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Maine's Board of Pesticides Control says two summer residents poisoned a neighbor's trees so the couple, both Martha Stewart associates, could have a harbor view. They deny it.

Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah has called for politicians to tone down their rhetoric and "disagree better." The assassination of Charlie Kirk is testing the limits of that high-minded approach.

The former governors joined Curtis Sliwa and a group of assorted New York City luminaries as models at Style Across the Aisle, a bipartisan event.

Democrats have been slow to embrace Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who won New York City's mayoral primary. Many, especially in New York, still are.

A guide to the military prison, the prisoners, the costs and what else goes on at the U.S. naval base.

President Trump promised to find those responsible for political violence, as well as the "organizations that fund it and support it."

President Trump asked for updates and met with advisers in the Oval Office before recording a four-minute video in which he blamed rhetoric from the "radical left" for the killing.

Mr. Kirk was among the faithful who had helped Mr. Trump build a comeback after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol made him a political outcast. Mr. Trump brought him into his second-term inner circle.

While the nation has endured violent eras before, this is one with instant footage, and instant reaction.

Though it failed, Mr. Schumer's proposal brought the contentious debate over the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files to the Senate, which has largely avoided it.