In the roiling debate over California's proposed billionaire tax, supporters and critics agree that such policies haven't always worked in the past. But the lessons they've drawn from that history are wildly different.

The Billionaire Tax Act, which backers are pushing to get on the November ballot, would charge California's 200-plus ...Read more

MIAMI — Nearly every sunny windowsill at New River Middle School is occupied by a reused jar filled with a handful of pebbles, an inch or two of water and a few slender, brown, pen-like tubes.

They’re baby mangroves — propagules, to be exact — and they’re the future of this Fort Lauderdale school’s campus.

Mangroves are everywhere ...Read more

Last spring, Illinois county judge Jeffrey Goffinet noticed something startling: A legal brief filed in his courtroom cited a case that did not exist.

Goffinet, an associate judge in Williamson County, looked through two legal research systems and then headed to the courthouse library — a place he hadn’t visited in years — to consult the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Martha Weiman’s parents told her and her brothers to stay in an upstairs bedroom the night of November 9, 1939, so they wouldn’t see what was about to happen in their beloved hometown of Bocholt, Germany. They peered out anyway.

They saw Nazi soldiers smashing the windows in the synagogue across the street and setting the ...Read more

When specialized Haitian police units and a drone task force broke through barricades and entered the home of one of Haiti’s most notorious gang warlords earlier this month, their mission was simple, but highly symbolic.

They would occupy the house for several hours — then destroy it.

The target was a residence linked to gang leader and ...Read more

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — The mayor of Michigan's fourth-largest city made headlines last week by lambasting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and expressing a desire for the Police Department to sever ties with federal law agencies and change traffic stop procedures.

Not so fast, police said this week.

While city officials said the ...Read more

Month after month, Patricia Hunter and other members of the Nursing Home Reform Coalition logged onto video calls with congressional representatives, seeking support for a proposed federal rule setting minimum staff levels for nursing homes.

Finally, after decades of advocacy, the Biden administration in 2023 tackled the problem of perennial ...Read more

In Philadelphia, lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would institute some of the nation's toughest limits on federal immigration-enforcement operations.

In Harrisburg, a top Democrat floated making Pennsylvania a so-called sanctuary state to protect undocumented immigrants.

And in Washington, senators faced mounting pressure to hold...Read more

All seven Democratic members of the U.S. House representing Pennsylvania cosigned a letter to Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick on Tuesday calling on them to vote against funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and the Border Patrol.

The letter, which was first obtained by The Inquirer, comes a day after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inaction by government agencies and other systemic failures contributed to a 2025 midair collision that was the worst U.S. civil aviation disaster in more than two decades, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

The NTSB has been investigating what caused a U.S. Army helicopter to slam into an American...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz is facing criticism from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for comparing the experience of Minnesota children living through the state’s chaotic federal immigration enforcement surge with that of Anne Frank’s experience hiding from Nazi Germans.

His comment came during a news conference Sunday following federal agents’ ...Read more

The photo posted on Facebook last week by a Shasta County flight school shows nine smiling students — all of whom appear to be Asian — posing around a small aircraft.

It was meant to celebrate the students, who had recently finished a training program at IASCO Flight Training Inc., on the grounds of the Redding Regional Airport.

But in the...Read more

U.S. population growth cooled significantly last year amid a sharp slowdown in immigration, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

The U.S. population increased just 1.8 million, or 0.5%, in the year through July 1, 2025. to nearly 342 million people, figures released Tuesday showed. That was the slowest pace of growth since 2021 and ...Read more

David Brom, convicted when he was a teenager of killing four members of his family with an ax, has been granted parole by the Minnesota Department of Corrections’ Supervised Release Board.

The transition from his work release status is expected to take one to three months while Brom’s parole plan and conditions of release are established, ...Read more

The two-person crew of a NASA plane is safe after the aircraft’s landing gear failed, leading to a fiery belly landing at a Houston airfield on Tuesday.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the incident occurred around 11:25 a.m. at Ellington Airport when a Martin WB-57, a high-altitude research plane, experienced the mechanical ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Trump has announced an executive order to allow victims of the Los Angeles wildfires to rebuild without dealing with "unnecessary, duplicative, or obstructive" permitting requirements.

The order, which is likely to be challenged by the city and state, claimed that local governments have failed to adequately process ...Read more

Democratic members of the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee voted Tuesday, 8-3 along party lines, to advance a bill that would end formal local agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A separate bill also passed by the committee, 7-4, would prevent officers from wearing face coverings while on duty.

“This is a ...Read more

BOSTON — During the largest winter storm of the season, which saw up to 2 feet of snow blanket New England as a deep freeze sent temperatures plummeting into the single-digits, the regional grid reported that oil was heavily relied on while renewable energy sources provided negligible electrical power.

Oil-fired power plants have been the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday kicked off his midterm campaign schedule in Iowa with a pair of messaging gambles, touting an economy on which many voters have soured and urging farmers to give his global tariffs more time.

Standing behind signage that read “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks,” Trump didn’t begin the...Read more