Dueling protests filled both sides of Granite Drive in front of the Tesla dealership in Rocklin, California, for the first time Saturday, as supporters of President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mounted a counteroffensive to the weekly protests against the electric car brand that started in February.

The MAGA crowd, numbering around a ...Read more

A week after a former University of Pittsburgh professor and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center anesthesiologist allegedly attacked his wife along a scenic overlook during a trip to Oahu, interviews and court records paint a harrowing picture of an apparently rocky marriage that became violent during a weekend getaway.

Gerhardt Konig's ...Read more

When the humanitarian aid workers decided to dismantle their elaborate tented setup — erected right up against the border wall — they hadn't seen migrants for a month.

A year earlier, when historic numbers of migrants were arriving at the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national Quaker-founded human rights organization, ...Read more

Supporters and members of the LGBTQ community plan to rally Monday at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., to celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Capitol rotunda.

Here’s a brief overview of the day and why it’s considered important in today’s political landscape.

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Colorado’s law that made possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony had almost no effect on overdose deaths, but may have discouraged people from sticking with treatment for opioid addiction, an initial study of the legislation’s impact found.

House Bill 1326, which passed in 2022, lowered the threshold for felony charges to one gram ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer ripped a Republican plan to raise overdraft fees at banks on Sunday ahead of a crucial House vote coming this week.

The plan is part of Republicans’ wide-ranging assault on the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which enacted a rule in December 2024 that functionally capped overdraft fees at $5. It estimated the new rule ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin and would consider “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil if a ceasefire with Ukraine can’t be reached, NBC News reported.

Trump said he was “very angry” about Putin’s recent comments suggesting ways to install new leadership in Ukraine and sideline ...Read more

Comedian and actor Paul Rodriguez was arrested after police allegedly found narcotics in his vehicle during a traffic stop on Friday night in Burbank, California.

Burbank Police Sgt. Stephen Turner said Rodriguez, 70, was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for "code violations" at around 7:30 p.m. in the area of Victory Boulevard and ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin and would consider “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil if a ceasefire with Ukraine can’t be reached, NBC News reported.

Trump said he was “very angry” about Putin’s recent comments suggesting ways to install new leadership in Ukraine and sideline ...Read more

Nearly two dozen grants and millions in research dollars have been canceled at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and other North Carolina institutions as part of the growing list of projects cut by the National Institutes of Health.

Since February, the Trump administration has taken the unprecedented step of canceling hundreds of active research...Read more

SpaceX has two rockets at two pads set for launch in the next two days on the Space Coast.

First up is a Falcon 9 carrying 28 Starlink satellites targeting a 3:25 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. Backup are available through 7:10 p.m. or on Monday during a four-hour window that opens at 2:57 p.m....Read more

President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, telling NBC News in a phone interview on Sunday that “there are methods” that would allow him to do so.

“I’m not joking,” Trump said. “But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”

The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin and would consider “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil if a ceasefire with Ukraine can’t be reached, NBC News reported.

Trump said he was “very angry” about recent comments by Putin suggesting ways to install a new leadership in Ukraine and sideline...Read more

Iran has told U.S. President Donald Trump it won’t engage in direct negotiations with his administration, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in televised remarks.

Pezeshkian said the decision was conveyed in Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s response to a letter Trump had sent earlier this month on the prospect of new talks over...Read more

President Donald Trump said he expects consumers to migrate to U.S.-made cars if automakers raise prices in response to the 25% tariffs on all imported vehicles and parts that he has vowed to impose.

“I couldn’t care less if they raise prices because people are going to start buying American cars,” Trump said in an interview with NBC ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Budapest on April 2, his office said, despite an arrest warrant against him by the International Criminal Court.

Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during the visit. Orban has called the warrant “shameful” and said in November that he planned to ...Read more

Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, “Can I really make a difference?”

The question concerns what’s known as agency. Its meaning is complex, but in a nutshell it means being able to do what you set out to do and believing you can succeed.

How well people exercise their agency ...Read more

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression, our team found in the first brain-imaging study of young people under 18 years old, published in 2022. Over-activity in this collection ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Burnsville man gambled away almost $271,000 in pandemic aid at local casinos before pleading guilty, getting off with probation and restitution.

An Eden Prairie man bilked a pandemic loan program out of $1.6 million and fled to Colombia before being caught, tried and imprisoned for 71/2 years.

And, of course, there’s the ...Read more

PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities from holding full-time jobs.

“Which is it? Do you want us to work or not?” he said.

Mecham, 31, relies on the public ...Read more