President Donald Trump’s plan for a glitzy new $400 million White House ballroom was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who ruled that only Congress can approve such a dramatic change in the presidential compound.

After presiding over months of litigation, District Court Judge Richard Leon ordered Trump to immediately stop construction of the...Read more

Convening a rarely used committee for the first time in more than three decades, top Trump administration officials voted Tuesday to exempt oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements that protect endangered species.

It’s a striking move that advocacy groups say could further imperil gulf wildlife like the Rice’s whale, one of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Four people were arrested Tuesday in connection with a federal corruption investigation that has ensnared NYC Council member Farah Louis and BHRAGS Home Care, a nonprofit providing homeless services to the city, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office said.

The feds are looking into whether Louis and her sister Debbie Louis, an aide ...Read more

MIAMI — The captain of the tugboat pushing a large construction barge that crashed into a sailboat full of summer campers, killing three young girls last summer, has been charged with their deaths.

Yusiel Lopez Insua, 46 , was charged with seaman’s manslaughter for operating the barge with obstructed visibility and without assigning a ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado held a closed-door meeting Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss a roadmap toward a democratic transition in the South American country.

The State Department did not immediately comment on the meeting, which appeared on Rubio’s official ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is recognizing Tuesday as Farm Workers Day after lawmakers rushed through a renaming of the state holiday that previously honored disgraced civil rights and labor leader César Chávez.

Gov. Jared Polis’ office signed the legislation into law in a private signing ceremony with sponsors Tuesday morning, according to his ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents arrested about 3,800 people during Operation Metro Surge, according to new data released by the Deportation Data Project.

The vast majority of the people arrested between December and March 10 were from Latin America, including half from Ecuador or Mexico. Just over 100 were Somali nationals, despite ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania must release lists of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations on its campus and comply with other measures in a federal agency’s subpoena, a federal court judge ruled Tuesday.

But the school does not have to state which particular organization each employee is affiliated with, said U.S. ...Read more

Every single person who has flown to the moon has been a man. All of them have been white. Each one has been an American.

That’s about to change.

The crew of Artemis II, gunning for a launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening, features what would be the first Black man, first woman and first person from a country other than the ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Norberto Ferret spends long hours behind the wheel, driving across Florida. On Sunday, the 55-year-old commercial driver took a break from his job to join hundreds of others in Tampa to protest the Cuban regime.

“We have waited too long for our people to achieve their freedom,” said Ferret, who lives in Brandon. “We want ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Surrounded by red, white, and blue balloons, Gov. Josh Shapiro declared Tuesday that Pennsylvania will soon become the “center of the world’s attention just like we were 250 years ago.”

Beyond celebrations connected to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the state will host the FIFA ...Read more

A U.S. District Court judge dismissed a wrongful termination suit filed by a Fox News producer who claimed he was fired in retaliation for calling out the network’s reporting on President Donald Trump’s erroneous charges of 2020 election fraud and the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jason Donner, who worked at the network’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that, a month into the war, Iran still has the ability to launch offensive missiles, despite ongoing U.S. and Israeli efforts to weaken Tehran's military capabilities and weapon programs.

"Yes, they will shoot some missiles, but we will shoot them down," Hegseth told reporters at a ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS George H.W. Bush got underway from Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday as the conflict in the Middle East continues to rage.

Families traveled from near and far to see off their loved ones. According to Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, commander of the Bush’s carrier strike group, the deployment timeline and location are under ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Scott Price was working with a wood splitter when it kicked out a fragment of a log, pinning his left hand against a metal plate and severing his thumb and forefinger. After his local hospital in Poconos, Pennsylvania, failed to reattach the digits, Price came to MedStar Health’s Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump called on other nations to wrest control of the Strait of Hormuz as Iran maintained missile fire across the Persian Gulf, expressing his frustration that the monthlong war remains unresolved.

Countries that can’t get energy supplies due to the effective closure of the vital waterway should “go to the Strait and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Mission creep has stymied U.S. presidents in the Middle East and beyond, and now the escalation of President Donald Trump’s military operation in Iran has left him with no clear off-ramp as congressional Democrats lambaste his command of the war.

The commander in chief and his top war aides initially tried selling his decision ...Read more

U.S. job openings fell and hiring slowed to the weakest since 2020 in February, pointing to cooler labor demand before the war in Iran triggered additional uncertainty.

Vacancies decreased to 6.88 million from an upwardly revised 7.24 million in January, which was the highest since May, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Tuesday. ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Tuesday allowed clergy members from the Chicago area to minister to migrants at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview during Easter and Holy Week, issuing the order amid calls for broader access that have even been echoed by Pope Leo XIV.

Following a hearing at the Dirksen U.S. ...Read more