MANILA, Philippines — Philippine voters appear to have delivered a blow to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and a boost to the rival Duterte clan, whose members and allies outperformed expectations in Monday’s midterm elections.

Ex-President Rodrigo Duterte looks set to become mayor of Davao City despite his detention by the International ...Read more

Thousands of people across New Jersey and the nation celebrated the release of Tenafly native Edan Alexander on Monday after the 21-year-old American-Israeli man spent more than 19 months in Hamas captivity.

“For 19 excruciating months, we have all been hoping and praying alongside Edan’s family members for his safe release. With every day ...Read more

Xi Jinping’s decision to stand his ground against Donald Trump could hardly have gone any better for the Chinese leader.

After two days of high-stakes talks in Switzerland, trade negotiators from the world’s biggest economies announced Monday a massive de-escalation in tariffs. In a carefully coordinated joint statement, the U.S. slashed ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The suspect in the deadly shooting on the Florida State University campus last month was released from the hospital Monday and transferred to a detention facility, according to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office.

Phoenix Ikner, 20, was taken by the Tallahassee Police Department to the Leon County Detention Facility, the ...Read more

NEW YORK — When Sean “Diddy” Combs discovered his ex, R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, was dating someone else, the multimillionaire hip-hop mogul grabbed an employee in the middle of the night for assistance hunting down and murdering the other man, a Manhattan jury heard in a bombshell opening statement from the feds on Monday....Read more

WASHINGTON — China and the United States retreated from an emerging economic crisis on Monday, agreeing to drastically reduce tariffs on each other for the next 90 days as they continue to negotiate a more permanent trade deal, providing welcome news for investors and retailers who increasingly feared a breakthrough was out of reach.

The ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities were seeking suspects Monday in the assassination of a mayoral candidate who was shot dead during a campaign rally in the gulf coast state of Veracruz.

The attack Sunday evening in Texistepec killed Yesenia Lara Gutíerrez, 49, who was running for mayor of the town of 20,000.

Three other people, all men, ...Read more

A Colorado school district banned transgender athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identities last week, then filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn polices and state law that stand in the way.

District 49 named CHSAA, the Colorado Civil Rights Division and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser in the lawsuit. The district, which...Read more

The Episcopal Church said Monday it would not help resettle white South African refugees in the U.S. because of its “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.”

The denomination cited its moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration as the reason ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — The protesters fighting the court’s buffer zone in the high-profile Karen Read case have scored a win in federal appeals court.

The buffer zone around Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham was expanded for the Read retrial after jurors during the first trial reported that they could hear loud protesters during deliberations.

As ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — John Curran, a business consultant from James City County, announced Monday that he intends to reenter Virginia’s lieutenant governor race as a write-in candidate.

Curran initially ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor but did not turn in enough signatures to qualify for the ballot ahead of the April ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Fired Karen Read investigator Michael Proctor’s supervisor rated his professionalism a four out of five in a quarterly review even after knowing Proctor called Read a “vile” name and joked about searching for nudes on her phone.

“I believe that as a U.S. citizen he has the right to comment. That’s his First Amendment...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is eyeing the possible relocation of about three dozen positions to Missouri as it looks to move more than 1,000 jobs out of Washington, D.C., into field offices across the country, FBI Director Kash Patel testified to Congress last week.

Patel said the move would help address an “...Read more

Hamas freed the last living American citizen held hostage in Gaza, following talks between the U.S. and the group ahead of a Middle East visit by President Donald Trump.

The U.S. engaged with Hamas to help secure the release of Edan Alexander despite Washington designating the Iran-backed group a terrorist organization. Israel appeared to have ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed new laws Monday that codify federal voting protections in Colorado’s election laws and reform the state’s much-maligned process of replacing lawmakers who leave office early.

Officially dubbed the Colorado Voting Rights Act, Senate Bill 1 is aimed at ensuring that Colorado law prevents discriminatory ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Dozens of White Afrikaners arrived in the U.S. from South Africa on Monday, the first beneficiaries of a controversial resettlement program that was instigated by President Donald Trump, who is meeting with South African leaders next week.

The group, which includes families and their children, landed Monday afternoon at ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would normally celebrate a hostage release such as that taking place on Monday, though in this case the deal with Hamas is another sign U.S. President Donald Trump is starting to make decisions without him.

The freeing of Edan Alexander, the last living U.S. citizen held captive by...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania State University’s administration has proposed closing seven of its 20 Commonwealth campuses, according to multiple sources close to the board of trustees.

They are: Dubois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre, and York, according to the sources. Collectively, they enrolled nearly 3,200 ...Read more