Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for Northwestern
WASHINGTON — More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University has been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, the White House said. It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major...
Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding autistic teenager
Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy — described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled — as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows. Seventeen-year-old Victor...
Officials scramble to identify victims of Dominican club roof collapse that killed at least 184
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic —Dozens of people lingered outside the Dominican Republic’s forensic institute late Wednesday for news of their loved ones still missing more than a day after a roof collapsed at an iconic nightclub, killing at least 184 people. A growing number of them donned face masks and...
Trump disrupts global economic order even though U.S. is dominant
WASHINGTON — By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for business after World War II. Trump’s latest round...
Republicans are going public with their growing worries about Trump’s tariffs
WASHINGTON — Manufacturers struggling to make long-term plans. Farmers facing retaliation from Chinese buyers. U.S. households burdened with higher prices. Republican senators are confronting the Trump administration with those worries and many more as they fret about the economic impact of the president’s sweeping tariff strategy that went into effect...
Israeli strike on Gaza apartment building kills at least 23, officials say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli aircraft struck a residential block in war-ravaged northern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least 23 people, health officials said, as the renewed fighting in the devastated Palestinian enclave showed no signs of letting up. The Al-Ahly hospital said at least 23 people were killed...
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino could have unprecedented security detail
FBI Deputy Director and former Fox News host Dan Bongino could soon be getting a 20-person team of bodyguards for a job that doesn’t typically come with a security detail. The FBI is reportedly seeking agents to temporarily leave their jobs to serve as muscle for the brash ex-pundit, according...
3 dead, 3 wounded in mass shooting at townhouse complex in Virginia
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. — All suspects were in custody early Wednesday after a shooting that killed three people and wounded three others in Virginia, authorities said. The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office announced in a social media post only that all suspects were in custody and there was no threat to public...
IRS acting commissioner resigning after deal to share immigrants’ tax information with ICE
WASHINGTON — The acting comissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S., according to two people familiar with the decision. Melanie Krause, who had served...
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t restrict its journalists
A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, ruling on a case that touched at the heart of the First Amendment and affirming that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech. U.S.....
Democrats already planning for 2026 and think they can flip these 4 Pa. congressional seats
House Democrats have their eyes on four Pennsylvania congressional districts in 2026 — two they hope to regain and two they’ve been trying to win for years. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee told The Inquirer it is focusing its midterm attention on longtime U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Bucks County...
Texas measles outbreak tops 500 cases, including multiple at a day care in Lubbock
A day care facility in a Texas county that’s part of the measles outbreak has multiple cases, including children too young to be fully vaccinated, public health officials say. West Texas is in the middle of a still-growing measles outbreak with 505 cases reported on Tuesday. The state expanded the...
National Park Service restores original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad webpage
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes. “Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service’s website were made without approval...
Suspected U.S. strikes in Yemen kill at least 2 people, Houthi rebels say
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Tuesday night, killing at least two people and wounding 13 others, the Houthi rebels said. The strikes hit around Hodeida’s al-Hawak District, home to the city’s airport, which the Iranian-backed...
House Republicans and Democrats say U.S. must maintain its troop totals in Europe
WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee voiced sharp bipartisan criticism Tuesday about reports the Trump administration is eyeing a reduction of U.S. forces in Europe, saying America must stick with its NATO allies. Rep. Michael Rogers, R-Mich., the panel’s chairman, said the U.S. must...
Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The justices acted in the administration’s emergency appeal of a ruling by a federal...
Justice Department will narrow its focus on crypto-related enforcement
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is disbanding a team of prosecutors who targeted cryptocurrency crimes and is shifting its focus away from complex crypto-related cases involving banking and securities law, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. “The Department of Justice is not a digital assets regulator,” Deputy...
White House keeps world guessing as clock ticks down to Trump’s new tariffs
WASHINGTON — Less than one hour before the stock market closed on Monday, journalists gathered in the Oval Office for their only chance of the day to ask President Donald Trump about the turmoil caused by his tariff plans. Are the new tariffs, scheduled to take effect on Wednesday, a...
The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members, ending the temporary halt on deportations ordered by a federal district judge. But the court also ruled that the administration must give...
Trump signs executive orders to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline. Under the four orders, Trump uses his emergency authority to allow some older coal-fired power plants set for retirement...
Roof collapses at a Dominican Republic nightclub, killing at least 79 people
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The roof of an iconic nightclub in the Dominican capital collapsed early Tuesday during a merengue concert attended by politicians, athletes and others, leaving at least 79 people dead and 160 injured, authorities said. Crews were searching for potential survivors in the rubble at the...
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930,...
Fewer foreign visitors are traveling to the U.S. in what some see as a sign of a ‘Trump Slump’
Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June. Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco. But then President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a February meeting...
Gallery: Photos from April 8, 2025
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Tuesday, April 8, 2025. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
Trump will help plant a sapling to replace a historic White House tree cut down over safety concerns
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was set Tuesday to help plant a young Magnolia tree on the South Grounds to replace a nearly 200-year-old predecessor that was removed due to safety concerns presented by its deteriorating condition. The Republican president had announced March 30 on his social media platform that...
