WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the […]

Michigan museum preserves Civil Rights artifacts
DEARBORN, Mich. — Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in support of Black […]

Artifacts in US museums explain the outsized role of racism in the nation’s history
DEARBORN, Mich. — Museums across the U.S. are displaying artifacts that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era. Visitors to the Henry Ford near Detroit can see […]

4 people die in crash of medical transport plane on Navajo Nation in northern Arizona
A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people, the tribe said in a statement. A Beechcraft King Air […]

Judge considers whether Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center violates environmental law
MIAMI — A federal judge on Wednesday was hearing arguments over whether to stop construction of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed […]

Justice Department releases new list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions
Associated Press — The Justice Department identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions on Tuesday, two months after the federal government quietly removed a much […]

Purdue University student freed from ICE detention after outcry from faith leaders
A Purdue University student from South Korea has been freed from federal detention, tearfully reuniting with her family and religious community in Manhattan following days of outcry from faith leaders […]

US stocks slip following the latest discouraging signal on the economy
NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes slipped on Tuesday following the latest discouraging signal on the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, coming off a whipsaw stretch where it […]

Massive wildfire in central California threatens homes, injures 3 people as it burns out of control
SANTA MARIA, Calif. — A massive wildfire on Monday was threatening hundreds of homes in central California after injuring at least three people as it tore through Los Padres National […]

Judge blocks 4 districts from enforcing Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments in classroom
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new Arkansas law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments cannot be enforced in a handful of the state’s largest school districts where parents […]