BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey is demanding congressional Republicans vote to extend a set of tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to prevent what she calls skyrocketing health care costs across the country, as well as here in Massachusetts.

Healey held a press conference Tuesday at the State House demanding the extension and ...Read more

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a blistering order for the city and state to come up with a safety plan to boost police on the Chicago Transit Authority and take other steps or once again risk vital federal funding.

In letters Monday to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Trump’s ...Read more

In a rare high-profile case, Cuba’s former vice prime minister and minister of economy, Alejandro Gil, was sentenced to life in prison on charges of espionage, the People’s Supreme Court announced in a harshly worded statement on Monday.

In a first trial that took place Nov. 11-13, Gil was found guilty of several crimes including espionage,...Read more

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed into law a ban on federal agents making certain arrests near courthouses and easing a path for individuals to sue if they think their rights were violated during civil immigration arrests, capping off months of resistance to the Trump administration’s sometimes-violent enforcement crackdown in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a mixed reception during oral arguments Tuesday to an effort to overturn a limit on how much political parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, as well as Vice President JD Vance from when he was a senator, and former Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio,...Read more

SpaceX sent up its second launch in less than 24 hours on the Space Coast on Tuesday afternoon, while also bringing home its booster for the last time on a landing zone it has been leasing for the last 10 years.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on the NROL-77 mission with a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape ...Read more

Two U.S. F-18 fighter jets flying in tandem entered Venezuelan airspace around noon Tuesday, circling over the Gulf of Venezuela in the latest show of force against the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

The flyover — carried out despite the Venezuelan regime’s possession of a number of Russian-made anti-aircraft batteries — took place less than ...Read more

NEW YORK — The FDNY offered a first look this week at some of its plans for commemorating the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attack.

A special FDNY-organized anniversary ceremony will take place Sept. 9, 2026, at the Staten Island FireHawks ballpark to honor the 343 firefighters and paramedics who died during the attacks, ...Read more

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Monday evening designating two Muslim groups as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

The executive order, which was posted on DeSantis’ social media accounts, states that the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Society of Muslim Brothers (Muslim Brotherhood) would be classified...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday granted a request by the Justice Department to unseal grand jury materials in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case, complying with new legislation compelling federal law enforcement to release its investigative files on deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

​In a 24-page opinion, Federal Judge Paul ...Read more

Former Venezuelan Gen. Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, currently serving a 21-year prison sentence in the United States, claims in a letter to President Donald Trump that Nicolás Maduro’s regime is effectively run not by the strongman himself but by two of his closest allies: siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez.

Alcalá, who pleaded guilty ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home with two Roscosmos cosmonauts from the International Space Station packed tight in their Soyuz spacecraft landing in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan on Tuesday to complete an eight-month stay in space.

Kim launched to to the station back on April 8 with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey ...Read more

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday, promoting his economic agenda — including affordability and gas prices.

The trip — which the White House confirmed with The Philadelphia Inquirer last week — will include stops in Scranton and a rally in Mount Pocono.

Trump is no stranger to northeast and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Amid sharp criticism and questions from the Minneapolis City Council, Police Chief Brian O’Hara defended $19.6 million in overspending Monday, reiterating that it was costly to restore the department’s depleted ranks.

Six city departments were projected to run into the red by year end, but none came close to the Minneapolis ...Read more

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is using fresh border skirmishes with Cambodia to tap nationalist sentiment at home before an election. In doing so he’s gambling it won’t unduly irritate U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed credit for ending a previous outbreak of fighting.

It’s a delicate line to walk for Anutin, who insists...Read more

SpaceX is set to complete its second launch in less than 24 hours on the Space Coast with a national security mission lines up for Tuesday afternoon.

A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off on the NROL-77 mission with a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Russia is in a stronger military position in its war on Ukraine and chided European leaders for what he called excessive dialog that’s produced scant results in his latest broadside against allies on the continent.

Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published early Tuesday. Asked ...Read more