A Rhode Island taxpayer asked to see contracts between her local schools and the regional authority on matters such as information technology and records management ahead of a March vote on the next budget, an historically explosive subject.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are scheduled to give sworn testimony early next week to the U.S. House Oversight Committee as part of a GOP-led investigation into the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, ending a months-long standoff between the former first couple and congressional Republicans.

Search and rescue teams grappled with hazardous weather and unstable snowpack this weekend as they recovered the bodies of skiers killed in a massive avalanche near Castle Peak in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. 

The slide, which struck midweek during a severe winter storm, is now linked to nine fatalities, making it among the deadliest avalanche incidents in U.S. history.

The Illinois official whose agency issued potentially thousands of illegal licenses to truckers, received more than $300,000 in donations from the trucking industry in recent years. The Illinois Secretary of State, Alexi Giannoulias, is in a standoff with the Trump Transportation Department over its review of the state’s commercial drivers licenses (CDLs) which found that 1-in-5 licenses issued by Giannoulias’ office were done so illegally. 

A federal judge has ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s practice of conducting arrests with masked, unidentifiable agents violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable seizures.

In a Feb. 19 opinion, U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin ordered the immediate release of petitioner Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, who was “arrested abruptly and without warning by a group of masked men purporting to be” ICE officers.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says President Donald Trump owes the families of Illinois and the United States about $2,000 per household for the illegal tariffs he imposed.

Pritzker’s comments came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the power to levy taxes and duties on Americans rests solely with Congress.

Investigators from the Justice Department's federal civil rights division have opened inquiries into three Michigan public school districts over classroom content and student facility policies.

The probes target Detroit Public Schools Community District, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools and Lansing School District, the department announced Wednesday.

(The Center Square) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is hitting the brakes on plans to allow robotaxis to operate on the state's roadways, following pushback from labor unions, transit workers, and rideshare drivers.

During her state of the state address last month, Hochul floated the idea of allowing commercial robotaxi services, like Waymo and Alphabet, to begin operating in cities and towns outside of New York City if local officials approve pilot testing of the autonomous vehicles. But on Wednesday, the Hochul administration said it was walking back to those plans amid opposition.

A middle Tennessee mayor said Friday he is a conservative Republican, but he does not want a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility coming to his town.

The Department of Homeland Security is looking at property in Lebanon, Mayor Rick Bell said. The department had not spoken with the city's utilities or engineering departments, he said.

(The Center Square) — New York Republican lawmakers are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to drop her controversial plans to give New York City $1.5 billion to help reduce its budget shortfall.

In a letter to Hochul, Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt and other members of the Legislature's Republican minority caucus call on the governor to scrap her plan to help New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani offset the impact of a projected $5.4 billion revenue gap over the next two years.

The American Border Story on Friday criticized Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore for signing a bill into law that bars police cooperation agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Moore signed the bill on Tuesday. The legislation does not preclude isolated instances of cooperation, but requires the termination of any formal arrangements by July. It also does not prevent local law enforcement from turning over illegal immigrants in government custody to ICE.

Amid a Winter Olympics shadowed by war, sanctions and partisan rhetoric, the clatter of skates on ice, swoosh of skis on snow and gasps from enthusiastic crowds have emerged as the central theme of the Games.

The world’s most prestigious winter sporting event had an inauspicious start earlier this month: there were protests in Milan about the inclusion of ICE agents within the U.S. security team, and Vice President JD Vance was greeted by hisses and boos when he appeared at the Olympic opening ceremony.