BOSTON —People are fleeing high-tax Massachusetts at a much higher rate than those moving to the Bay State, resulting in a net domestic out-migration of 182,145 over the past five years, according to a new watchdog report.

The Pioneer Institute has released a report detailing the state’s persistent challenge with losing educated working ...Read more

Hours after another shooting claimed the life of a teenage boy on Monday, Leo Williams, mayor of Durham, N.C., slammed the “status quo” of the city’s anti-violence efforts.

“Whether the headlines report a fatality or a close call, the trauma to our community is the same,” Williams wrote in a Facebook post Monday afternoon. “I know ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to propose raising property taxes to balance the city budget on Tuesday, in the face of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s continued resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

The mayor is set to reveal his preliminary budget plans Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.

“We do have a big gap to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Californians looking to resume their weekly commute Tuesday awoke to see several major roads closed after heavy rains drenched much the state Monday — with the expected precipitation far from over.

Among the closures was a section of Highway 1 through Big Sur, which state officials just weeks ago celebrated reopening for the ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Donald Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A bill requiring Missouri schools to investigate antisemitic incidents passed the Missouri House Monday despite criticism that the proposal carves out protections for Jewish students not afforded to other groups.

House Bill 2061 passed on a 109–21 vote. It now moves to the Senate, where a similar measure stalled last year.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A plan to eliminate safety inspections for most passenger cars and trucks advanced to the Missouri Senate Monday.

On a 104-43 vote, the House approved legislation to end a program in which vehicles more than 10 years old or those with more than 150,000 miles on the odometer are required to pass a state safety inspection ...Read more

NASA is looking to make sure the problems with leaks in its moon rocket have been remedied with another Artemis II test run slated for Thursday night that could set up a launch in early March.

Teams tried to run through what’s called a wet dress rehearsal on Feb. 2 but ran into familiar problems with leaks of cryogenic liquid hydrogen flowing...Read more

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday ordered public buildings across the city and state to fly flags at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84 after rising from an upstart Chicago organizer to a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Their announcements joined messages from political ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A pastor at a Western Kentucky church has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a minor, Kentucky State Police announced Monday.

David Rodgers, 40, of Utica, was arrested around 7:35 p.m. Feb. 16 after an investigation determined he had a sexual relationship with a juvenile “through a position of ...Read more

Iran said its diplomats are prepared to stay in Geneva for days or weeks to finalize a nuclear deal with the U.S., as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps resumed navy drills in a critical shipping lane for oil.

The military exercises in the Persian Gulf, which Iranian state TV said would partly close the Strait of Hormuz for several hours, ...Read more

MIAMI – Bradenton’s IMG Academy agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a potential liability suit after allowing two students with ties to the Mexican cartel to attend the school.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced Thursday that IMG Academy’s continued tuition transactions for the two students...Read more

President Donald Trump paid tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson as a “good man” and “force of nature” but claimed the late civil rights leader “couldn’t stand” former President Barack Obama.

Mixing praise with petty digs, Trump claimed during his days as a New York real estate tycoon he was friends with Jackson, and he ticked ...Read more

Though Nancy Guthrie’s family was publicly cleared Monday of any involvement in her abduction, Arizona authorities say they determined “in the first few days” of the weeks-long investigation that “not one single person in the family is a suspect.”

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed that timeline to 13 News, which seemed to be ...Read more

Parts of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil-shipping lanes, will be closed for “several hours” on Tuesday as part of Iran’s military drills, state TV in the Islamic Republic reported.

The drills, announced previously, come as Iran and the U.S. start a second round of negotiations in Geneva. Oil reversed losses ...Read more

Nearly four years after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war’s toll is measured not only in the shattered cities across the border but increasingly in Russia’s own frontier regions.

Millions of Ukrainians are enduring one of the coldest winters in recent memory without reliable electricity and heating as waves of ...Read more

The U.S. will deploy more missile systems to the Philippines, a move that will potentially anger China, as the two allies boost their defense ties.

Both Washington and Manila have committed to “continue and work to increase deployments of U.S. cutting-edge missile and unmanned systems to the Philippines,” according to a joint statement on ...Read more