NORFOLK, Va. — Sixty-three percent of Virginia voters support the commonwealth’s current once-a-decade redistricting process. But a narrow majority (51%) would support a proposed constitutional amendment that would change that method in response to redistricting in other states, according to a new poll.

The Wason Center at Christopher ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s controversial deployments of National Guard troops to six American cities since June cost about $496 million in 2025, and continuing the existing deployments as is would cost about $93 million per month, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

And for each additional Guard unit that is ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, increasing pressure on the regime and propelling oil prices higher.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the region, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — More than 100 bike rides honoring Alex Pretti have been organized nationally and internationally since a local bike shop’s call to action following the killing of the 37-year-old Minneapolis resident.

On Jan. 26, Angry Catfish bike shop, along with several cycling partners, announced a “unity” ride starting at Washburn ...Read more

U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials met Wednesday to discuss a new framework deal over Greenland, an attempt to satisfy President Donald Trump’s desire to see a greater American presence on the Arctic island that stops short of ceding it to the U.S.

The senior officials met to “discuss how we can address U.S. concerns about security in ...Read more

Two members of Haiti’s transitional presidential council and a cabinet minister have had their U.S. visas revoked in the latest round of sanctions announced by the State Department on Wednesday.

The visa restrictions come just three days after two other members of the council were similarly barred from entering the United States by the Trump ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Wednesday that the country’s democratic forces are willing to participate in a “real transition” of power, but will not accept any arrangement that keeps what she described as criminal structures linked to the current authorities in place.

Speaking to reporters after a meeting ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Informational exhibits about slavery removed by the National Park Service from the President’s House last week are being kept in storage at the National Constitution Center, according to a legal filing from the Trump administration.

The exhibits will remain in Park Service custody at the center, down the road from the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse killed by federal agents last weekend, was swarmed and tackled by officers in another encounter 11 days earlier, according to footage obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Pretti, 37, was captured on bystander video Jan. 13 amid a crowd of whistle-blowing observers, cursing immigration ...Read more

With children increasingly glued to their cellphones, Connecticut legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with restrictions for those under 18.

Lawmakers are pushing a detailed bill that would reduce children’s exposure to addictive algorithms and notifications without parental consent and create default settings for children’s ...Read more

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo on Wednesday emphasized protest rights under the First Amendment but said he didn’t want to speculate on the recent killings of two Minnesota demonstrators by federal immigration agents.

“Protecting citizens to assemble safely and peaceably is — and must remain — a top priority for officials at every level of ...Read more

The United States is preparing to issue a general license that would ease sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector in a bid to jump-start oil exports and attract investment after the dramatic U.S. capture of former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, the Reuters news agency reported citing U.S. officials familiar with the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A rabbi on his way to a Queens synagogue was punched by a stranger yelling antisemitic slurs — as Jews around the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, the victim told the Daily News on Wednesday.

“I was shocked!” Rabbi David Shushan, 30, told the Daily News as he recounted the harrowing clash in Forest Hills. “It was a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dozens of union members and leaders, health care workers and veterans convened outside the Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago Tuesday afternoon for a vigil to protest the death of Alex Pretti and commemorate his life.

Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio would not commit Wednesday to seeking congressional authorization if the Trump administration takes further military action in Venezuela.

In his opening statement at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio left open the possibility that the administration could use military ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla wants Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem impeached. Sen. Adam Schiff wants her to resign.

Neither is a good bet to happen at the moment, but the two California Democrats have joined a growing chorus of senators seeking to oust her.

“Let’s face it: There is no trust, and can be no trust, in the ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday said 10 people in Kentucky have died as a result of Winter Storm Fern, which slammed Kentucky with several inches of snow and ice over the weekend.

Beshear released the ages and home counties of the victims: a 68-year-old man in Daviess County; a 79-year-old man in Graves County; a 55-year-old man in Jefferson ...Read more

CHICAGO — Defense attorneys in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to impede immigration agents argued in a court hearing Wednesday that recent events in Minneapolis have augmented the need to keep evidence in the case public.

The comments came during a hearing ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is turning up the heat on Trump administration officials after federal agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Paul, who is chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called for an investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, in a social ...Read more