WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court revived a San Diego judge's order Monday and said parents have a right to know about their child's gender identity at school.

The decision came in a 6-3 order granting an emergency appeal from lawyers for Chicago-based Thomas More Society.

They said the student privacy policy enforced in California infringes on...Read more

Minnesota House Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth has been the target of increasingly threatening phone messages at her office from a woman who was undaunted even after law enforcement confronted her, according to charges.

The felony case filed on Feb. 26 in Washington County District Court against Rachel Marie Welsch, 42, of Hugo...Read more

A battered Jamaica, which saw widespread damage and destruction from a record-setting Hurricane Melissa four months ago, will soon transition from recovery to rebuilding, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said.

“We’re going to close the recovery stage and move into the reconstruction phase,” he told the Miami Herald. “The reconstruction ...Read more

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to bring back a wrongly deported man to the United States, delivering another blow in the courts to the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Emilio Pena Jimenez was taken to Juárez, Mexico, earlier this month despite two court orders for his release in Minnesota. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Only a few months after opening Star Autism Center in St. Cloud, the business was billing millions of dollars in services.

But on Monday, March 2, its owner and founder Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf said the St. Cloud health care provider made up fraudulent claims to take advantage of one of the Minnesota social services programs now ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is backing out from a court battle with four major law firms that won rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders against them.

The DOJ plans to drop its appeals of the rulings, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The Wall Street Journal first reported the move.

The ...Read more

SEATTLE — Thousands of Washington students walked out of school in February to protest increasing federal immigration enforcement, mirroring their peers speaking out across the nation. While hundreds of South King County and Seattle students have participated in peaceful demonstrations, a handful of students in Burien, Marysville, Everett, ...Read more

Avian influenza has now killed more than 10 million birds in Minnesota since 2022, as farmers and state officials continue to deal with a disease that just won’t stop.

The virus, highly pathogenic avian influenza, is no longer inflating egg prices at the grocery store like a year ago. But the virus is still hammering turkey flocks, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday refused to box himself in on how long U.S. military operations will last in Iran, saying the conflict in the Middle East could stretch a month or potentially “far longer” as he frames the mission as one that is necessary to eliminate a “colossal threat” to American interests.

“Whatever ...Read more

A Fairbanks lawmaker is pushing to overhaul Alaska's marijuana tax structure, as cultivators and retailers say the current structure is an "existential threat" to their business.

HB 91 would phase out the existing $50 per ounce tax levied on cultivators to replace it with a 6% sales tax paid by consumers, modeled after the "sin tax" in place ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton told the House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to the disgraced financier after Clinton departed the White House.

The panel released video on Monday of its questioning of the former president and his wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of the Second Amendment and deny gun rights to "habitual" users of drugs, including marijuana.

But most of the justices sounded skeptical. They questioned whether marijuana users are so dangerous they should not have firearms.

They noted too that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s war against Iran risks delivering another shock to an economy that voters are already disenchanted with, just eight months out from midterm elections.

The biggest domestic effects for Americans would likely arrive via more expensive gasoline, with the U.S. and Israel launching attacks just a few days ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado may have improperly paid more than $75 million to autism service providers and could be on the hook to return more than half that sum to the federal government, a new report found.

The Office of the Inspector General estimated the state’s Medicaid program overpaid $77.8 million for applied behavior analysis services in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ulysses Jenkins, the pioneering Los Angeles-born video artist whose avant-garde compositions embodied Black experimentalism, has died. He was 79.

Jenkins' death was confirmed by his alma mater Otis College, where he studied under renowned painter and printmaker Charles White in the late 1970s and returned as an instructor years ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The suggestion that self-defense or defense of others entitled Benjamin Song to shoot at a police officer outside an immigrant detention center in North Texas is absurd, and the judge presiding at the ongoing trial of Song and eight other people under indictment in connection with the shooting should bar defense attorneys ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The investigation that led to last week’s FBI raid at the home and office of Los Angeles Unified schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho was sparked more than a year ago and stemmed from a referral from New York prosecutors working a criminal fraud case involving a technology company with a school district contract that went bust, ...Read more

President Trump’s doctor downplayed a red rash on the commander-in-chief’s neck as the byproduct of a “preventative skin treatment.”

The 79-year-old president raised further questions about his health Monday when he appeared at a Medal of Freedom event at the White House with a dark-red rash on the right side of his neck, blooming out ...Read more