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FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as part of sweeping cuts to the federal health workforce on Tuesday, the latest in a series of actions that have cleared out many of the nation’s top experts overseeing food, drugs, vaccines and...
Survivors still being found from Myanmar earthquake, but hopes begin to fade as deaths exceed 2,700
BANGKOK — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The fire department...
Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing
NEW YORK — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that she has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, following through on the president’s campaign promise to vigorously pursue capital punishment. It is the first time the Justice...
Betting favorite UConn joins 3 top seeds in South Carolina, UCLA and Texas in women’s Final Four
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The women’s Final Four is full of star players, top seeds and historic programs. There will be no Cinderellas in Tampa, Fla., this week with No. 1 seeds South Carolina, UCLA and Texas in the national semifinals. They are joined by the betting favorite to win it...
Cornell student protester facing deportation leaves the U.S. on his ‘own terms’ after losing faith
A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked because of his campus activism said he decided to leave the United States. Momodou Taal, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, had asked a federal court to halt his detention. But he posted on X late Monday...
Trump administration sued over decision to rescind billions in health funding
A coalition of state attorneys general sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cut $12 billion in federal funds that go toward covid-19 initiatives and various public health projects across the country. Attorneys general from 23 states filed the suit in federal court in Rhode Island. They...
Trump’s pick for Joint Chiefs chairman strikes a humble, apolitical tone in Senate hearing
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, told senators Tuesday that he understands he is an unknown and unconventional nominee — but that the U.S. is facing unconventional and unprecedented threats and...
February U.S. job openings slip to 7.6 million, consistent with a healthy but decelerating job market
WASHINGTON — Employers posted 7.6 million job openings in February, a sign that that the job market is slowing but remains healthy. The number of vacancies fell slightly from a revised 7.8 million in January and from a 8.4 million a year earlier. Openings have come down more or less...
Israel strikes a building in southern Beirut, killing at least 4 people
BEIRUT — The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least four people, as the military said it had targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group. The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on...
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker launches overnight speech to protest Trump’s agenda
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker carried an all-night speech in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into Tuesday morning. Booker took to the Senate floor on Monday evening saying he would remain there as long as he was “physically able.” He was still on the floor more than 14...
April Fools’ Day is celebrated with pranks and hoaxes worldwide
From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day will be celebrated on Tuesday with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes, so make sure to triple check viral posts and don’t leave your back open to any stray sticky notes. The jokesters’ custom has been around for hundreds of...
Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics
GENEVA — Top minds at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics. The plans for the Future Circular Collider — a nearly 56.5-mile loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva...
U.S. sanctions 6 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over rights abuses; Beijing threatens to retaliate
HONG KONG — The United States sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials who it alleged were involved in “transnational repression” and acts that threaten to further erode the city’s autonomy. The six officials included Justice Secretary Paul Lam, security office director Dong Jingwei and police commissioner Raymond Siu. The...
Mass layoffs underway at the nation’s public health agencies
Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the...
Pennsylvania mail-in ballots don’t need accurate envelope dates, federal judge rules
HARRISBURG — Election boards in Pennsylvania’s 67 counties may not invalidate mail-in ballots simply because they lack accurate, handwritten dates on their exterior return envelopes, a federal judge ruled Monday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter, the latest in a long-running legal dispute over what is a...
20 staffers accused of abusing students or not reporting it at Pennsylvania charter school
Twenty staffers at a suburban Philadelphia charter school are facing charges related to the alleged physical abuse of students using painful, unapproved techniques to restrain and punish youths in a program meant to help them deal with emotional issues, authorities announced Monday. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said the...
Comic Amber Ruffin cut from White House correspondents’ event after angering Trump team
When comic Amber Ruffin was announced as the featured entertainer at this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, the group’s president said she’d be “roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the aisle and the journalists who cover them.” But after Ruffin referred to the Trump administration as...
Trump administration says it deported 17 more ‘violent criminals’ to El Salvador
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday that it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to countries other than their own despite criticism over lack of...
Braves’ Jurickson Profar gets 80-game PED ban, calls it ‘most difficult day’ of his career
NEW YORK — Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been suspended for 80 games without pay for performance-enhancing drug use. Major League Baseball announced Monday that Profar tested positive for Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG) in violation of the league’s joint drug prevention and treatment program. The suspension of Profar is effective...
Browns owner Jimmy Haslam admits team ‘took a big swing and miss’ in trading for Deshaun WatsonVideo
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Cleveland co-owner Jimmy Haslam admitted that the Browns “took a big swing and miss” with their 2022 trade for quarterback Deshaun Watson. Haslam made the comments Monday during a session with Browns reporters at the league meetings in Florida. “We thought we had the quarterback, we...
Trump task force to review Harvard’s funding after Columbia bows to federal demands
WASHINGTON — Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new “comprehensive review” that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college. A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts...
Wall Street swings again as approach of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ wallops stock markets worldwide
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s fast-approaching “Liberation Day” sent stock markets swinging sharply worldwide on Monday. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 0.6% in another roller-coaster day, after being down as much as 1.7% during the morning. The reversal helped the index shave its loss for the first...
In Lithuania, 3 U.S. soldiers found dead in armored vehicle; 1 remains missing
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Three of the U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been found dead in their armored vehicle that was pulled from a swampy area early Monday, according to U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command. Another soldier is still missing. The bodies of the three soldiers...
Supreme Court appears likely to side with Catholic Charities in religious-rights case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared Monday to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court. In a case that could have wide-ranging effects, the justices suggested the Catholic Charities Bureau should not...
Stanford hires Frank Reich as interim football coachVideo
STANFORD, Calif. — Andrew Luck picked a familiar person to take over as Stanford’s interim football coach, hiring former NFL coach Frank Reich on Monday to replace the fired Troy Taylor. Luck moved quickly in his new role as general manager of the football program, hiring Reich less than a...
