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Trump nominates U.S. prosecutor as top national fraud investigator
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the nomination of a veteran federal prosecutor to lead a new Justice Department unit focused on fraud, as the administration looks to refocus attention on the justification for its immigration crackdown in Minnesota that has grown increasingly unpopular. Trump, in a post on his...
West Virginia librarian arrested for alleged Trump assassination plot
A West Virginia librarian was arrested for allegedly using social media to recruit someone to assassinate President Donald Trump. Ripley resident Morgan Leigh Morrow, 39, was taken into custody after she engaged in the “social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump,” the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department...
Federal unions ask court to halt FEMA position cuts
WASHINGTON — Federal worker unions have asked a judge to halt Trump administration actions that they say includes plans to cut 10,000 positions from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The new allegations, filed Tuesday, add onto an ongoing lawsuit filed by unions last April, which sought to undo widespread government...
Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost taxpayers $496M and counting
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s high-profile deployment of federal troops to six U.S. cities has cost taxpayers roughly $496 million through the end of December, and continued deployment could cost over $1 billion for the rest of the year, according to new data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. President...
Omar criticizes Trump’s ‘hateful rhetoric’ after attack; suspect had made pro-Trump posts onlineVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed President Donald Trump for threats to her safety on Wednesday, one day after she was accosted and squirted with liquid at an event in Minneapolis. The man arrested for Tuesday’s attack has posted online in support of the Republican president. “Every time...
Search warrant FBI served at elections office near Atlanta seeks records tied to the 2020 elections
ATLANTA — The search warrant FBI served at Fulton County elections office near Atlanta on Wednesday seeks records tied to the 2020 election, a county spokesperson said. Fulton spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt-Dominguez declined to comment further, saying the search was still underway. An FBI spokesperson confirmed the search but also declined...
Rubio tells senators there’s ‘good and decent progress’ in Venezuela since U.S. ousted MaduroVideo
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has begun his much-anticipated congressional testimony about Venezuela, defending the Trump administration’s military operation to oust and arrest then-President Nicolas Maduro as Republican and Democratic lawmakers offered starkly different readings of the current situation. Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday...
It’s one storm after another for much of the U.S., but the next one’s path is uncertain
HOUSTON — Winter’s brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast. Deep cold is forecast to stick around at...
3 months after rapidly scheduled arguments, the Supreme Court has yet to decide on Trump’s tariffs
WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a similarly rapid resolution seemed possible. After all, Trump’s lawyers told the court that speed was of the essence on an issue central to the Republican president’s economic agenda. They pointed to a statement...
Huge landslide cleaves off the edge of a town in Sicily and forces the evacuation of 1,500 people
ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday toured a southern town in Sicily where days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a massive landslide that cleaved off the town’s edge, collapsing houses and forcing the evacuation of over 1,500 people. The area of the landslide spanned 2.5 miles...
Sarah Mullally confirmed as archbishop of Canterbury, 1st woman to lead the Church of England
LONDON — Sarah Mullally walked into St. Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday morning as the bishop of London. When she walked out in the afternoon as bells rang out, she was the spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans around the world. Mullally, 63, became the archbishop of Canterbury, making her the...
Judge rules Massachusetts offshore wind project halted by Trump administration can continue
BOSTON — A federal judge said Tuesday that a nearly completed Massachusetts offshore wind project can continue, as the industry successfully challenges the Trump administration in court. At U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Brian Murphy halted the administration’s stop work order for Vineyard Wind, citing the potential economic losses...
Man sprays unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar and is tackled at Minneapolis town hallVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of...
Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged even as Trump continues to insist they be lowered
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times last year. Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference that the economy’s outlook “has clearly improved since the last meeting” in...
Investigators say deadly midair collision near D.C. followed years of ignored warnings about traffic
WASHINGTON — National Transportation Safety Board members were deeply troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk collided a year ago, killing 67 people near Washington, D.C. The placement of a helicopter route...
Bitter cold grips the eastern U.S. as winter storm deaths rise and power outages lingerVideo
Three Texas siblings who perished in an icy pond were among several dozen deaths in states gripped by frigid cold Tuesday as crews scrambled to repair hundreds of thousands of power outages in the shivering South and forecasters warned the winter weather is expected to get worse. Brutal cold lingered...
Families of 2 men killed in boat strike sue Trump administration over attack they call ‘unlawful’
WASHINGTON — Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October sued the federal government on Tuesday, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign.” The lawsuit is thought to be the first wrongful death case...
Yale to waive all costs for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000
Yale University is eliminating tuition and other costs for all new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year, joining a growing number of elite campuses that are slashing costs for middle- and lower-income families. The Ivy League school announced the change Tuesday and said it will take effect...
South Carolina measles outbreak surpasses Texas’ 2025 total, with little sign of slowing
The South Carolina measles outbreak has surpassed the recorded case count in Texas’ 2025 outbreak, as health officials have logged almost 600 new cases in just over a month. The outbreak centered in northwestern Spartanburg County is showing little sign of slowing down, with health officials saying Tuesday that 789...
Shooting involving Border Patrol leaves 1 in critical condition in Arizona
ARIVACA, Ariz. — A man who authorities say was involved in a smuggling operation was shot Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with the U.S. Border Patrol and after firing at a federal helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said. Federal agents were attempting to apprehend the 34-year-old Arizona man...
Investigator describes intense air traffic at time of deadly midair collision near D.C.Video
WASHINGTON — The air traffic controller who was managing numerous aircraft around Reagan National Airport felt a “little overwhelmed” just a few minutes before an American Airlines jet collided midair with an Army helicopter near Washington D.C., killing 67 people last year, an investigator said Tuesday at a National Transportation...
U.S. sending ICE unit to Winter Olympics for security, prompting concern and confusion in Italy
MILAN — News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be part of the security detail for the U.S. delegation during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion of an agency that has dominated...
UPS to cut another 30,000 jobs in sweeping cost-savings push
United Parcel Service Inc. expects to cut as many as 30,000 positions this year, part of an ongoing effort by the package-delivery giant to rein in costs and boost profitability. The reductions to its operational workforce — a group that includes drivers and package handlers — will be achieved largely...
TikTok settles as social media giants face landmark trial over youth addiction claims
LOS ANGELES — TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies — along with Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube — facing claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm...
‘Doomsday Clock’ moves closer to midnight over threats from nuclear weapons, climate change and AIVideo
Earth is closer than it’s ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday and advanced its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds till midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited risks of nuclear war,...
