WASHINGTON — Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for more than a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days, according to people familiar with the matter.

The outage of those key systems occurred on April 28 and lasted nearly ...Read more

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday called for a federal investigation of the FAA amid ongoing delays at Newark Airport.

“The chaos at Newark Airport could very well be a national harbinger if all these issues aren’t fixed, and if the FAA can’t get real solutions to these problems off the ground,” Schumer said. “(I)t is ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — When Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe campaigned for office last year, he declared, “the pro-life community does not need quitters” if abortion returned to the state.

At a closed-door ceremony inside his Capitol office last month, the Republican chief executive signed the first measure intended to help attack abortion access...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s security Cabinet voted to intensify military operations in Gaza and call up of tens of thousands of extra reservists, while also deciding on a means of distributing aid in the Palestinian territory.

The vote in the early hours of Monday followed a long discussion and was unanimous regarding the expansion of armed...Read more

The Trump administration announced a plan Monday to try to ramp up the number of deportations: paying unauthorized immigrants $1,000 if they return to their home country voluntarily.

The Department of Homeland Security called the plan a “historic opportunity for illegal aliens,” noting in a news release that it would also pay for travel ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A hand-crafted sign outside the downtown Social Security Administration office mimicked a street sign, depicting the intersection of “Prosecute” and “Trump.” The chants came from about 50 people surrounding it, holding furious signs aimed at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk: “Hands off! Hands off! Hands off!” ...Read more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Officials have dropped charges against a group accused of trespassing and resisting police when police removed a pro-Palestinian student encampment at the University of Michigan last May.

“When my office made the decision to issue charges of trespassing and resisting and obstructing a police officer in this matter, we did...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González has been hospitalized in a public health facility in Spain following a sudden episode of low blood pressure.

González, widely recognized by the United States and several other nations as the legitimate president of Venezuela, is reportedly in stable condition.

“I am receiving excellent care ...Read more

CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who represented Chicago's north suburbs in Congress for more than two and a half decades, announced Monday she will not seek a 15th term next year.

“This is the official, that I’m not going to run again for Congress, and there are pluses to that,” Schakowsky, 80, said at an Ultimate Women’s Power ...Read more

The Trump administration is offering $1,000 and travel assistance to undocumented immigrants who go back their own countries voluntarily, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.

The immigrants who use the CBP Home App — the same mobile platform previously used under the Biden administration to facilitate lawful entry ...Read more

The Trump administration announced a plan Monday to try to ramp up the number of deportations: paying undocumented immigrants $1,000 if they return to their home country voluntarily.

The Department of Homeland Security called the plan a “historic opportunity for illegal aliens,” noting in a news release that it would also pay for travel ...Read more

As Chevron seeks to persuade the Trump administration to allow it to continue producing oil in Venezuela, opposition leader María Corina Machado argues that such a move would be counterproductive, saying it would only serve to rescue strongman Nicolás Maduro from the precarious position he now finds himself in, thanks to sanctions imposed by ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Two witnesses who say they visited 34 Fairview Road in Canton at around the time Karen Read allegedly struck and killed John O’Keefe testified that they didn’t see the victim in or near the vehicle at the home.

Read, 45, of Mansfield, faces charges including second-degree murder in the death of O’Keefe, a Boston police ...Read more

A coalition of states sued the Trump administration Monday to block sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, arguing they are unconstitutional and endanger Americans.

The lawsuit specifically challenges department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s March 27 directive firing 10,000 full-time HHS employees, ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implores U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday.

The medication has proven extremely effective in stopping opioid overdoses, a leading cause of death among young people. The Lakewood Democrat personalized her...Read more

The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology and was just one of more than 200 such efforts.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shifted the money ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A search was underway early Monday after a suspected smuggling boat capsized off Del Mar, killing three people.

Early reports indicated nine people were missing and four survivors were located, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said.

The overturned boat was discovered just north of Torrey Pines State Beach around 6:30 a.m.

A ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963.

“REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. “When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A group behind a petition drive to expand Medicaid is suing the state over a law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that erects even more barriers to getting citizen initiatives on the ballot.

Florida Decides HealthCare said in a press release that the new law is unconstitutional and “significantly undermines Florida’s ...Read more