When his school board raised the prospect of banning cell phones, Superintendent Dan Taormina sunk in his seat.

"I did not want to take on kids and parents and their phones," said Taormina, who leads the Montoursville Area School District in Lycoming County. The district had previously tried banning phones — both by asking students to put ...Read more

Hundreds of USPS workers left their postal-blue uniforms at home on Sunday, when they rallied on Boston Common for a fair contract and vowed to “fight like hell” against a march toward the privatization of a 250-year-old public good.

Many clad in the red t-shirts of their union, the postal workers and their supporters stood for hours ...Read more

A South Korean court has overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as the country’s acting leader in the first major ruling after the martial law fiasco.

The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of Han on Monday, with only one out of eight judges voting against restoring him to office. The decision is closely ...Read more

China needs to take action on stopping the flow of fentanyl precursors to the U.S. before further talks on trade, according to a Donald Trump ally in the Senate who met with top officials in Beijing over the weekend.

“It’ll be difficult to have any conversation about tariffs and non-tariff barriers until the fentanyl precursor issue is ...Read more

A South Korean court has overturned Prime Minister Han Duck-soo’s impeachment, reinstating him as the acting leader as the country waits for a separate verdict on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s political fate.

The Constitutional Court ruled in Han’s favor on Monday, with only one of the eight judges voting against restoring him to office. An ...Read more

Ukrainian and U.S. officials held talks in Riyadh, resuming efforts to end Russia’s full-scale invasion as President Donald Trump pushes for a ceasefire.

The discussion on Sunday in Saudi Arabia was “productive and focused,” and “addressed key points including energy,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on social media. U.S...Read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has a message in response to threats from within the Trump administration to bring “hell” to Boston in pursuit of the president’s mass deportation plans.

“Bring it on,” she said.

Campbell, speaking during an interview aired Sunday by WCVB, said that while the country is facing a ...Read more

As his Democratic Party struggles to win back working-class Americans, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore talked on "Fox News Sunday" about voters’ frustrations — including a viral moment involving his constituent at a town hall.

A woman recently shouted during one of Rep. Glenn Ivey’s town halls in Prince George’s County, with emotion and anger ...Read more

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth has tried for months to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Gov. Tim Walz to no avail, even as the DFL governor traveled to other states for town halls and national interviews.

Demuth and other Republicans at the Capitol have grown increasingly frustrated with Walz, whom they say rarely engages with them ...Read more

Turkey formally arrested President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, a decision likely to trigger more market turmoil and protests across the country.

Ekrem Imamoglu, Istanbul’s mayor, was jailed on corruption charges Sunday morning, days after being detained by police.

The case has the potential to keep Imamoglu, who denies the...Read more

President Donald Trump did something unusual this weekend: he didn’t visit his Mar-a-Lago Club, something he’s done most weekends since returning to the presidency.

That gave a break to local law enforcement, which plays a major role in presidential security when he’s in Palm Beach County — and especially as he moves among his Mar-a-...Read more

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that would have protected conversion therapy practices and denied Medicaid funds to pay for gender-affirming health care for transgender Kentucky adults.

Beshear vetoed House Bill 495 Saturday night at the Kentucky Fairness Campaign Dinner in Louisville in front of an audience who cheered as he did...Read more

In a sit-down interview with Fox News last month, President Trump and his billionaire "efficiency" adviser Elon Musk framed new tariffs on foreign trading partners as a simple matter of fairness.

"I said, 'Here's what we're going to do: reciprocal. Whatever you charge, I'm charging,'" Trump said of a conversation he'd had with Indian Prime ...Read more

The Tarrant Area Food Bank is turning to local support now that it faces a combined deficit of $4.2 million due to the ending of federal food-assistance programs. That equates to 2.5 million meals for families across North Texas.

The nonprofit acts as a regional clearinghouse for donated food serving Fort Worth and 13 surrounding counties. It ...Read more

President Donald Trump has ramped up his fight with the judiciary as he racks up losses in court over his administration’s efforts to reshape the U.S. government and its approach on everything from immigration to federal spending.

Two months into his term, Trump is already fighting more than 150 lawsuits challenging his executive actions, ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28, with polls showing a close contest between his Liberal Party and the Conservatives as the country faces a trade war and taunts about its sovereignty from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carney requested the dissolution of Parliament on Sunday in a meeting with Governor General ...Read more

Talks in Riyadh between Ukrainian and U.S. officials, part of an effort to end Russia’s three-year invasion of its neighbor, started on Sunday afternoon, Ukraine’s defense minister said.

The discussions are expected to be followed on Monday by a meeting between the U.S. and Russia. Moscow’s delegation has arrived in Riyadh, Tass reported...Read more

Second lady Usha Vance will travel to Greenland this week, the latest ally of Donald Trump to visit the island as the president ramps up his rhetoric that the U.S. should buy it from Denmark.

Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will travel to Greenland with her son and a U.S. delegation on Thursday and return on Saturday, the White ...Read more