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BOSTON — Sanctuary cities are officially banned in New Hampshire as a set of laws signed by Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte in May took effect while the country celebrated the transition into 2026. “New Hampshire has made it clear that we are not a sanctuary for criminals and we will not go the way of Massachusetts and their billion-dollar illegal immigration crisis,” Gov. Ayotte told the Herald ...

Will Smith and his company are facing allegations of sexual harassment by former “America’s Got Talent” contestant Brian King Joseph, who says he was subjected to “predatory behavior” during the Oscar winner’s 2025 tour.

LOS ANGELES — In the pantheon of parade float achievement, world-record titles are coveted. The longest parade float, a paper dragon in Gutian, China, spanned a half-mile in 2012. The heaviest, dubbed the "Gnarly Crankin' K9 Wave Maker," was an actual swimming pool on wheels that weighed in at nearly 150,000 pounds. Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this ...

The harrowing news had spread across the country in the fall of 2022: Four college students were found stabbed to death at a house near the University of Idaho campus. Mel Kohberger, who was preparing to start a new job as a mental health therapist in New Jersey, could not help feeling a sense of alarm.

Evangeline Lilly shared a concerning health update with fans following a concussion she suffered in Hawaii in May. The Ant-Man actress revealed in an Instagram video Saturday that she suffered brain damage in an incident that left her bruised and bloodied, as she fainted and fell face-first into a boulder on the beach.

WASHINGTON – A campaign funding group aligned with Republican President Donald Trump, Make America Great Again Inc., entered 2026 with an almost $300 million stockpile ahead of this year’s midterm elections, a filing showed on Friday.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday blocked U.S. photonics firm HieFo Corp's $3 million acquisition of assets in New Jersey-based aerospace and defense specialist Emcore, citing national security and China-related concerns.

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

An 18-year-old from Mint Hill planned to use knives and hammers to kill people in a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack, U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson said Friday. FBI agents foiled Christian Sturdivant’s plans and charged him with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Ferguson said at a news conference after ...

When Charlotte LaRoy was in elementary school, she had a quiet revelation. Paper napkins are beautiful. It was the 1940s, she was the daughter of a federal food-safety scientist, and she was just discovering the spectacular variety of face-and-finger wipes.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday ordered that the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack should remain behind bars while his case moves forward.

WASHINGTON – More than two years after a Dallas postal worker died from heat exposure on the job, letter carriers say the United States Postal Service has yet to take steps required to fully protect them when the temperature and humidity soar. The 2023 death of Eugene Gates Jr. prompted a federal citation and $15,625 fine against the Postal Service, along with renewed calls from union leaders ...

Day care operators say the Trump administration’s restrictions on federal child care funding unfairly punish them over a conservative activist’s fraud allegations against Minnesota centers that are undercut by state records and disputed by some of the owners.

The White House on Wednesday laid out a nine-week timeline to win approval for President Donald Trump’s proposed ballroom, even as one federal review panel said it has yet to receive formal building plans and basic details of the project remain unclear.

The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., ended the first year of President Donald Trump's second term with a record of rulings that gave him much broader power to control the federal government.