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A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice, a state judge ruled Saturday. Circuit Judge J. …

Burning Man attendees were advised to “shelter in place” and conserve food and water on Friday due to ongoing heavy rain in northwestern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. As of Friday evening, movement in and out of Black Rock City has been halted. The gate and airport have also been closed, …

The college football season begins in force this weekend. But the sport that kicks off this year — the 10th year of the college football playoff — looks different compared to a decade ago. Several years of shifting alliances, conference consolidations and new rules around athlete earnings and transfer opportunities have …

Legendary singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his song “Margaritaville,” has died, a statement posted to his website and social media channels said Saturday. He was 76. “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,” the statement said. “He lived …

The gunman who shot two women at a Texas shopping center Thursday, killing one of them, did not know his victims, police said Friday. The suspect, Tang-Kang Dave Chiang, 38, fatally shot himself after shooting the two women at The Arboretum shopping center in Austin around 5 p.m., police said. …

Kenneth Chesebro, the attorney who helped concoct the legal theory behind the so-called fake electors scheme used by former President Donald Trump and his allies, has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges in the Georgia election interference case. In a filing late Thursday to the judge overseeing the criminal …

After Tonny Tavera and Carlos Niño walked across the U.S. border into El Paso in late September 2022, immigration officials gave them the option to board a bus to either New York or Chicago, they recalled.  Niño chose New York, because he’d seen it depicted in movies growing up. “Those …

RALEIGH, N.C. — Police in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where a professor was fatally shot on a college campus this week, received information on the suspect’s identity within minutes of the gunfire, according to a recording of the 911 call. Some portions of the audio sound redacted, but what was …

WASHINGTON — The No. 2 official in New Hampshire on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign told police to kill themselves in an expletive-ridden Jan. 6 video shot close to the U.S. Capitol, according to a recording posted this month by an X account associated with the “Sedition Hunters,” a group of …

WASHINGTON — One day after Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze up at a public event, Brian Monahan, the attending physician for the U.S. Capitol, said that he told McConnell “he is medically clear” to continue to work. Monahan said in a statement that he had “consulted” with …