On a day the crew of Artemis II broke the record set by Apollo 13 for farthest distance from Earth ever flown by humans, they made a request to name two newly identified craters: one to honor their Orion spacecraft named Integrity, and one in the memory of commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll.

The Orion spacecraft and its four ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland General Assembly has passed the Youth Charging Reform Act, reforming which offenses minors are automatically charged as adults for, and what type of facilities they can be held in. A version of the reform has been considered for about 14 years, but has never been up for a vote in either chamber before this session.

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PHILADELPHIA — A 17-month-old was hurt Saturday after crawling under a fence at Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark zoo and sticking his hand into a wolf enclosure. Now, the boy’s parents face charges.

The child, who has not been publicly identified, was “unsupervised” at ZooAmerica North American Wildlife Park, which is inside Hersheypark, a ...Read more

Someone claiming to know Nancy Guthrie is dead, but was last seen alive in Mexico, is offering to deliver her kidnappers “on a silver platter.”

A tipster looking to collect a Bitcoin told TMZ the missing woman was spotted with a suspect or suspects identified as “them” in the Mexican state of Sonora. TMZ said it receive a pair of notes ...Read more

CHICAGO — With just over two months to go until the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center opens to the public, patrons will soon be able to secure their entry to the campus museum.

Museum ticket sales will kick off later this month, going live for founding members on April 21, the Obama Foundation announced on Monday.

Tickets will open to ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina should set up a legal, regulated marijuana and hemp market for adults, a state advisory council said, noting that without it, residents had spent about $3 billion in 2022 on illegal marijuana.

That makes North Carolina one of the largest marijuana black markets in the country, ranking second in the nation, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revisited his grievances with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over Greenland as he expressed fresh frustration with the security alliance’s stance on the Iran war.

“It all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland,” Trump said during a White House press conference Monday. “We want ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland attorney general’s office can defend the constitutionality of the state’s Child Victims Act against challenges by the WWE in an ongoing sexual abuse lawsuit involving former ring crew recruits, a judge ruled Thursday.

The recruits, known as “ring boys,” were hired by professional wrestling promotions for ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A new Idaho state law lets stores, restaurants and other sellers round up prices to the nearest nickel to reflect federal guidelines.

Senate Bill 1350 was sponsored by the state Senate State Affairs Committee.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed the bill into law on March 31.

Here’s how it works:

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday allowing him to identify and label domestic terrorist organizations — and he said state police were already building cases against several of them.

At a news conference at the University of South Florida, he said police were “working already” to apply the label to the ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge to an Illinois law barring concealed carry permit holders from carrying loaded guns on public transportation, leaving intact the state’s 2013 prohibition on firearms aboard buses and trains.

In September, a three-judge 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States and Iran are at a “critical point” in negotiating a potential ceasefire agreement, even as he continued to threaten military strikes against Tehran ahead of a Tuesday night deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

In a lengthy news briefing at the White House, the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In a pair of votes on Monday, the Maryland Senate advanced a Senate and House version of a sweeping Democrat-led energy package, moving lawmakers closer to a final deal aimed at lowering energy bills for Marylanders.

The Senate approved its version of the Utility RELIEF Act in a 38-4 vote, with support from eight Republicans, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The city of Minneapolis on Monday released video of the January shooting of a man by ICE agents on the North Side that contradicts the version of events federal officials initially provided after the encounter.

Early statements from federal authorities said several men assaulted an immigration agent with a snow shovel and a ...Read more

A new variant of COVID-19, dubbed cicada, is less susceptible to vaccination and appears to discriminate based on age, scientists say. The variant appears less threatening to older individuals, preferring young people instead.

Cicada, formally named BA.3.2, is a mutation of the omicron COVID-19 branch that first appeared in 2021. It has been ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is ordering the state to implement chip-enabled EBT cards in an effort to boost security in the Bay State’s SNAP program.

The move comes after a series SNAP fraud busts in the state and the Herald’s reporting on a DTA whistleblower’s claims of “rampant” SNAP fraud in the federally backed ...Read more

MIAMI — In the hours after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death inside the bedroom of his mountaintop home, an inner circle of people suspected of being involved in the assassination plot in South Florida and in Port-au-Prince were frantically trying to steer events in their favor.

One of them, Antonio “Tony” Intriago, who ...Read more

A California congressman has raised the diplomatic stakes for King Charles’ visit to the United States later this month by calling out the British monarch for refusing to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex-trafficking operation.

In an interview with the Times of London over the weekend, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., ...Read more