LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will seek roughly $780 million in new tax revenue and a $400 million withdrawal from the state's rainy day fund to help balance her budget proposal for next year, despite key Republicans already voicing opposition to the ideas.

The governor's executive budget recommendation, presented Wednesday ...Read more

Investigators trying to find Nancy Guthrie are posed with a daunting and familiar challenge in law enforcement: how to identify a masked person.

Authorities got a huge break Tuesday with the release of footage of an armed individual wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack approaching the front door of Guthrie’s Tucson home and tampering ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Federal public defenders want recently demoted Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino to come to Charlotte to testify in the case of a U.S. citizen who was chased, arrested and charged with a federal crime after he took photos and videos of immigration agents in November.

Defense attorney John Parke Davis said Bovino “...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge this week ordered ICE and the Department of Homeland Security to provide "constitutionally adequate health care" to people detained in California's newest and largest immigration detention center.

In her Tuesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney also required an external monitor be appointed to ensure...Read more

CHICAGO — Lawyers for Marimar Martínez, the Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent in October, said Wednesday evidence released this week “shows the world” that Trump administration officials “have created a culture of violence among their agents” where the shootings of U.S. citizens are “embraced, celebrated and promoted.”

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the 1850s, settlers from around the world poured into California to seek their fortunes during the Gold Rush. The Washoe people, who had lived around Lake Tahoe for thousands of years, were pushed out.

Farming, logging and mining took over their traditional territory in the Sierra Nevada, leading at times to violent ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Four corporations that produced internet “documentaries” concerning the Murdaugh crime saga are nearing a settlement in a defamation case brought against them by Buster Murdaugh, the oldest son of ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh now serving life sentences for murder in a double murder case, according to a court filing.

In a ...Read more

MIAMI — The parents of the three Miami Yacht Club summer campers who were killed last summer when a 60-foot barge slammed into their sailboat sued the company that owns the barge, alleging negligence and irresponsible hiring.

The wrongful death lawsuit, filed Dec. 29 against Waterfront Construction, states that on the morning of July 28, 2025...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal parks worker on Wednesday afternoon raised an American flag inside the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, replacing the Pride flag removed earlier this week after a Trump administration directive that sparked widespread outrage.

Local elected officials and activists have vowed to re-raise the LGBTQ+ flag ...Read more

The search of an Arizona home overnight by police looking for Nancy Guthrie has ended with authorities seemingly no closer to finding the missing 84-year-old.

The home — part of the semi-rural community of Rio Rico, about 60 miles south of Tucson, belongs to the family of a 36-year-old man who had been detained in a traffic stop and ...Read more

BOSTON — Social media amateur sleuths claiming there’s a link in the Department of Justice’s Jeffrey Epstein files to the shocking 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist are wrong — and it’s hurting the case, the museum tells the Boston Herald.

It’s another frustrating dead end for the Gardner team, who still field more than...Read more

A person claiming to have information about Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnapper is offering to share what they know with TMZ for one Bitcoin valued at $66,000.

The news and gossip site said it received a note promising a suspect’s name around 5 a.m. on the West Coast and forwarded that letter to the FBI. It included deposit instructions tied ...Read more

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday struck a neutral note in his fourth State of the State address, amid an escalated feud with President Donald Trump and brewing tension with Maryland lawmakers on various policy issues, including midcycle redistricting and a looming projected $1.4 billion budget shortfall.

“I cannot stand here and...Read more

CHICAGO — A judge has dismissed yet another set of Operation Midway Blitz related charges, this time against against a man who had been accused of resisting or impeding federal agents during the Trump administration’s expansive immigration raids in and around Chicago late last year.

Prosecutors moved to drop the charges Feb. 5, according to...Read more

A person detained for questioning in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case said he was released from custody early Wednesday.

The brief detention came hours after FBI officials released surveillance footage showing a masked individual approaching the 84-year-old’s front door the morning she was abducted.

Officials have not released the ...Read more

Congressional Democrats forced a vote Wednesday on a measure to rebuke President Donald Trump for his tariffs on imports from Canada, putting Republicans on the hot seat over the unpopular trade war.

The House was set to vote later Wednesday on a measure introduced by Rep. Greg Meeks, D-New York, that would overturn the “economic emergency”...Read more

The Justice Department has failed to obtain an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who recorded a video last year encouraging military members to defy illegal orders.

The feds launched the investigation in November after the video was shared on social media. President Donald Trump and other leaders in his administration quickly blasted ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Cutting the percentage of out-of-state students enrolled in Florida’s top public universities would cost the schools millions of dollars, but they should be able to “work that out,” said the Polk County lawmaker proposing the change.

State Rep. Jennifer Kincart Jonsson, R-Lakeland, wants out-of-state students to make up ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has fired back at Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for his recent comments about the agency on “The View.”

Beshear told the hosts of “The View” on Monday that, “every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community that they’re in.” The comments come on the ...Read more

BOSTON — Glioblastoma patients, long shut out from immunotherapies that have transformed patient care in other cancers, could finally benefit from a new treatment option.

Boston cancer researchers have found that a virus-based therapy improves survival in patients with glioblastoma.

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and ...Read more