Like at least other 14 states, Minnesota has wrestled with how to regulate the popular prediction market sites. Federal officials sued the state over its new law.

With four Republican backers, Democrats won a vote to advance a resolution that would force the president to end hostilities or win authorization from Congress.

The three men killed in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego were instrumental in delaying the attackers, the city’s police chief said.

“Taiwan Travelogue” is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.

Democrats called the transportation secretary’s reality-show-like series unethical.

The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield hasn’t been this high since the lead-up to the global financial crisis. Across Europe and Asia, yields are also elevated.

The acting attorney general told lawmakers the fund would review claims from an array of people, not just Republicans.

The president embraced Ken Paxton, a MAGA loyalist, over Senator John Cornyn, despite warnings from Republican leaders about Mr. Paxton’s history of scandal.

News that President Trump had snubbed Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the four-term incumbent, was met with shock, anger and fear that the G.O.P. could lose his seat.

Also, voters cast ballots in key primaries. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

In 1996, the giggling stuffed doll turned holiday shopping into chaos, a preview of every sneaker drop, PlayStation launch and Taylor Swift ticket rush to come.

An electronics wizard, he was already a veteran inventor when he collaborated with Ron Dubren on an idea for a toy that giggled. The rest is retail history.

The tornado in Nebraska stayed on the ground for 11 minutes. A new subdivision called Dirt Road was wiped out, while nearby homes went untouched.

Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.

Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.

Details are still emerging about the contract reached after a three-day strike that shut down America’s busiest passenger rail service. But the fallout could be felt for years.

Despite its early stumbles, Google’s Gemini has leapfrogged ChatGPT in relevance and usefulness. Soon, it will be ubiquitous.

Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a video-generation tool and simplifying online shopping.

David Schutzenhofer, a Trump Organization employee, reached out to one of the vendors the government later hired for the iconic site near the Lincoln Memorial, documents show.

This season “Saturday Night Live” found new ways to satirize the Trump administration and said goodbye to one of its most valuable cast members.

Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy and a longtime Trump loyalist, is overseeing American hosting duties for the World Cup next month. It’s a big promotion.