2+ hour, 53+ min ago  (383+ words) President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents Dinner at a hotel in Washington, D. C. , on Saturday night after what sounded like shots were fired, according to the press traveling with the president. An initial pool report said "There…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (702+ words) WASHINGTON " Family and friends of Virginia Roberts Giuffre gathered in the nation's capital Saturday to mark one year since her death, and to demand justice for victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On a stage across from the…...

14+ hour, 57+ min ago  (212+ words) A former corrections officer at Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Joshua Lee, 22, entered a guilty plea Thursday to one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct for engaging in "multiple sexual acts with several prisoners while working at the prison," a…...

18+ hour, 22+ min ago  (839+ words) When the legislature returns next year, 25 familiar faces will have moved on, Some are looking forward to life after politics, after decades at it or after just one term. Others wish to focus on their personal lives. Several are looking…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (392+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS " U. S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Friday in Iowa that supporting data centers being built in the U. S. was critical to "reindustrialization" efforts touted by the Trump administration. Wright made his comments while visiting a data center being built in…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (726+ words) COLUMBIA " The Statehouse's planned monument to Civil War hero Robert Smalls has a location. It has a design. What Smalls' monument, the first on the grounds honoring an individual Black person, needs next is funding. The monument, which legislators unanimously…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (248+ words) The ACLU of Michigan and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center are calling on Congress to require an independent investigation into the ICE detention center in Baldwin, Mich. amid a hunger strike by detainees that has been ongoing since Monday." The…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (637+ words) Sam Kursban worked the room Thursday night like an experienced politician, buttonholing strangers and asking how to make life better for the congressional 5th District, specifically the parts in Anne Arundel County. But Kursban, 17, is not a politician. He's a would-be…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (828+ words) Ahead of an estimated 150, 000 Illinois households losing access to federal food assistance on May 1, Illinois launched two websites aimed at providing work, training and volunteer hours to those households. Job Ready IL collects training programs and employment opportunities, while Serve…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (135+ words) Editor's note: To help readers learn more about primary runoff candidates, The Texas Tribune has compiled background information on the Democrats seeking their party's nomination for lieutenant governor in the May 26 runoff. For a full list of candidates, view our…...