WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump did not blink Wednesday while resurrecting an economic policy approach last used 95 years ago, a move that will shape his second term and help decide the fate of his “Make America Great Again” movement.

“My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day,” Trump said at a Rose Garden event to announce ...Read more

After Andrea Martinez gave birth to her daughter, she could take only four weeks of leave — two weeks paid, two weeks unpaid. As a single mother with one income, she returned to work quickly to support her three children and sent her newborn to a daycare.

“This situation created a significant hardship for me, especially since I had a C-...Read more

NEW YORK — A group of Columbia University students on Wednesday afternoon chained themselves to locked campus gates to protest the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

“We demand to know the names of the Columbia trustees who facilitated the abduction of our beloved friend by collaborating with the Trump administration,” ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The number of people seriously hurt falling off the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Diego County has dropped sharply since the Trump administration intensified security measures, according to the two trauma hospitals that treat those injuries.

University of California, San Diego Health said Wednesday it has treated 25 individuals ...Read more

Crop prices tend to spike when there’s a shock to the global economy.

President Donald Trump’s new round of tariffs announced Wednesday will certainly act like a defibrillator across farm country, but experts say it will only deepen the ongoing downturn in U.S. agriculture.

“We invite retaliation by imposing tariffs and do damage to our ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Four Republicans joined Democrats in the Senate to pass, 51-48, a joint resolution Wednesday that would effectively end President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs on Canadian goods in a vote that revealed GOP resistance to the administration’s sweeping trade agenda.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was a co-sponsor of the measure offered ...Read more

MIAMI — The Trump administration will resume housing detained immigrants in Glades County Detention Center, just three years after the facility’s use was limited for what the federal government said were “persistent and ongoing concerns” with detainees’ well-being.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Wednesday that...Read more

NEW YORK — Pussy Riot, the provocative, political Russian punk band, came to Washington Square Park Wednesday to deliver a stern warning: “Wake up, America!”

Their faces hidden behind red ski masks, six members of the feminist art collective marched down Fifth Ave. and into the Greenwich Village park around 1 p.m. Standing in front of the...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court knocked down a 25-year-old precedent Wednesday, deciding that the smell of marijuana should no longer independently provide law enforcement with probable cause to search a vehicle after state voters broadly legalized pot in 2018.

In a 5-1 decision, the court determined that the search of a Jeep ...Read more

The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts is blasting a Boston judge and the Suffolk DA for accusing an ICE agent of contempt of court for seizing an illegal immigrant ex-convict midtrial last week.

U.S. Attorney Leah Foley, appointed by President Donald Trump to head up the federal court in Massachusetts, said Wednesday that taking action ...Read more

President Donald Trump is imposing tariffs on U.S. trading partners worldwide, his biggest assault yet on a global economic system he has long bemoaned as unfair.

Trump said Wednesday he will apply a minimum 10% tariff on all exporters to the U.S. and slap additional duties on around 60 nations with the largest trade imbalances with the U.S. ...Read more

Thousands of Haitians marched through the streets of the country’s volatile capital on Wednesday, defying tear gas and gangs as they vented their anger against the surge in gang violence and demanded the resignation of the country’s transitional authorities and the head of the Haiti National Police.

During the massive protest, demonstrators...Read more

President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that his sweeping new tariffs on foreign goods will ultimately mean “lower prices for consumers.”

Most economists disagree, saying Californians will see higher prices very soon and endure what’s essentially a tax increase.

In a White House Rose Garden ceremony, talking to an audience of blue-...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City-area state senator is under fire after telling a transgender medical student that he won’t listen to doctors who disagree with God during testimony over anti-LGBTQ legislation.

The heated exchange from Sen. Joe Nicola, a Grain Valley Republican, occurred at the Missouri Capitol Wednesday, according to ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he ignored the uproar within the Legislature over his recent comments about transgender student-athletes, a day after Assembly Republicans invoked him as an unlikely ally to press for two related bills that ultimately failed.

“I didn’t pay any attention to the committee yesterday,” he told reporters after ...Read more

Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham unveiled the text of a compromise budget blueprint Wednesday that’s designed to pave the way for a major reconciliation package offering tax cuts, border security and defense funding and more.

The measure would punt, for now, on the overall size of offsetting spending cuts, but the text clearly states a ...Read more

Beau Baden describes his business, Sherman Street Beer Co., as a “mom and pop” operation. Like many small-business owners in the Lehigh Valley and beyond, he’s concerned about the potential fallout from tariffs being imposed by the Trump administration and retaliatory ones from trading partners such as Canada.

“Myself and my wife run it...Read more