A well-regarded 350-bed hospital, one of the last ones left in the country, now stands nearly empty. The home of one of its staffers was burned to a crisp. So too was the house of a former president of the Haitian Senate.

The newest attacks have all occurred outside of Port-au-Prince in Haiti’s heartland, which is quickly emerging as a new ...Read more

A well-regarded 350-bed hospital, one of the last ones left in the country, now stands nearly empty. The home of one of its staffers was burned to a crisp. So too was the house of a former president of the Haitian Senate.

The newest attacks have all occurred outside of Port-au-Prince in Haiti’s heartland, which is quickly emerging as a new ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s trade salvo was years in the making. The details came down to the final moments.

Hours before Trump announced his signature tariff plan, aides were still rushing to hone key elements, including its size and scope as well as how to sell it to the American public and communicate some of its chief ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Thursday he will decide whether to find the Trump administration in contempt of court, indicating the U.S. government may have “acted in bad faith” in a high-profile legal challenge over a presidential proclamation to remove migrants based on the Alien Enemies Act.

Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s big tariff rollout was supposed to reduce uncertainty for businesses. Economists say it did the exact opposite, while also raising recession risk.

Some 76% of the 54 forecasters who responded to a Bloomberg survey conducted April 2-3 after the announcement said the imposition of sweeping levies only adds to the ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has avoided the worst of the Trump tariff onslaught.

At least for now.

That was the message of relief that Mexican officials were sending Thursday, a day after the Trump administration unveiled its much-anticipated “Liberation Day” tariff regimen, imposing import levies on scores of nations worldwide.

Spared in the...Read more

The wide-ranging new tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday represent the biggest change to global trade in a century, prompting urgent questions about how the new taxes were calculated, how long they will last and what exactly the White House hopes to achieve with them.

Confusion over the details — and the fact that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., proposed congressional legislation on Thursday to overturn Gov. Gavin Newsom’s electric vehicle mandates.

Kiley called his proposal “a major step in our efforts to Newsom-proof California,” glibly referring to special legislation the governor signed earlier this year to prepare the Golden State ...Read more

BOSTON — The case to free a Tufts Ph.D. student and vocally pro-Palestine Turkish national after she was detained last week took a step forward in court Thursday, with both defense lawyers and the Justice Department clashing on jurisdiction of the case.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts University Ph.D. student and Fulbright Scholar from ...Read more

Severe weather spawned dozens of reported tornadoes in the past 48 hours, with about a third of them occurring in Kansas and Missouri, according to preliminary reports.

The tornadoes, some of which were deadly, left a path of destruction from the south to the Great Lakes, destroying homes, overturning vehicles, and downing power lines.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ramped up a campaign this week against Edward Martin’s bid to become U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, pushing for a hearing on the conservative activist who represented defendants charged in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

While the committee doesn’t typically hold ...Read more

Universities across Minnesota are scrambling to help international students after more students had their visas revoked, schools reported Thursday, just a day after five international students in Mankato had their student visas terminated.

At Minnesota State, one international student enrolled at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his shocking plan for massive tariffs by claiming “the patient lived,” a less-than-reassuring message about the American economy as global markets melted down in a stunning selloff that knocked more than 1,600 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

“The operation is over. The patent lived,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general will conduct an investigation of the Signal group chat where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump administration officials discussed details of an impending attack on Houthi militants in Yemen.

“We are initiating the subject evaluation” in response to a request from lawmakers for �...Read more

As with many of his political positions, President Trump's extraordinary new tariffs are based on the presumption that the United States is being treated unfairly by the rest of the world.

He proclaims his tariffs are merely "reciprocal." "They do it to us, and we do it to them," Trump said. "Very simple."

But are the new levies on foreign ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is facing global blowback after announcing a dramatic series of tariffs on countries around the world, with U.S. adversaries and allies alike promising crushing responses that could devastate the American economy.

Stocks plummeted at the market’s close Thursday, with the S&P 500, Dow Jones industrial ...Read more

A coalition of states sued President Donald Trump and his administration Thursday over his recent executive order purporting to radically reshape voting rules nationwide, including requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship, calling it an illegal attempt by the White House to strip states of their authority to govern elections.

"My fellow...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A former U.S. attorney for Idaho has joined the team prosecuting Idaho college student homicide defendant Bryan Kohberger.

Josh Hurwit, 44, chosen by former President Joe Biden for his prior role, left the appointed position in February in the transition to President Donald Trump. Now Hurwit will assist in the state’s case ...Read more

BOSTON — On the third day of juror selection in the Karen Read retrial attorneys brought the total number of jurors in the final pool to 10.

Attorneys added seven to the final jury pool during the previous two days and ended with 10 on the third day: five men and five women. There was a total of 19 jurors selected for trial in the first go-...Read more