By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press The Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, closing the makeshift facility heralded by the Trump administration and denounced as inhumane by civil rights ...
By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights. The high court's 6-3 decision means people can ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for President Donald Trump and his political party as midterm ...
By VALERIE GONZALEZ and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic U.S. senator warns the Trump administration is getting ready to round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country, bypassing legal protections. It would be their second ...
By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press A giraffe named Gracie is missing in Texas, and the search for her has become a tall order. Gracie, who is about 3 years old, has been missing for nearly two weeks after escaping her enclosure at Cedar Hollow Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, said Vic ...
By ANDREW TOBIAS/Signal Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a new Republican-passed bill that would have required Ohioans to show a photo ID to vote by mail. DeWine announced late Wednesday that he had vetoed House Bill 472, which expanded the strict photo ID requirement Ohio has had for ...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is backing progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, breaking with party leadership and intensifying a battle over the party's direction in one of the most important Senate ...
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. The case came before the ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year. The federal ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The internal Democratic Party battle that has emerged in this year's primaries between progressive and moderate candidates will play out Tuesday in an unlikely place, reliably red Utah. A redraw of U.S. House districts has created a solidly left-leaning seat in the Salt ...
MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump visited a Mack Trucks facility in battleground Pennsylvania on Tuesday, attempting to shift attention to the U.S. economy in his first major public event outside the nation's capital since he signed an interim agreement to end the Iran war. The ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A coalition of 17 states and a trade association representing U.S. wholesalers and distributors have sued California to block the enforcement of a stringent recycling law that aims to reduce plastic packaging waste. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, argues that ...
A judge on Thursday dismissed a first-degree felony rape charge against former Brigham Young University wide receiver Parker Kingston, though prosecutors said they plan to refile the charge. The case was scheduled for trial in July, but state prosecutors requested a continuance, according to ...
Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks — a grim milestone that could affect whether the United States can keep its measles-free designation. More than 680 people have gotten sick since the state's first outbreak began on June 20, 2025. Unlike measles outbreaks in Texas, ...
Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions fueled several wildfires in the West on Sunday, including an uncontained blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town southwest of Salt Lake City. The Iron Fire in Utah's Juab County was first detected Saturday and had blackened 34 square ...
For months, and sometimes longer, parents of kids with disabilities say they have waited for the Education Department to make progress on their complaints of bullying or other discrimination. Now that the department is offloading civil rights enforcement and special education, some parents and ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's law requiring children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps must be restored, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The decision comes as a blow to NetChoice, which has won court victories against identical ...
One of the few Black-owned banks in the United States is introducing a debit card aimed at helping single mothers who live in government-subsidized housing escape poverty. The Bank King Card debit card will be offered beginning Friday in honor of Juneteenth by Redemption Bank, which will make ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Things calmed down a little bit for Dexter Lawrence during the final three weeks of the Cincinnati Bengals offseason program. That might be the only time until January though that the defensive tackle is feeling a sense of calm. Even though the Bengals canceled the final ...