CHICAGO — Muslim students who eat halal usually only have a few options in the school cafeteria line once they’ve passed the hamburgers, chicken nuggets and deli sandwiches: a slice of cheese pizza, maybe a salad, fruit, yogurt, a carton of milk.

“Just not a lot of healthy, filling choices to pick from,” said Khadija Basith, whose ...Read more

Legislation that would make it legal for people to shoot down drones over their property, introduced in March by U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, is drawing fire from law enforcement and other users of unmanned aerial vehicles.

The bill, dubbed the Defense Against Drones Act, “permits individuals to use a legally obtained shotgun to shoot down a drone...Read more

HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company.

Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was recommended by her psychologist to help with the depression associated with a stressful and painful medical disorder.

In 2023, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Dean and Denise Wenner were sweet on the Cape Cod-style home from the moment they found it in 2019. It had five bedrooms spread over three levels, with decks that hung over Santa Monica Bay.

When the tide was up, you felt almost like you were on an ocean liner, with views that swept from Palos Verdes to Point Dume.

Now the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Citing public attention, a judge ruled Tuesday that she would separate the battery cases of the man alleged to have orchestrated hip hop icon Tupac Shakur’s killing and another inmate.

Rochlon Hamilton, 53, and Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, were indicted in February on counts of battery by a prisoner and challenging someone to ...Read more

President Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday to consider a proposal for divesting TikTok’s U.S. operations from Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., just days ahead of a deadline for a sale of the popular social media app, according to people familiar with the matter.

The administration is considering a deal that would include Oracle Corp....Read more

It was only hours after Myanmar was hit by its strongest earthquake in a century when the ruling military regime resumed bombing parts of the war-torn country where it lost crucial territory over more than a year of intense fighting.

Even as the damage of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude quake was still being assessed, pro-democracy rebel groups ...Read more

Princeton University said U.S. government agencies have frozen several dozen research grants as President Donald Trump escalates his fight with elite American colleges.

The “full rationale” for the suspension isn’t clear, said Princeton President Chris Eisgruber, but he affirmed the school’s intention to combat antisemitism, which the ...Read more

Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris is not happy with how some media outlets have reported on the “administrative error” that caused a Beltsville, Maryland, man to be mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

“Well it turns out that that person was probably an MS-13 gang member. And look, MS-13 gang members, Tren de ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Caine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, acknowledged Tuesday that “I’m an unconventional nominee.”

But “these are unconventional times,” Caine told the Senate Armed Services Committee at his confirmation hearing to serve as...Read more

A man has been charged with assault and battery following a fight in the air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

The scuffle occurred at the troubled travel hub on March 27, airport police confirmed Tuesday to CBS News. The incident was described as a fight between employees, but no additional information about ...Read more

A group of 50 Republican and Democratic senators introduced a sanctions package to hit Russia and countries that buy its oil if President Vladimir Putin refuses to engage in good-faith ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine or breaches an eventual agreement.

The punishments would include a 500% tariff on imports from countries that buy Russian oil...Read more

In a much-needed break after multiple years of severe droughts over the past two decades, California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of the state’s water supply, was at 96% of its historical average on Tuesday, up from 83% a month before.

The April 1 reading, considered the most important of the year by ...Read more

A New Jersey community is rallying around a beloved resident of 20 years, an Egyptian immigrant well on the legal road to U.S. citizenship and married to an American, who was inexplicably detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month.

On March 12, Karim Daoud showed up for a routine appointment to renew his work-authorization ...Read more

A federal judge in New Jersey on Tuesday denied the government’s motion to dismiss Palestinian Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas corpus case, rejecting an effort to get it moved to Louisiana.

In a 67-page decision, Judge Michael Farbiarz found that he had jurisdiction over the matter that the Trump administration has ...Read more

ATLANTA — More than 100 demonstrators gathered Tuesday in front of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Clifton Road, displaying a mix of outrage about mass firings at the CDC and sadness about their country’s leadership.

“The cuts that were announced today just outraged me,” said protester Lawrie Demorest, a retired lawyer...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Gov. Brad Little on Tuesday defended his approval of a law to expand Idaho’s death penalty by adding capital sentencing for those found guilty of aggravated sex crimes with children age 12 and under, a measure that is unconstitutional in the United States.

House Bill 380 overwhelmingly cleared the Legislature last month, and ...Read more

A lawsuit against firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson and two other gun dealers linked to the July Fourth 2022 mass shooting in Highland Park will be allowed to move forward, a Lake County judge ruled Tuesday.

Judge Jorge Ortiz denied Smith & Wesson’s motions to dismiss counts of unfair business practices and negligence but granted a motion ...Read more

Europeans aren’t inclined to take U.S.-imposed tariffs lying down, new polling suggests. Instead, they’re ready to go tit-for-tat.

In an April 1 YouGov survey, the majority of respondents in seven European countries — including Britain, France and Germany — said they would support slapping retaliatory tariffs on imported American goods....Read more

DETROIT — Investigators determined a gas leak caused an explosion early Monday at an apartment building on the city's east side that injured 13 people, three of whom remained in critical condition Tuesday.

Corey McIsaac, a spokeswoman for the Detroit Fire Department, said two adults remained in critical condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital...Read more