MIAMI — Immigration attorneys and environmental activists — even the Mexican government and the Archdiocese of Miami — have all asked who’s in charge at Alligator Alcatraz.

They say they can’t get a straight answer.

“We’ve gotten a lot of runaround,” Archbishop Thomas Wenski told the Miami Herald after trying unsuccessfully to ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — About a month before his fiery testimony against the state's Department of Natural Resources, conservative rocker Ted Nugent beat the agency in court on allegations that he was illegally hosting hunts of Russian boar.

Nugent's was one of six Michigan facilities in 2021 targeted by an undercover operation in which DNR officers...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A global rescue and disaster recovery company that helped evacuate Floridians from Haiti last year during a period of civil unrest has sued the state for $7.5 million, claiming Florida failed to pay the company for its role in the rescue efforts.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tallahassee on Thursday, TAD Recovery ...Read more

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A Cheboygan man accused of randomly stabbing 11 people at a Walmart outside Traverse City over the weekend was arraigned Monday afternoon on multiple charges, but not before he told a magistrate he didn't want to be in the courtroom or talk to court officials.

Bradford Gille, 42, was arraigned on one count of terrorism ...Read more

Police in Reno, Nevada, detained a suspect Monday morning after a shooting reported by authorities at the city’s Grand Sierra Resort, according to local news outlets.

Early news reports said multiple people were injured in the shooting, although it remained unclear how many were hurt. The Reno Gazette-Journal, citing a city council member, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The politically influential Transport Workers Union is threatening to sue Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa over “defamatory and false” comments he recently made about the labor group.

In a letter sent to Sliwa on Monday, John Samuelsen, the TWU’s international president, wrote that the mayoral hopeful engaged in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution is resisting an effort from Texas lawmakers to transport the space shuttle Discovery from a Virginia museum to Houston, home of Mission Control, in a battle framed by the cost.

Texas GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz included in the reconciliation law a provision that would authorize the relocation of...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction blocking language in the GOP budget reconciliation law that made Planned Parenthood ineligible for Medicaid reimbursements for one year.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani had granted a preliminary injunction last week blocking the provision for only some Planned ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican appropriators plan to disregard the White House’s proposed 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget for fiscal 2026, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.

Instead, the funding levels being discussed are similar to what’s currently appropriated, they said.

Republicans in ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday said he never had the “privilege” of visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s private island as he shed new details on his split from the notorious pedophile who was once his close friend and neighbor in Palm Beach, Florida.

Brushing off questions about Epstein, Trump again suggested the firestorm over Epstein was ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday shortened to less than two weeks his deadline for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to talk peace with Ukraine.

After previously giving the Kremlin strongman 50 days, Trump said he has lost patience with Putin’s refusal to come to the table to end the three-year invasion of its smaller neighbor.

“I’m going to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With the House away, nominations and appropriations remain at the forefront of the Senate’s agenda for what is scheduled to be the final week before August recess.

Advancing President Donald Trump’s nominations is straightforward but laborious, with Democrats showing little willingness to expedite the process. That has led ...Read more

GARFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Walmart store where 11 people were stabbed Saturday in what appeared to be random attack by a Cheboygan man remained closed Monday, though community members were rallying together to support one another.

Linda Peters was walking her two small dogs in front of the closed Walmart on Monday morning when a UPS truck ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Even as the Trump administration pursues a hard-line approach to enforcing immigration law, some congressional Republicans acknowledge the need to expand immigration opportunities for workers in specialized sectors such as agriculture.

As industries that depend on temporary workers like agriculture and tourism say they need ...Read more

DETROIT — A northern Michigan man accused of stabbing 11 people Saturday at a Walmart near Traverse City was previously accused of digging up a grave in a Petoskey cemetery and trying to remove the casket, court records show.

The criminal case against Bradford Gille offers a fuller picture of the mental health issues ― including a history ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Her name is ubiquitous in public spaces around Los Angeles: the Wallis Annenberg Building at the California Science Center in Exposition Park, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, the soon-to-debut Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills.

Then there’s the Annenberg Community Beach ...Read more