The wide-ranging new tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday represent the biggest change to global trade in a century, prompting urgent questions about how the new taxes were calculated, how long they will last and what exactly the White House hopes to achieve with them.

Confusion over the details — and the fact that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., proposed congressional legislation on Thursday to overturn Gov. Gavin Newsom’s electric vehicle mandates.

Kiley called his proposal “a major step in our efforts to Newsom-proof California,” glibly referring to special legislation the governor signed earlier this year to prepare the Golden State ...Read more

BOSTON — The case to free a Tufts Ph.D. student and vocally pro-Palestine Turkish national after she was detained last week took a step forward in court Thursday, with both defense lawyers and the Justice Department clashing on jurisdiction of the case.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts University Ph.D. student and Fulbright Scholar from ...Read more

Severe weather spawned dozens of reported tornadoes in the past 48 hours, with about a third of them occurring in Kansas and Missouri, according to preliminary reports.

The tornadoes, some of which were deadly, left a path of destruction from the south to the Great Lakes, destroying homes, overturning vehicles, and downing power lines.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ramped up a campaign this week against Edward Martin’s bid to become U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, pushing for a hearing on the conservative activist who represented defendants charged in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

While the committee doesn’t typically hold ...Read more

Universities across Minnesota are scrambling to help international students after more students had their visas revoked, schools reported Thursday, just a day after five international students in Mankato had their student visas terminated.

At Minnesota State, one international student enrolled at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his shocking plan for massive tariffs by claiming “the patient lived,” a less-than-reassuring message about the American economy as global markets melted down in a stunning selloff that knocked more than 1,600 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

“The operation is over. The patent lived,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general will conduct an investigation of the Signal group chat where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump administration officials discussed details of an impending attack on Houthi militants in Yemen.

“We are initiating the subject evaluation” in response to a request from lawmakers for �...Read more

As with many of his political positions, President Trump's extraordinary new tariffs are based on the presumption that the United States is being treated unfairly by the rest of the world.

He proclaims his tariffs are merely "reciprocal." "They do it to us, and we do it to them," Trump said. "Very simple."

But are the new levies on foreign ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is facing global blowback after announcing a dramatic series of tariffs on countries around the world, with U.S. adversaries and allies alike promising crushing responses that could devastate the American economy.

Stocks plummeted at the market’s close Thursday, with the S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial ...Read more

A coalition of states sued President Donald Trump and his administration Thursday over his recent executive order purporting to radically reshape voting rules nationwide, including requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship, calling it an illegal attempt by the White House to strip states of their authority to govern elections.

"My fellow...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A former U.S. attorney for Idaho has joined the team prosecuting Idaho college student homicide defendant Bryan Kohberger.

Josh Hurwit, 44, chosen by former President Joe Biden for his prior role, left the appointed position in February in the transition to President Donald Trump. Now Hurwit will assist in the state’s case ...Read more

BOSTON — On the third day of juror selection in the Karen Read retrial attorneys brought the total number of jurors in the final pool to 10.

Attorneys added seven to the final jury pool during the previous two days and ended with 10 on the third day: five men and five women. There was a total of 19 jurors selected for trial in the first go-...Read more

BOSTON — As jury selection unfolds in the Karen Read retrial in Dedham her attorneys have taken their efforts to overturn the murder charge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years and a 16-year Boston police officer, with her car and leaving him to die in...Read more

President Trump’s administration intentionally made a mess of Social Security operations in Maine as part of an unrelated feud with the state’s governor, according to emails released Wednesday.

Trump’s pick to lead the Social Security Administration, Leland Dudek, briefly canceled longstanding contracts in the state in March. The ...Read more

Americans are falling behind Europeans in lifespan, even among older and wealthier groups, a Brown University study found.

The study compared age groups and income across the United States and 16 European countries, ultimately including 73,838 participants between the ages of 50 and 85, and was published April 2 in the New England Journal of ...Read more

A push to legalize medical aid in dying in Nevada is in the Legislature is once again, despite several failed efforts that included a veto from Gov. Joe Lombardo two years ago.

Assembly Bill 346 would allow terminally ill patients to self-administer medication to end their lives if they meet the bill’s eligibility criteria. It includes rules ...Read more

ALPENA, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday she is worried about the effects of the tariff hikes President Donald Trump announced Wednesday and the damper they could have on economic growth and state tax revenues.

Trump announced 25% tariffs last week on imported vehicles and certain major auto parts would begin to be collected ...Read more