WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to levy 25% tariffs on vehicles and certain auto parts not produced in the United States, a policy that experts and industry executives warn could create distinct winners and losers in Detroit.

"This is very modest," Trump said in the Oval Office during the signing. "If ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Republican state legislators unveiled an elections overhaul bill Wednesday that would empower the State Election Board after its conservative majority tried and failed to change several rules weeks before Election Day last year.

The rewritten bill would mandate the kind of hand ballot counts proposed by the board last fall, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers called for criminal investigations Wednesday into the conduct surrounding a sensitive group chat in which high-ranking Trump officials discussed military action against the Houthis.

Senate and House Democrats underscored the Espionage Act in letters to the Trump administration as they called for either ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and top allies struggled to fend off criticism over the inadvertent inclusion of a journalist in a Signal chat discussing military attacks in Yemen, after newly disclosed texts showed how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed specific operational details.

Trump and senior administration officials on ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The parents of a transgender student athlete at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School spoke out Wednesday, telling the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association that participating on girls’ sports teams was critical for her well-being — and that of other transgender children.

Appearing before PIAA’s board of directors ...Read more

A year after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, an independent government agency urged the owners of seven bridges in California — including the iconic Golden Gate Bridge — to urgently assess their risk of a catastrophic collapse.

In a March 18 report, the National Transportation Safety Board identified a total of 68...Read more

Maryland Democrats are coming down hard on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his role in the biggest political scandal of President Donald Trump’s second term thus far.

“Somebody should take responsibility for this, and if there’s not a good explanation and they’re not able to state how it will not happen again in the future, they ...Read more

Democrats in Springfield and Washington are vowing to defend Illinois election laws against a sweeping executive order from Donald Trump aimed at limiting counting of mail-in votes, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and giving Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to voter data.

The executive order, signed ...Read more

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness said Wednesday that the escalating gang crisis in Haiti has reached a point that demands a rapid increase in the number of cops and equipment for the Haiti National Police to battle gangs that are on the verge of taking over the capital.

Ultimately, the Haiti National Police “has to take on the gangs,” ...Read more

BOSTON — A Tufts University grad student who has been vocal about her pro-Palestinian support has been detained by federal authorities in Somerville, according to reports.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright Scholar from Turkey, was taken into custody Tuesday evening by Department of Homeland Security agents outside an off-campus ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz and state leaders on Wednesday urged new strategies to protect Minnesotans and agricultural producers from H5N1, an influenza strain that has spread rapidly in the U.S. among wild and domestic birds and dairy farms over the past three years.

The highly infectious bird flu variant was most recently found in turkey farms in Dakota ...Read more

BOSTON — An alternate juror from Karen Read’s first trial has joined the defense team just ahead of the retrial, which is scheduled to begin on Tuesday.

Victoria George was added to the defense team on Wednesday according to court records. George identified herself as an alternate juror earlier this month in an interview with Boston’s CBS...Read more

For five weeks, Yolanda Marodi was on the run from authorities.

The 53-year-old was the prime suspect in the killing of her wife, Rebecca Marodi, 49, a fire captain who was found stabbed to death last month in the couple's home in Ramona, California, officials said.

Her fugitive status ended this weekend when Yolanda Marodi was arrested in ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge rejected a majority of motions by OpenAI and Microsoft to dismiss parts of a lawsuit accusing the tech companies of swiping stories from the New York Daily News, The New York Times and other newspapers to train their AI products.

The Daily News, its affiliated newspapers in MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, ...Read more

President Donald Trump‘s recent executive order overhauling U.S. elections has drawn swift opposition from California leaders and advocacy groups who say it threatens how the state conducts elections.

Signed Tuesday, March 25, the order calls for stricter voting rules, including requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One by one, the speakers walked up to the small table early Wednesday, then sat and faced the panel of lawmakers in front of them.

Several came from across the country — Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas. For some, it was their first time in the Missouri Capitol building.

They came to testify in support of two ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A protest led by scientists and other state employees Wednesday afternoon wasn’t as loud as one earlier this month. But the 100 or so workers who marched in downtown Sacramento carried the same angry message: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s return to office order needs to be defeated.

“Hell no RTO!” they chanted, as they ...Read more