DENVER — As Gov. Jared Polis ponders a bill to increase Colorado’s regulation of the herbal remedy kratom, Dave Bregger said he feels like he’s on “pins and needles.”

The bill on Polis’s desk bears the name of Bregger’s son — Daniel Bregger, a 33-year-old Denver resident who died in 2021 after ingesting kratom and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pamela Bondi during her Senate confirmation bid pitched herself as a leader with a track record of supporting victims, a history some Republican senators pointed to when backing her nomination.

But after her first months in the role, victim service organizations and their supporters say there’s fear and deep ...Read more

ATLANTA — An iPhone with a cartoony, angel-winged teddy bear on its case kept catching the soldier’s eye. The phone was stashed in the closet of a back room in what amounted to a lost-and-found locker at a remote U.S. military outpost in the Jordanian desert.

Staff Sgt. Zachary Winthers of the Illinois Army National Guard had been stationed...Read more

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued with X’s AI software after the bot suggested her claim of being a Christian doesn’t always align with her actions.

The feud began Friday when the far-right wing congresswoman took exception to Grok fact-checking her commitment to her faith by saying her support for conspiracy theories and Christian ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A multifront assault by the Trump administration against the nation’s oldest university intensified on Friday when Harvard sued to block the government from barring international student enrollment, and a judge issued an immediate order to halt the ban.

The rapid-fire legal action is the latest in Trump administration attacks ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hundreds of somber faces lined a room of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City Thursday evening to mourn a 26-year-old Johnson County woman and her boyfriend who were fatally shot outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

“It’s one thing to see the images on the news, or hear stories from across...Read more

Boeing Co. has reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that would allow the planemaker to avoid criminal charges for two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets more than six years ago.

The settlement was disclosed in a federal court filing Friday, just weeks before a trial was set to start June 23 in Fort Worth, Texas. It ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Runway lights and an automated system that provides weather conditions was out of operation at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport before a Cessna crashed into a San Diego neighborhood amid foggy conditions, killing all its passengers, investigators revealed Friday.

As a result, the pilot did not have up-to-date weather ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law Friday to further limit federal immigration authorities’ access to public buildings and local governments’ ability to share information with those authorities.

Under Senate Bill 276, local governmental entities and their employees cannot share personal identifying information with ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — When a private plane crashed into Ben McCarty’s Tierrasanta home early Thursday, little things made all the difference. Like where he parked his truck. And where his dogs went to bed.

McCarty, who works as a Navy gas turbine mechanic, lived with his family in military housing on the corner of Salmon Street and Sample Street in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Lashing out at Republicans for proposing to “rip away” Medicaid and SNAP benefits from Pennsylvanians, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Friday that the commonwealth would be unable to replace lost funding for those programs should President Donald Trump‘s so-called big, beautiful bill become law.

“The impact of what they’re ...Read more

In 2020, COVID-19 began spreading rapidly across the U.S., leading to major shutdowns and radically altering the lives of millions. Now, five years later, most Americans think the country could be plagued by a new pandemic, according to recent polling.

In a YouGov survey published in early May, 69% of respondents said it is somewhat or very ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dug in on his threat to impose a 50% tariff on the European Union and said a potential 25% charge on smartphones would apply to all foreign-made devices, in the latest escalation of a trade war that is rattling markets and confusing businesses.

Trump on Friday reiterated his complaints about the EU, ...Read more

The chief judge of Maryland’s federal district court issued a standing order this week prohibiting the Trump administration from deporting people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody who request to have their detention reviewed by a judge.

The standing order, signed by Chief Judge George Levi Russell III, only automatically applies ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed orders meant to accelerate the construction of nuclear power plants, including small, untested designs that offer the promise of rapid deployment but have yet to be built in the U.S.

The effort is a bid to meet a coming surge in electricity demand and help the U.S. reclaim its edge in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower-court order that would force Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents to a watchdog group and make a top official available to testify.

The order on Friday, in a fight over whether the office is covered by U.S. public records laws, is a preliminary...Read more

MIAMI — Florida residents seeking legal counsel on their immigration cases — including undocumented immigrants the federal government wants to deport — will soon have more state-level protections against common scams that target them.

And they have Gov. Ron DeSantis to thank for it.

On Thursday, DeSantis signed a bill aimed at curbing so...Read more

MIAMI — Florida residents seeking legal counsel on their immigration cases — including undocumented immigrants the federal government wants to deport — will soon have more state-level protections against common scams that target them.

And they have Gov. Ron DeSantis to thank for it.

On Thursday, DeSantis signed a bill aimed at curbing so...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump moved to dramatically downsize the National Security Council, part of a restructuring that could see the group responsible for coordinating and implementing foreign policy at the White House cut in half.

The restructuring effort was described Friday by a White House official on the condition of anonymity. ...Read more