The apparent ransom note in the Nancy Guthrie abduction demanded $6 million in bitcoin by 5 p.m. Monday in exchange for her return, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

The looming deadline comes as both law enforcement officials and Guthrie’s family express concerns about the 84-year-old’s health. Officials say she was abducted from her ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Two Idaho lawmakers have proposed bathroom bills aimed at making people use the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex, despite disagreement over whether that was an issue.

State Rep. Cornel Rasor, a Sagle Republican, proposed a bill Friday that could make it a misdemeanor to “knowingly and willfully” enter such ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has shrugged off a controversy surrounding a racist meme of the Obamas shared on his social media account, ignoring rare pushback from several Republican lawmakers.

One White House ally, granted anonymity to be candid, dubbed the posting of a meme depicting former President Barack Obama and former first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s unconventional plan to lower prescription drug prices is being met with a skeptical eye from Republicans as Congress places a greater focus on drug pricing ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump’s plan is to establish “most favored nation” pricing to bring U.S. prescription drug pricing more in ...Read more

LONDON — Keir Starmer’s Cabinet members voiced their support for the prime minister on Monday, buying him time to shore up his beleaguered premiership after the Labour Party’s leader in Scotland urged him to quit.

One by one, every single Cabinet minister backed Starmer in the hour after Anas Sarwar’s intervention. That included both ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The recent surge of federal agents in Minnesota has not only forced businesses that rely on immigrant and refugee workers to curtail their hours and some to close their doors.

It’s hurting schools as well. Especially their finances.

Fears that their children will be approached and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When asked recently if Maryland Courts might strike down his efforts to redraw congressional districts to stamp out the state’s only Republican seat, Gov. Wes Moore told “MS NOW” that his team has been “working with judges” to prepare for legal challenges. The statement raised ethical red flags among some law professors ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — St. Anne’s Place, a family homeless shelter in north Minneapolis, was attacked by a group of its across-the-street neighbors in the middle of the night, forcing the shelter to relocate 16 mothers and their 30-plus children. More than a year later, shelter staff attended the sentencing of one of the assailants, asking a Hennepin...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration on Monday filed papers to fight a court order that would restore federal funding to the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel as a deadline looms to resume payments.

Attorneys for the US Department of Transportation filed a notice asking the Second Circuit federal appeals court to pause a Friday night ruling that...Read more

BOSTON — The fate of a bill making its way through the Massachusetts Legislature that would establish a publicly funded program to provide legal representation to illegal immigrants facing deportation proceedings may be decided by the Joint Judiciary Committee this month.

The joint bill, called An Act Ensuring Access to Equitable ...Read more

Keir Starmer pledged to press on with his agenda as the departure of a second senior aide in 24 hours left the U.K. prime minister’s grip on power appearing increasingly tenuous.

The resignation of Starmer’s communications director, Tim Allan, on Monday, after just five months on the job will feed the sense of crisis engulfing 10 Downing St...Read more

Juan Pablo Guanipa, one of the highest-ranking Venezuelan opposition leaders still behind bars, spent less than 12 hours free before being taken back into custody on Monday, casting fresh doubt on the interim government’s pledge to free political prisoners under a forthcoming amnesty law.

Guanipa’s re-arrest came after he spent part of his ...Read more

The best presidents – including figures such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington – are celebrated not only as good leaders, but as good men. They embody not simply political skill, but personal virtue.

Why, though, should anyone expect a president to demonstrate that sort of virtue? If someone is good at the difficult job ...Read more

Iran extended the prison sentence of a Nobel peace laureate and detained several prominent reformist figures, escalating a crackdown on dissents weeks after security forces killed thousands of people to quell nationwide protests.

The weekend’s arrests came days after the Islamic Republic and the U.S. had indirect nuclear talks, the first ...Read more

Keir Starmer pledged to press on with his agenda as the departure of a second senior aide in 24 hours left the U.K. prime minister’s grip on power appearing increasingly tenuous.

The resignation of Starmer’s communications director, Tim Allan, on Monday, after just five months on the job will feed the sense of crisis engulfing 10 Downing St...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is eyeing a presidential bid, has incensed both Democrats and Republicans over immigrant health care in his home state, underscoring the delicate political path ahead.

For a second year, the Democrat has asked state lawmakers to roll back coverage for some immigrants in the face of federal Medicaid spending ...Read more

If she could go back in time, she never would have married him.

Nou was 15 and living in a refugee camp in Thailand when she was wed to a much older man. She didn’t want to and, with decades of hindsight and regret, she wishes she had pushed back.

Now, she’s 50 and living in St. Paul. She is disabled from what she describes as years of ...Read more

Maryland correctional authorities have recorded seven inmate deaths over the past two months, a pattern that criminal justice experts say points to deeper challenges inside the state’s prisons.

“The number of deaths raises more than individual problems. It is time to look at systemic shortcomings,” said Nora Demleitner, a past president ...Read more

He was a surgical oncologist at a hospital in a Southern city, a 78-year-old whose colleagues had begun noticing troubling behavior in the operating room.

During procedures, he seemed “hesitant, not sure of how to go on to the next step without being prompted” by assistants, said Mark Katlic, director of the Aging Surgeon Program at Sinai ...Read more