ATLANTA — A woman has been arrested after police said she damaged a Tesla dealership with an automatic BB gun in Gwinnett County, one of several acts of violence targeting the electric vehicle company across the United States in recent months.

Alexa Beckstead, 23, was charged with felony second-degree criminal damage to property after police ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia officials on Friday celebrated a new $37.8 billion state spending plan that devotes more money to schools, prisons and other priorities.

Now they must wait to see whether federal budget cuts and economic turmoil force them to rewrite that plan.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed the fiscal year 2026 budget at the Georgia Capitol ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Two city employees who were fired after making failed bids for local office last year sued Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott last week, accusing him of directing their firings because he saw them as aligning with his political opponents.

The lawsuit was filed May 2 by Margo Bruner-Settles and Liam Davis, who ran for city council seats...Read more

SEATTLE — A police response earlier this week to a locally famous nude beach on the shores of Lake Washington has brought into sharp relief the ongoing tension between the park’s history as a safe place for people in the LGBTQ+ community and its wealthy neighbors frustrated by how it’s being used.

The response Sunday, coupled with a ...Read more

Commuters found themselves stranded at train stations across the Bay Area during the peak hours of Friday’s morning commute after a computer issue knocked out service to the region’s train system for more than four hours.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) was completely out of service from its opening at 5 a.m. Friday until just after 9 a.m...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit filed in federal court is seeking to undo the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument in the Southern California desert, claiming President Biden overstepped his authority by setting aside such a vast swath of land days before leaving office.

Plaintiffs represented by an Austin, Texas-based conservative think tank ...Read more

How the first American pope will interact with the president of his homeland remains to be seen, but a few posts on social media might provide a clue.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is also known on the social media site X as @drprevost, where he has occasionally weighed in with reposts on issues of faith and politics — including ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After 35 years in prison for the brutal murders of their parents, the waiting is nearly over for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez in their bid for freedom.

Following disagreements between the current and former district attorney and a series of legal fits and starts delayed the matter in recent months, L.A. County Superior Court ...Read more

More delays were being reported at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday following a ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The ground stop, which lasted for about an hour and remained in effect until 11:15 a.m., was ordered due to taxiway construction, according to the FAA.

The announcement came hours after the ...Read more

Conservative Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., publicly supported a tax increase to the wealthiest Americans on Friday.

“Ideally, what we could do — again, if we can’t find spending reductions — is say, ‘OK, let’s restore that higher bracket. Let’s set it at maybe $2 million income and above to help pay for the rest of the president’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump flip-flopped again Friday on a controversial tax hike on millionaires as congressional Republicans struggle to reach agreement on a sprawling budget bill.

Just two days after saying he backs higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, Trump softened his stance.

Trump conceded in a social media post that the higher tax...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Do you want to know how many measles cases have been confirmed in your county in Florida this year? How about whether the recent tuberculosis case reported at a high school is confined to one school or spreading throughout South Florida?

Florida Department of Health surveillance data, which previously made public the ...Read more

Mayor Eric Adams is slated to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday afternoon to “discuss New York City priorities,” his office announced.

The meeting is expected to last just 30 minutes, a source briefed on the matter told the Daily News. Among other issues, the source said Adams plans to talk to Trump about a need ...Read more

DENVER — Denver’s Auraria campus will be the subject of federal scrutiny after the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted unanimously Thursday to begin a year-long examination of “the presence and/or absence” of antisemitism on the downtown campus.

The local undertaking coincides with a larger federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday is expected to sign a memorandum directing his administration to take steps to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes, signaling support for a construction project in Illinois that would install barriers to prevent the carp from infiltrating Lake Michigan.

In a fact sheet provided first...Read more

WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the shy and frugal small-town New Englander who was touted as a conservative but surprised his Republican backers and nearly everyone else by becoming a staunch liberal on the high court, has died, the court said in a statement Friday. He was 85.

Souter stepped down in 2009 after ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The tentative budget deal Florida’s legislative leaders made last week has “blown up,” according to a memo from House Speaker Daniel Perez.

Florida’s 2025 session is already in overtime, as Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton have been unable to agree on a budget, the only required duty the Legislature must ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A more than century-old San Diego Jesuit parish has joined other churches and a farmworker organization across the country in a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s willingness to bring its immigration crackdown into so-called “sensitive locations.”

“I feel like the only effective tool with this ...Read more