LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s highest court ruled Monday that state lawmakers cannot proceed with upcoming impeachment proceedings against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman.

The opinion and order, issued Monday by the Kentucky Supreme Court and written by Chief Justice Debra Hembree Lambert, voided Goodman’s articles of impeachment,...Read more

President Donald Trump ramped up his threats ahead of a deadline he’s imposed for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face further attacks on civilian infrastructure, while Tehran rejected a ceasefire proposal.

“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Trump said in a news conference ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States and Iran are at a “critical point” in negotiating a potential ceasefire agreement, but the chances of reaching a deal by a Trump-imposed deadline on Tuesday evening appeared uncertain.

In a lengthy news briefing at the White House, the president echoed an expletive-...Read more

How conspiracies spread has changed immensely over the history of the United States, as technology and media have evolved. But the nature of conspiracies has not.

I teach communications courses at Villanova University, 12 miles from Philadelphia, on how conspiracy theories are created and disseminated.

As the nation approaches...Read more

The global energy crisis caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is only the beginning of the economic cost of the war with Iran.

I study how institutions affect businesses and supply chains, and I expect food prices to rise next, with high prices lasting even after whatever point hostilities end.

Along with about 20% of...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The lawsuit against the parent company of Spectrum News 13 for the 2023 killing of reporter Dylan Lyons was dismissed — this time, for good — after a federal judge ruled that it again failed to show the TV station was responsible for his death.

Lyons’ family sued Charter Communications — the parent company of Spectrum ...Read more

DENVER — Weeks from graduation, Colorado legislators are planning to cut a teacher recruitment program that promised to pay two years of a student’s college tuition on their journey toward becoming educators, leaving soon-to-be-graduating high school seniors in a lurch as they scramble to finance their higher education.

Last week, the state...Read more

NASA’s Artemis II crew members, farther from Earth than any humans before them, are preparing for their event-filled six-hour flyby of the moon after five days traveling through space.

At approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time, the crew reached another milestone: At more than 248,655 miles from our pale blue dot, no humans have ever traveled ...Read more

On a day the four crew of Artemis II broke a record set by Apollo 13 for farthest distance from Earth ever flown by humans, they made a request that two new craters be named: one to honor their Orion spacecraft named Integrity, and one the memory of commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll.

The Orion spacecraft and its four passengers ...Read more

NEW YORK — A passenger gave birth just before arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport over the weekend.

The delivery happened Saturday night as Caribbean Airlines Flight BW005 from Kingston, Jamaica, neared Jamaica, Queens.

“We have a passenger, a pregnant passenger, who’s going into labor at this time. Requesting direct detail,...Read more

BOSTON — The Joint Committee on the Judiciary will be taking up a bill Tuesday that would allow illegal immigrants and anyone else arrested or detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to sue the agents who took them into custody.

The proposed bill, An Act Relative to Violations of the United States Constitution Under the Color of Law (...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated the rescue of two downed American airmen as his latest deadline looms for Iran to agree to a ceasefire deal or get blown “back to the Stone Ages” by a new wave of attacks.

Trump hailed the high-stakes operation that plucked the two Air Force pilots out of a remote mountainous area of Iran where ...Read more

Iran rejected a proposed ceasefire as Donald Trump ramped up his threats less than two days before the U.S. president’s ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face further attacks on civilian infrastructure.

“They don’t want to cry, as the expression goes, ‘uncle,’ but they will, and if they don’t, they’ll have no bridges,�...Read more

The Orion spacecraft and its four passengers ventured into the moon’s gravitational influence Monday as the Artemis II mission heads to a record-breaking day on the lunar far side before their trip back home to Earth.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sent Stephen Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction back to lower courts Monday to address the Trump administration’s attempt to wipe out the case against the president’s former adviser.

Bannon had appealed his conviction to the justices after both a federal trial judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Melissa Gilbert revealed in her first interview since husband Timothy Busfield’s arrest for child sex abuse that she’s been aware, since the early days of their relationship, of other troubling allegations against him.

The “Little House on the Prairie” alum, 61, told “Good Morning America” correspondent George ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities were investigating after the discovery Sunday afternoon of possible human remains at a Long Beach park as visitors gathered to celebrate Easter.

The Long Beach Police Department responded to a call around 5 p.m. at DeForest Park after a possible small skull was found by someone searching for Easter eggs in the area, ...Read more

NEW YORK — An advocacy group that counts the growing number of homeless students in New York City every year released a new brief Monday underscoring a need for more support for these 154,000 children in local schools.

The report from Advocates for Children of New York found that 63% of students living in shelters are chronically absent, and...Read more

NEW YORK – More than 11,000 law enforcement officers from across the globe have signed a petition asking a Bronx judge not to throw the NYPD sergeant convicted of killing a fleeing suspect by hurling a cooler at him in prison, the Daily News has learned.

Attorneys for Sgt. Erik Duran will be presenting the signatures to Judge Guy Mitchell, ...Read more

MIAMI — For three straight years, spring break in South Beach has come and gone without major incident.

Crowds were relatively small last month, especially compared to March weekends in the years after the COVID pandemic, when thousands of young people packed Ocean Drive and the party was sullied by shootings, stampedes and curfews.

This ...Read more