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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Lawmakers across the Empire State are due back in the legislative chambers this week for the start of the session, where a range of topics — including housing production and mayoral control— are expected to dominate the agenda in the first half of 2024. Members from the Assem…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — After New York City moved last week to slow the pace of migrant-filled charter buses from Southern states, roughly a dozen buses have arrived outside the city in New Jersey since Saturday, according to officials. The wave of buses west of New York City, which continued Monday…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Artificial intelligence represents a mixed blessing for the legal field, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in a year-end report published on Sunday, urging “caution and humility” as the evolving technology transforms how judges and lawyers go abou…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates could face the heat of the public spotlight Monday under a federal judge’s order to unseal scores of documents pertaining to the late multimillionaire sex predator. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Loretta Preska ordered the release of docu…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Some of the heaviest surf in years pounded the Southern California coast on Saturday, while high tides triggered warnings of flooding and closures of beaches and piers. Waves as high as 20 feet were forecast in Ventura and Los Angeles, while larger swells were rolling in alon…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Amid a season of striking workers and war protesters, agencies responsible for security during the Rose Parade have been actively preparing for potential demonstrations ahead of the New Year’s Day event. The city of Pasadena has collaborated with numerous law enforcemen…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A 36-year-old man was shot in the leg by a Baltimore Police officer after charging at officers with knives and causing one to sustain a minor wound, police officials said during a news conference Saturday. Police were patrolling the 2000 block of West Pratt Street near the ne…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Authorities investigating the deaths of a husband and wife and their teenage daughter at a Dover home found a firearm close to the husband’s body in what the Norfolk District Attorney says appears to be a “deadly incident of domestic violence.” DA Michael Morrissey has identi…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — More than 100 people were safely rescued from an ice floe that detached from the shoreline of a northern Minnesota lake Friday night, authorities said. The ice chunk had broken off from a fishing area on the southeastern shore of Upper Red Lake, the Beltrami County Sheriff’s …

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) — Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has called on citizens to stone gay people, escalating a crackdown on sexual minorities in a country where LGBT people already face social ostracism and jail terms of up to two years if convicted of same-sex offences. “If y…