SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers moved forward four housing affordability bills Tuesday, one of their first concrete actions to lower costs for state residents so far this year.

During remarks to members Tuesday, Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, said the bills would “alter the trajectory of California’s housing ...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — WASHINGTON — As he neared 24 hours of standing on the Senate floor speaking, Sen. Cory Booker held up his pocket Constitution Tuesday, his voice only slightly more strained than when he’d started.

“I keep going back to how this document is being undermined and attacked by this president,” Booker said, repeating a ...Read more

Legal questions and controversy are growing about immigration enforcement against international students after ICE’s arrest of a Turkish MBA student, Doğukan Günaydin, at the University of Minnesota last Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security told The Associated Press that the arrest followed the revocation of the student’s visa due ...Read more

BOSTON — First responders in Boston rushed four people to local hospitals after a driver of a Penske rental truck drove onto a Chinatown sidewalk during lunchtime on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Two of the victims taken to the hospital suffered serious injuries, Boston EMS posted on social media. Emergency responders treated two other ...Read more

DENVER — How passengers, some with their carry-on luggage in hand, evacuated an American Airlines plane that caught fire at Denver International Airport will be part of the federal investigation into the incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Photos showed passengers scrambling out on a wing above the smoke as ground...Read more

State lawmakers want to slash in half funding for Advanced Placement, dual enrollment and other college-level high school classes, a move that would cost Florida’s public schools millions of dollars.

Orange County Public Schools alone estimates it would lose nearly $17 million, while the Palm Beach County school district said it could lose ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams declined to say Tuesday how he plans to address a potential billion-dollar budget hole in the upcoming fiscal year as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office again made clear the city would not be getting migrant funding that it’s seeking.

Hochul, now in the final stages of negotiating a state budget in Albany, has ...Read more

Nearly the entire staff of the federal agency funding museums and libraries was ordered to stop work Tuesday and employees were sent home, a White House official confirmed.

The official, speaking on background, said that roughly 80% of the 70 employees of the Institute of Museum and Library Services were placed immediately on administrative ...Read more

Miami-Dade must halt decades of adding fluoride to its drinking water under legislation that county commissioners approved Tuesday to end the anti-cavity program. But Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she supports keeping fluoride in tap water and may veto the legislation, setting up a potential showdown over a national conservative movement ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Matt Cutler had been a longtime employee of the Administration for Community Living. But as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, he became one of thousands of Health and Human Services employees to lose their jobs in the latest sweeping round of cuts at the agency.

A few hours after he received a “reduction in force” email, Cutler was part of ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A pair of proposed ballot measures filed in Missouri would ask voters to force Tesla to close its Kansas City and St. Louis showrooms as the car company’s billionaire CEO Elon Musk faces blowback over federal layoffs.

Brad Ketcher, a St. Louis attorney who previously worked in the Missouri Governor’s Office under former...Read more

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting and families of victims will be able to step inside the club ahead of its eventual demolition, a city spokesperson said Tuesday.

Such a visit was requested by some of the families since the city gained control over the building in Oct. 2023, and is now being planned for the week of June 9, the same week...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared open to upholding a federal law that allows lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization seeking damages from terror attacks.

During oral arguments in two cases, justices repeatedly suggested that they owed deference to Congress’ decision in 2019 to ...Read more

WASHIINGTON — Republican allies of President Donald Trump said during a stormy House hearing Tuesday that they expect to pass legislation this week limiting the authority of federal judges to prevent the courts from staging a “judicial coup d′état.”

Leading Trump defenders clashed with Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin and other Democrats ...Read more

The U.S. military on Tuesday identified three of the four soldiers from Georgia’s Fort Stewart who were found dead this week after they were reported missing during a training mission in Lithuania.

They are Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, of Joliet, Illinois; Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California; and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of ...Read more

The “administrative error” that caused a Maryland man’s deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador has prompted backlash in Congress and beyond.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old citizen of El Salvador, was arrested March 12 after working a shift as a sheet metal worker apprentice in Baltimore. He was deported three days ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the highly anticipated trial of Rachel Morin’s accused killer began early Tuesday, Harford Circuit Judge Yolanda Curtin denied public access to the courtroom amid the first day of jury selection. Sheriff’s deputies said the entire room was filled with potential jurors and no others could be allowed inside, due to fire code ...Read more

The Trump administration’s cuts to U.S. health agencies announced Tuesday will reduce HIV prevention services and hamper Georgia’s efforts to tackle stubbornly high rates of new infection, experts told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“We are going to see people die of AIDS in the U.S. in 2025,” said Sara Ziegler, who was formerly an ...Read more

DETROIT — A judge has denied Jennifer Crumbley's request to remove Oakland County prosecutors from her case, in part because she does not have jurisdiction to rule on it, and will issue sanctions to Crumbley's attorneys for filing a frivolous motion.

Crumbley, the mother of the Oxford High School shooter, asked in early March for Oakland ...Read more