CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After calling a federal judge’s order unconstitutional, North Carolina state legislators now have a court date to argue why they should be able to access and discuss the pending criminal investigative file in the fatal Charlotte train stabbing of Iryna Zarutska.

On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell ...Read more

DETROIT — In her first month on the job, Detroit's new mayor launched several major initiatives intended to combat violence and poverty, along with measures intended to expand progress citywide.

Mayor Mary Sheffield said on Jan. 1, the day she was sworn in, she would have a "pretty busy January," and she lived up to that promise. It's too ...Read more

BALTIMORE — U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen thanked Howard County lawmakers Wednesday for their actions to block a planned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Elkridge, Maryland, while calling for “not one more dime for a lawless ICE.”

Van Hollen’s updates came as Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and the Howard ...Read more

Border czar Tom Homan Wednesday announced an immediate 25% cut in federal agents carrying out the Trump administration’s Minneapolis anti-immigration operation that has led to the killings of two U.S. citizens in the past month.

Homan said he has ordered 700 federal agents to leave the flashpoint city after touting improved cooperation from ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Fridley and Duluth schools, along with the state teachers union, are suing the Trump administration to keep federal immigration agents off school property.

The new measure comes as school leaders decry what they say is increased federal agent activity on and near campuses, causing fear and safety concerns. The plaintiffs are ...Read more

Two days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a surprise trade deal with India, New Delhi officials moved to counter concerns that the country may have made too many concessions to secure lower tariffs.

Over the past 24 hours, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has spoken twice to say India adequately protected its farm sector, especially ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that effective immediately the federal government is withdrawing 700 federal law enforcement personnel from Minnesota.

That will leave the number of agents in the state at approximately 2,000, he said — still a far cry from the 150 agents that are permanently stationed in ...Read more

The world is looking for more clean water. Intense storms and warmer weather have worsened droughts and reduced the amount of clean water underground and in rivers and lakes on the surface.

Under pressure to provide water for drinking and irrigation, people around the globe are trying to figure out how to save, conserve and reuse ...Read more

At the outset of the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, a singer bemoans his separation from a beloved friend who grew up beside him. Today, the friends rarely meet “näillä raukoilla rajoilla, poloisilla Pohjan mailla” – lines which translator Keith Bosley renders “on these poor borders, the luckless lands of the North.”

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Medicare has launched a six-year pilot program that could eventually transform access to health care for some of the millions of people across the U.S. who rely on it for their health insurance coverage.

Traditional Medicare is a government-administered insurance plan for people over 65 or with disabilities. About half of the 67 ...Read more

Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people’s ability to spot AI-generated video and audio that falsely depict politicians, according to a study my colleagues and I conducted.

Although researchers have focused primarily on advancing technologies for detecting ...Read more

Recently, the German term “lüften” has been circulating on social media and trending on Google. The term refers to the practice of opening windows and doors to replace stale indoor air with outdoor air, a longtime practice in many European homes. Americans have dubbed it “house burping” in many videos on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube...Read more

President Donald Trump and Congress agreed to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a larger spending bill that enables the federal government to continue operations. They now face a self-imposed deadline of Feb. 13, 2026, to negotiate potential changes to immigration enforcement.

The fact that funding for the ...Read more

Forcibly entering homes without a judicial warrant. Arresting journalists who reported on protests. Defying dozens of federal orders. Killing U.S. citizens for noncompliance. Asking constitutionally protected observers this chilling question: “Have you not learned?”

This is daily life in Minnesota. Operation Metro Surge, ...Read more

Iran has asked the U.S. to move diplomatic talks originally planned for Turkey to Oman and to limit the agenda to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, according to people familiar with the matter.

Tehran is resisting U.S. pressure to include its ballistic-missile program and support for allied militias in the Middle East in the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Kaegan Recher’s phone lit up with notifications of federal agent sightings Tuesday morning, Feb. 3, as he drove through south Minneapolis, much like it has for weeks now.

When White House border czar Tom Homan came to Minneapolis to take over the lead of Operation Metro Surge last week, he said there was a plan in the works to...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping praised ties between their countries as “exemplary” in their first direct talks of the year.

“The foreign policy link between Moscow and Beijing remains an important stabilizing factor,” Putin said Wednesday in televised remarks from the two leaders’ video call. �...Read more

States that were leaders in childhood vaccination before the pandemic are among those losing ground as exemptions and unfounded skepticism take hold, encouraged by the Trump administration’s stance under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Expanded exemptions for parents are likely to drop both Mississippi and West ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jazmine Locke has filled out the paperwork and checked all the boxes. As a middle-income worker, she qualifies for California-subsidized day care for her 7-month-old daughter. Yet she holds little hope she will ever make it off the waitlist. Her older son, now 12, never did.

"In my mind, I plan to pay for child care until she ...Read more