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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the U.S. trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of the Republican’s economic agenda.

The ruling can now be appealed by the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seven Colombian nationals, suspected in a string of so-called "burglary tourism" home break-ins in Burbank and other Southern California cities, were arrested last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, authorities ...Read more

U.S. health officials are terminating a $590 million contract with Moderna Inc. to develop vaccines for bird flu, a major setback for the company that’s also facing additional government scrutiny over immunizations.

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WASHINGTON — The United States plans to start “aggressively” revoking visas for Chinese students, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, escalating the Trump administration’s push for greater scrutiny of foreigners ...Read more

Continuing a growing trend, three new wolf packs have been confirmed in Northern California, increasing the population of the charismatic and controversial predator to 78 now — up from 44 animals in 2023 and only 7 in ...Read more

Nevada Senate Minority Leader Robin Titus introduced an emergency bill Wednesday that would give pay raises to public charter school teachers.

“Charter school teachers work tirelessly to educate our students, and they ...Read more

Colorado wolves’ territory now nears three of the state’s four borders as the apex predators continue to expand their territory across the Western Slope, a new map released by state wildlife officials shows.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will nominate Justice Department official Emil Bove, one of his former defense attorneys, to be a federal appeals court judge, setting up a high-profile Senate ...Read more

NEW YORK — A celebrity stylist who dressed Sean “Diddy” Combs for a decade on Wednesday said he saw the hip-hop mogul ferociously beat Casandra Ventura and threaten to spam her parents’ employers with videos of her...Read more

Elon Musk criticized President Donald Trump’s sprawling "One Big Beautiful Bill" as wasteful in a new interview on Wednesday amid signs the epic bromance between the man in the White House and the world’s richest man ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — For decades, state legislators have passed two-year budgets in order to avoid haphazard, seat-of-the-pants, one-year changes.

But failing this week to agree on a spending plan, some Democrats are ...Read more

TOKYO — Japan is stepping up efforts to deter China’s military ambitions in the Asia-Pacific as Tokyo and other U.S. partners seek clarity from the Trump administration about its plans to counter Beijing’s power in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether California, its interscholastic sports federation and the Jurupa Unified School District are violating the civil rights of cisgender ...Read more

BERLIN — Germany agreed to provide Ukraine with 5 billion euros ($5.7 billion) in military aid as part of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s pledge to help Kyiv build long-range weapons to hit targets on Russian territory.

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday denied Shira Perlmutter’s request to block the Trump administration’s attempt to fire her from her position as the register of copyrights.

In a case that implicates the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would "take a look at" pardoning two men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox were portrayed by ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The dire worry on Heidy Cifuentes’ mind — the one still bringing her to tears after she was arrested Tuesday in Kansas City during an appointment with federal immigration agents — is who will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bristled at suggestions that Wall Street believes he’s ultimately unwilling to follow through on extreme tariff threats, saying his repeated retreats are instead part of a strategy ...Read more

Even though the Missouri Supreme Court effectively reinstated the state’s abortion ban in a major ruling on Tuesday, the state’s highest court did not actually rule on abortion access itself.

At least for now.

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The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed ending a four-decade-old program that mandates the hiring of minority- and women-owned businesses for federal transportation contracts.

It could have major implications for ...Read more