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May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Eleven high school lacrosse players in Syracuse, New York, turned themselves in to authorities Wednesday in a hazing incident involving younger teammates that the district attorney said includ...

May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

BEIRUT — Israel launched airstrikes on Syria on Wednesday and threatened to strike government forces there if clashes persisted between pro-government fighters and militiamen from the Dr...

May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia University, was freed from federal custody Wednesday as immigration officials seek to rescind his green card as part of...

May 1, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR — Pakistan said on Wednesday it has “credible intelligence” that India intends to launch military action soon, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighb...

May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

At least four people were killed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and hundreds of thousands of customers were without power after severe weather that had torn across the High Plains and Upper Midwes...

May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A divided federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to lift an order blocking the U.S. Social Security Administration from giving the Elon Musk-spearheaded Department...

May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are already taking a toll on China’s factories.

May 1, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — An evenly split U.S. Senate rejected the latest bipartisan bid to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, hours after the federal government reported that...

April 30, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON/DETROIT — U.S. President Donald Trump signed a pair of orders to soften the blow of his auto tariffs on Tuesday with a mix of credits and relief from other levies on materials...

April 30, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WARREN, Michigan — President Donald Trump touted what he called a series of major economic wins and forcefully attacked Democrats during a rally in Michigan on Tuesday, as polling showed...

April 30, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday canceled a program that sought to increase the role of women in national security sectors that was first signed into law by Pr...

April 30, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Four people, all of them children or teenagers, were killed and several others were injured Monday when a car crashed through an after-school center in Chatham, Illinois, a village just south...

April 30, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Public hospitals diverted ambulances. Beach crews cleared wildfire debris without heavy equipment. Libraries closed. Thousands of nurses stayed home.

April 30, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

CAIRO/GENEVA/GAZA — It took five hours of queuing at a community kitchen in Gaza’s Nuseirat district for displaced grandmother Um Mohammad Al-Talalqa to get one meal to feed her hu...

April 30, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the Trump administration had effectively dismantled AmeriCorps by abruptly canceling grants and cutting 85% of the workforce of the fe...

April 30, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office started with what seemed to be a fresh, fast-escalating spat between the White House and Amazon.