Don Lemon appeared on ABC’s “The View” Thursday where he attempted to turn the tables on President Donald Trump.

The former CNN host told the talk show’s panels that he feels he’s being targeted by the Trump administration as evidenced by the president having called him “the dumbest man on television.”

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared an energy emergency Thursday in response to high gas prices — a move that will allow gas stations in certain southeast Michigan communities to continue delivering lower-cost motor fuel blends in the coming months.

The emergency declaration, implemented through an executive order on Thursday, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A bill that would name portions of Kentucky highways after public figures, including one for Charlie Kirk, passed both chambers of the General Assembly Wednesday night .

The bill, Senate Joint Resolution 139, passed 32-2 in the Senate and 86-4 in the House of Representatives. The resolution honors dozens of Kentucky public ...Read more

CHICAGO — Many Chicago building owners finally got the green light this week to build coach houses and “granny flats” on their properties, though a split ward-by-ward legalization means lots of Chicagoans will not have the option.

After a bitter City Council fight last year, 34 aldermen opted to allow additional dwelling unit construction...Read more

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission around the moon got some relief overnight after troubleshooting a malfunctioning toilet on the Orion spacecraft.

It’s not as if there was a plumbing backup on the toilet that will make history as the first ever in deep space. Instead, the crew reported a blinking fault light.

“We had a ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced new initiatives to tackle microplastics in the human body and drinking water Thursday.

Kennedy said the government will create a new $144 million program called STOMP, for the systematic targeting of ...Read more

Environmental groups have filed multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration over its decision earlier this week to broadly exempt the oil and gas industry from requirements that protect all endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico.

In one federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington, D.C., a coalition of four Gulf advocacy organizations ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation that seeks to simplify tariffs on metal imports and address efforts by producers of metals outside of the United States to circumvent the import taxes, according to seniors administration officials.

The 50% duties on aluminum, steel and copper imports that Trump imposed last year have ...Read more

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — The husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen shot her dead at their home with a shotgun that had been muzzled with a pillow, according to police records released Thursday.

Officers found the vice mayor’s body, wrapped in a comforter and black trash bags, in the bedroom of her home in the 800 block of ...Read more

MIAMI — Nancy Metayer Bowen was a politically ambitious trailblazer for a new generation of Haitian Americans in South Florida before her tragic death, which is being criminally investigated, was announced Wednesday.

A twice-elected member of the Coral Springs City Council and the town’s current vice mayor, Metayer Bowen, 38, made history ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ousted Pamela Bondi as attorney general Thursday, closing out a tumultuous tenure punctuated by rolling controversies and attacks against the Justice Department’s traditional independence from the White House.

Trump, who made the announcement in a social media post, said his former personal attorney, ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. government from ending parole and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the country using the CBP One app.

District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Massachusetts ruled that the Department of Homeland Security acted unlawfully by terminating parole en masse without ...Read more

Spring is here — and wildlife activity is heating up in California.

“The arrival of warmer weather means black bears will be emerging from winter dens and actively searching for food,” the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a Facebook post March 16. “This includes mother bears with new cubs of the year and quite often ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland General Assembly has passed legislation requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortion care when needed to stabilize a patient. The House of Delegates passed the bill Thursday, 96-37, after the state Senate passed the bill in February.

“We have re-instituted a basic protection for women who, regardless of ...Read more

Proposals to ban or regulate kratom, a plant-based substance sold in gas stations, convenience stores and vape shops, are making headlines in local newspapers across the United States. But as lawmakers debate whether to regulate or ban kratom, public health problems associated with the drug continue to rise.

In late March 2026, the ...Read more

Pam Bondi is out as U.S. attorney general, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, after a tumultuous 14 months punctuated by the Justice Department’s scattershot release of millions documents it was forced to produce related to the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Bondi is the latest cabinet official to be removed from her post. But unlike...Read more

This week, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the operation expect the agency to post heaps more in weeks to come, revealing whether the U.S. has lost its hard-won measles elimination status.

The CDC...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The number of misconduct complaints filed against Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara has doubled since September, bringing to 30 the total number filed during his three-year tenure.

That’s more than the total filed against the previous four chiefs combined. Not one of the prior chiefs — Amelia Huffman, Medaria Arrando, ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended to curb the harm of insurance denials.

West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency enrolls nearly 215,000 people — state workers, as well as their...Read more