Eight months ago, Minnesota social services officials abruptly stopped paying millions of dollars to an overnight health care provider and an autism care center.

The reason: an owner’s connection to Feeding Our Future, the $300 million pandemic era fraud scheme that has dogged Minnesota since 2021.

Both businesses — Joy Home Healthcare and...Read more

A man protesting President Donald Trump’s visit to his golf club in West Palm Beach was arrested and accused of assaulting a Trump supporter on Sunday.

Paul Arthur Messer, 76, was holding a flag attached to a metal pole while participating in an anti-Trump protest across from Trump International Golf Course, according to the Palm Beach County...Read more

BOSTON — A mass shooting was reported at a Rhode Island ice rink Monday afternoon, as first responders and investigators responded to the deadly incident.

The suspect and one victim were dead and four people were hospitalized following the shooting at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, WPRI reported.

A high school hockey game had been ...Read more

Federal authorities have told Minnesota investigators they won’t provide access to information on the fatal Jan. 24 shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Formal notification from the FBI to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension came late last week after Gov. Tim Walz signaled optimism that there might still be a joint investigation...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An 18-year-old who was detained by federal agents in a chaotic scene inside the Hennepin County Government Center last week was ordered released from federal custody.

Junior de Jesus Herrera Berrios of Burnsville was tackled and taken out of the Government Center on Feb. 10 following a foot chase with federal agents who had been...Read more

Media outlet TMZ has received a fourth demand for bitcoin in exchange for the name of Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapper, the entertainment news and gossip site said Monday.

“I know what I saw five days ago south of the border and I was told to shut up so I know who he is and that was definitely Nancy with them,” the alleged clue-holder’s ...Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

The entry of the two Musk companies — which he announced in early February would merge – into a new frontier of AI-enabled ...Read more

One million people in Somalia are under threat of severe hunger amid a lack of funding to tackle disasters, according to a leading domestic charity.

Scarce rain and warmer temperatures since September have caused drought conditions across the Horn of Africa, with the hottest regions of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya exceeding 2 degrees Celsius (3....Read more

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon, now an independent journalist, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in connection to his coverage of an anti-ICE protest that saw demonstrators storm a church in Minnesota last month.

On Friday, Lemon appeared in a St. Paul courtroom for his arraignment to enter his plea.

The charges include one count of ...Read more

Firefighters responded to a barrage of wildfires over the weekend in Hillsborough County, where heavy winds and dry brush spread one blaze across 350 acres in Wimauma.

It was the 14th wildfire that sparked in the county Sunday. Two more — one near Interstate 275 and another a few miles west — ignited after dark. More than 30 blazes broke ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Independent Mike Duggan's campaign for governor issued a social media post Sunday night claiming to have support from multiple labor unions that have, in fact, not endorsed his bid for Michigan's top political office.

Andrea Bitely, spokeswoman for Duggan's campaign, said the tweet was an error. It was deleted at some point ...Read more

In December 2025, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, invited white men to file more sex- and race-based discrimination complaints against their employers.

“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex? You may have a claim to recover money under ...Read more

When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year’s dead plant material and other organic matter.

These soil microorganisms – Earth’s recyclers – liberate nutrients that will act as fertilizer once ...Read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday said she would send another $1.5 billion from state coffers to New York City, helping to bail it out of a budget gap Mayor Mamdani had leveraged to push for tax hikes on the rich.

The governor committed an additional $1 billion this fiscal year and $510 million next fiscal year, according to a press release....Read more

BALTIMORE — A man was federally charged in Maryland last week after posting drone footage on YouTube of a flight over part of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex, a military installation buried in the Catoctin Mountains sometimes described as a “second Pentagon.”

The drone pilot, Stuart Dale Bennett, was identified by FBI agents after a U.S. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore the slavery exhibits that the National Park Service removed from the President’s House last month.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe issued a ruling Monday requiring the federal government to “restore the President’s House Site to its physical ...Read more

A man charged with cyberstalking for publishing vile racist and antisemitic rants against judges has been jailed on the eve of trial after he photographed a prosecution document in court and used it, in some cases with assistance from supporters, to contact potential state witnesses.

Paul Boyne’s return to jail days before his trial is ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Two summers ago, a newspaper article inspired Roxann Specht to write a detailed note containing her end-of-life requests. After sharing it with her husband, Gerald, he was similarly inspired but much more to the point.

Six words scrawled underneath her note would become his dying wish: “The same for me as well!”

Seven months ...Read more