BALTIMORE — Weeks after returning from South Carolina, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will hit the road again — this time as a featured speaker at the Detroit NAACP Dinner on Sunday, June 29.

Moore’s senior press secretary, Carter Elliott, told The Baltimore Sun Friday that the governor “believes it’s important as the only Black governor” ...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan — Israel launched a punishing air campaign on Iran early Friday, killing some of the upper echelons of Iran's military leadership along with destroying parts of its nuclear and military infrastructure in a compound operation involving warplanes and drones. The attacks constituted the most significant escalation between the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration blew a Friday morning deadline to challenge Mahmoud Khalil’s release from the Louisiana detention center where he’s been held since March, prompting lawyers for the Columbia University student activist to call for him to be freed immediately.

New Jersey federal Judge Michael Farbiarz on Wednesday ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Large numbers of protesters are expected to descend on the South Carolina State House this Saturday for a planned protest against President Donald Trump. And who shows up may tell us something about where the administration is headed.

Saturday’s planned demonstration at the State House is one of several “No Kings” ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles and other major cities across the nation are girding for widespread demonstrations against the Trump administration Saturday as the federal government expands its aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown beyond Southern California.

The D.C. military event will celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, as well ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With its stately homes and bustling business districts, Downey has long been known to some as the “Mexican Beverly Hills.”

But the Southeast L.A. County city of more than 110,000 people has been roiled this week by Trump immigration raids in Southern California, sparking both fear and outrage.

Downey Councilman Mario ...Read more

President Donald Trump backed Israel on Friday after it launched a sweeping attack on Iran’s nuclear program and leadership, although officials stressed the U.S. was not directly involved in the dramatic escalation that could lead to a wider war in the Middle East.

Trump claimed the Israeli attack was launched after Tehran ignored a 60-day ...Read more

DETROIT — Two University of Michigan scholars from China accused of smuggling biological material into the United States agreed Friday to be jailed without bond while their criminal cases are pending in federal court.

The decision by UM scholars Chengxuan Han and Yunqing Jian came amid concerns the Chinese nationals would flee the U.S. if ...Read more

MIAMI — The thousands of Floridians expected to march in the No Kings National Day of Defiance on Saturday had better be on their best behavior, warned Florida’s governor.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said that drivers will not be at fault if they hit protesters that block roadways in a clip that took social media by storm. Interviewed on a Reuben ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s NASA budget plans look to cut its public relations funding by half, but already the agency is shuttering social media accounts that include those dedicated to popular missions including Mars Curiosity, Mars Perseverance and Voyager.

Those three in particular have quite the fanbase on X with Curiosity’s account ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada geothermal giant could have waited years for its projects to get federal permits. Under President Donald Trump’s emergency executive order on energy, that process will take 14 days — at most.

Ormat, which has proposed three geothermal projects in rural Nevada, is one of the first energy companies in the country to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego judge issued his final ruling Tuesday finding that the Trump administration has violated three provisions of a class-action legal settlement aimed at reunifying and providing legal support and other assistance to migrant families who were systematically separated at the border during President Donald Trump’s first ...Read more

It may take months to fully understand what caused a Boeing 787 to crash shortly after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people in the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad.

Regulators from India and the United States will investigate India’s deadliest plane crash in decades, but officials and experts warn that answers won’t come quickly. U.S....Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — State and local health officials are getting federal help amid concerns after six teachers at a Liberty school have been diagnosed with breast cancer since 2020.

Officials with the nation’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention are now engaged with the effort to determine if something at Warren Hills Elementary is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California Public Health Department has dropped efforts to suspend the license of a Hollywood nursing home whose actions were found to have led to two patient deaths in recent years.

Brier Oak on Sunset was among seven Los Angeles County facilities that received notice last month that the state was moving to suspend their ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Dilraj Shoker followed the rules.

He has a work permit, said he doesn’t have a criminal record, and filed an application to receive political asylum from his native India.

Even so, Shoker was unsettled when he walked into the John E. Moss Federal Building in Sacramento near the state Capitol, for a hearing earlier this...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration blew a Friday morning deadline to challenge Mahmoud Khalil’s release from the Louisiana detention center where he’s been held since March, prompting lawyers for the Columbia University student activist to call for him to be freed immediately.

New Jersey Federal Judge Michael Farbiarz on Wednesday ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Protesters are set to rally at the state Capitol and around the Sacramento area on Saturday as part of nationwide demonstrations against the Trump administration under the slogan “No Kings.”

The protests — which organizers have billed as the largest public mobilization yet against what they deem President Donald ...Read more

Florida’s 50th launch of 2025 had been planned to be a human spaceflight, but instead it ended up being another batch of Starlink satellites.

SpaceX and Axiom Space remain on hold for any attempt to launch the Ax-4 mission from Kennedy Space Center, which had several options to fly this week, but were stymied by weather and then a liquid ...Read more