A former Florida attorney, who was accused of killing his father after allegedly stealing $445,000 from his stepmother’s trust fund, was found dead in prison on Wednesday morning. Brandon Labiner, 34, was facing a first-degree murder charge for the July shooting death of his father but was found hanged in Palm […]

The Massachusetts Legislature wrapped up its formal session for the year without a deal on a $2.8 billion spending bill that included hundreds of millions of dollars to address the state’s emergency shelters that are buckling under a crush of migrant and homeless families. Both the House and Senate bills […]

How science textbooks in Texas address climate change is at the center of a key vote expected Friday after some Republican education officials criticized books for being too negative toward fossil fuels in America’s biggest oil and gas state. The issue of which textbooks to approve has led to new […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a December deadline for a judicial response to former President Trump’s motion for a mistrial in his highly publicized civil fraud case.  Trump’s team filed the motion for a mistrial Wednesday, citing Judge Arthur Engoron’s past social posts on an alumni page […]

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in an interview that his country has been “not successful” in minimizing civilian casualties inside the Gaza Strip.  Netanyahu, speaking to CBS News, said “any civilian death is a tragedy” and that “we shouldn’t have any because we’re doing everything we can to […]

The Minnesota state government created a commission to try to figure out how to make their flag less “racist” against Native Americans and it is now considering a plethora of “qualifying designs” submitted by the public.  The state flag of Minnesota features a modified version of the seal of Minnesota […]

The successor of sitting Russian President Vladimir Putin will be very similar to him politically, the Kremlin suggests. Putin, 71, is facing a new election cycle leading up to 2024, and has indicated he intends to stand for re-election.  However, his eventual successor will not be much different, the Kremlin […]

The families of five Minnesota men who were killed by police officers announced a lawsuit Thursday to force the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to release its investigative files on their deaths, saying the state agency has failed to comply with Minnesota’s open records law. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Ramsey […]

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday that Illinois will funnel an additional $160 million to help migrants arriving in Chicago to resettle, including $65 million to help the city launch “winterized” temporary shelter to avoid people sleeping outdoors in cold weather. The announcement came on an unseasonably warm Chicago day in […]

Repairs to an elevated Los Angeles freeway closed because of an arson fire are moving faster than expected and all lanes are scheduled to reopen by next Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday. Earlier this week officials said it could take crews between three and five weeks to shore […]