Stellantis NV is discussing options for building electric vehicles in Canada with its Chinese partner, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of how quickly the auto industry is being reshaped after Canada opened the door to companies from the world’s largest car market.

The talks are in an ...Read more

A new version of the Kentucky Legislature’s one-time spending bill more than doubles the total funding for projects across the state compared to previous iterations. With hours left to beat the clock to withstand a potential veto, the bill hasn’t yet been publicly released.

A long list of projects totalling more than $1.7 billion is the ...Read more

LA PLATA, Md. — A quadruple amputee and athlete charged with murder in Charles County is at the center of a “clear-cut case of self-defense,” his lawyers said Wednesday.

“He almost was killed and had to kill,” defense attorney Hammad Matin told the court.

Dayton Webber, whose success at cornhole has made him a national figure of ...Read more

The Cuban government released its annual economic plan Wednesday, which lacks major reforms and signals that Cuban leaders are resisting U.S. pressure to significantly transform their economic model and political system despite the dire conditions on the island.

The plan includes recently announced measures, such as promoting business ventures ...Read more

The alleged secret life of the husband of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem may have been made public by a sex worker who’s in the U.S. illegally.

Axios reporter Marc Caputo said on Tuesday that he received a tip in February alleging Bryon Noem was into a fetish known in the alternative lifestyle community as “...Read more

WASHINGTON — “Baloney.”

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema couldn’t wrap her mind around the notion that North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has changed since announcing last summer he wouldn’t seek reelection.

“Thom Tillis is Thom Tillis,” Sinema told The News & Observer of Raleigh in an interview. “He does what he believes in, and he has always...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers.

Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

MIAMI — Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was found dead in her home Wednesday morning. Her husband was arrested in connection to her death, police say.

Around 10 a.m., Coral Springs police officers went to her home to check on her “well-being,” Chief Brad Mock said.

Authorities found her dead body inside her home, in the 800 ...Read more

DETROIT — Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick accused federal prosecutors Wednesday of bullying his family, chilling business opportunities and forcing him to remove his children from school amid government attempts to find and seize money the corrupt politician owes taxpayers as part of his 2013 racketeering conspiracy conviction.

Kilpatrick, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two bounty hunters seen in viral social media videos pointing weapons at protesters and firing less-lethal munitions are now facing felony charges in Hennepin County.

Garrett C. Willis, 28, and James R. Willis, 54, both of Ardmore, Oklahoma, were charged Tuesday with two felony counts each of threats of violence. If convicted on...Read more

NEW YORK — Murders in the city dropped by 30% in the first three months of the year, according to NYPD statistics.

As of Tuesday, NYPD detectives had investigated 55 homicides across the five boroughs, a 30% drop from the 79 homicides investigated in the first three months of 2025, statistics show.

Shootings in the city were also down by 5%,...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Wednesday sent four astronauts on the most powerful rocket to ever launch humans, flying the Artemis II mission that aims to send them past the moon.

The Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft named Integrity lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B at 6:35 p.m. Eastern time.

The SLS...Read more

NASA’s four astronauts launched to space Wednesday, kicking off a landmark journey that will take them closer to the lunar surface than anyone has been in more than 50 years.

The crew’s Lockheed Martin Corp.-built Orion capsule, stacked on the shoulders of Boeing Co.’s Space Launch System rocket, thundered off the launchpad at 6:35 p.m. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inside the Supreme Court, as justices heard oral arguments in the case over birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend such a proceeding.

Outside the court, the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — the San Francisco man whose landmark Supreme Court case affirmed birthright ...Read more

President Donald Trump says he hopes to pull the United States out of NATO as the rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance gets wider over his war with Iran.

Long a skeptic of the Western alliance, Trump said in an interview published Wednesday that he is well along the way to trying to pull the U.S. out of the North American Treaty Organization ...Read more