The differences between Massachusetts and its neighbor to the north grew beyond their divergent takes on sales and income tax after Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed a ban on “sanctuary cities” into law.

According to the former U.S. Senator, the law she signed Thursday is just another example on a long list of things that make the Granite State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Chicago man made his first court appearance to face murder charges in the shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, in what officials have called an antisemitic hate crime.

Elias Rodriguez, 31, appeared in Washington federal court Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Matthew ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to fire without cause members of the national labor boards for federal employees and workers, despite lower court judges finding that the terminations likely violated federal law.

The unsigned, two-page decision addressed a tangle of lower court orders on the firings of Cathy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, Gov. Josh Stein made an impassioned plea to North Carolina’s congressional delegation.

“Reject this budget proposal so that North Carolina families don’t go hungry,” Stein wrote in a statement released May 8.

Stein was reacting to proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The man who authorities believe detonated a powerful explosive device outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic had “access to a large quantity of commercially available chemical products which could be combined to create a home-made explosive device,” the FBI revealed Thursday.

The agency said it was still investigating the ...Read more

BOSTON — A Colombian woman illegally in Massachusetts is accused of living under a stolen identity for more than 20 years and receiving more than $400,000 in stolen federal benefits.

Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, also allegedly voted in the 2024 presidential election, and she obtained a Massachusetts Real ID and eight other state IDs, ...Read more

The Nevada Supreme Court has created a business court commission in the latest move to curb Delaware’s dominance in the corporate filings market.

Nevada Supreme Court Chief Justice Douglas Herndon announced plans on Thursday to create a commission to develop rules and regulations for a Nevada business court. A petition from Herndon will be ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Only four U.S. presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Jimmy Carter (2002) and Barack Obama (2009).

UK oddsmakers have made President Donald Trump the favorite to win the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, while offshore sportsbooks list him as the second choice.

Ninety-seven percent of ...Read more

As Democrats reevaluate their past support for then-President Joe Biden amid new reports that some people around him were concerned for his health and mental acuity while he was in office, Gov. Wes Moore said this week he isn’t wavering.

The Maryland Democrat was a fierce defender and active campaign surrogate for Biden before he dropped out ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House voted largely along party lines Thursday on legislation prohibiting biological male athletes from participating in women's sports and amending the state's civil rights law to stop lawsuits challenging its enforcement.

The Republican-controlled House passed the first bill 58-46 along party lines, while the ...Read more

A former assistant for Sean “Diddy” Combs took the stand in the rapper’s NYC sex trafficking trial on Wednesday, with a harrowing story to tell.

George Kaplan testified that he was a fixer of sorts for Combs for 15 months from 2013 to 2015, with a salary of $125,000. His job description entailed everything from the mundane to the shocking...Read more

DENVER — A group supporting medical aid-in-dying sued Colorado on Thursday, alleging the state’s ban on assisting out-of-state residents in ending their lives violates the U.S. Constitution.

Compassion & Choices filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver on behalf of a Minnesota resident with stage 4 cancer and two Colorado ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Glenn Ivey will fly to El Salvador this weekend and try to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration.

“The overall goal obviously is to have continued pressure on the Trump administration,” Ivey, a Prince George’s County Democrat, told The Baltimore ...Read more

So much for shooting for the moon.

Most Americans are on board with slashing space exploration funding in order to rein in federal spending, according to new polling.

In the latest Marquette Law School Poll, 63% of respondents said they would be willing to reduce spending on NASA and its space program to shrink the federal budget deficit. ...Read more

Sherri Papini is walking back claims her kidnapping was a hoax in a new documentary series, saying instead that she was abducted by her ex-boyfriend and that she later lied about it out of fear.

“Haven’t you ever lied?” she asks. “Have you ever lied in your history of existence? And then has that lie been blown up and broadcast around ...Read more

Elected officials in Minneapolis say they won’t let President Donald Trump explode five years of police reform efforts.

After the Justice Department asked a judge to dissolve the Police Department’s consent decree this week, Mayor Jacob Frey gathered with police and City Council leadership in a unified pledge to continue to enact the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former senior member of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ staff has struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors, admitting he called in a fake bomb threat to City Hall late last year that was blamed on anti-Israel sentiment, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, Brian Williams, a ...Read more

The U.S. Mint on Thursday said it has ordered the last batch of pennies after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination of the little-loved one-cent coin.

With the cost of producing a single penny already skyrocketing to about 4 cents, Trump in February ordered Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who oversees the mint, to stop making new ...Read more

Former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett will reportedly donate $50,000 to charity to resolve the city of Chicago’s lawsuit against the actor, who prompted a hate crime investigation with a fabricated claim he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack.

A judge still needs to sign off on the agreement to finally end a standoff that ...Read more