WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Harvard University is promising to review its academic offerings and admissions policies in response to a pair of internal reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab prejudice at the Ivy League campus commissioned in the aftermath of last spring’s pro-Palestinian protests. Harvard released the reports on Tuesday while the university simultaneously battles the Trump […]
Congress has overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called 鈥渞evenge porn.鈥� Known as the Take It Down Act, the bill is now headed to President Donald Trump鈥檚 desk for his signature. The measure was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and Sen. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� A key player in the U.S. government’s battle to combat the flow of deadly fentanyl is a team at a little-known research lab in northern Virginia that’s working to analyze seized narcotics and gather intelligence to find ways to stop the supply. Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to the Drug Enforcement Administration […]
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ April 29 The Washington Post says 鈥渢his time鈥� the US should stop a genocide This month marked a grim milestone for Sudan, the unfortunate African country suffering what is considered the world鈥檚 worst humanitarian crisis. On April 15, the country鈥檚 brutal civil war entered […]
There’s a new pour from Starbucks: Its first 3D printed store in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week in the Texas city of Brownsville, along the U.S.-Mexico border, where a computer-controlled robotic arm did much of the […]
In the final days of the Washington legislative session, lawmakers hashed out agreements to approve a bill that sets limits on rent increases and a measure that gives striking workers unemployment benefits. The two bills await decisions by Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat. If signed into law, the rent stabilization bill would be among the […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) 鈥� A California man who authorities said exchanged messages with a 15-year-old girl who fatally shot two people at a religious school in Wisconsin has been barred from owning or possessing firearms for three years. A San Diego Superior Court judge on Monday approved a restraining order against Alexander Paffendorf that was […]
A federal judge in California has barred Border Patrol agents from arresting someone suspected of living in the U.S. illegally unless they have a warrant or a reason to believe the person might flee before a warrant can be obtained. Tuesday’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston also says Border Patrol agents can鈥檛 […]
An official with the Islamic State group has been detained in Iraq, suspected of being involved with inciting the pickup truck-ramming attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people celebrating the start of 2025, Iraqi authorities said. Iraqi authorities had received requests from the U.S. to help in the investigation of the […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) 鈥� Bob Filner, a 10-term U.S. congressman whose long political career ended abruptly after he was elected mayor of San Diego and driven from office amid sexual misconduct allegations, has died. He was 82. Filner passed away April 20 with his children by his side, according to an obituary published Tuesday in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on social media Tuesday that he had dismantled a program supporting women on security teams 鈥� and may not have realized the program he tried to break was not a 鈥渨oke鈥� Biden-era initiative but instead a celebrated program signed into law by his boss, President Donald Trump. […]
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) 鈥� A man who was high on drugs when he struck and killed a Connecticut state trooper on a highway last year was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years in prison, punishment not considered long enough by the trooper’s widow. Alex Oyola-Sanchez, 45, of Hartford, apologized and asked for forgiveness from the […]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) 鈥� Betsy Arakawa, the concert pianist who was married to actor Gene Hackman, died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, according to an autopsy report released Tuesday that said that her lungs were heavy and congested. Arakawa, 65, had fluid accumulation in her chest and mild hardening of the vessels that supplied blood […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) 鈥� The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president鈥檚 ability to send troops into extended combat without congressional approval to the cementing of college campuses as centers of student activism. Millions of U.S. troops fought in Vietnam. For some Americans, the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) 鈥� The former clerk who somehow failed to count nearly 200 ballots in Wisconsin’s capital city didn’t break any laws but did violate multiple policies and her contractual duty to supervise elections and maintain professional standards, the results of a city-led investigation released Tuesday show. Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl resigned earlier […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Senate on Tuesday confirmed former Sen. David Perdue as ambassador to China, just as the U.S. and China are locked in a tariff showdown that threatens to redefine diplomatic relations between the world鈥檚 two largest economies. Perdue, a Republican who served one term as a U.S. senator from Georgia, was confirmed […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Amazon is not planning to list added tariff costs next to product prices on its site 鈥� despite speculation spanning from a report that claimed the e-commerce giant would soon show new import charges, as well as fiery comments from President Donald Trump’s White House denouncing such a move. The Trump […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The first of three accusers expected to testify at Harvey Weinstein鈥檚 rape retrial took the witness stand on Tuesday in a reprise of her testimony in his first #MeToo trial five years ago. Miriam Haley, a former TV and movie production assistant, alleges that the former movie mogul forcibly performed oral […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) 鈥� Former Memphis police officer Desmond Mills Jr. testified Tuesday that he regrets his failure to stop the beating of Tyre Nichols after Nichols ran away from a traffic stop in 2023. Mills’ testimony came in the second day of the trial of Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith, who have […]
CAIRO (AP) 鈥� The World Food Program and the United Nations refugee agency will slash jobs because of funding cuts, mainly from the United States, officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, warning the reductions will severely affect aid programs worldwide. The WFP, also a United Nations organization, is expected to cut up to 30% […]
BALTIMORE (AP) 鈥� A former high school athletics director accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic deepfake of a Maryland principal has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a plea deal for disrupting school operations. Dazhon Darien, 32, accepted the deal Monday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers demanding higher pay walked picket lines again Tuesday, and the strike could mean closures or disruptions at libraries, healthcare clinics and administrative offices across the nation’s most populous county. The two-day walkout that began Monday evening followed failed negotiations with the county for a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COIVD-19 pandemic as anxiety over the impact of tariffs take a heavy toll on consumer expectations for future growth. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell 7.9 points […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday to relax some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts, the White House said, a significant reversal as the import taxes threatened to hurt domestic manufacturers. Automakers and independent analyses have indicated that the tariffs could raise prices, reduce sales and […]
