WASHINGTON — American technology companies hoping for relief from President Trump's trade war with China grappled with further uncertainty Monday, left to decipher whether a government policy exempting businesses that are core to the U.S. economy from crippling tariffs could be relied upon.

An industry that plans product launches and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former Alaska governor and Republican firebrand Sarah Palin was back in court Monday for a do-over in her defamation case against The New York Times.

A jury was selected to hear the case in Manhattan Federal Court, with opening statements set to begin Tuesday. After Palin initially lost her case in February 2022, a federal appeals ...Read more

BOSTON — Norfolk DA prosecutors plan to use Karen Read’s statements from several TV interviews against her in the upcoming retrial.

The DA’s Office on Monday said it intends to “introduce extrajudicial statements of the defendant” when the Read retrial finally gets going.

Prosecutors allege that Read struck John O’Keefe, a Boston ...Read more

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto aims to cut taxes for Nevadans with two pieces of legislation she co-introduced last week.

The Tax Cut for Workers Act — introduced alongside Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet — will triple the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as the “Worker Tax Cut,” and will expand eligibility to workers who are under ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake ruptured in San Diego County on Monday — jolting Southern California and providing a reminder of the power of the Elsinore fault, which is capable of spawning even more potent shaking across densely populated swaths of the region.

The epicenter of Monday’s earthquake, which hit at 10:08 a.m. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted to ratify a new contract with Chicago Public Schools, marking the first time in 15 years that the union settled its contract without a strike or a strike vote.

It has been far from easy to get the tentative agreement across the finish line, despite the union’s ally, Mayor Brandon Johnson...Read more

A Georgia man is accused of threatening to harm Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family, prosecutors said Monday.

Aliakbar Mohammad Amin, 25, of Lilburn, was arrested Friday and charged with transmitting interstate threats after he allegedly sent text messages that stated how Gabbard and her family are “going to die ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A magnitude- 5.2 earthquake near Julian rattled much of Southern California just after 10 a.m. Monday, prompting brief evacuations in downtown San Diego and shaking cities as far away as Oxnard and Palm Springs.

The temblor, with an epicenter 3 miles south of Julian, caused especially hard shaking there and in Ramona, San Diego ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It has been nearly six years since federal prosecutors here revealed the first of two massive prosecutions aimed at moving incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood members out of the state prison system for the stated goal of keeping the public safe.

But two jury trials and three guilty pleas later, none of the nine Aryan ...Read more

A man from Cuba who was allegedly a member of the Cuban Communist Party and a member of the Ministry of the Interior was taken into custody in Miami, immigration authorities announced Monday.

Daniel Morejon Garcia, 57, was “administratively arrested” after an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, which “centered on fraudulent...Read more

DULUTH, Minn. – A former professor at Lake Superior College who said he was fired in part for not following state COVID-19 mandates is suing Gov. Tim Walz and leadership at the community college where had had taught since the 1990s.

Russell Stewart, 60, filed a federal lawsuit last week, also naming four of the college’s administrators, ...Read more

DETROIT — A Michigan nonprofit that provides legal services to roughly 800 unaccompanied immigrant children in the state, along with helping immigrants navigate deportation proceedings, has laid off more than half of its staff due to federal funding cuts.

The group, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, said it laid off 72 staff members statewide...Read more

BOSTON — Another Newton-Wellesley Hospital staffer who worked in the maternity wing has reportedly been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

This sixth tumor case on the fifth floor of the Mass General Brigham facility comes as officials continue to assure staff and patients that there’s “no environmental risk” at the hospital.

Meanwhile, the...Read more

North Carolina Senate Republicans said they would raise teacher pay by a few percentage points over two years, with smaller raises for most state employees, and replenish the Rainy Day Fund in their budget bill set to be published Monday evening.

Republican leaders spoke to reporters about the budget Monday evening ahead of the legislation ...Read more

GREENBELT, Md. — The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Prince George’s County faces deep Trump administration budget reductions that could cut the nation’s space science mission in half, Maryland Democratic lawmakers said Monday.

“If you cut the science programming in half, you hurt our country in many ways. You hurt our national ...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday pleaded not guilty to the latest round of sex trafficking charges brought in his sweeping criminal case, a month out from his trial.

Combs, sporting graying hair and a white goatee, told the court he was “not guilty” of a new Mann Act count filed on April 3 and a charge ...Read more

MIAMI — Five people aboard a suspected migrant smuggling boat are presumed dead after the vessel capsized off South Florida over the weekend, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The agency called off its search for the people Sunday night after covering more than 1,240 miles of ocean looking for them throughout the weekend.

Early Saturday ...Read more