Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been fined and temporarily banned from Venice, Italy, after protesters dyed the Grand Canal green over the weekend.

Thunberg, 22, was with Extinction Rebellion, an environmental group behind many high-profile protests, when they poured dye into the waters that outline the historic city, according to The ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday rejected an effort to prevent North Carolina’s new Republican-favoring congressional map from taking effect before the midterm elections.

The challengers had claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in the northeastern part of the state for electing a Democrat in 2024.

The ...Read more

Former state legislator Christopher Ziogas pleaded guilty to extortion and bank fraud charges Wednesday, admitting his involvement in a scheme to derail a government audit of his fiancé’s optometry practice by delivering nearly $100,000 to former state budget officer Konstantinos Diamantis

The unscheduled guilty plea by Ziogas Wednesday in ...Read more

Parents of qualifying children in Texas will be able to receive the state’s standard school voucher of about $10,000 to attend private preschools, a major win for families and child care providers.

The Texas Comptroller’s office released final rules this week on the framework for the $1 billion private school voucher program, dubbed the ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Attorney General Keith Ellison has joined 21 other attorneys general in suing the federal government over new eligibility guidelines for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — known as SNAP.

The federal legislation known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” narrowed SNAP eligibility for certain groups, including ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A pair of National Guardsmen who were shot just blocks from the White House are in critical condition, while a lone gunman has been taken into custody, officials said Wednesday.

The soldiers were on a “high visibility” patrol when the suspect rounded a corner, raised a firearm and “ambushed,” them, according to Washington...Read more

Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced Wednesday that he had selected two longtime House members to fill vacancies created by the resignation of two Senate Republicans.

Dunleavy selected Sutton Rep. George Rauscher to replace Wasilla Sen. Mike Shower; and Wasilla Rep. Cathy Tilton to replace Palmer Sen. Shelley Hughes. The governor's choices are subject ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday rejected an effort to prevent North Carolina’s new Republican-favoring congressional map from taking effect before the midterm elections.

The challengers had claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in the northeastern part of the state for electing a Democrat in 2024.

The ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A panel of federal judges on Wednesday rejected an effort to prevent North Carolina’s new Republican-favoring congressional map from taking effect before the midterm elections.

The challengers had claimed the map illegally retaliated against voters in the northeastern part of the state for electing a Democrat in 2024.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON —Californians using Obamacare-inspired health care plans and facing huge premium increases at the start of next year got some hope this week that cost-cutting subsidies will continue.

Efforts by Reps. Kevin Kiley, R-Roseville, and Sam Liccardo, D-San Jose, to push for a two-year extension have gotten backing from bipartisan members...Read more

A woman with family ties to the brother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Massachusetts, a Trump administration official confirmed.

Bruna Caroline Ferreira, who shares an 11-year-old child with Michael Leavitt, is currently being held at an ICE facility in southern ...Read more

CHICAGO — Northwestern University is expected to close a deal “soon” with the Trump administration, potentially restoring $790 million in frozen federal research funding, according to the U.S. Education Department.

The deal could also resolve several government investigations into alleged antisemitism on campus. An agency spokesperson ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County taxpayers may have to pay President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the recently killed 2020 election interference case millions of dollars in legal fees.

Under a state law signed by Gov. Brian Kemp earlier this year, defendants in dismissed cases in which the prosecutor was disqualified because of improper ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians, adding them to a growing list of immigrant groups seeing their protected status revoked by the Trump administration.

The decision, which becomes effective on Feb. 3, 2026, could affect more than a half million Haitians living in...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two National Guardsmen were shot and killed in downtown Washington, West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey said Wednesday.

A suspect is in custody, officials said.

The scene is secured and one person has been arrested, DC Metropolitan Police said in a social media post. Morrisey said the two guardsmen were from his state and ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections says it won’t grant the Trump administration’s request to transfer Tina Peters to the federal prison system, characterizing it in a statement as not fitting with the “standard practice” for moving inmates.

The statement was issued Tuesday night after county clerks and other elected ...Read more