The original plan was to start a school district. That didn’t work. So a group of residents in a sprawling unincorporated suburb of Baton Rouge, La., expanded their idea: Create a city of their own, called St. George. In 2015, they

President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November. In a statement Friday, Biden’s top health official gave no timeline for

A judge in Orange County, California ruled that it’s racist to believe that crime rates differ by race, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that crime rates differ by race, and the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics has specifically noted that the black homicide rate

Shocking footage shows the moment a Las Vegas substitute teacher fought a high school student that allegedly called him a racial slur. Re’Kwon Smith, 27, is seen in footage posted to social media repeatedly punching a student, who is also engaged

Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury. The jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable

A 56-year-old man who pleaded guilty this year to killing a man in 1999 will spend the rest of his life behind bars in connection with the death of another person, whose dismembered remains were found in a shed. On Monday, April 29,

The influx of Chinese electric vehicles into the European market has sparked research into how implementing significant new tariffs would address the competitive advantage enjoyed by automakers in China. With a quarter of EVs sold in the EU this year expected

Florida’s 6-week abortion ban takes effect Wednesday, May 1, after the state’s Supreme Court upheld the law earlier in April. The state currently has a 15-week ban in place. The new law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in April 2023, offers