A federal court has denied a request for an emergency hearing on the abrupt closure of the Kennedy Center after a photo snapped of President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One reviewing a large printout that appears to read, “Kennedy Center DEMO[LISHED],” prompted a flurry of court filings about the beleaguered national arts center’s future...Read more

DETROIT — An F-16 fighter jet crashed Sept. 17 in a field south of Traverse City as witnesses showed video of the crash site and the trail of black smoke.

Michael Kroll, a spokesman for the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, said the agency was aware of an incident in which an F-16 crashed in the Traverse City area. The ...Read more

BOSTON — The Trump administration is launching an investigation into a child custody battle in Massachusetts, after state authorities allegedly took custody of the teenage girl after her parents refused to allow a medical gender transition.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office has opened an investigation into The...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a closer alliance between Canada and the European Union in a bid to establish a bulwark strong enough to ward off intimidation from world powers like the U.S. and China that could threaten their sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Carney welcomed a speech made by European Commission President Ursula von...Read more

DETROIT — A student is suing the University of Michigan's Board of Regents, claiming the school denied him in-state tuition because his parents work overseas for the U.S. government.

Attorney David Nacht filed a civil complaint last week on behalf of Alen Bean against the university's board in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of ...Read more

Concerned about conditions in federal immigrant detention facilities but often barred from entering them, some Democratic-led states are fighting to enforce their own health and safety standards at the sites.

The Trump administration, citing the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, argues that states don’t have the authority to regulate...Read more

A long-running lawsuit challenging what it means to be an employee and therefore have access to work-based health plans is being closely watched by health policy analysts. Its outcome could spur the availability of lower-cost but potentially skimpier health coverage that skirts some consumer protections.

Court papers indicate a settlement in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump and House Republican leaders downplay the risks of artificial intelligence, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are working with Sen. Amy Klobuchar to put safeguards on the technology.

While the national conversation around AI shifts from economic disruption, data centers and consumer annoyance to existential...Read more

President Donald Trump won 43% of the Hispanic vote in 2024, up from 35% in 2020 – a big gain for Republicans. Now, as the midterms approach, Hispanic Americans across party lines are losing faith in the American Dream, and his administration’s immigration crackdown appears to be part of the reason.

Arrests by Immigration and ...Read more

In the late evening of Aug. 31, 2026, I missed a call from Jennifer, a seventh-generation cattle rancher in Georgia. She was one of more than 70 family farmers and ranchers across the rural U.S. South and Midwest whom I’d gotten to know through my research over the past five years. We still kept up from time to time, but a late-night call ...Read more

Some parents in Colorado are uncertain about the safety and necessity of vaccines given to their children. They also question how the vaccines are timed.

I am a sociologist who has spent nearly two decades studying how parents make vaccine decisions for themselves and their families.

I have interviewed dozens of Colorado ...Read more

Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being transformed into new neighborhoods, research centers and technology hubs.

But another transformation has been taking place beneath them for decades.

Brownfields are former industrial or commercial sites. ...Read more

A husband in Taiwan suspected his wife of having an affair. In September 2023, he found a used toothbrush at their holiday home, and garage video showed an unfamiliar man driving his wife there. Three months later, he opened their robot vacuum’s app to speak with her and saw an intimate encounter through its live camera.

He recorded...Read more

An icon of Jersey Shore waterways is in peril, according to a Stockton University study.

The osprey, a raptor that feeds primarily on fish, was reclassified from “threatened” to “stable” by New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection’s Fish and Wildlife agency, but a recent study by Atlantic County University, whose mascot ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Bay Area Republican Party leader who earlier this year claimed dead people cast votes in Marin County in the Proposition 50 special election has backtracked on that comment.

But don't expect him to stop digging. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, John Turnacliff, chairman of the Marin County Republicans, said he still...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A wildfire in Yosemite National Park nearly quadrupled in size on Wednesday as it moves north toward Yosemite Valley and the Badger Pass ski area.

The Dome fire is burning at zero percent containment over 1,177 acres of backcountry at the southern entrance of Yosemite near Wawona in Mariposa County, but is causing “minimal ...Read more

BOSTON — Patrick Clancy is speaking out for the first time since he took the stand in his ex-wife’s triple murder trial.

His former spouse, Lindsay Clancy, is accused of murdering the couple’s three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, in January of 2023. Her weeks-long trial ended in a hung jury earlier this month.

In...Read more