RICHMOND, Va. — All of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s bill vetoes were sustained by the General Assembly this week, but not before some Democrats utilized their time in the reconvened session to highlight several key policies.

In the House, where all 100 delegates are up for reelection this fall, Democrats spoke on 13 vetoes. As they did, each ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Trump administration has subpoenaed personal information of hundreds of University of California, Berkeley professors who signed petitions during escalating Israel-Hamas campus protests to bolster its case that college campuses are hotbeds of antisemitism and not worthy of federal funding.

But at least some of them, who...Read more

The Trump administration is poised to block $510 million in federal grants and contracts for Brown University over the school’s response to antisemitism on campus, The New York Times reported.

Following the report, Brown Provost Frank Doyle said in an email that the school couldn’t substantiate the information but was aware of “troubling...Read more

The majority of Americans now have “a great deal” of worry about the U.S. economy, a new poll found.

Most are also greatly concerned about inflation, health care, federal spending and Social Security, according to the latest Gallup poll, which comes during the first few months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

The results mark a ...Read more

In a rare appearance after her loss in November's presidential election, former Vice President and potential gubernatorial candidate Kamala Harris on Thursday decried the rollback of fundamental rights under President Trump, urged people to prioritize self-care and pledged to remain active in the fight to safeguard constitutional protection.

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California joined 18 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s recent effort to overstep states’ election laws and voting requirements by filing a federal lawsuit Thursday.

The executive order imposes new voting guidelines states must follow in order to receive federal funding to conduct elections, including a voter ID ...Read more

Michael Hurley, a beloved underground singer-songwriter who emerged in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, has died at age 83.

“It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley,” read a statement shared on Thursday by Hurley’s recording label, No Quarter...Read more

A well-regarded 350-bed hospital, one of the last ones left in the country, now stands nearly empty. The home of one of its staffers was burned to a crisp. So too was the house of a former president of the Haitian Senate.

The newest attacks have all occurred outside of Port-au-Prince in Haiti’s heartland, which is quickly emerging as a new ...Read more

A well-regarded 350-bed hospital, one of the last ones left in the country, now stands nearly empty. The home of one of its staffers was burned to a crisp. So too was the house of a former president of the Haitian Senate.

The newest attacks have all occurred outside of Port-au-Prince in Haiti’s heartland, which is quickly emerging as a new ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s trade salvo was years in the making. The details came down to the final moments.

Hours before Trump announced his signature tariff plan, aides were still rushing to hone key elements, including its size and scope as well as how to sell it to the American public and communicate some of its chief ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday he will decide whether to find the Trump administration in contempt of court, indicating the U.S. government may have “acted in bad faith” in a high-profile legal challenge over a presidential proclamation to remove migrants based on the Alien Enemies Act.

Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s big tariff rollout was supposed to reduce uncertainty for businesses. Economists say it did the exact opposite, while also raising recession risk.

Some 76% of the 54 forecasters who responded to a Bloomberg survey conducted April 2-3 after the announcement said the imposition of sweeping levies only adds to the ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has avoided the worst of the Trump tariff onslaught.

At least for now.

That was the message of relief that Mexican officials were sending Thursday, a day after the Trump administration unveiled its much-anticipated “Liberation Day” tariff regimen, imposing import levies on scores of nations worldwide.

Spared in the...Read more

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