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NASA's new astronaut class gets a name
ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA’s newest class of astronaut candidates just found out what people will call them.
The tradition of the previous astronaut class — the Flies — bestowing the name the following class has continued, according to a Thursday press release from NASA.
The 10 candidates of NASA’s 24th astronaut class, chosen in 2025 and ...Read more
Some Black FIU students feel unsafe and unheard after campus group's racist texts
MIAMI – Florida’s successful efforts to limit how race, racism and even history can be discussed in college classrooms is shaping life at Florida International University, where students and professors say a climate of fear is stifling open dialogue even as they deal with the aftermath of a racist group chat scandal.
In the weeks after a ...Read more
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill blocking new cruise terminal on Tampa Bay's southern shore
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a coastal resilience bill into law on Thursday intended to impede plans for cruise ship operations near the southern part of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on the coast of Manatee County.
The measure (SB 302), one of two bills DeSantis signed, restricts large dredging or filling of the Terra Ceia ...Read more
Judge says Florida's Broward town commission cannot oust controversial mayor
MIAMI — Commissioners in a Broward town wanted to vote on removing their controversial mayor from office, but a judge ruled this week that they cannot.
Broward Judge Shari Africk-Olefson ruled on Tuesday that it is illegal for town commissioners in Pembroke Park to hold a vote at a commission meeting to remove Mayor Geoffrey Jacobs, who has ...Read more
Analysis: Million-plus immigration-benefits applications from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela frozen
The Trump administration’s profusion of travel bans and visa-processing freezes has had the largest impact on Cubans, Haitians, and Venezuelans seeking to legally emigrate to the United States, according to a new analysis from a Washington think tank.
A Cato Institute report published Wednesday estimates there are over 1.2 million frozen ...Read more
Iran keeps up Gulf strikes as war approaches 3-week mark
Iran pressed ahead with attacks on Gulf Arab states even after Israel signaled it would stop targeting the Islamic Republic’s energy infrastructure, further unsettling oil and financial markets.
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia said they intercepted missiles and drones overnight and into Friday, while Bahrain reported a fire at a ...Read more
Minnesota's caregiving workforce was already short-staffed. Then ICE came
MINNEAPOLIS — Ekaterina’s husband was taken by immigration officers on a Sunday morning as he warmed up the family car. Three months later, he still hasn’t come home.
The Eagan, Minnesota, couple, who left Russia and sought asylum in the U.S., have valid work permits and spent the past year providing support for people with disabilities ...Read more
Florida was on the verge of restoring this beloved river. What happened?
TAMPA, Fla. — A legislative proposal that charted the clearest course in years for reviving Florida’s storied Ocklawaha River, dubbed by supporters as the state’s “next great restoration project,” appeared destined for success last month.
Over several weeks, the bill that required a state plan to restore the winding north-central ...Read more
An ICE arrest can take immigrants thousands of miles from home. Some say that's by design
At the time, Francisco thought the worst had happened on that day in August, when he was stopped and arrested by ICE on his way to work in South Jersey.
But he never imagined the odyssey that would follow — a series of transfers among detention centers that propelled him through several states and different court jurisdictions, moving him 1,...Read more
South Carolina school reportedly built on land coated with polluting industry's waste
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s environmental agency plans to test the soil at an elementary school near Darlington for toxic forever chemicals after learning the property may have been a disposal site for a textile plant’s contaminated sewer sludge.
The S.C. Department of Environmental Services says it has records showing that 91 tons ...Read more
Israel says it won't strike Iran energy sites after Trump rebuke
Israel said it will no longer target energy infrastructure after an attack on an Iranian gas field sparked retaliatory strikes against energy assets across the Middle East, causing oil and gas prices to surge and prompting a rebuke from President Donald Trump.
“Israel acted alone,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a news conference...Read more
Who are Iran’s new leaders? A look at 6 the US placed a bounty on – 2 of whom are already dead
The Trump administration announced a US$10 million reward on March 15, 2026, for information leading to the capture of several senior Iranian figures.
While two of these leaders have since been killed by Israeli strikes, they are included here to provide a more complete picture of Iran’s powerful elite – people deeply embedded in ...Read more
Denver audit of homelessness initiative puts focus on cost dispute, with Mayor Mike Johnston pushing back
Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien released a critical report on Mayor Mike Johnston’s homelessness program Thursday, calling his key initiative “poorly planned” and claiming it had cost millions of dollars more than the office reported.
“They needed to have, really, a better plan in place before they started executing,” O’Brien said in ...Read more
Trump, Takaichi announce $40 Billion US reactor project
President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced a nuclear power project in the southern U.S., the latest initiative stemming from an investment fund the countries established as part of a trade pact.
At the White House on Thursday, the two leaders said that GE Vernova Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. will build BWRX-300 small ...Read more
Federal immigration detainees testify how US government impeded access to attorneys at Minnesota's Whipple Building
MINNEAPOLIS — During testimony in a Minneapolis courtroom, attorneys and previously detained immigrants revealed more insight into their difficulties accessing counsel at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, including instances that came after a judge ordered the U.S. government to overhaul how it offered legal services.
In February, U....Read more
St. Paul to be 'national flagship' for anti-Trump rallies across US
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Another round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, with organizers describing a rally at the Minnesota Capitol as a “national flagship” for more than 3,000 events across the U.S.
At noon that day, they plan to march from three separate locations in St. Paul and ...Read more
Federal judges, in rare forum, call out the rise of threats against the judiciary
Federal Judge Dolly M. Gee, chief of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, knew her rulings would be questioned when she took the job. But she didn’t expect the hateful vitriol.
“You’re dead. ... I’ll put a bullet in your head in the middle of your kitchen without you seeing it coming, or expecting it, ” said one message from a ...Read more
'Agriculture Appreciation Day'? Fresno County weighs axing Cesar Chavez Day
FRESNO, Calif. — The Fresno County Board of Supervisors has called a special meeting next week to decide whether to strip civil rights leader Cesar Chavez from the eponymous holiday annually March 31.
The special meeting is 11:30 a.m. Monday in the chambers of the Hall of Records.
The board announced the special meeting Wednesday afternoon, ...Read more
Judge weighs removing Santa Clara DA from Stanford felony vandalism retrial
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Santa Clara County judge is weighing whether to remove District Attorney Jeff Rosen and his office from retrying a felony vandalism case against five pro-Palestinian activists — a ruling that could upend one of the most serious prosecutions in the country tied to the wave of campus protests in 2024.
Judge Kelley Paul ...Read more
Chicago schools, parks consider renaming César Chavez monuments after bombshell sexual abuse allegations
CHICAGO — It has been more than 50 years since the Rev. Jorge Morales boarded a plane from Chicago headed toward Coachella, California, to join a picket line in support of higher pay and benefits for farmworkers.
But the now 78-year-old Elmhurst resident can still remember César Chavez, the prominent co-founder of the United Farm Workers. ...Read more
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