COLUMBIA, S.C. — Soldrea Roberts grew up around the corner from the late civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson’s nonprofit, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, on the south side of Chicago.

She remembers seeing him around in coffee shops, waiting rooms and at marches in her Chicago neighborhood. Roberts also said she went to the same school as his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of the Second Amendment and deny gun rights to "habitual" users of drugs, including marijuana.

But most of the justices sounded skeptical. They questioned whether marijuana users are so dangerous they should not have firearms.

They noted too that ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Central Kentucky circuit judge facing impeachment says the petition against her should be dismissed for several reasons, including that it would violate Kentucky’s separation of powers and the filing is incomplete.

Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman on Feb. 26 filed a 38-page response with Kentucky’s impeachment ...Read more

Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado said she plans to return to Venezuela “in a few weeks” to help steer what she described as an “orderly, sustainable and unstoppable transition to democracy,” despite a sharp warning from interim Chavista President Delcy Rodríguez.

In a video message released from ...Read more

United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles burning off the rocket on launch.

While the Vulcan’s main first stage was able to course correct and get its Space Force payload to space on the Feb...Read more

Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use.

A few months later, in September 2025, officials in Utah announced plans for a 16-acre...Read more

A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical change in their environment. However, our study shows that ...Read more

If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to at least 7 million to 8 million people and hold a dozen votes in the Electoral College.

In a close presidential race, this hypothetical state of the formerly ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The late Rev. Jesse Jackson is being honored in South Carolina on Monday, with a public visitation at the State House and later a memorial service at Brookland Baptist Church.

Jackson, a civil rights leader who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, died on Feb. 17, 2026.

The Greenville native was 84. In ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that military operations in Iran are likely to last four to five weeks, but he is prepared to "go far longer than that" if necessary.

Speaking at the White House, Trump did not mention plans to deploy American troops to the Middle East, but in interviews with media outlets in recent days he said...Read more

MIAMI — Miami prosecutors appealed a judge’s order granting a new murder trial for an inmate who made national headlines when she became pregnant while behind bars.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean granted Daisy Link, 30, a new trial because Link was “prejudiced” by photos that prosecutors showed jurors — hoping to discredit ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday defended the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, calling the widespread and ongoing attacks a necessary response to threats of nuclear and terror attacks even as the conflict showed signs of spreading across the Middle East.

“We didn’t start this war but under President Trump we will end it,” Hegseth said....Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Sunlight streamed into a fifth-grade classroom at Wellstone Elementary in St. Paul in late February, but no kids were there — just 26 empty chairs and a teacher on her laptop in the corner of the room.

Dawn Windham delivered a virtual lesson to students afraid to go to school due to the recent ICE surge, and while happy to ...Read more

A British base in Cyprus struck by a drone. A French facility in Abu Dhabi targeted. A base hosting Italian troops in Kuwait hit. Saudi oil facilities attacked as ships queue outside the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles over Bahrain and Qatar. Gulf airspace shut down.

In just over 48 hours since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran, the conflict ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said the bombing campaign against Iran could last for weeks and called on the nation’s leaders to capitulate, while the Islamic Republic’s security chief ruled out negotiations.

The conflict continued to reverberate across the Middle East on Monday, with blasts heard across Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine still expect planned U.S.-led peace talks to take place this week, even as President Donald Trump’s administration continues a military campaign against Iran.

With airspace in the United Arab Emirates currently closed amid the risk of missile and drone attacks, the talks are unlikely to take place in Abu Dhabi, according to...Read more

CHICAGO — A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera smuggle and distribute large quantities of narcotics into the U.S.

Jesus Omar Ibarra Felix, also known by the alias “El Chuta,” was charged ...Read more

NEW YORK — It cost taxpayers more than $117 million in 2025 to resolve lawsuits accusing NYPD ​officers of misconduct, the fourth straight year payouts surpassed $100 million, according to a new report.

The Legal Aid Society, which analyzed city data and released its findings Monday, said the ramifications of police misconduct will continue...Read more