Most Americans believe the Signal chat scandal that embroiled President Donald Trump’s administration is a major concern, polling shows. But, how does the public reaction compare with past scandals?

On Monday, The Atlantic published a story stating one of its editors had been inadvertently added to a Signal group chat with senior members of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The deadline to apply for the government-run debris clearance program for the Eaton and Palisades fires has been extended by two weeks, and owners of some multiunit properties are now eligible, officials said Friday.

The deadline to submit a right-of-entry form and opt in to the U.S. Army Corps' cleanup has been extended from ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland state senators have amended an energy bill to ease the burden on ratepayers struggling with pricey utility bills during the hottest and coldest months of the year.

The Senate Education, Energy and the Environment Committee amended the Next Generation Energy Act to provide utility bill rebate payments based on usage by ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Friday that allows local public bodies to continue meeting in hybrid or remote formats, an extension of COVID-era policies that Beacon Hill Democrats have routinely signed off on amid calls to make the options permanent.

The policies, which were first adopted under Gov. Charlie Baker in March 2020...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s snowpack made a solid rebound ahead of the summer months, thanks to a string of cold and wet storms that pounded the Sierra Nevada in February and March. But even with the late-season boost, the statewide reserves remain smaller than they were a year ago.

Amid a steady stream of snowflakes at Phillips ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — To stave off a looming deficit, Minnesota Senate Democrats released a budget framework Friday that includes nearly $2.5 billion in spending cuts over the next four years and pullbacks on inflationary increases.

The Senate DFL plan would cut health and human services spending by about $1.3 billion over the next four years. It ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Offices, courthouses, a jail and a psychiatric facility throughout Maryland — most in downtown Baltimore — all found Legionella bacteria in their water systems last year, but state law doesn’t have any regulations to address it on a large scale. One group hopes to change that next legislative session.

Legionella is the ...Read more

WATERBURY, Conn. — Kimberly Sullivan pleaded not guilty to allegations she held her stepson captive for 20 years in abusive conditions in a small storage room during a hearing Friday where a judge ordered that she be put on GPS monitoring while she is out on bond.

The hearing, held in Waterbury Superior Court, came after Assistant State’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Rockefeller Center law firm representing Voice of America and its affiliates is claiming victory after winning a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, which hopes to silence the broadcasting network that’s shared U.S. messaging globally for over 80 years.

Andrew G. Celli, Jr., founding partner at Emery ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami-Dade County city has become the first to sue Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s attorney general in a legal challenge that could determine whether local governments are required to let their police officers be trained to perform the duties of federal immigration agents in their communities.

On Thursday night, South Miami asked ...Read more

A physical altercation inside the Kansas Statehouse on Friday ended with Capitol Police arresting Satanic church leader Michael Stewart, capping off a morning of inflammatory religious demonstration.

Stewart punched a man who repeatedly attempted to rip a booklet out of his hands while he called out to Satan from the Capitol’s first-floor ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who has now spent nearly five months challenging his narrow loss in the November election, wore Confederate military attire as part of a fraternity event in college, according to a report from The Associated Press.

The report, published Friday, revealed that Griffin, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its “war on terror” prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

“A state of war is not a blank check for the President,” said Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2004. “Whatever power the U.S. Constitution envisions ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance jetted to Greenland on Friday as President Donald Trump continues to push for a U.S. takeover of the strategically important overseas Arctic territory of Denmark.

Vance and his wife Usha visited an American military base in Greenland’s remote icy hinterland after the Second Lady scaled back plans for a more public-...Read more

MIAMI — Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention center in Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor and raw sewage — conditions that lawyers, families and former detainees call inhumane.

One woman, who spoke with the Miami Herald on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Accused serial killer Rex Heuermann and his estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, have reached a divorce settlement, some two years after he was arrested for a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.

The divorce paperwork, signed by both Heuermann and Ellerup, was filed Thursday night in Suffolk County Supreme Court, but a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ali, a UCLA student who joined pro-Palestinian protests last year, avoided arrest when riot police dismantled the school’s encampment last May. An international student who took part in a surge of campus activism around Israel’s war in Gaza, he was wary of having a record that could affect his visa. But he did not otherwise ...Read more