U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace was buying facewash at a South Carolina Ulta Beauty store when a constituent asked her about town halls.

The expletive-laced exchange that followed was captured in a video Mace filmed and posted on X. She was simply standing up for herself and would not apologize, Mace said Monday at an event at University of South Carolina...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police will pay $4.1 million to settle a federal lawsuit in the death of Cameron Lamb, who was fatally shot by former detective Eric DeValkenaere, capping a years-long saga that damaged the relationship between the city’s Black community and law enforcement.

A settlement agreement approved Tuesday by U.S. ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Nine months following a dramatic mistrial declared under the glare of the national spotlight, Karen Read is on trial again for the murder of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter while operating a motor vehicle under the influence, and ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge in Denver has extended the temporary restraining order restricting the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan immigrants from Colorado under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.

In a new order issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney said the Trump administration and immigration officials must ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Madalyn Propst, an Orlando teenager, started taking part in school shooter drills in kindergarten, mourned the victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre when she was 10 and Thursday had her freshman year of college upended by a gunman’s rampage.

Now, the 19-year-old Florida State University freshman is urging Florida’s ...Read more

The U.S. will hold talks Wednesday in London with Ukrainian and European officials as President Donald Trump pushes for a deal to halt Russia’s full-scale invasion.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg are expected to meet with the foreign ministers and national security advisers ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The federal government has officially canceled a Philadelphia School District grant designed to help the system grow a national model for reopening school libraries with certified school librarians.

Officials received word of the cancellation last week, according to information obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer. District ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday said he and President Donald Trump "agreed to stay in touch" at the end of a phone call in which Shapiro filled in the president on details of the April 13 arson attack on the Governor's Residence.

Shapiro spoke to reporters after a children's Easter egg hunt on the lawn just outside the fire-...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Homestead, whose numerous nurseries and farms run on migrant labor, has become one of the latest Miami-Dade municipalities to partner with the Trump administration on immigration enforcement.

Last week, the City Council voted in favor of entering a 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to reorganize what he called a “bloated” State Department, vowing Tuesday to cut programs and close offices but stopping short of a proposed executive order that outlined even more drastic changes.

The top U.S. diplomat circulated a new organizational chart that would downgrade ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On a recent trip to Washington, D.C., North Carolina town leaders were asked to raise their hands if they had not yet received federal funds to pay for Helene-linked damage to public buildings, roadways and more.

In every meeting with U.S. Senators, House members, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Trump ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The number of antisemitic assaults, vandalism, and campus-related incidents in Nevada increased in 2024, according to a Tuesday report from the Anti-Defamation League. Harassment reports fell, resulting in a decline in overall antisemitic incidents from the year before.

Antisemitic vandalism nearly doubled, with 20 incidents ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The body of a Las Vegas equine veterinarian missing since early April was found Friday at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, authorities confirmed Monday.

The National Park Service said in a statement that a body was discovered Friday near the Boulder Islands within Lake Mead. The body was recovered and identified the next ...Read more

A survey of 520 political experts found a consensus that the United States is descending toward some form of authoritarianism. And it may be getting worse.

Bright Line Watch, which is run by a consortium of political scientists at the University of Rochester, Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago, gave the U.S...Read more

A Princeton undergraduate student was reported missing Tuesday as first responders searched an on-campus lake.

Lauren Blackburn, 23, was last seen Saturday around 6 p.m. on the school’s central New Jersey campus, the Daily Princetonian reported. The Princeton community received an alert around 11 a.m. Tuesday that Blackburn had been reported ...Read more

ATLANTA — Netflix is going to film a pilot for a sequel to “A Different World” in Atlanta in July.

The cast has not been announced yet.

Both Productionlist.com and the local union IATSE 479, which covers most crew members, confirmed the pilot’s shooting city.

The original “A Different World,” which recently began streaming on ...Read more

U.S. stocks pared gains as traders assessed the latest reports on the White House’s progress in fleshing out trade deals with top economic partners. Treasuries and the dollar remained steady.

The S&P 500 was 1.6% higher after rising nearly 3% earlier following Bloomberg News’ report of closed-door comments by Treasury Secretary Scott ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than two dozen Venezuelan immigrants linked to the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang have been arrested on federal murder, racketeering, drug and sex trafficking charges, officials said Tuesday.

The takedown by the FBI and the NYPD marks the first time members of the Venezuelan gang are facing charges under the federal ...Read more