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University of California officials are seeking a court order to end immediately an ongoing strike by academic workers that is underway at UC Santa Cruz and could spread to others campuses in the system.

The request for ...Read more

After several failed attempts, California lawmakers are once again working to mandate that children attend kindergarten, with the state Assembly passing a bill to make it compulsory Tuesday.

The bill now goes to the ...Read more

ATLANTA — U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath prevailed over two challengers in the Democratic primary in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.

McBath, the former Delta flight attendant who became a gun control activist after her ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump rested his defense Tuesday after one day without taking the stand — despite claiming he “absolutely” would — ushering the historic hush money trial into the home stretch and paving the way...Read more

A coalition of UNLV students and community organizers decried gun violence Tuesday morning near the site of a campus shooting that killed three professors in December.

“Today we are here not to recount that dark day,”...Read more

DETROIT — The Wayne County clerk has officially disqualified Democratic congressional candidate Adam Hollier of Detroit from the primary election ballot, finding he didn't submit enough valid voter signatures following a...Read more

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd, is facing fresh allegations that accuse him of using excessive force in a similar manner in another case.

Patricia “Patty...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, the maverick Republican from Lewis County who represents Northern Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District, defeated two primary challengers on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Monarch High School’s principal, assistant principal and athletic director have been cleared after an investigation into possible violations of a 2021 state law by allowing a transgender girl to...Read more

NEW YORK — A number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside and outside an occupied academic building at Columbia University said they were hurt after last month’s Hamilton Hall raid — despite assurances by Mayor ...Read more

The Maryland State Department of Education has received a $6.8 million grant that will allow teachers to take courses on the science of reading, an evidence-based instructional philosophy.

The four-year grant will provide...Read more

Crowds of desperate people in the Gaza Strip have intercepted almost all of the aid sent over a temporary pier built by the U.S. military, officials said, forcing a temporary halt to deliveries and complicating an already ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Reparations Task Force has officially launched.

The 10-member committee, which is tasked with developing a report on how reparations can atone for the impact that slavery, Jim Crow and ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — State Rep. Kevin Boyle returned to the Capitol on Tuesday after a tumultuous month that included his family publicly expressing concerns about his mental health and police rescinding a warrant for his ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Reparations Task Force has officially launched.

The 10-member committee, which is tasked with developing a report on how reparations can atone for the impact that slavery, Jim Crow and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Adams’ legal team is set to ask New York’s highest court to clear the way for his administration’s push to enroll some 250,000 retired city workers in a controversial Medicare Advantage plan, the ...Read more

A new program featuring former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is airing on Russian state television, but the head of his network said he had nothing to do with it.

Tucker Carlson Network CEO Neil Patel said on Tuesday the ...Read more

Before March 2020, it was hard to imagine a global pandemic in the modern age.

Now, it’s hard to imagine our lives without one.

As COVID-19 has become less of an active part of our days and more a quick thought when we...Read more

CHICAGO — Days after Bartlett High School halted the distribution of its yearbook due to an image that school officials considered antisemitic, a Change.org petition racked up more than 1,400 signatures opposing the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore jail was without water for nearly 36 hours between May 12 and 13, after the facility’s main sanitation pipe had been clogged with paper waste and sewage, state officials acknowledged Tuesday.

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