A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel revived a lawsuit this week filed by Orthodox Jewish families that sued California education officials over the state’s policy of refusing to fund special education programs at religious schools.

Two religious schools and three Orthodox Jewish parents whose children have autism filed the lawsuit against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With polls showing a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris entering Election Day, and local election officials cautioning it might take days to complete ballot counts, a conventional wisdom has taken hold: Americans are not likely to know their next president on Nov. 5.

Yet, the biggest surprise of all on election ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It has been 4 1/2 years since the south Minneapolis area around the site of George Floyd’s police killing organically evolved into a place of protest and reflection. And it’s remained largely unchanged since 2020.

After two years of community workshops and a nine-month engagement process this year, the city has released a �...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read owes more than $5 million in legal fees, a debt that will continue to climb with her anticipated retrial in late January, but the defendant says she’s “not backing down now,” in a new interview.

Vanity Fair highlighted the amount Read owes her defense team in deferred fees in an article released on Tuesday. The ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Secretary of State’s office posted a spreadsheet to its website that “improperly included” the partial passwords to some parts of the state’s voting systems, the department announced Tuesday.

The Colorado Republican Party first announced the incident in a news release earlier in the day, including an affidavit ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is planning to file a lawsuit against Bucks County over long lines and early cut-offs at county election offices for voters requesting and casting mail ballots, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley announced Tuesday night.

“I’m proud tonight to tell you that the ...Read more

A federal appeals panel expressed skepticism Tuesday during oral arguments in a case challenging West Virginia’s abortion laws, arguing they effectively limited access to a commonly used medication abortion drug.

Medication abortions refer to a two-step regimen in which a patient takes mifepristone, which ends a pregnancy, followed by a ...Read more

ATLANTA — A federal judge sentenced an insurance salesman to 21 months in prison on Tuesday for making threatening phone calls to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Sheriff Patrick Labat, saying he wanted to deter others from acting similarly against public officials doing their jobs.

U.S. District Court Judge J.P. Boulee called ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In what appears to be an organized effort, right-leaning activists have challenged the mail ballot applications of hundreds of voters in suburban Philadelphia in recent days, claiming their targets no longer live at the addresses where they are registered to vote.

But voting rights advocates broadly dismiss the effort as ...Read more

They arrived in construction vests and surgical masks, armed with signal jammers, sledgehammers and blowtorches. The bank heist crew, made up of mainly Chilean nationals, hit multiple banks across California, according to federal prosecutors, and made off with $2.5 million.

In Fresno, the crew hit a Wells Fargo in May and used tools to get ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With a week to go until Election Day, here's a roundup of voting-related news.

A Political Action Committee called Vote Alaska Before Party is boosting a third-party candidate in Alaska's congressional race, following advice from national Democratic operatives who see the strategy as favorable to Democratic incumbent Rep. ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a final effort from former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to get his name removed from the ballot in Michigan, as nearly 2 million people have already voted in the state.

For weeks, Kennedy, who dropped his campaign and endorsed Republican Donald Trump on Aug. 23, has ...Read more

Cuba’s Communist Party sacked Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, a close ally of Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, amid an anti-corruption campaign targeting private businesses.

According to a brief note published in the party’s newspaper Granma, Perdomo Di-Lella, appointed in 2021, was demoted because he made “mistakes in ...Read more

Federal transit regulators announced new safety rules for track workers Tuesday, marking the first time the Federal Transit Administration has instituted minimum safety rules for the nation’s transit agencies.

“This is FTA’s first safety regulation establishing minimum safety standards that transit agencies would be required to adopt,” ...Read more

Americans are divided on many issues, as demonstrated by the current state of the 2024 election polling. The presidential race? Locked up tight. Control of Congress? Too close to predict. The most important issue facing our nation? Pollsters get lots of differing responses.

But standing out as the one of the few things that unites a majority of...Read more

BOSTON — Walmart stopped selling ammunition at its stores in Massachusetts after a wide-ranging gun law took effect earlier this month, but a company spokesperson said bullets will soon return to shelves after an internal review was completed to ensure compliance with the statute.

In a move made as a coalition of Second Amendment activists ...Read more

Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon has been released from prison with just one week remaining before the presidential election, according to reports.

“I’m not broken, I’m empowered,” Bannon told The New York Times upon his release Tuesday.

The 70-year-old far-right-wing pundit — who also served as the chief executive of...Read more

BALTIMORE — Attorneys involved in the sprawling civil case stemming from the Key Bridge collapse traded barbs Tuesday about the March 26 disaster at a hearing called to figure out how to resolve such a complicated legal matter.

William Bennett, an attorney for the Singaporean companies that own and manage the 984-foot, 100,000-ton container ...Read more