As Americans grow increasingly frustrated over their electricity bills, states are trying to keep the nation’s growing number of data centers from causing higher energy costs for consumers.

For years, many states competed aggressively to land data centers, sprawling campuses full of the computer servers that store and transmit the data behind...Read more

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal information, including home addresses, could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.

Warning patients could deter them from signing up...Read more

NEW ORLEANS — Sarah Hess started taking her toddler, Josie, to Mickey Markey Playground in 2010 because she thought it would offer a refuge from lead.

After a routine doctor visit revealed Josie had lead poisoning, Hess quickly traced the source to the crumbling paint in her family’s century-old home in the Bayou St. John neighborhood. ...Read more

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction Monday, Feb. 9, allowing federal immigration officials to continue wearing masks during California operations, but upheld a law requiring law enforcement to display badges identifying themselves and their agency.

U.S. District Judge Christine A. Snyder in Los Angeles granted the Trump ...Read more

Minnesota state flags are flying off store shelves as some residents use them to show their state pride and opposition to the wave of federal immigration officers that continue to operate in the state.

The newer version of the flag, which was redesigned and officially adopted by the state after months of heated discussion in 2024, has been ...Read more

The National Laboratory of the Rockies let go 134 employees on Monday, the second time in less than a year that the facility formerly known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, has terminated staff.

David Glickson, a spokesman for the National Laboratory of the Rockies, told The Denver Post late Monday afternoon that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would start negotiations with Canada over a new bridge that connects Michigan and Ontario, threatening to block its opening until the U.S. was given compensation and ownership of half of it.

“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump threatened Monday evening to prevent the new Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor from opening until Canada treats the United States with what he described as "fairness and respect."

The Republican president issued the statement about the $5.7 billion Canadian-financed project, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Both chambers of the California Legislature voted Monday to send a $90 million grant package for women’s health clinics to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, moving quickly to shore up the state’s reproductive health programs against cuts pushed by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Assembly and Senate Democrats ...Read more

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron has been handed a golden chance to insulate one of France’s most important institutions from the far right.

With Marine Le Pen’s National Rally strongly positioned for next year’s election, the early resignation of the Bank of France chief offers the current head of state — rather than whoever wins ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One day before a hearing to explore whether the city of Los Angeles misled a federal court on its plan to clear thousands of homelessness encampments, the city's outside counsel has asked an appeals court to remove the judge from the case.

In a brief filed Monday morning, attorneys for the city told the 9th Circuit Court of ...Read more

Eighteen people have now perished in the city’s brutal cold stretch, Mayor Mamdani said Monday.

The new administration has come under fire for the deaths — and is expected to face heat from city council members Tuesday, when officials will testify during a council oversight hearing on the deaths.

The mayor’s decision to halt the removal ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD police academy will be renamed after Detective Steven McDonald, a fallen hero of the department who channeled the agony of three devastating gunshot wounds into an enduring message of peace and forgiveness.

“Across the history of the NYPD, there have been countless officers who have exceeded the standards set for them. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Pressure is mounting on Maryland Senate leaders to take up a House-passed midcycle redistricting bill, as advocacy groups and lawmakers escalate a coordinated push for a Senate floor vote. The efforts come as Senate President Bill Ferguson insists the chamber is unified against the measure.

Black Voters Matter, a national voting ...Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked an appeals court to uphold a teenager’s right to carry a concealed weapon even after a Broward judge last year declared the ban constitutional, dealing another blow to gun-control advocates who have tried to make it harder to buy and carry firearms in the Sunshine State.

Uthmeier also declined to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Monday struck down a new California law that banned federal immigration agents and other law enforcement officers from wearing masks in the state, but an effort already is underway to revive the statute.

U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder in Los Angeles ruled that the No Secret Police Act does not apply ...Read more

A crucial deadline set by Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers passed without her return Monday evening, with the FBI saying it’s not aware of any communication between the abductors and the Guthrie family and has not identified any suspects in the case.

In a ransom note, the purported kidnappers gave the Guthries a 5 p.m. local time deadline to pay ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday advanced a procedural motion to block a vote on President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, potentially delaying a politically uncomfortable vote on his most prominent economic policy until at least July.

The motion will be voted on by the chamber this week. Republicans have a razor-thin majority, so ...Read more

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Two men accused of being the ringleaders of a signature fraud scheme that kept the names of seven judicial and gubernatorial candidates off the August 2022 primary ballot have been found guilty of forging citizen signatures, and one has been acquitted on all counts.

Shawn Wilmoth and Willie Reed were found guilty Monday...Read more