A bipartisan pair of senators on Monday introduced legislation that would support research into the link between intimate partner violence and maternal deaths and illness.

The legislation by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, would direct the Health and Human Services Department to support research on how domestic ...Read more

BOSTON — A Wellesley mother accused of murdering her two young children allegedly confessed to her aunt and police that she killed her kids, then tried to kill herself.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Janette MacAusland told her aunt, “I wanted the three of us to go to God together, but it didn’t work.”

MacAusland was arrested...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A flag is supposed to represent the entire state. Instead, Minnesota is dividing into warring camps, each with its own battle flag.

For the past two years, Minnesota’s official flag has been a bold outline of the state in dark blue, surmounted by an eight-pointed North Star against a background as bright as its sky-blue waters...Read more

NEW YORK — A drug dealer from Queens admitted Monday to taking part in the 2002 slaying of Run-DMC legend Jam Master Jay, telling a judge he helped a pair of killers get into the rapper’s music studio to murder him.

Jay Bryant, 52, pleaded guilty to firearm-related murder in Brooklyn Federal Court Monday, taking a negotiated plea deal that ...Read more

CHICAGO — An undocumented immigrant with a history of weapons convictions admitted Monday to firing shots “in the vicinity of” immigration agents as they ran enforcement raids in Little Village near the end of the controversial deportation operation in Chicago last fall.

The guilty plea by Hector Gomez, 46, marked the second felony ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee this week for a high-stakes special session that will test how far the state is willing to go in regulating artificial intelligence — and how much power it is willing to challenge in Silicon Valley and the White House.

The four-day session, scheduled to begin Tuesday, was formally ...Read more

The Trump administration on Monday said it will pay two more energy companies, including one developing a wind project off Morro Bay, to abandon their projects in federal waters.

The U.S. Department of the Interior said it will pay a total of $885 million to Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind to voluntarily end their offshore wind leases, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House said U.S. officials were discussing Iran’s latest proposal but maintained “red lines” on any deal to end the eight-week war, including preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday that President Donald Trump had convened a meeting of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged 31-year-old Torrance, California, resident Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump after rushing past security at the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner in Washington on Saturday.

The charge, announced during a brief arraignment hearing in federal court...Read more

MIAMI — The Broward and Palm Beach County congressional districts represented by Democratic mainstays Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel will favor Republican candidates instead when voters head to the polls this November under new voting maps proposed Monday by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office.

The maps, which must be approved by the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged 31-year-old Torrance resident Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to assassinate President Trump after rushing past security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington on Saturday.

The domestic terrorism charge, announced during a brief arraignment hearing in federal ...Read more

MIAMI — Immigration arrests of Cubans living in the United States have skyrocketed even as green-card approvals have plummeted under President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a recently released analysis from a libertarian Washington think tank.

A Cato Institute report published last week found that overall the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III to the White House for a visit rife with doubt about the future of Britain’s so-called special relationship with America and fresh security concerns in the wake of the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner.

The British monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Black residents in Baltimore are still much less likely to own a home than white residents, despite years of efforts by the city and the private sector to correct racial inequities in homeownership rates.

Now, local leaders and realtors are hoping that outreach and education for potential Black buyers could be the key to reversing...Read more

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether the police use of phone tracking data violates the Constitution’s protection against “unreasonable searches.”

Most of the justices sounded wary of barring investigators from obtaining precise location history from Google or cellphone providers if it helps find a ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A massive piece of NASA’s Artemis project floated into the Space Coast on Monday with the arrival of the biggest portion of the Space Launch System rocket for next year’s Artemis III mission.

The top four-fifths of what will be a 212-foot-tall core stage arrived to KSC’s Turn Basin after making a 900-mile trip ...Read more

Federal water managers are putting the nation’s largest dam in a precarious position as they try to balance out the Colorado River system in a year of record low snowpack.

Toward the bottom of the Bureau of Reclamation’s marquee announcement last week was a paragraph that said lower flows out of Lake Powell could reduce Hoover Dam’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A California man is being charged with trying to kill U.S. President Donald Trump during an attack on a Washington gala dinner over the weekend.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, made his first appearance in federal court on Monday. He is also being charged with gun offenses.

Wearing a blue jump suit and flanked by two public defenders, ...Read more

John Hinckley Jr. says it’s “spooky” that a gunman opened fire inside the same Washington, D.C. hotel where he shot President Reagan and three others in 1981.

The 70-year-old failed assassin pleaded insanity after shooting the nation’s 40th president along with Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a police officer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the media share responsibility for the attack at a media dinner this weekend attended by President Donald Trump and his most senior aides, the acting U.S. attorney general, Todd Blanche, said Monday.

At a press conference announcing charges against the suspected assailant, Cole Tomas Allen of California, Blanche ...Read more