Capital One Financial Corp. and Discover Financial Services shares fell after a report that staff at the US Department of Justice had concerns about their $35 billion merger.

Discover slid as much as 12.5%, the most since July 2023, while Capital One shares dropped as much as 7%. Traders attributed the decline to a report by The Capitol Forum ...Read more

CHICAGO — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unlawfully arrested and violated the rights of 21 immigrants and a U.S. citizen during raids in the Chicago area and other Midwestern states during the first days of the second Trump administration, advocates and attorneys said Monday.

The National Immigrant Justice Center and the ...Read more

Hundreds of former federal employees have applied for vacancies in Pennsylvania's state government since Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order two weeks ago giving them hiring preference for state jobs amid firings and layoffs across the federal workforce.

As of Monday, the commonwealth has received approximately 1,100 applications from ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would look to counter China’s economic advantage from coal-based electricity by authorizing his administration to ramp up production of energy from the fossil fuel.

“I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,” Trump wrote in a social media post. ...Read more

President Donald Trump picked Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman to serve as the central bank’s vice chair for supervision, a move cheered by Wall Street banks and smaller lenders who expect she’ll be friendlier to the industry.

“Miki has been serving honorably on the Fed’s Board of Governors since 2018, and has great expertise ...Read more

President Trump said Monday that he was stripping former President Joe Biden’s children of their Secret Service protection.

“Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection,” Trump posted on his Truth Social media site. “Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken ...Read more

China held new military exercises around Taiwan, linking them to recent U.S. moves backing the self-ruled archipelago.

A total of 42 aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Monday, the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei said in statements. The planes entered sensitive zones around the main island and trained with naval ...Read more

Venezuela will do “whatever it takes” to free hundreds of its citizens deported by the U.S. to a notorious prison in El Salvador, according to National Assembly leader Jorge Rodríguez.

“We will resort to all countries and bilateral relations, legal strategies,” Rodríguez said in a press conference on Monday. “We will even talk to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania has asked a federal judge to dismiss the racial discrimination lawsuit filed by controversial law professor Amy Wax, in which she said the school’s speech policies “violate core principles of the First Amendment.”

Penn told the court last week that Wax has not denied making the statements ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González expressed support Monday for the crackdown by the United States and Chile on the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang, but asked both governments not to penalize the honest and hard-working Venezuelans seeking refuge in their countries.

“We urge the competent authorities of ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the United States and Russia are already talking about dividing “assets” as part of a push to end the fighting in Ukraine, the latest sign that he may be preparing to sacrifice Kyiv’s interests when he speaks with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

One objective of the call is expected to be getting the Russian ...Read more

During his first tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since taking over as the institution’s chairman, President Donald Trump said he never liked “Hamilton,” but that he expected other “Broadway hits,” including “Les Misérables,” to do well for the center.

“The thing that does well are Broadway hits,” ...Read more

The Minnesota Supreme Court has tossed out more than two dozen Republican-led petitions attempting to recall House DFL members who boycotted the first weeks of the 2025 legislative session.

The decision released Monday dismissed 29 petitions against DFL members all at once, saying their actions didn’t meet a “serious malfeasance or ...Read more

Maryland lawmakers weighed hundreds of bills Monday, debating and passing controversial public safety and energy legislation to ensure the bills have a better chance of making it to Gov. Wes Moore’s desk by the end of the legislative session next month.

Monday marked Crossover Day, which is the deadline for a bill to pass its chamber of ...Read more

Harvard will offer free tuition to students whose families make less than $200,000 per year beginning next year, the school announced Monday.

Additionally, the entire school experience — including housing, food and other costs — will be free for students whose families make less than $100,000, university leaders said.

“We know the most ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles leaders are touting the latest batch of crime data as proof that the city is safe and getting safer — at least on paper.

Homicides declined roughly 14% in the city last year compared with 2023, while 225 fewer people were struck by gunfire citywide in the same period, according to figures released Monday.

The ...Read more