The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney.

That link once directed readers to a biography about the Medal of Honor winner who inspired Denzel Washington’s character in the 1989 movie “Glory.”

It now leads to a 404 error page ...Read more

European Union leaders tussled over weapons deliveries to Kyiv and who would represent them in U.S.-led diplomacy as the bloc struggled to formulate a strategy on Ukraine.

An EU summit in Brussels was unable to agree on delivering €5 billion ($5.4 billion) to secure ammunition for Ukraine this year, as members including France and Italy ...Read more

A Kennedy Center contract worker strips nude in a new YouTube protest video and asks if they should quit their job with the Washington, D.C., arts institution targeted by President Trump: "Is my complicity inevitable, or am I holding a line on the inside?"

Tavish Forsyth, the associate artistic lead for the Washington National Opera's Opera ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have repeatedly attacked Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams over a $2 billion federal grant for energy efficiency projects that she had little to do with.

Abrams worked as an attorney for a nonprofit organization that, in partnership with four other groups, was awarded the grant from the U.S. Environmental ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. could lead the operation of a nuclear plant in Ukraine “with very little problem” if the political decision is made to do so, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

Along with local experts, “we’d bring high-end nuclear experts from the United States, and together wise decisions would be made,” Wright said...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — LaShanda Palmer was helping two TSA officers in Philadelphia file grievances at their union office earlier this month when she received an unexpected message.

“We had to vacate,” said Palmer, president of the union that represents Transportation Security Administration officers at Philadelphia International Airport.

She ...Read more

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cheered state lawmakers’ push for school vouchers during a March 20 visit to the Texas Capitol in Austin, addressing opposition from some Republicans who see plans before the House and Senate as big government.

Cruz, a Republican from Houston, called “school choice” the “the single most important issue before the ...Read more

A federal appeals court panel Thursday said two Oxford Community Schools officials will no longer face claims they pushed Ethan Crumbley closer to violent action before he shot and killed four classmates at Oxford High School in 2021, a ruling that effectively ends a collection of federal civil lawsuits filed by families and survivors.

The ...Read more

The Interior Department on Thursday said it will expand drilling opportunities for fossil fuels in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the neighboring National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to support President Donald Trump’s vision of “American energy dominance.”

Although response to lease offers has been tepid in ...Read more

Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with murder in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students, bought the same brand of knife that police suspect was used in the violent crime in November 2022, according to a new court filing.

In March 2022, Kohberger ordered a Ka-Bar knife with sheath and a sharpener from Amazon, the prosecution ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Casten said he “absolutely” will continue to hold town hall meetings even though a Wednesday event in Downers Grove was cut short by police after heated confrontations between the congressman and a small group of Palestinian and Israeli supporters.

The disruption began when a pro-Israel supporter wearing an Israeli...Read more

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman reiterated this week that he won’t honor his predecessor’s request to resentence the Menendez brothers unless they admit their “lies.”

In an interview with ABC News, Hochman said he’d only be willing to recommend resentencing if Lyle and Erik Menendez “sincerely and unequivocally ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A bill to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver’s license in Michigan failed to advance Thursday in the Republican-controlled state House.

The vote has been long sought by advocates, who have argued the prohibition on licenses for undocumented immigrants has pushed them to drive illegally and unsafely if they ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday touted the results of a program aimed at getting homeless people out of the subway system.

Launched in fall 2023, the Subway Co-Response Outreach, or SCOUT, program employs “co-response” teams of police officers, nurses and social workers. The teams have had 11,000 interactions with people on the ...Read more

UMass Amherst is the latest local school that’s being targeted by the feds for alleged antisemitism.

The Department of Education has opened an investigation into the UMass flagship campus following a “violent antisemitism assault” in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., vowed strong opposition to President Donald Trump's plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, warning that "the fight has just begun."

Trump signed an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge to shutter the agency.

The Trump administration doesn't have ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Nearly five years after a San Diego teen was abducted, tortured and killed in Tijuana for stealing methamphetamine he had agreed to smuggle into the U.S., a jury this week convicted a Tijuana man on multiple charges related to the killing.

Federal prosecutors alleged that while at least five people were involved in taking the 19-...Read more

After slashing its staff by nearly half, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to further dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Describing the “breathtaking failures” of the country’s education system, the president said Thursday his order would “begin eliminating” the federal department.

“We’re going to...Read more

The Maryland Transportation Authority did not conduct a risk assessment that, if acted upon, could have allowed the state to protect the Francis Scott Key Bridge from collapsing, the National Transportation Safety Board’s chair said Thursday.

Such a vulnerability assessment would have found the bridge was highly vulnerable to a vessel ...Read more