NORKOLK, Va. — Virginians could vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow the Democrat-controlled General Assembly to redraw congressional maps April 21. Del. Luke Torian, a Democrat, introduced legislation that would schedule the ballot referendum accordingly.

According to the bill, voters would be asked this question:

“Should ...Read more

Gov. Hochul Thursday sought to gather support for a slate of proposals to reduce the cost of automobile insurance in the Empire State.

“We’re here to continue our journey to drive down costs for New Yorkers,” Hochul told reporters on Wards Island Thursday. “When new Yorkers are paying their bills, there’s yet another bill that keeps ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — FBI and Homeland Security agents arrested Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong and St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen in connection with the disruption of a church service on Jan. 18.

A third arrest of a protester involved was announced later on Jan. 22.

Attorney General Pam Bondi in a post on X ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have been racing against the clock to fund the government and avoid another shutdown by the month’s end, but they are now facing an irregular opponent: Mother Nature herself.

Weather forecasters are predicting that the Washington, D.C., area might become the bullseye of a winter storm that could blanket the area in ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Corrections contacted all county jails in the state Monday to ask how many people in custody had immigration detention holds. The number totaled 94, Corrections Commissioners Paul Schnell said Thursday.

Combined with the 207 people with immigration holds in Minnesota prisons, the number is about 1...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has finished interviewing candidates to serve as the next Federal Reserve chair and reiterated that he has someone in mind for the job.

“I’ll be telling you soon. I have somebody that I think will be very good but I’m not going to reveal it,” Trump told reporters Thursday.

“It’s someone...Read more

LARGO, Md. — Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday announced a $164.6 million investment to combat an epidemic of respiratory illness in Maryland. Since September, 41 adults have died from influenza, and over 4,200 individuals have been hospitalized, according to data from the Maryland Department of Health.

The number of individuals receiving COVID-19 ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will take aim at a contracting program that’s become a critical part of the business portfolios for many Alaska Native corporations.

“We’re actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media on Jan. 16, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President JD Vance acknowledged chaos in Minneapolis during the federal government’s immigration enforcement surge but said the operation would be smoother with better cooperation from local officials.

Speaking to reporters in Minneapolis on Thursday, Jan. 22, Vance said he doesn’t think the president needs to invoke ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal agents have no plans to end the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota, U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino said at a news conference.

Asked whether agents had a targeted end date or arrest quota for Operation Metro Surge, the name given to the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota, Bovino said the ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was being deliberately provocative when he released a memo on Martin Luther King Jr. Day stating he wouldn’t enforce or defend dozens of laws that mention race, the Florida House minority leader said Thursday.

“I think he did it, basically, to flaunt that he has the power and to do it ...Read more

Cops arrested a pair of teen vandals Thursday and charged them with desecrating a Brooklyn playground in a Jewish neighborhood with more than 50 swastikas during a two-day attack, police and city officials said.

The swastikas were drawn with red, yellow and blue paint on slides, playground equipment and the handball court at Gravesend Park at ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration said it plans to rearrest Mahmoud Khalil, with the goal of deporting the Columbia University activist of Palestinian descent to Algeria — a move that Khalil’s lawyers panned Thursday as illegal.

Khalil was being held in Louisiana until a federal judge ordered him released last June. But last week, an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Several thousand federal agents have converged on Minnesota in what the Department of Homeland Security claims is the largest immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.

In many instances, media coverage has featured masked and armed immigration officers in unmarked vehicles unleashing tear gas and tossing smoke bombs ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal jury on Thursday found a Chicago construction worker not guilty of charges he solicited the murder of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, delivering a swift repudiation in a case the Trump administration had held up as evidence of violence toward immigration officials.

After a lightning-fast trial, the jury of six men and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —The National Park Service has started dismantling exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Independence National Historical Park.

The President’s House, which serves as a memorial to the nine people George Washington enslaved there during the founding of America, has come under increased scrutiny by President ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday the city is bracing for potentially massive winter storm, doing everything it can to prepare for bitter cold and as much as a foot of snow forecast to hit New York starting Saturday evening.

Around 2,000 sanitation workers will work 12 hour shifts to salt, brine and remove snow starting Saturday ...Read more

Russian leader Vladimir Putin began talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on the latest peace plan aimed at ending his war in Ukraine.

“It’s so good to see you,” Witkoff said as Putin shook hands with the two envoys in a video posted on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri ...Read more

A number of members of Congress are taking a stand for Haiti’s women and girls, warning that their bodies can no longer serve as a battleground for the country’s deepening crisis.

Forty-eight Democrats in the House have signed onto a resolution introduced by Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York condemning what it describes as the “...Read more