A gunman opened fire Monday morning at one of Reno's biggest casino and hotel complexes, killing two people and injuring several others before being taken into custody by police.

The violence rocked Reno's sprawling resort district and left investigators trying to piece together what happened and determine a motive of the shooting.

The ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — At a visit to a Nez Perce Hatchery near Lewiston, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke of a future without dams on the Snake River.

The Nez Perce traditionally relied on salmon as a critical part of their diet, and the tribe for years has advocated for dams to be breached because they impede salmon migration to and from the ocean. On ...Read more

MIAMI — Two young children died at the hospital after a large barge crashed into a summer camp sailboat they were on near Hibiscus Island off Miami Beach Monday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

A third child on the boat was taken to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital and was unresponsive as of Monday afternoon, said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The union representing nearly 200 House food-service workers has filed lawsuits against two vendors set to open for business this summer on the Capitol campus.

The suits were brought earlier this month in D.C. Superior Court and come amid a larger pressure campaign from the union, including a boycott they hope will gather support...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump stood on a construction site Thursday at the Federal Reserve and insisted there was “no pressure” being applied to Fed Chair Jerome Powell about lowering interest rates. He and top aides then spent the next 16 hours turning up the heat on Powell — and the president was at it again on Monday.

Trump ...Read more

DETROIT — The brother of a northern Michigan man accused of stabbing 11 people at a Walmart near Traverse City said his family tried for decades to get him help, raising red flags and saying his loved ones saw an incident like Saturday's attack "coming for years."

Shane Gille said the stabbings were the culmination of years of mental health ...Read more

A gunman opened fire Monday morning at one of Reno's biggest casino and hotel complexes, killing three people and injuring several others before being shot and taken into custody by police.

The violence rocked Reno's sprawling resort district and left investigators trying to piece together what happened and determine a motive of the shooting.

...Read more

BALTIMORE — Frustrated members of Maryland’s congressional delegation appealed unsuccessfully to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official for permission to tour a temporary detention facility in Baltimore, staging an impromptu sit-in in a hallway after waiting for hours to be let in.

“We expect, quite frankly, that we will be ...Read more

An Army ROTC cadet died during training last week in Kentucky, officials said.

Neil Edara, 22, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, was killed during land navigation training at Fort Knox last Thursday, the Army said in a statement.

He received some medical training at the scene before being flown to University of Louisville Hospital — about 40 miles ...Read more

NEW YORK — A police officer and two civilians have been shot in midtown Manhattan in an active shooter situation, police said.

The shooting happened at Park Ave. and 51st St. around 6:30 p.m., cops said.

Police sources say that the man entered the building at 345 Park Ave. and started shooting, striking a police officer and two civilians. ...Read more

In about two weeks, Kentucky Rep. James Comer will be in Florida.

Not for vacation or a fundraising trip, but to depose Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein now at the center of a controversy that has consumed American politics.

Outrage across the political spectrum has festered, largely due to President Donald Trump and his...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials are investigating after a Monday morning bomb threat evacuated a Frontier Airlines flight that landed at Denver International Airport, though no devices were found, police said.

Frontier crew members on Monday discovered two threatening notes onboard a flight headed from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to ...Read more

Over the past month, as the Trump administration has intensified its immigration crackdown, it has called on states to take a more active role in assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement by building temporary facilities to hold detained migrants. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will now distribute $608 million to states and local ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The wildfire that ravaged Los Angeles in January caused $51.7 billion in damage to residential properties within the city, according to a new report from real estate brokerage Redfin.

The report focused on homes inside the city limits and does not include damage from the Eaton fire in Altadena. The majority of the properties ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republicans are under pressure from President Donald Trump and a group of hard-right lawmakers to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts and tighten the GOP’s already firm grip on the state.

Kansas City is the likely target.

Trump’s political team has expressed interest in redrawing Missouri’s U.S...Read more

BOSTON — The Wu administration is directing $5 million in grant funding toward community organizations with the aim of narrowing a life expectancy gap in three low-income neighborhoods where residents die about 20 years sooner than wealthier parts of Boston.

The grant funding was doled to out to four community-led coalitions “to build ...Read more

Miami residents will have access to free citizenship classes again after the federal government cut funding for a program that’s helped thousands of immigrants prepare for their naturalization exams.

On Monday, Miami District 4 Commissioner Ralph Rosado announced that his office would allocate up to $10,000 to subsidize Miami-Dade County ...Read more

Eleven religious groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security in response to a Trump administration policy reversal ending a decades-long practice protecting houses of worship, schools and hospitals from immigration officials looking to enforce action.

The lawsuit, filed July 28 by Democracy Forward and the Washington Lawyers’ ...Read more

Charlie Rollin, a rising St. Olaf College junior, has begun to retool his plans to attend veterinary school.

That’s because, within the many provisions of the massive, Trump-backed tax package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” are new restrictions on borrowing for graduate and professional school students.

Some schools are now ...Read more