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TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough County prosecutors declined to pursue hate crime charges against three men who harassed a group of Muslim students while they prayed on the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus in ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin is only letting Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino serve on two committees this session due to her “abhorrent” social media posts about Muslims and other ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday appointed Afua Atta-Mensah, who was a top official on his mayoral campaign, to head the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice.

Atta-Mensah was the senior political ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Florida’s recreational marijuana campaign again tries to get in front of voters, the state has levied pressure on local elections supervisors — putting them, one official said, “in the middle...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil in his legal battle against the Trump administration, reversing a lower-court order ...Read more

A group of U.S. senators say Christians are under attack throughout the world, and religious freedom needs to be reprioritized in the U.S. and abroad.

Idaho Sen. Jim Risch, a Republican who chairs the Senate Foreign ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Reported ICE activity sent concerned citizens racing to Knollwood Mall last week, determined to track a convoy of unmarked vehicles carrying federal immigration agents.

It took less than half a mile for ...Read more

CHICAGO — Days before a high-profile trial, a federal judge Thursday barred prosecutors from bringing in evidence that a Chicago man charged with putting a bounty on Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s head had ties ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A nationwide drop in overdose deaths may be driven by a collapse of the international fentanyl supply chain in 2023, a Maryland criminologist in world drug markets reported in the journal Science, Jan. 8.

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MINNEAPOLIS — A new wave of angry protests erupted in Minneapolis after a federal agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant during an arrest attempt Wednesday night on the city’s North Side.

The reignited tensions...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Cases of a potentially lethal fungus have stabilized in Nevada, according to public health officials, who urge continued vigilance against the drug-resistant “superbug.”

Nevada’s first case of Candida ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Tensions boiled over Tuesday night at a West Bank Business Association public safety meeting, where residents and Democratic politicians voiced fears that an upcoming “March Against Minnesota Fraud” ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Student attendance has dropped sharply in several Twin Cities school districts as families keep children home amid heightened fear over increasing federal immigration enforcement.

With 3,000 federal agents...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas A&M graduate professor was told by the school’s government and public service department that his Ethics in Public Policy class was canceled three days into the spring 2026 semester.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California officials are issuing warnings about a new flu strain that is increasing flu-related cases and hospitalizations statewide, with public health experts across the nation echoing the alerts.

A ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis used his final State of the State speech to highlight achievements made on housing, education and transportation over his tenure, work that he said would continue through his final year.

He ...Read more

President Donald Trump met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House, highlighting a dual-track U.S. strategy that combines outreach to opposition figures with heavy pressure on ...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Doral, Florida, will rename a section of an avenue in honor of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was barred from running in her country’s 2024 presidential election and ...Read more