China retaliated against Donald Trump’s latest tariffs by hiking duties on all U.S. goods, while calling the administration’s actions a “joke” and saying it no longer considers them worth matching.

Beijing will raise tariffs on all U.S. goods from 84% to 125% starting April 12, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, after the White ...Read more

Just 17,000 votes separated the top two candidates in the first round of Ecuador’s presidential election. A third contender raked in half a million votes, meaning supporters of his Indigenous and environmentalist party will be a deciding factor in this weekend’s runoff.

Final polling ahead of the April 13 vote showed socialist challenger ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In his last week as L.A.'s fire recovery czar, Steve Soboroff said he was shut out of high-level planning almost from the start, raising questions about why Mayor Karen Bass chose him and whether rebuilding from the Palisades fire is on track.

The idiosyncratic longtime civic leader, who has a penchant for speaking his mind and ...Read more

A sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people on board, the latest in a string of incidents in recent months that has rattled confidence in U.S. aviation safety.

“At this time, all six victims have been removed from the water. And sadly, all six victims have been pronounced deceased,” New York ...Read more

While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized motion pictures, research shows an increase in use over recent decades given the rise of technology and accessibility.

Pornography, meaning any media intended to depict or describe sexual content to heighten ...Read more

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion.

The New Testament Gospels say so. The Nicene Creed, one of Christianity’s key statements of faith, says ...Read more

The second Trump administration has launched the next stage in the half-century-long battle between commerce and conservation over Alaskan oil and gas development. But its moves are delivering a mixed message to the petroleum industry.

The administration has opened – or reopened – large swaths of government land in Alaska to oil ...Read more

As the federal government moves to eliminate U.S. climate rules, companies still face pressure to be better stewards of the planet from their customers, investors, employees, local communities, lenders, insurers, global trading partners and many states.

Each of those groups knows it will face increasing costs from rising temperatures ...Read more

The Republican-led House of Representatives passed on April 10, 2025, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – or SAVE Act. The bill would make voting harder for tens of millions of Americans.

The SAVE Act would require anyone registering to vote in federal elections to first “provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship”...Read more

MANKATO, Minn. – After a week of hiding in her apartment, the student opened her refrigerator and realized she had no food.

She’s from the Middle East and for the last week, she has been too scared to go grocery shopping or attend classes at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She said she felt “broken.”

She is one of the many ...Read more

IN A BOAT OFF APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — A slow morning on the water erupted into a frenzy when the line began whizzing out of Steve Murawski’s fishing rod.

“I’m on!” Murawski yelled, scattering the boat’s crew into action.

A tan fish launched from the glassy, shallow water tucked in this hidden pocket of Tampa Bay mangrove forest. It ...Read more

The upper-middle-class community of Kenscoff, which overlooks Haiti’s volatile capital, is about an hour’s drive up the hill from one of the last remaining enclaves in metropolitan Port-au-Prince that’s still relatively free from gang control.

But when a hundred armed men started killing its people on Jan. 27, under cover of darkness and ...Read more

MIAMI — As reports of international students being detained, deported, or self-deporting continue to spread across the U.S., many at Florida International University are gripped by a growing sense of fear.

Students who were involved in activist activities at FIU are being told by organizers it is in their best interest to stop participation. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia's jail population has reached its lowest level in recent memory — the result of a behind-the-scenes effort that has quietly reduced the number of people incarcerated in city-run facilities by more than 20% over the past six months.

Fewer than 3,700 people were in city custody as of this week, according to data ...Read more

More than a dozen vaccination clinics were canceled in Pima County, Arizona.

So was a media blitz to bring low-income children in Washoe County, Nevada, up to date on their shots.

Planned clinics were also scuttled in Texas, Minnesota and Washington, among other places.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal ...Read more

Because of past fraud by rogue brokers, some Affordable Care Act policyholders may get an unexpected tax bill this season.

But that isn’t the only potential shock. Other changes coming soon — stemming from proposals by the administration of President Donald Trump — could affect their coverage and its cost. And sorting out related problems...Read more

LAS VEGAS — More than three-quarters of Clark County schools began the academic year with a reported kindergarten vaccination rate of less than 95%, the threshold needed to prevent an outbreak of the highly contagious virus, new data shows.

Five percent, or 16 schools, reported rates below 80%, with one charter school as low as 33%, according...Read more

The Supreme Court on April 10, 2025, unanimously upheld the lower court order directing the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

The Supreme Court also directed the lower court to clarify aspects of the order.<...Read more

A sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six people on board, the latest in a string of incidents in recent months that has rattled confidence in U.S. aviation safety.

“At this time, all six victims have been removed from the water. And sadly, all six victims have been pronounced deceased,” New York ...Read more