President Donald Trump vowed to rebuild communities in North Carolina ravaged by hurricanes last year during the first trip outside Washington of his second term, saying he would ask Congress to provide additional funding for cleanup efforts and pledging to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“We’re going to supply the money. ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state House of Representatives must have at least 68 members present in order to conduct business, handing a victory to Democratic-Farmer-Labor representatives boycotting the session.

The order could mean the 67 House Republicans, who elected a speaker last week with their ...Read more

Idaho Republicans have once again taken aim at health care costs that support low-income residents.

A House committee brought forward legislation Friday to repeal Medicaid expansion, the state program that uses mostly federal funds to provide health care coverage for about 90,000 Idahoans.

Passed by Idaho voters in a ballot measure in 2018, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Court filings allege that a Clark County School District police officer left “his K9 partner” in his vehicle for over six hours, causing the dog’s death.

James Harris faces misdemeanor counts of confining an animal in a motor vehicle and failing to provide for a confined animal.

A CCSD police affidavit said Harris did not ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would feel no responsibility if Anthony Fauci or John Bolton were attacked after he moved to strip their government security in the opening days of his presidential term.

“When you work for government, government, at some point your security detail comes off, and, you know, you can’t have them ...Read more

On a visit Friday to Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina, President Donald Trump called for the potential elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

FEMA’s role is to help the country prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

Trump said states should handle disaster response.

Here’s what FEMA says it did...Read more

SAN DIEGO — While emergency crews battled a brushfire in the Otay Wilderness Area, high wind conditions in other parts of San Diego County improved enough Friday to enable San Diego Gas & Electric crews to inspect power lines and restore electricity to an increasing number of customers.

Overnight, as many as 20,000 customers living primarily ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The four most powerful Republicans in Washington addressed the nation’s largest annual anti-abortion rally Friday, vowing to inject new energy into the abortion debate.

“In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life,” President Donald Trump said in a video message to attendees of the March for ...Read more

Record numbers of people in the U.S. enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans this year, including nearly a half million Pennsylvanians.

And 90% of Pennsylvanians who enrolled — 446,994 — are paying much lower monthly premiums for Obamacare coverage, thanks to enhanced premium tax credits enacted under former President Joe ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fifty years after Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN bombed the historic watering hole Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan’s Financial District, a son of one of the four victims killed in the deadly attack is still seeking justice.

Joseph Connor is urging the new Trump administration to put pressure on the Cuban government to release the...Read more

CHICAGO — A new campaign finance report filed by Mayor Brandon Johnson includes over $200,000 his campaign had discussed but not officially reported.

When asked earlier this month why Johnson raised only $970 in the last quarter of 2024, his political spokesperson Christian Perry told Politico the mayor had actually raked in about $200,000. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear an Oklahoma case to decide whether the state must authorize a religious school as a public charter.

The new church-state case could yield a potentially momentous decision that could change public schools in much of the nation.

Los Angeles and other large cities have been leaders ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools prevented federal immigration officers from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according to school officials.

The agents showed up at 11:15 a.m. to Hamline Elementary School, located at 1548 W. 48th St. in the New City neighborhood, Principal Natasha ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, filed a bill Thursday to block all federal funds from being allocated to the reproductive health care organization Planned Parenthood.

Dubbed the “Defund Planned Parenthood Act,” the bill would simply require that “no federal funds may be made available to Planned Parenthood Federation of ...Read more

A man who burst into flames at a Wawa gas station after deputies tackled and tased him near a fuel pump says a central Florida sheriff’s office has an “agency-wide culture of escalating minor criminal offenses into violent and deadly encounters.”

Osceola County Sheriff Marcos R. Lopez is accused of fostering this culture, which resulted ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles Friday afternoon to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county. It will be his first presidential visit since taking office — and a potentially contested one after his repeated threats to withhold federal aid to California.

The trip to Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration would examine sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and possibly even terminate it via an executive order.

During a hurricane recovery briefing near Asheville, North Carolina, the president floated an executive order “to begin the process of ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington State University owed a “duty of care” to Sam Martinez, a student who died in a 2019 fraternity hazing incident, a state appeals court ruled this week.

A 19-year-old freshman from Bellevue and a Newport High graduate, Martinez died of alcohol poisoning while pledging a WSU-recognized fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega.

In a...Read more