Five organizations filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department seeking to reverse the termination of a swath of department grant funding last month, arguing the decisions were unlawful and unconstitutional.

The complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which seeks class action status to cover other ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office said Thursday that the Transportation Department’s pause on funding for a Biden administration electric-vehicle charging program is illegal under the 1974 law restricting a president’s ability to block or “impound” money appropriated by Congress.

The determination is the GAO’s first ...Read more

Congressman Jared Moskowitz issued a dire warning just days before the start of the Atlantic Hurricane season, predicting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “is going to fail this summer.”

Moskowitz, D-Fla., delivered the ominous assessment to his colleagues during a House committee hearing. “I would tell you that the secretary ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt an unexpected blow Thursday to the conservative drive for religious charter schools, with the justices splitting 4-4 and unable to rule in a case from Oklahoma that had the effect of blocking a proposed new Catholic charter school.

If upheld, it would have been the nation’s first tax-funded, church-run ...Read more

Two members of the Israeli Embassy’s staff were killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington on Wednesday night by a gunman who chanted “Free, Free Palestine,” officials said, condemning the attack as an antisemitic hate crime.

A single suspect is in custody, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith told reporters, identifying ...Read more

Security guards opened fire on a woman at the gates to the CIA headquarters in Virginia, leaving her wounded after a “security incident” outside the facility Thursday morning, according to reports.

The “nonfatal shooting” unfolded around 4 a.m., just outside the agency’s main entrance in McLean, some 10 miles outside Washington, D.C.,...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A private jet flying in dense fog crashed into a San Diego neighborhood early Thursday morning, sparking intense flames that scorched several homes, mangled dozens of vehicles and forced almost 100 people to evacuate.

The only known fatalities were the occupants of the aircraft. It still wasn’t clear exactly how many people ...Read more

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants to mandate sanctions against supporters of Haiti’s criminal gangs and is pushing the State Department to provide a list of the country’s most prominent gangs and their leaders — along with a report on the connections between the gangs and the Caribbean nation’s political and economic elites.

The...Read more

ATLANTA — For the 15 years since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, Georgia Democrats have been pushing to expand Medicaid and cover more of the state’s low-income uninsured.

The ACA gives additional federal funding to states that offer the government insurance program to people earning up to 138% of the Federal...Read more

Is there a Hurricane Karen in our future? Perhaps a Tropical Storm Lorenzo?

The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1 and runs through Nov. 30. The first storm of the season will be Andrea.

Other names on the list, Dexter and Jerry, might make you think of popular TV shows “Dexter” and “Seinfeld.” For Disney fans, ...Read more

DETROIT — Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said Thursday he will not retry former Grand Rapids police Officer Christopher Schurr in the April 2022 shooting death of Patrick Lyoya, an announcement that came two weeks after Becker's initial case against Schurr ended in a hung jury.

Becker said the jury that deadlocked earlier this month in ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado abortion clinics dealt with trespassing, vandalism, threats of harm and more in 2023 and 2024, in spite of the state’s liberal access to reproductive care, according to a new report.

The latest data by the National Abortion Federation, the professional association of abortion providers, found that 65% of providers in ...Read more

North Korea has placed a cover over a destroyer that suffered damage in a botched launch attempt, with the vessel now appearing to be on its side and partially submerged, satellite imagery indicates.

The 5,000-ton Choe Hyon-class destroyer — one of the North Korea’s largest warships — was a key part of the state’s naval modernization ...Read more

A federal judge Thursday blocked President Trump from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers fired in waves of mass layoffs.

District Court Judge Myong Joun ruled that only Congress can eliminate the Education Department, which assists students with special needs, enforces civil ...Read more

DENVER — On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law that extends anti-discrimination protections to transgender Coloradans who are intentionally misgendered or deadnamed in settings like the workplace or in school.

Two days later, a website appeared that encouraged people to report “violations” of the new law, House Bill 1312. The site ...Read more

A suspect in the Wednesday fatal shootings of two members of the Israeli Embassy near the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been identified as a Chicago man who apparently has railed on social media against the ongoing bombing of Gaza by Israel.

Elias Rodriguez, 31, of the 4700 block of North Troy Street, was being held for questioning, ...Read more

The Atlantic Ocean is likely to churn out another above-average hurricane season, thanks to warmer-than-usual sea temperatures, according to the latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA predicts that the 2025 hurricane season could see 13 to 19 named storms, six to 10 of which could strengthen into ...Read more

U.S. Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Dave McCormick, R- Pa., will debate in Boston in June, and it’ll be moderated by Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream.

The debate is part of a series called The Senate Project, hosted by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate and the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation, two organizations named...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt an unexpected blow Thursday to the conservative drive for religious charter schools, with the justices splitting 4-4 and unable to rule in a case from Oklahoma that had the effect of blocking a proposed new Catholic charter school.

If upheld, it would have been the nation's first tax-funded, church-run ...Read more