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Fifteen states on Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ...

President Donald Trump has wielded the immense power of the executive branch to stymie offshore wind development, as nearly all projects are in waters where federal agencies operate as the landlord.

WASHINGTON — Maine Democrats have begun laying out the process for replacing Graham Platner as the party’s Senate nominee, as candidates race to assemble campaigns for a weekslong sprint to set up a marquee Senate matchup. Platner posted a letter declaring his withdrawal of candidacy to social media on Friday afternoon, making official his announcement earlier this week that he would suspend ...

A mother on Friday pleaded for anyone to come forward with information about what happened to her son, a young Black man whose body was found on an island off the coast of Mississippi after he traveled there over the Fourth ​of July weekend with three white friends.

The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune and other media outlets are asking for “serious sanctions” against OpenAI, saying the company destroyed evidence and intentionally hid its ability to locate stolen news stories in training data and responses to ChatGPT users, according to court papers filed Thursday.

A Baltimore judge has ordered Westminster Management, the property management arm of Kushner Companies, to pay more than $4.17 million to thousands of Maryland tenants after finding the company illegally charged excessive late-payment and court-related fees for years.

Invitations were sent. American flags lined the back of the red stage set in Statuary Hall. Bright spotlights lit the signing table donned with the presidential seal.

A man from Idaho needed to receive 54 rounds of antivenom from two different hospitals after being bitten by a rattlesnake in California, according to his GoFundMe.

LOS ANGELES — StubHub is getting a red card from some World Cup fans Two World Cup customers are suing the New York-based ticket-selling company, alleging "false and misleading" advertising that left them without tickets or a refund for the World Cup games they paid to attend. In federal court in New York last week, two Californians — Julia Reeker Moghal and Reuben Renteria — sued StubHub ...

Mariana Yepez climbed the ranks of the Los Angeles street food scene before building her own taco empire. A native of Sonora, Mexico, Yepez and her husband toiled at various food trucks and restaurants until 2018, when they launched a series of stands named after their daughter: Ricos Tacos Naomi.

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III issued a defense of the National Museum of American History to staffers on Tuesday, in response to a caustic White House report accusing the museum of pushing “extreme political activism.”

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of more than $5 million owed to E. Jean Carroll by Donald Trump despite the president’s eleventh-hour bid to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to delay the payout once again.

More American Jews approve of how NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing his job than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a new poll reveals, as younger and more liberal Jews grow increasingly disenchanted with the actions of the Israeli government and the war in Gaza.

The sagging upper floors of a midtown Manhattan building under construction that threatened to collapse and caused a massive evacuation of the area has been stabilized with galvanized steel beams and emergency jacks, city officials said as they’ve reduced the area’s frozen zone to just two blocks.

Despite pushback and litigation, the process is underway to rename Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump.