The first of three major U.S. airlines is returning to Haiti. Spirit Airlines said it is resuming daily commercial service between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Cap-Haïtien on Friday and passengers can start booking on spirit.com.

“We are resuming daily service at Cap-Haïtien (CAP) beginning May 10, 2024, following a ...Read more

Florida is the top state for education for the second year in a row, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking announced Tuesday.

The outlet said the state’s standing is “largely fueled by several stellar metrics in higher education, and less so by Florida’s still fairly strong performance in the prekindergarten-through-...Read more

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday signed into law a sweeping education bill requiring voters to decide whether large school districts can shift to four-day school weeks and expanding a scholarship program for students to attend private or charter schools.

Parson, a Republican, on Tuesday touted a provision in the new law that raises minimum ...Read more

Dozens of MIT students who refused to clear an anti-Israel encampment on campus Monday are being suspended and referred to the Committee on Discipline, Chancellor Melissa Nobles wrote in a Tuesday update.

Nobles did not specify the exact number of students being sanctioned nor disclose the institute’s plan in breaking down the encampment.

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MINNEAPOLIS — An ethics panel Tuesday delayed action for yet another day on the question of whether Sen. Glenn Gruenhagen violated the norms of the state Senate by sending to his 66 colleagues a link to a video about gender-affirming surgery.

State Sen. Erin Maye Quade, DFL-Apple Valley, filed the complaint against the Glencoe Republican in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Porn star Stormy Daniels took the stand on Tuesday, offering bombshell testimony on her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament in July 2006. Testifying at Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan, Daniels recounted the salacious details, at one point mimicking a sexy pose Trump allegedly struck ...Read more

BALTIMORE — It will be more than four years before a Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement again connects I-695 over the Baltimore harbor, but by this summer, the state is expected to identify its builder.

During a two-hour virtual forum Tuesday, potential consultants, contractors and subcontractors asked questions of Maryland Transportation ...Read more

NEW YORK — Kai Cenat, the online streamer whose PlayStation 5 giveaway in Union Square turned into a riot last summer, won’t be prosecuted, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday.

Cenat, who has millions of followers on Twitch and YouTube, received just a desk appearance ticket on a Class E felony charge of rioting, as well...Read more

University of Michigan President Santa Ono has been called to testify before a Republican-led congressional committee to address how colleges are addressing antisemitism on campus amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations, though the conditions for him to answer questions have been changed.

Ono was slated originally to appear May 23 before the U.S. ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — All four Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers who were hospitalized after suffering injuries in last week’s deadly shooting in east Charlotte are now at home recovering, the CMPD said Tuesday.

CMPD officers Christopher Tolley, Michael Giglio, Jack Blowers, and Justin Campbell suffered injuries after responding ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Last week, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would bring forward a motion to remove Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker when the House reconvened Monday evening, but those plans have been on hold following a series of meetings with the House leader.

Greene, R-Rome, and Johnson, who met behind closed doors for two hours Monday, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters called for the University of Central Florida to divest itself from companies with ties to Israel and urged a ceasefire in Gaza during a day-long on-campus rally Tuesday.

As has been the case with earlier rallies at UCF — and in contrast with some around the country, including at the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A day after Gov. Kathy Hochul said Black kids in the Bronx don’t know the meaning of the word “computer,” Mayor Eric Adams gave her a pass on the gaffe, saying Tuesday he knows the governor’s “heart.”

“When you make thousands of speeches, when you’re in front of the cameras all the time, when you’re trying to be ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police on Tuesday released recordings of 911 calls made by two convenience store employees reporting an attack on a customer, and later the “gruesome” scene that police allege involved the same suspect eating parts of a man’s face.

Colin Czech, 29, was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on ...Read more

Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska released a resolution Tuesday in an attempt to censure Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar following remarks she made about Jewish students during a visit to Columbia University last month.

The progressive lawmaker's comments at a university encampment sparked criticism from the right, with Bacon's resolution, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose officials are proposing to spend $120 million over the next fiscal year to combat homelessness — about 2% of the city’s expected $5.3 billion budget.

In addition to funding ongoing efforts to build more tiny home shelters and provide outreach services, the money could also help launch entirely new programs — ...Read more

The last thing most business owners want is to be taxed and regulated, but hemp business owners are asking for just that — as a way to keep their industry alive.

Hemp entrepreneurs came out Tuesday in favor of a state legislative proposal to license hemp sales, require testing and labeling of their products, prohibit products that look like ...Read more