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The new board wants to prohibit mask mandates and Covid-19 vaccine requirements in an evolving showdown between the Republican governor and the world’s best-known entertainment company

The package would limit future federal spending increases to 1% a year, a proposal that has almost no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate

This year’s convention came just days after mass shootings at a school in Nashville, Tennessee and at a bank last week in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter of which marked the 15th mass killing of the year in the U.S.

They have been charged with conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday

Maine State Police said the shootings were connected but didn’t immediately discuss a motive or identify the person in custody, a police spokesperson said

The White House said that the directives in the order would be funded out of existing commitments, meaning that the directives’ impact would be limited and they’d carry more of a symbolic weight

The justices are weighing a request from the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone, to keep on hold lower-court rulings restricting its use. The high court is expected to act in the fast-moving case from Texas by late Wednesday

Andrew Lester, 84 years old, shot Ralph Yarl in the head and the arm after the 16-year-old mistakenly rang his doorbell last Thursday

The airline requested on Tuesday that the FAA pause the carrier’s flights. The ground stop was brief, but it led to more than 1,800 delayed flights

The Food and Drug Administration is allowing an extra dose of the omicron-targeted vaccine for anyone 65 and older if it’s been four months since their last shot

Gerald Groff, a Christian postal employee from Pennsylvania, began a dispute with his employers when they required him to deliver packages on Sundays. The case has now reached the Supreme Court

The consent decree was one of the longest in the country and resulted from a 1969 civil rights lawsuit against city police by several Hartford residents

A grand jury has voted not to indict eight Ohio police officers who fired dozens of rounds at Jayland Walker after a car and foot chase that ended in the 25-year-old Black man being shot to death last summer

A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his rape trial, saying the former president cannot make public statements to promote pretrial publicity and then claim its prejudicial to him and reason to delay his trial

Officials separately announced charges against more than three dozen members of China’s national police, accusing them of creating and using fake social media accounts to locate and harass dissidents in the U.S.

The Senate Republican leader has been recovering at home since he was released from a rehabilitation facility March 25, after he fell earlier that month and injured his head and fractured a rib

The Saturday night shooting took place at a birthday party for the sister of one of the victims, who was celebrating at the Mahogany Masterpiece dance studio in Dadeville when gunfire erupted

The former Minneapolis officer is serving a sentence of 22 and a half years on the second-degree murder count. His attorney had asked the appeals court to throw out the convictions

In a speech Monday at the New York Stock Exchange, the Republican leader lashed out at President Joe Biden for refusing to engage in budget cutting negotiations to prevent a debt crisis

Juul says it has now settled with 48 states and territories, providing over $1 billion to participating states to combat underage use and develop cessation programs

Republican senators are eager to turn Jared Bernstein’s confirmation fight into a referendum on how effective the Biden administration has been in controlling rising prices and shepherding the economy out of the pandemic

Authorities are investigating the shooting of Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old who was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell of a wrong home in Kansas City while trying to pick up his younger brothers

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a field hearing Monday near the offices of the New York DA who charged former president Donald Trump a few weeks ago

Two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence. They’re being heralded as living echoes of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s

The Biden administration says it’s seeing minimal damage from the disclosure of highly classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. views of its allies and partners

Congress has tasked the IRS with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system for all, an idea that doesn’t sit well with the big tax-prep companies