Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.

“While RFK Jr. and his QAnon-inspired colleagues, spreading conspiracy theories and dangerous misinformation about vaccines, are ...Read more

More than a dozen new cases of measles in the Upstate have been reported to the South Carolina Department of Public Health since the day after Thanksgiving.

Fourteen new cases have been reported to the department, bringing the total number of cases the state has seen this year up to 79, with 76 from the Upstate, according to a news release. One...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his selection to lead the Federal Reserve in early 2026 and teased National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett as his possible choice on Tuesday, fueling further speculation about the next leader of the U.S. central bank.

“We’ll be announcing somebody, probably early next year, for the ...Read more

Netflix released its long-awaited 50 Cent-produced documentary “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” on Tuesday, featuring unseen footage, major revelations and exclusive insider interviews.

The four-part docuseries covers everything from the rap mogul’s troubled childhood to the tragedies that shaped his career.

Here’s a rundown of the doc’s ...Read more

Elizabeth Holmes, serving a lengthy prison sentence for fraud, claimed Tuesday on social media that one of the most-damaging pieces of evidence against her — that she appropriated drug-companies’ logos and affixed them to internal Theranos reports to deceive investors — was a “false claim” and “(expletive) thrown against the wall” ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously emphasized the same military law that the Trump administration has been calling Pennsylvania lawmakers seditious for citing.

Hegseth noted the military rule not to obey unlawful orders during a forum in 2016, when he was a Fox News contributor, in recorded remarks CNN unearthed on Tuesday.

Hegseth ...Read more

A cannabis retail market could be coming to Virginia as soon as next November, if the General Assembly passes the legislation and Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger signs off on it. Since 2021, Virginians have been able to legally possess marijuana for personal use but unable to legally purchase it.

The Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of ...Read more

A class-action lawsuit has been filed by a group of Texas families in the third legal challenge over displays of the Ten Commandments in classrooms across the state.

On Tuesday, a group of 18 multifaith and nonreligious families filed the class-action suit, which requests a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against any ...Read more

In what appears to be a longer-term legal strategy, the plaintiffs in an injunction case limiting the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz on Tuesday abruptly moved to dismiss the underlying lawsuit in the midst of an appeal by the Trump administration.

In the request, lawyers representing a consortium of media ...Read more

St. Paul police will face more scrutiny for their role in the chaotic ICE raid last week on St. Paul’s East Side, where city officers sprayed chemical irritants and rubber projectiles on protesters.

City Council members say St. Paul police officers’ conduct at the scene crossed a line, and on Wednesday they’re expected to call for an ...Read more

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that her department will soon withhold funding that helps administer SNAP benefits in states run by Democrats, including Minnesota.

Those states have refused to share participants’ personal data with the federal government. Roughly 440,000 Minnesotans rely on the ...Read more

Minnesota and its Somali immigrant community have become the latest target of President Donald Trump, in what has become a pattern of escalating pressure against Democratic-led cities and states across the U.S.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that ICE would focus on undocumented members of the Twin Cities Somali community with an intensive ...Read more

A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back.

The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered a major milestone for Indigenous cultural and land restoration in California.

In addition, the move could lead to better management and control of wildfires in ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal appeals judge on Tuesday had blunt criticism for a lower court judge’s order to release hundreds of immigrants on bond whose arrests during “Operation Midway Blitz” are being challenged under a consent decree that limits so-called warrantless detention.

During arguments before a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U...Read more

A Pennsylvania police officer testified that when he first saw the face of the nervous young man eating in a McDonald’s restaurant, he knew it was the suspect in the shooting death of a healthcare executive in New York five days earlier.

Patrolman Joseph Detwiler said he had seen a series of photographs released by the New York Police ...Read more

SpaceX carved out a sunset launch over the Space Coast on Tuesday with its latest Starlink flight.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-95 mission with 29 of the company’s internet satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:18 p.m.

This was the 25th flight for the first-stage booster, which...Read more

The Canadian publisher of a children’s book character used by Pete Hegseth to downplay possible war crimes is distancing their cartoon turtle from the U.S. Secretary of War.

“Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy and inclusivity,” the publishing house Kids ...Read more

BEIRUT — With a rainbow adorning the early morning sky, tens of thousands converged on Beirut's waterfront on Tuesday to attend public prayers led by Pope Leo XIV — the culmination of an international debut that saw the U.S.-born pontiff repeatedly call for peace in a time of increasing war.

Addressing a crowd of an estimated 150,000 people...Read more