Costa Rican man complained of lack of care for diabetes before his death in ICE custody, family says

How a ‘bombshell’ report on Susan Collins washed over Maine politics

The ProPublica story brought to light an FBI investigation into an alleged pay-to-play relationship between Collins and a defense contractor.

Maine joins lawsuit over federal deal to redirect offshore wind investments to fossil fuels

Attorneys general from eight states claim the administration illegally used $1.4 billion in public funding to pay wind companies to invest in fossil fuels.

Is it 'killer robots' or 'super intelligence'? At the UN, leaders see both

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s killer robots versus super intelligence. Visions of the future straight out of comic books are playing out at the United Nations as world leaders talk about the threat — or promise — of artificial intelligence. Once again it was Donald Trump against the U.N, chief and other leaders on a […]

Judge orders Texas to have air conditioning at all prisons by end of 2029

DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all of its prisons, saying that inmates in lockups without it are being given punishments that violate their constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman said in the 150-page order that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice must come up […]

Republicans want to turn Mamdani into a bogeyman for the midterms. Trump just made that harder

NEW YORK (AP) — Earlier in the month, President Donald Trump warned voters that democratic socialists — extreme, crazed, lunatics, he called them — were threatening to transform America into “a communist country.” This week, a smiling Trump patted on the shoulder one of the nation’s best known democratic socialists, shook his hand, and said […]