Senate leaders plan to take up a stopgap funding measure in a rare Friday session to test whether a Democratic logjam could finally break to end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

But after a long day of closed-door talks, Democrats remained mostly tight-lipped about their intentions, with some suggesting they were prepared to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators on both sides of the aisle on Thursday signed onto a call to keep advanced artificial intelligence chips from being sold to China.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., unveiled an as-yet unnumbered resolution focused on the importance of maintaining U.S. “primacy in artificial intelligence” and on restricting access to the ...Read more

A Commission on Judicial Conduct hearing officer has found that a Boston judge accused of helping an illegal immigrant defendant escape from court did not take part on the plan but should receive a public reprimand for impropriety.

Judge Shelley Joseph was charged by the CJC with five violations of the Rules of the Code of Judicial Conduct for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk A/S secured deals with the Trump administration to slash prices for their blockbuster weight-loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy in exchange for tariff relief and wider Medicare access.

The deals, announced Thursday at a White House event with President Donald Trump, will make some of the most ...Read more

SEATTLE — A King County jury on Thursday awarded $8 million to a former Seattle Public Schools student who was punched in the face by his middle school math teacher in 2018.

The verdict came after three days of deliberation and nearly a month of testimony last month in Superior Court in Seattle.

The jury found that Seattle Public Schools was...Read more

CHICAGO — U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino said federal agents’ operations had been “going very violent” the same day that his agents fired pepper balls at a moving vehicle in Gage Park and pointed rifles in Little Village as residents blew whistles, screamed at passing federal cars and followed their large convoy around Chicago's...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal jury found a former Justice Department employee not guilty of misdemeanor assault over a viral incident in which he threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer.

The jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia reached a verdict Thursday after roughly seven hours of deliberation across two...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Kim Davis, then the Rowan County clerk, repeatedly refused to sign her name to marriage licenses for unions of gay couples in her Eastern Kentucky county in the summer of 2015, she set off a firestorm that’s still smoldering today.

“For me, this would be an act of disobedience to God,” she told reporters in ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo’s re-election bid, calling him, “SMART, STRONG, AND TOUGH.”

Trump presented his endorsement in a post on his media company, Truth Social.

“Joe Lombardo is the strong and very popular Governor of Nevada, a very special place to me in that we had a BIG Presidential ...Read more

A pharmaceutical executive collapsed in the Oval Office on live television Thursday during a press conference about the Trump administration’s deal to lower the cost of some obesity drugs.

The unnamed executive was standing in a group behind the podium while Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks spoke. As he began to fall, multiple men including Dr. ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Josh Stein on Thursday called for lawmakers to return to Raleigh on Nov. 17 for a special session to shore up Medicaid funding in order to reverse cuts that his administration put in place Oct. 1.

In North Carolina, the governor can call an extra — or special — session to address limited matters.

Lawmakers in the GOP...Read more

Federal aviation safety officials said Thursday they are looking at the full maintenance history of a UPS cargo plane that crashed Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 13 people.

National Transportation Safety Board Member Todd Inman said that review includes more than 6 weeks of heavy maintenance overhaul done in September and October. The...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge ordered Trump officials to fully cover the cost of food-aid benefits for more than 42 million eligible Americans this month, rejecting an administration plan to only partially fund the program during the government shutdown.

The order from U.S. District Judge John McConnell on Thursday means that the U.S. Department ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch received advance notice from the Trump administration last month that ICE agents were about to conduct a controversial immigration enforcement raid along Canal Street in Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.

In response, sources say Tisch directed NYPD officers to stay away from the ICE agents as ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors have filed sealed criminal charges against at least one Dearborn, Michigan, juvenile in connection with an alleged Halloween terrorism plot targeting LGBTQ+ friendly clubs in Ferndale and an amusement park, and are holding the 16-year-old male in a rural county jail in Northern Michigan, five sources told The ...Read more

A federal judge in Denver has blocked a new state law that’s intended to warn young users about the dangers of too much time on social media, ruling that requiring tech companies to display the warnings on their apps likely violates the First Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez’s ruling Thursday is a win for a coalition...Read more

The United Nations is launching a $74 million action plan to assist 1 million Cubans affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastating impact on the island’s eastern provinces.

When it was clear that Melissa was going to hit the provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Las Tunas, Guantánamo and Holguín as a powerful Category 3 storm, the U.N. aid...Read more