ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier offered Monday to provide additional prosecutors to Central Florida to help clear a backlog of cases, the latest development in an ongoing feud between the Gov. Ron DeSantis ally and Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell.

“The cavalry is here,” he said at a news conference in...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Russell Laffitte, the South Carolina banker whose ties to fraudster and killer Alex Murdaugh helped Murdaugh steal millions, has agreed to plead guilty to federal bank fraud charges.

In agreeing to plead guilty, Laffitte — former CEO of family-owned Palmetto State Bank in Hampton County — will avoid going to trial a ...Read more

As United Nations agencies and other humanitarian aid groups in Haiti continue to feel the effects of global aid cuts, Haiti will need to take a more significant role in its humanitarian response, a top U.N. official says.

“Part of the humanitarian response needs to be shouldered by the government,” Ted Chaiban, the deputy director of the U...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The DeSantis administration wants to do for Florida Medicaid recipients what it’s been trying to do for people on food stamps and welfare — use Hope Florida’s network of nonprofits to help wean them off government assistance.

The Agency for Health Care Administration, one of the agencies that falls under the governor...Read more

BOSTON — Harvard University is standing up to the Trump administration, as the feds pressure the Cambridge school to end DEI programs and “audit” the viewpoints of its student body, faculty, and staff.

Harvard on Monday announced that it’s rejecting a list of demands from the Trump admin. This comes as the feds threaten to cut more $8.7...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A portion of Southern California's Pacific Coast Highway that's only been open to locals since January's firestorm could reopen to the public just in time for summer, the governor's office announced.

One lane traveling in each direction on PCH in Pacific Palisades should be opened to drivers by the end of May, Gov. Gavin Newsom ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Harrisburg man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family for setting three fires in the Pennsylvania governor’s residence this weekend turned himself in to state police on Sunday afternoon and admitted to “harboring a hatred” toward Shapiro, according to the criminal complaint.

Cody ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A key Michigan House lawmaker who oversees the state budget process says she will shift funding away from courts and to local prosecutors after a Michigan Supreme Court decision ordered the resentencing of individuals who were 19 or 20 years old when they committed first-degree murder.

The decision means 579 individuals who ...Read more

ATLANTA — On the grounds of the Governor’s Mansion in Buckhead last week, Gov. Brian Kemp stood alongside Democratic Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and praised the pair’s “partnership” as state and city leaders celebrated the opening of a new Georgia State patrol post.

It was a project promised at the height of debate over crime in the ...Read more

GOLDEN, Colo. — Jefferson County Chief Deputy District Attorney Katharine Decker set a bagged rock about the size of a cantaloupe in front of the jury with a heavy thump Monday.

This rock, she told the jurors, is the rock that killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell. The defendant, Joseph Koenig, threw it through her windshield two years ago and he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he would not return to the United States a man who was wrongly deported by the Trump administration, despite a Supreme Court ruling that said the United States should take steps to facilitate his return.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, had lived in the U.S. for 14 years before the Trump ...Read more

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein, the once-prolific film producer whose downfall on sweeping sex crimes allegations spurred the #MeToo movement against workplace sexual harassment, is set to face a retrial in Manhattan this week after New York’s Court of Appeals overturned his landmark first conviction.

Jury selection starts Tuesday in the case ...Read more

DENVER — Armed with nothing more than notecards held in shaking hands and a box of tissues on the courtroom podium, Christian Glass’ family stood before a Clear Creek County judge and pleaded for the deputy who killed the 22-year-old to receive the maximum sentence.

“You going to prison isn’t going to make you a decent person, you going...Read more

The U.S. State Department and the Caribbean Community are condemning looming threats by a powerful gang coalition in Haiti to escalate violence against residents in an effort to overthrow the country’s transitional government.

“This is completely unacceptable,” the 15-member Caribbean Community regional bloc known as CARICOM said late ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred three miles south of Julian at 10:08 a.m. Pacific time Monday, causing shaking that was felt as far to the northwest as Oxnard and as far to the northeast as Palm Springs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The strongest shaking was reported in an around Julian, Ramona, San Diego Country ...Read more

WASHINGTON — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he would not return to the United States a man who was wrongly deported by the Trump administration, despite a Supreme Court ruling that said the United States should take steps to facilitate his return.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29, had lived in the U.S. for 14 years before the Trump ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A suspect is in custody after an incident near UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnetonka drew a large police presence Monday morning.

Police have not said what led up to the situation, but in a posting on X said there no threat to the public and “we are continuing to clear the scene at this time.”

Events unfolded just ...Read more

NEW YORK — The CBS news-magazine "60 Minutes" is not going easy on President Donald Trump and the commander-in-chief is noticing.

Trump went after the program Sunday in a social media post after seeing two critical stories regarding his handling of the Russia-Ukraine war and his proposal to annex Greenland.

"Almost every week, 60 Minutes, ...Read more