Over the past few weeks, as negotiations for a ceasefire in Ukraine drag on, I’ve thought back to Feb. 28, 2025: the day of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s heated visit to the Oval Office.

Zelenskyy has called the tone of the meeting “regrettable” as he tries to salvage support for Ukraine. But in some ways, he has stood by his decision...Read more

The damage from the Eaton Fire wasn’t indiscriminate. The blaze that ravaged the city of Altadena, California, in January 2025, killing 17 people and consuming over 9,000 buildings, destroyed Black Altadenans’ homes in greatest proportion.

About 48% of Black-owned homes sustained major damage or total destruction, compared with 37...Read more

“Avoid screens before bed” is one of the most common pieces of sleep advice. But what if the real problem isn’t screen time − it’s the way we use social media at night?

Sleep deprivation is one of the most widespread yet overlooked public health issues, especially among young adults and adolescents.

Despite needing ...Read more

A powerful storm system that stalled over states from Texas to Ohio for several days in early April 2025 wreaked havoc across the region, with deadly tornadoes, mudslides and flooding as rivers rose. More than a foot of rain fell in several areas.

As a climate scientist who studies the water cycle, I often get questions about how ...Read more

WASHINGTON — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

“They will discuss El Salvador’s partnership on using their super max prison for Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members and how El Salvador’s cooperation with the United States ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office proposed major rollbacks to the state’s child labor laws earlier this year, saying changes made last year to loosen working restrictions for minors “did not go far enough,” records show.

The governor’s office crafted this year’s legislation, which would allow teenagers to work ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Jurors in the trial of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a Salvadoran national charged with first-degree murder in the 2023 killing of Bel Air mother Rachel Morin, were shown more graphic crime scene photos Tuesday and heard testimony from the doctor who performed Morin’s autopsy.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Zabiullah Ali ...Read more

Marjorie Taylor Greene took her DOGE agenda on the road Tuesday, but the tour didn’t go far. The Delivering on Government Efficiency Oversight Subcommittee held a field hearing on federal real estate holdings from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, the home of the U.S. Agency for Global Media located just three blocks west of the Capitol.

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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s hardline tariffs are rattling New York’s economy and have drawn widespread condemnation from local elected leaders, but Mayor Eric Adams refrained Tuesday from criticizing them and said he actually doesn’t “understand them” despite spending last weekend researching the issue.

“I must have spent,...Read more

Elon Musk Tuesday called White House economic adviser Peter Navarro a “moron” as rifts deepen among President Donald Trump’s supporters over his sweeping plan for tariffs.

The world’s richest man also used the R-word to insult the intelligence of Navarro, an economic populist who is one of the most outspoken advocates for higher import ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused an order from a federal judge in California that had required the Trump administration to reinstate 16,000 fired probationary federal workers at six agencies.

In an unsigned 7-2 order, the justices wrote that the national nonprofits who brought the case — and served as the basis of the ...Read more

Iran said it will start high-level talks with the U.S. in Oman this weekend, confirming Donald Trump’s announcement that they’ll discuss a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

“The talks will be held on Saturday in Oman,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday, adding that sanctions relief was Iran’s main goal. �...Read more

BALTIMORE — Tuesday morning testimony in the trial of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a Salvadoran national charged with first-degree murder in the 2023 killing of Bel Air mother Rachel Morin, began with more graphic crime scene information from Detective Michael Wilsynski, of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.

“It was obvious this ...Read more

A federal jury convicted North Carolina climate activist Timothy Martin of two felonies Monday for smearing washable paint on a sculpture’s display case in the National Gallery of Art — an act of civil disobedience that could send him to prison for 10 years.

Martin, a 55-year-old architect and father of two from Raleigh, faces sentencing in...Read more

The man charged with trying to kill President Trump, lying in wait with a gun as he enjoyed a round of golf in Florida, attempted to purchase a rocket launcher and other military-grade weapons before the thwarted assassination attempt, according to the Department of Justice.

Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested on Sept. 15 as he fled from his sniper�...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota student jailed since late March after he was arrested by ICE agents and stripped of his student visa made his first appearance in federal immigration court Tuesday, where he is expected to testify on his own behalf later this week.

In a packed courtroom Tuesday morning, Immigration Judge Sarah Mazzie ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — More than 170 legal filings with considerable implications for trial in the University of Idaho student homicides case are set to near their resolution as defendant Bryan Kohberger returns to the courtroom Wednesday.

Since February, the prosecution and defense have traded more than 1,000 pages of court records over a variety of...Read more

BOSTON — Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson plans to plead guilty to federal public corruption changes, effectively admitting that she stole thousands of dollars from taxpayers in a kickback scheme that took place in City Hall, court records show.

Fernandes Anderson has signed a plea deal and intends to plead guilty, according to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration is trying to claw back over $106 million in migrant funds from city coffers — bringing the total the president has attempted to snatch from New York City to a whopping $188 million.

In a letter to the city, feds wrote that the grant money, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and ...Read more

Dozens of Democratic federal lawmakers slammed the Department of Homeland Security for shuttering key agency watchdogs amid reports of overcrowding and civil rights violations of immigrant detainees at Florida's Krome Detention Center, among other facilities.

In a letter Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, 49 members of the ...Read more