RALEIGH, N.C. — Two international students at NC State University have left the country after their visas were terminated by the administration of President Donald Trump, the university announced Tuesday.

The university learned that the visas — which international students are required to obtain in order to study and enroll at U.S. ...Read more

BOSTON — Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden denied prosecutors had any knowledge of ICE’s intent to arrest a defendant in the middle of his trial last Thursday and said ICE’s escalating actions “jeopardize public safety.”

“All of our actions in this case clearly demonstrated our intent to hold Mr. Martell-LeBron ...Read more

DENVER — Transgender Coloradans — particularly children and supportive parents — would gain increased legal protections against discrimination under new legislation that cleared its first hurdle in the state House early Wednesday morning.

The party-line vote to advance House Bill 1312 came after 10 hours of dueling testimony from backers ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams, in his address to New Yorkers on his federal corruption charges being dropped, promoted a highly controversial book about the so-called deep state by Trump FBI Director Kash Patel.

“New Yorkers stop me all the time in trying to find the rationale behind this, and I found it in this book,” the mayor said, ...Read more

JERUSALEM — Israel is “carving up” the Gaza Strip in a bid to pressure Hamas into freeing hostages and will establish a new corridor, parallel to the Egyptian border, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said with the army escalating ground operations in the south.

As mediators try to cobble together another ceasefire and hostage-release ...Read more

SEATTLE — In what appears to be the first full-scale workplace raid in Washington since President Donald Trump took office, immigration officials descended on a roofing company in Bellingham on Wednesday and arrested 37 people.

Those arrested are accused of misrepresenting their immigration status and submitting fraudulent documents to seek ...Read more

After Sen. Cory Booker made history for the longest individual Senate speech delivered in the chamber, he told reporters he was sore and battling dehydration but grateful that he’d lasted as long as he did.

He also shared some of the behind-the-scenes preparations that got him to the record-breaking moment.

“I’m so grateful for all my ...Read more

Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor and action star of the ’90s, has been accused of having sex with trafficked women from Romania, according to multiple media reports.

Van Damme was named in a criminal complaint filed with the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, Romanian newspaper Libertatea reported. It said the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling has reversed a Wake County judge’s order allowing a transgender woman inmate to be transferred to a women’s prison.

The ruling was released Wednesday morning.

In 2023, a Wake County judge ordered that Ashlee Inscoe, a transgender woman, be transferred to a women’s prison.

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PHILADELPHIA — A Temple University student whose visa has been revoked has chosen to self-deport, the university said in a campus message Wednesday.

The university said the visa was “revoked at the discretion of the United States Secretary of State,” but did not release details about the student or the student’s home country, why the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Supreme Court justices appeared open Wednesday to allowing South Carolina to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood, during oral arguments in a dispute over the state disqualifying the health care provider from Medicaid for providing abortions.

But key justices also aired concerns that such a decision would leave no way...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs in a Rose Garden speech Wednesday that was closely watched by world leaders anticipating convulsions in global markets.

In an effort to bring manufacturing back to the United States, Trump said he would slap what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on countries that currently tax U...Read more

A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up to SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation.

United Launch Alliance is targeting a three-hour window that opens at noon Eastern time on April 9. It will send up 27 satellites on an Atlas V ...Read more

Virginia Giuffre, one of the women who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her as a teen, was ordered to appear in Australian court days after claiming a car accident left her so severely injured that she only had days to live.

Giuffre is due in Joondalup Magistrates Court on April 9 for allegedly violating a family ...Read more

The killing of a Kansas City, Missouri, reporter covering the Super Bowl in New Orleans was part of a running plot to drug and rob people, according to authorities.

Suspects Danette Colbert, 48, and Rickey White, 34, have been charged in the death of Adan Manzano on Feb. 5 in the suburb of Kenner, Louisiana. Manzano, 27, was in town to cover ...Read more

The four private space travelers flying around the Earth’s poles this week had a vomit-filled first day in space, according to the man paying for the trip.

“The first few hours in microgravity weren’t exactly comfortable,” Chun Wang, a Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur said in a Fram2 mission update on X. “Space motion sickness...Read more

The U.S. military on Wednesday identified the fourth American soldier from Georgia’s Fort Stewart who was found dead after he went missing during a training mission in Lithuania.

He is Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, an artillery mechanic from Battle Creek, Michigan.

The military identified his three deceased comrades Tuesday: Jose Duenez Jr., ...Read more

Elon Musk is reportedly expected to step away from his role as President Donald Trump’s most prominent adviser in the coming months amid widespread questions about his political effectiveness.

Trump recently told members of his inner circle that he and Musk have agreed the world’s richest man will soon return to mostly running his companies...Read more

A teacher who was facing termination has been suspended after including a question with a racial slur in it on an English test at a school in Arkansas.

Robert Taylor, an 11th grade teacher at Northside High School in Fort Smith, was teaching lessons on the book “Warriors Don’t Cry,” a memoir written by one of the nine Black students who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld FDA actions to keep certain flavored e-cigarettes off the market, unanimously backing some of the agency’s approval process but sending an issue back to a lower court for further consideration.

FDA decisions have kept more than 1 million candy, fruit and other flavored e-cigarette products ...Read more