A bill filed by a Republican state senator on the first day of 2026 General Assembly attempts to ban diversity, equity and inclusion practices in Kentucky’s K-12 public schools.

Senate Bill 26 filed by Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield, would apply to the Kentucky Department of Education, school districts and public schools.

According to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A conservative pastor from Detroit gathered a group of his congregants at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to protest alleged election fraud and commemorate the fifth anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Lorenzo Sewell, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump who led a prayer at his 2025 inauguration, likened the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Budd wasn’t given any warning that a large-scale attack on Venezuela had been ordered by President Donald Trump.

Now, he wants answers about the incursion.

Explosions began around 1 a.m. Eastern time Saturday in the South American country. Delta Force entered Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, to capture President Nicol�...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Larry Krasner was sworn in to his second term as district attorney four years ago, Philadelphia was in a public safety crisis: Murders and shootings were at an all-time high and the homicide clearance rate was at a historic low.

On Monday, Krasner was inaugurated to a third four-year term in remarkably different ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — By the time most Twin Cities residents were waking up on Jan. 6, armed federal immigration agents in bulletproof vests had surrounded a man in a St. Paul neighborhood, detaining him as cameras rolled. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared alongside the agents, offering a highly visible marker of the Trump ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed, Los Angeles police made at least two visits to their home in Brentwood.

On Feb. 25, 2019, officers conducted a welfare check after someone called 911 at 9:51 p.m. According to LAPD records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, officers arrived at the address at 10:12 p.m., ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Wolfe County woman was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday for first-degree fetal homicide after taking abortion medication without a doctor’s advisement.

Melinda Spencer, 35, of Campton, was indicted Jan. 6 on charges of fetal homicide, concealing the birth of an infant, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered city corrections officials to come up with a plan to bring NYC jails into compliance with a law that banned solitary confinement on Rikers Island that had sparked strong pushback from his predecessor.

As Mayor Eric Adams did during his term, Mamdani Monday extended Rikers’ emergency status, ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing more than 2 million additional documents related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, and dozens of South Florida lawyers have been called in to help, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed in a letter to a New York judge Monday.

The Justice Department has posted about 12,000 documents in response to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday sought to keep his House Republican troops in line even as he expressed concerns about November’s midterm elections and issued a warning to American weapons manufacturers.

“We got to close the deal,” Trump said of an election that will decide control of the House and Senate as he urged his ...Read more

DENVER — Children’s Hospital Colorado and Denver Health have suspended gender-affirming hormonal treatments for minors again, though transgender youth can still get care in Colorado from providers that don’t rely on federal funds.

Mardi Moore, CEO of Rocky Mountain Equality, said youth can still seek care from other providers, though ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore admitted Tuesday that the department's after-action report on the Palisades fire was watered down to shield top brass from scrutiny.

The admission comes more than two weeks after The Times found that the report was edited to downplay the failures of city and LAFD leadership in ...Read more

DETROIT — A man was arrested Tuesday after trying to get into a Romulus school and firing a gun near the building, authorities said.

Romulus police said they received a report of an active shooter at Romulus Middle School at 9:53 a.m. The suspect had attempted to enter the building through its main entrance, police said, and there was a ...Read more

MIAMI — The Coral Gables man operating the boat that ran over and killed a 15-year-old girl wakeboarding behind a yacht in Biscayne Bay, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless boating charges Monday in Miami-Dade County court.

Carlos Guillermo “Bill” Alonso, 79, will serve six months probation and take a boater safety course in an ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Environmentalists are suing the federal government over what they say is a failure to protect the horseshoe crab, a prehistoric looking species that is important to the survival of shore birds in South Carolina and other coastal states.

The Center for Biological Diversity says the National Marine Fisheries Service has not met...Read more

When the Trump administration signaled its willingness to work with Delcy Rodríguez as the face of a Venezuelan transition, the calculation appeared coldly pragmatic.

Rodríguez, a seasoned survivor of the regime’s internal purges, seemed to offer Washington what it urgently needed after the capture of Nicolás Maduro: continuity without ...Read more