one step closer to becoming legally available in Colorado, with the state’s first healing center obtaining a license to offer the service this week.

On Monday, the state’s Natural Medicine Division issued an operational license to The Center Origin, a wellness center located at 1440 Blake St., ...Read more

ATLANTA — A federal judge has dismissed an epic court case challenging Georgia’s touchscreen voting system, ending the seven-year lawsuit that uncovered election security vulnerabilities and a breach in Coffee County.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg closed the case Monday but cited “substantial concerns” about Georgia’s voting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Riverside County man, charged with multiple felony counts of domestic violence, was at the center of a courthouse brawl that culminated in three sheriff's deputies being sent to the emergency room, according to authorities.

Ryan James Chalfant, 31, attempted to flee the Riverside County Hall of Justice after refusing to be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After weeks of criticism from political allies, Gov. Gavin Newsom explained why he shared his belief that it's unfair for transgender athletes to compete in women's sports.

Newsom, in a recent interview with The Times, said that although he had been deliberating over the issue for years, he didn't set up the interview with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County jury has awarded a former LAPD sergeant $4.5 million after finding that department officials retaliated against him when he reported another officer for billing Metro Transit for overtime work that was never performed.

The lawsuit by Randy Rangel, who spent 32 years with the department before retiring in ...Read more

Twenty staffers at a Pennsylvania charter school have been charged in connection with the physical abuse of more than two dozen children, some of them as young as 5 years old, prosecutors announced.

All 26 alleged victims, ranging from kindergarteners to fifth graders, were enrolled in a behavioral and emotional support program at Chester ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ring camera footage captured the moment a masked vandal threw a rock at the windshield and slashed the tires of a Cybertruck in Novato, one of the latest in a string of nationwide attacks on Tesla vehicles and the second such incident in the small Bay Area city.

The vandal struck around 4:22 a.m. Saturday, appearing to case the ...Read more

Sen. Cory Booker Tuesday gave an all-night speech at the Capitol denouncing President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

The New Jersey lawmaker took the floor of the Senate at 7 p.m. Monday and continued almost uninterrupted until 9 a.m. and counting with a wide-ranging denunciation of Trump’s first 10 weeks in office, which he called a...Read more

France’s far-right National Rally conceded the extent of the damage caused by a court ruling barring its leader, Marine Le Pen, from running for election. But the party insists that the fight isn’t over and that it will try to use the controversy to its advantage.

“This indignation, this wound, must be used as an engine of indignation and...Read more

BOSTON — The white hot Karen Read retrial is officially underway in Norfolk Superior Court with the start of jury selection this morning.

The Read trial has been anything but quiet since Judge Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial last summer. The Herald has guides on what to know and who to know before this second trial gets underway.

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