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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A statewide ban on students using cellphones in school could come as early as next summer under newly proposed legislation.

The bipartisan bill, AB 1644, introduced this week, would require all TK-12 ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York parents and advocates descended on City Hall Thursday to plead with Mayor Zohran Mamdani to break with his schools chancellor and impose a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence in the ...Read more

SEATTLE — Only a fraction of Washington law enforcement officers have completed de-escalation and mental-health training mandated by state law and intended to reduce the use of force and improve public interactions with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Singer D4vd was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in connection with the case of a girl whose decomposing body was discovered inside his Tesla in Hollywood.

David Anthony Burke, 21, was taken into ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials urged U.S. oil producers to boost output, driving home a message to the industry that’s become more urgent amid the war in Iran.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has cried uncle in its bid to keep funding from the Second Avenue Subway.

In documents filed Thursday with the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. — where the MTA is ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some North Carolina school districts are canceling classes on May 1 because they say so many teachers are planning to take May Day off to participate in a mass protest in Raleigh.

The North Carolina ...Read more

North Carolina evangelist Franklin Graham took to social media Thursday to express solidarity with President Donald Trump amid widespread backlash over recent posts by the president.

Trump shared an AI-generated image to ...Read more

After the tornado sirens cut out, Andrew Donaldson stepped out of his Clinton, Missouri, home and looked to the sky. Without their warning wail, he assumed he was safe.

But in the sky, he saw the unmistakable mark of a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Metals Minnesota got a major boost on Thursday with the Senate vote to roll back a Biden administration ban on mineral leasing near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The 50-49 vote on April ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Environmental advocates and opponents of a proposed mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness vowed to continue fighting after the U.S. Senate voted on Thursday, April 16, to repeal a mining ban ...Read more

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down a refuge run by the Catholic Church in Miami for migrant children who come to the U.S. alone will traumatize kids who have already experienced extreme hardship on their ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — An ICE agent is charged with pointing his duty weapon at two people in another vehicle on the highway, the first federal officer charged in connection with Operation Metro Surge, Hennepin County’s ...Read more

LONDON — Pre-war planning meant Iran’s military was able to mitigate the impact of U.S.-Israeli strikes on its weapons arsenal and leadership, according to Western military intelligence assessments — which also say ...Read more

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. — Water is creeping closer to the crest of the Cheboygan dam and now is less than 5 inches from the top, state officials reported Thursday afternoon.

The water level at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to release a budget resolution next week that would kick-start the process for a reconciliation bill on immigration enforcement funding and help end a partial shutdown of the ...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — In a 10-1 vote, the City Council on Thursday approved an all ages 9:30 p.m. curfew at the Oceanfront for most of the last two weekends of April. It will go into effect Friday but will not be in ...Read more

NEW YORK — The third and final suspect in the 2002 murder of Jam Master Jay is expected to take a plea deal in connection with the rap legend’s slaying, according to a federal court filing in Brooklyn.

The suspect, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former state Attorney General Xavier Becerra is touting a poll published Thursday and a surge of recent social media interest as evidence that his campaign for California governor is viable in the ...Read more

WOODLAND, Calif. — The former Yolo County sheriff’s lieutenant at the center of the ferocious Esparto fireworks warehouse explosion that killed seven workers last July pleaded not guilty in Woodland to murder and ...Read more