School districts across Florida have heard rumblings lately about student plans to walk out of classes to protest federal immigration enforcement actions, such as the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Some walkouts have already taken place, including in Escambia and Leon counties, while others are being discussed for the coming days, ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — After a pair of anti-ICE snow sculptures were partially or completely destroyed in two separate competitions this month, the sculptors behind both pieces have reprised their original works in a combined sculpture in Minneapolis.

In late January, Team USA’s sculpture for the World Snow Sculpting Championship in downtown ...Read more

President Trump recently called Colombia’s leader, Gustavo Petro, a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”

Petro, meanwhile, has labeled Trump a murderer and compared him to Adolf Hitler.

But on Tuesday, the two leaders made nice — mostly — at a closed-door meeting at the White House that both ...Read more

Florida auditors who crossed the state looking to expose fraud and waste in government spending recently issued a report on their findings. But local government officials say that they failed to identify any examples of egregious waste.

The state’s Department of Governmental Efficiency started scrutinizing various county and city governments ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz denounced how Operation Metro Surge is treating Minnesota’s children on Tuesday, Feb. 3, and sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, demanding her agency stop tactics that put kids at risk.

“These are the people that our children should be around,” he said of education leaders by his side...Read more

NEW YORK — The Jeffrey Epstein files will remain online after victims of the disgraced financier on Tuesday said the Justice Department had committed to “expeditiously” scrubbing their identities from a tranche of case files released to the public, creating what one woman called a “careless and dangerous” situation.

Lawyers for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea spooked oil markets amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

“We are negotiating with them right now” and “they’d like to do something,” Trump told reporters at the ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday unveiled a $53.2 billion state budget that focuses on making Pennsylvania a more affordable place to live — while proposing a 6.2% spending increase over last year and renewing his pitches to create new revenue streams to fill a significant budget deficit as he runs for reelection.

Shapiro’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As many Republicans in Congress push for action on a voter ID bill, its future remains uncertain — and key voices in the GOP say they are wary of increasing federal involvement in elections.

“I’m supportive of only citizens voting and showing ID at polling places. I think that makes sense … but I’m not in favor of ...Read more

A Michigan motorist accused of flipping off federal agents and cutting off a Border Patrol van has pleaded guilty to charges, according to court records.

Jacob Nathaniel Len, 30, of Ypsilanti, entered the plea last month in U.S. District Court in Detroit, court documents said.

The filings also said he was sentenced to six months of probation, ...Read more

A California doctor this week became the first physician to be sued under a new Texas law that allows private citizens to pursue civil legal action against anyone who provides abortion medication in Texas.

In the lawsuit, first filed in Texas federal court in July 2025, Jerry Rodriguez alleged that San Francisco Bay Area doctor Remy Coeytaux ...Read more

NASA’s test run of its Artemis II countdown ran into problems Monday at Kennedy Space Center, scrapping any chance of the moonbound mission launching this month.

Instead, the agency is targeting March as the earliest possible date for Artemis II, which will be the first crewed mission on the Orion spacecraft and the first time humans will fly...Read more

California wildlife officials have approved a plan to eradicate Catalina Island’s entire deer population as part of a broader effort to restore the island ecosystem, sparking fierce opposition from an unusual coalition of hunters and animal welfare advocates.

Per the plan conceived by the Catalina Island Conservancy, professional hunters will...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shared the head table at an exclusive Washington dinner Saturday night with George W. Bush. It was fitting, considering the 47th president has increasingly been borrowing from the playbooks of predecessors he’s long criticized.

While Trump’s second-term penchant for stretching or obliterating laws and ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has spent $573 million from an emergency response fund on immigration efforts over the last three years, including millions to equip agencies with radios and high-tech cameras, his administration informed the Legislature last week.

In a report issued Saturday, the Division of Emergency ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Highlighting his belief that Pennsylvania continues to be "on the rise" under his watch, Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday unveiled a $53.3 billion state budget proposal for 2026-27 that pumps up spending on K-12 education, seeks to reap billions from skill games regulations, and almost certainly will trigger a fight over tapping ...Read more

Haitian advocates and Democratic lawmakers in Florida said Tuesday that while they welcome a federal judge’s ruling Monday night to pause the end of temporary immigration protections for more than 300,000 Haitians, they will keep fighting “until protection turns into permanence.”

“We celebrate, but we do not stop,” said Nancy Metayer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Committee debate paused Tuesday on a bill that would speed federal approval of new satellites as Democrats raised concerns about potential automatic approval, especially as Elon Musk’s SpaceX seeks to build a large constellation of artificial intelligence data satellites.

The Senate Commerce Committee recessed a planned markup ...Read more

Florida public education advocates claimed a victory Monday in their ongoing effort to stop lawmakers from requiring school districts to hand taxpayer funded property to privately run interests.

State Sen. Keith Truenow, R-Tavares, moved to replace his bill (SB 824) that would require school districts that have lost enrollment over three years ...Read more