A teacher who was facing termination has been suspended after including a question with a racial slur in it on an English test at a school in Arkansas.

Robert Taylor, an 11th grade teacher at Northside High School in Fort Smith, was teaching lessons on the book “Warriors Don’t Cry,” a memoir written by one of the nine Black students who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld FDA actions to keep certain flavored e-cigarettes off the market, unanimously backing some of the agency’s approval process but sending an issue back to a lower court for further consideration.

FDA decisions have kept more than 1 million candy, fruit and other flavored e-cigarette products ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump and his 2024 election campaign can’t get out of a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against them by the estate of legendary R&B singer Isaac Hayes, though there are “quite a few” problems with the case, a federal judge in Atlanta said Wednesday.

Lawyers for Trump and his campaign urged U.S. District...Read more

WASHINGTON — A man wants to plead guilty as soon as next week on a charge of plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh following the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision, according to a court filing from his attorneys Wednesday.

Nicholas Roske “wishes to enter a plea of guilty” to one count of attempting to assassinate a...Read more

DETROIT — In northern Michigan, tens of thousands remain in the dark Wednesday without power and heat, still reeling from the effects of a weekend ice storm as more severe weather begins to batter the state.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in a Wednesday interview with 9 & 10 News she has sent 125 National Guard members up north to help with ...Read more

The Trump administration has fired back at a federal judge in San Francisco who stopped it from revoking deportation protections this month for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in Florida and other states, saying the judge has no authority to block the decision and that it should be addressed on an emergency basis by a higher appeals court. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Senate gave final approval Tuesday evening to a bill to amend the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future — but not without addressing a controversial amendment regarding transgender children in sports.

“We want to protect the crucial role that women’s sports have played in the development of young women for a long time — ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has gutted the agency overseeing the World Trade Center Health Program, a move advocates say will wreak havoc on the program’s operations and bring critical operations to a standstill.

Tens of thousands of responders and survivors rely on the WTC Health Program to get treatment and medication and monitor ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed sweeping public corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams “with prejudice,” blasting the Trump administration’s bid to potentially bring them again while securing the mayor’s help in hardline immigration enforcement as a “disturbing” bargain.

Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After intense scrutiny of Los Angeles County's failures in coordinating evacuations during January's deadly firestorm, the county will look into creating a registry for people with disabilities and other mobility challenges in case of future disasters.

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion, brought forward ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis passed an ordinance last year aimed to close a “loophole” in the state’s prohibition on indoor smoking that allowed for licensed tobacconists to run cigar lounges. It appeared to affect only one business: Anthony’s Pipe and Cigar Lounge in Uptown.

Anthony’s has a sprawling leather seating room where ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida troopers patrolling the state’s roadways are being told to arrest and jail undocumented immigrants on offenses like driving without a valid driver’s license as a way to help push more people on the path to deportation, according to state guidelines obtained by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times.

“Every effort ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has sent alleged gang members for detention has a reputation for human rights violations and corruption, with civil rights groups challenging the removals calling it “one of the worst prisons in the world.”

In court cases, the American Civil Liberties Union and ...Read more

New Jersey senator Cory Booker broke a nearly 70-year-old record Tuesday with a marathon speech on the Senate floor criticizing Trump administration policies, which he spent days preparing for.

“I didn’t know how long I could go. I’m so grateful I lasted for 25 hours [and four minutes],” Booker told reporters after leaving the floor.

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BALTIMORE – As day two of the trial for Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez begins in Harford Circuit Court, there are 65 potential jurors left from a pool of 124, Harford State’s Attorney Alison Healy said Wednesday morning. Healy said that the aim is to seat the final members of the jury today in the trial of the man charged with rape and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A jailed University of Minnesota student from Turkey alleges in a court petition that federal agents illegally arrested him last week and stripped him of his student visa.

Dogukan Gunaydin, 28, filed the petition in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on Sunday. It names as respondents President Donald Trump and Cabinet members, ...Read more

A federal judge in Northern California ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal funding for migrant children in immigration court.

Nonprofits representing unaccompanied minors challenged the administration in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the government notified them on March 21 that ...Read more

DENVER — The Elizabeth School District has yet to return 19 books that a federal judge last month ordered be put back on library shelves as district leaders appeal the ruling — and despite a law firm’s unsolicited donation of the titles in question.

The order followed a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado and...Read more