More delays were being reported at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday following a ground stop issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.

The ground stop, which lasted for about an hour and remained in effect until 11:15 a.m., was ordered due to taxiway construction, according to the FAA.

The announcement came hours after the ...Read more

Conservative Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., publicly supported a tax increase to the wealthiest Americans on Friday.

“Ideally, what we could do — again, if we can’t find spending reductions — is say, ‘OK, let’s restore that higher bracket. Let’s set it at maybe $2 million income and above to help pay for the rest of the president’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump flip-flopped again Friday on a controversial tax hike on millionaires as congressional Republicans struggle to reach agreement on a sprawling budget bill.

Just two days after saying he backs higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, Trump softened his stance.

Trump conceded in a social media post that the higher tax...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Do you want to know how many measles cases have been confirmed in your county in Florida this year? How about whether the recent tuberculosis case reported at a high school is confined to one school or spreading throughout South Florida?

Florida Department of Health surveillance data, which previously made public the ...Read more

Mayor Eric Adams is slated to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday afternoon to “discuss New York City priorities,” his office announced.

The meeting is expected to last just 30 minutes, a source briefed on the matter told the Daily News. Among other issues, the source said Adams plans to talk to Trump about a need ...Read more

DENVER — Denver’s Auraria campus will be the subject of federal scrutiny after the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted unanimously Thursday to begin a year-long examination of “the presence and/or absence” of antisemitism on the downtown campus.

The local undertaking coincides with a larger federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday is expected to sign a memorandum directing his administration to take steps to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes, signaling support for a construction project in Illinois that would install barriers to prevent the carp from infiltrating Lake Michigan.

In a fact sheet provided first...Read more

WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the shy and frugal small-town New Englander who was touted as a conservative but surprised his Republican backers and nearly everyone else by becoming a staunch liberal on the high court, has died, the court said in a statement Friday. He was 85.

Souter stepped down in 2009 after ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The tentative budget deal Florida’s legislative leaders made last week has “blown up,” according to a memo from House Speaker Daniel Perez.

Florida’s 2025 session is already in overtime, as Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton have been unable to agree on a budget, the only required duty the Legislature must ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A more than century-old San Diego Jesuit parish has joined other churches and a farmworker organization across the country in a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s willingness to bring its immigration crackdown into so-called “sensitive locations.”

“I feel like the only effective tool with this ...Read more

ROME — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass as pontiff Friday after his historic appointment as the first American to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

His elevation puts another U.S. voice on the world stage, but the new pope’s relationship with his home country may not be simple. His past pronouncements as a cardinal and ...Read more

In his Project 2025 chapter on trade, economist Peter Navarro called on the next U.S. president to bring about a domestic manufacturing "renaissance" by adopting reciprocal tariffs against trading partners and taking a particularly hard line on China.

Promptly after being elected, President Donald Trump appointed Navarro as his senior counselor...Read more

Whether Project 2025 was President Donald Trump's plan for his second presidency was a big point of contention during the presidential campaign.

His opponents in the race — first President Joe Biden and then Vice President Kamala Harris — aggressively tried to tie him to the Heritage Foundation's unpopular conservative playbook, which was ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin said Russia would achieve its strategic objectives in Ukraine as he insisted the country was united behind his war.

“That strength of spirit has always brought us only victory,” Putin said Friday at the May 9 military parade on Moscow’s Red Square marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump floated an 80% tariff on China ahead of negotiations due to begin Saturday as he urged Beijing to do more to open their markets to U.S. goods.

“80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B,” Trump said in a social-media post Friday morning, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

“CHINA SHOULD OPEN ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two advocacy groups are suing the Trump administration to halt the use of new rules they say have kept migrant children in federal custody and separated from their families for months as the children's mental health deteriorates.

The National Center for Youth Law and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for ...Read more