Marinell Chandler is back at work with the National Park Service in Alaska after being laid off in February, offered a university job in March, given a chance to return as a seasonal employee, and then getting rehired full time as a result of a federal court order.

Yet the emotional roller coaster the 33-year-old park ranger has been riding for...Read more

MIAMI — Another group critical of President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign and funding cuts to pro-democracy groups in the Americas is launching an ad campaign on Miami’s highways and airwaves to pressure Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Miami’s Republican U.S. representatives to stand up to the president.

A spokesman for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Five months after announcing his esophageal cancer diagnosis, Virginia Rep. Gerald E. Connolly said Monday that he won’t seek a 10th term and also plans to step down as the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

“The sun is setting on my time in public service,’’ Connolly, 75, said in a ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers are considering several pieces of legislation that could dramatically alter what it means to be a teacher in a public school.

The state House K-12 Education Committee is scheduled to take up 17 bills over the next weeks, trying to get them passed by the full House before next week’s legislative “...Read more

President Donald Trump recently sat down with reporters from The Atlantic. He may have also sat on his phone in the middle of the night.

Atlantic reporter Ashley Parker appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday where she was asked about a new article based on the magazine’s discussion with Trump last week. Her publication had ...Read more

It’s been nearly seven months since United Launch Alliance had its last rocket launch, but the company’s first flight of 2025 could come to fruition on Monday night.

A ULA Atlas V on the Kuiper 1 mission carrying 27 of Amazon’s satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation is targeting liftoff at 7 p.m. Eastern time ...Read more

The Trump administration escalated its showdown with Democrat-led states and cities over immigration enforcement on Monday, announcing that the president will sign executive orders that will "unleash America's law enforcement to pursue criminals" and direct federal agencies to publish a list of "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Democratic candidate for Nassau County Legislature has been missing for five days, authorities said.

Petros Krommidas, 29, was last seen Wednesday night in Baldwin and reported missing the following day, Nassau County police said in an alert.

Krommidas was last seen wearing a camouflage sweatshirt and gray sweatpants, cops said....Read more

Illegal U.S. border crossings have fallen to their lowest level ever recorded, according to U.S. President Donald Trump, and just three people were able to evade immigration or customs agents at the border and enter the U.S. without authorization last month.

Trump, who made securing the border and cracking down on illegal immigration a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former House Speaker Michael Madigan turned 83 earlier this month, and it turns out he got a gift from the feds.

On Friday, federal prosecutors filed a motion notifying the judge they were dropping their push for the former Democratic powerhouse to fork over more than $3.1 million in forfeiture due to his conviction in February on ...Read more

Elon Musk and his companies faced at least $2.37 billion in potential federal fines and penalties the day President Donald Trump took office, according to a congressional report released Monday that highlights the possible conflicts of interest posed by the billionaire's cost-cutting work in government.

The 43-page memo by the minority staff of...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The president of Rollins College retires in June, and Grant Cornwell is using his last months in that role to speak out against President Donald Trump’s attacks on education.

In February, he hosted an academic freedom conference at the college’s Winter Park campus and last week college administrators released a statement �...Read more

The Conservative Party chipped away at the lead held by Mark Carney’s Liberals in the final days of Canada’s election campaign, though surveys still point to a probable Liberal victory in Monday’s vote.

The Liberals’ estimated popular vote share was 41% in Abacus Data’s final likely-voter election model, released over the weekend, ...Read more

DENVER — Just over a week remains in the Colorado legislature’s 2025 session — and a number of the Democratic majority’s marquee proposals remain in limbo.

Big tax and labor bills are still unresolved as the end of the session approaches. Time pressure is mounting in other fights, including one between hospitals and the drug industry ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When she was attending Catholic school in Baltimore, Teresa Lancaster would vaguely warn some of her classmates of certain rooms, “don’t go in there.” But it would take decades for her to speak publicly about surviving sexual abuse.

Now, as an attorney and advocate for other survivors, she worries that new limits on how much...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught has roiled Washington and Wall Street for nearly a month. If the trade war persists, the next upheaval will hit much closer to home.

Since the U.S. raised levies on China to 145% in early April, cargo shipments have plummeted, perhaps by as much as 60%, according to one estimate. That drastic ...Read more

The Conservative Party chipped away at the lead held by Mark Carney’s Liberals in the final days of Canada’s election campaign, though surveys still point to a probable Liberal victory in Monday’s vote.

The Liberals’ estimated popular vote share was 41% in Abacus Data’s final likely-voter election model, released over the weekend, ...Read more

North Korea acknowledged for the first time that it deployed troops to support Russia’s war on Ukraine, claiming the country’s military had helped Moscow retake control of the border region of Kursk.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un decided to participate in the conflict to liberate the Kursk region and to repel the “adventurous invasion�...Read more