Correction: This article originally stated that the bill had passed in the Florida House. It had not yet been voted on and changes have been made to reflect that. The Florida Legislature is debating a bill that would ban state colleges and universities from using funds to “promote, support, or …

A split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist who deliberately raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path in 2017, killing eight people and maiming others. The decision means Sayfullo Saipov, 35, an Uzbekistan citizen who lived in New Jersey, …

Welcome to the wacky and wonderful world of art collected by John Waters, on view now at the Baltimore Museum of Art – works like Richard Tuttle’s “Peace and Time”: “I love this piece, because it basically looks like I had a niece that failed shop class in summer camp,” …

Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Department over undeclared foreign bank accounts. When the civil case was filed in April 2022, prosecutors alleged that Manafort had failed to disclose more …

The Transportation Department on Monday debuted a new dashboard that shows families which airlines guarantee they can sit together without paying extra fees, as the Biden Administration takes steps to crack down on so-called “junk fees.”  The new tool highlights which airlines seat families with young children together at no …

Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison Friday morning in South Carolina, and his attorneys said they plan to appeal his conviction in the high-profile double murder trial. The disgraced former attorney was convicted Thursday on four counts: the 2021 murder of his wife Maggie Murdaugh, the murder of his …

Washington — President Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and a former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California’s labor department, was central to negotiations between labor and freight …

Stubbornly high gas prices that have been crimping household budgets for months are starting to tumble. In some states like Texas, prices have fallen below $3 a gallon.  The national gas price average hit $3.33 a gallon on Monday, down more than 4 cents from a week ago, according to …

Theatergoers waiting to see the sold-out first preview of a classic Broadway musical Tuesday were interrupted by neo-Nazis chanting, holding banners and passing out false information about the show’s subject. The group was identified by the musical’s producers as the National Socialist Movement. The group is the largest membership-based neo-Nazi …

Authorities have positively identified the remains of an Auburn student whose car was found in an Alabama creek 45 years after he disappeared.  On Monday, the Troup County Coroner’s Office positively identified remains recovered from a creek in Chambers County as belonging to 22-year-old Kyle Clinkscales, the Troup County Sheriff’s …