The Colorado gunman who killed 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket in 2021 was found guilty of murder on Monday and now faces life in prison. Ahmad Alissa, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was convicted on multiple charges on Monday, including 10 counts of first-degree murder, 38 counts of attempted murder, one count of assault, and six counts of possessing illegal, large-capacity magazines. Alissa, now 24, opened fire at a King Soopers grocery store in March 2021, killing nine customers...

The federal criminal investigation into New York City Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ ties to the Turkish government — specifically whether he conspired with them to funnel illegal foreign donations to his campaign — has reportedly widened to include five more countries. The New York Times reported that prosecutors subpoenaed City Hall, Adams, and his campaign two months ago for information related to China, Qatar, Uzbekistan, South Korea, and Israel. It was not clear how expansive the scope of the...

TikTok has removed accounts on the platform linked to Russian media groups for engaging in what it calls “covert influence operations” ahead of the 2024 U.S. election. The video-streaming platform announced Monday it had removed accounts associated with parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti for violating its community guidelines. TikTok did not list which specific accounts were removed, but NBC News reported Russian state media outlets RT, formerly known as...

The Republican Party’s efforts to lock down all of Nebraska’s electoral votes for former President Trump could be jeopardized after a state lawmaker refused to throw his support behind an initiative to change how the state allocates its electoral votes. Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell, a former Democrat from Omaha who switched his party to Republican this year, issued a statement Monday about his opposition to awarding that state’s five electoral votes...

Students retrieve their cellphones from pouches where they are stored during the school day at Bayside Academy in San Mateo, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill into law that will require California school districts to restrict or ban student cellphone use, thrusting the state with the largest K-12 population in the nation into the forefront of a growing movement to get distracted students off their devices in the classroom and focused on learning. The law, called the Phone-Free...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration and federal environmental and wildlife officials Monday to challenge the endangered species listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in the heart of Texas oil country. Less than three inches long, the lizard inhabits parts of the Permian Basin near Midland-Odessa and the southeast corner of New Mexico, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Paxton argued that the agency illegally classified the lizard, also...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Monday said he would apply a 200% tariff on John Deere imports if the agricultural equipment company moves production to Mexico, as planned. "As you know, they've announced a few days ago that they are going to move a lot of their manufacturing business to Mexico," Trump said at an event on agriculture and China held in western Pennsylvania. "I am just notifying John Deere right now that if you do that, we are putting a 200% tariff on everything...

In February 2021, two weeks after he moved into the White House, President Biden reminded the nation’s diplomats of his promise to restore American leadership in the world. In a speech at the State Department, he summed up his election in three words: “America is back.” On Tuesday, Mr. Biden will confront the limits of that promise when he addresses world leaders at the United Nations for his fourth and final time as president. The White House says he will make the case that his “...

Former President Donald Trump slammed Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike McDonnell after the state senator said he would not support a change to the way the state allocates its Electoral College votes that would likely increase Trump’s chances of winning the presidential election in November. Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Monday afternoon that McDonnell is a “Grandstander!” who “decided, for no reason whatsoever, to get in the way of a great Republican, common sense, victory...

A Nebraska Republican state lawmaker said Monday that he remains opposed to switching how the state allocates its electoral votes, effectively blocking a bid by President Donald Trump and his allies to change the system in search of an extra electoral vote this fall. Trump allies have pushed for a special legislative session intended for the Republican-controlled Legislature to change Nebraska's system to winner-take-all instead of awarding electoral votes by congressional...