Wall Street could be headed for a bear market. Here’s what that means
NEW YORK — Wall Street could soon be in the claws of another bear market as the Trump administration’s tariff blitz fuels fears that the added taxes on imported goods from around the world will sink the global economy. The last bear market happened in 2022, but this decline feels...
Trump says U.S. will hold direct talks with Iran as he insists Tehran can’t get nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. is holding direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program. The president, in comments to reporters after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the talks with Tehran would start Saturday. He insisted Tehran can’t get nuclear weapons. “We’re...
King Charles III arrives in Rome on his 1st overseas trip since a brief hospitalization
ROME — King Charles III arrived in Rome on Monday for a state visit to Italy on his first overseas trip since being briefly hospitalized for side effects of cancer treatment. Charles is traveling with Queen Camilla on the three-day visit, which includes the first address to the Italian Parliament...
Swollen rivers are flooding towns in the U.S. South after a prolonged deluge of rain
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Days of unrelenting heavy rain and storms filled up rivers to near record levels across Kentucky on Monday, submerging neighborhoods and threatening a famed bourbon distillery in the state capital of Frankfort. Swollen rivers posed the latest threat from a series of persistent storms that have killed...
Trump orders new review of Nippon Steel’s bid for U.S. Steel
President Donald Trump is seeking a new review of Nippon Steel’s proposed purchase of U.S. Steel. A memo issued Monday by the White House gives the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States 45 days to review the nearly $15 billion deal and say “whether any measures proposed by...
Trump threatens more tariffs on China as global markets plungeVideo
WASHINGTON — Undeterred by a stock market collapse that has continued for days, President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs on China on Monday, raising fresh concerns that his drive to rebalance the global economy could intensify a financially destructive trade war. Trump’s threat, which he delivered on social media, came...
Trump administration ends some USAID contracts providing lifesaving aid across the Middle East
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has notified the World Food Program and other partners that it has terminated some of the last remaining lifesaving humanitarian programs across the Middle East, a U.S. official and a U.N. official told The Associated Press on Monday. The projects were being canceled “for the...
Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.
WASHINGTON — Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation’s top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted. In an interview with The...
Seton Hill, Westmoreland Land Trust to host outdoor family event
Seton Hill students from the university’s honors program seminar will host an outdoor family event with the Westmoreland Land Trust from 1 to 3 p.m. April 13. Attendees can participate in a nature-themed scavenger hunt, lawn games and a children’s craft activity while learning about the importance of protecting the...
Gallery: Photos from April 7, 2025
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Monday, April 7, 2025. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
Measles cases up in Pa. and some counties lag behind school vaccination targets
In late March, a four-year-old in Erie County was diagnosed with measles, a highly contagious and incurable disease that, in rare cases, can cause brain damage and death. The child, who the county did not identify to the Capital-Star, had attended day care at Creative Learning Childcare in Erie, where...
Will new Mega Million odds make you a jackpot winner? Don’t get your hopes up
DES MOINES, Iowa — Lottery players are going to have a shot at more billion-dollar jackpots and slightly better odds under new Mega Millions rules that go into effect with Tuesday’s drawing. But the improvements come at a cost — literally: Players will have to shell out $5 per ticket,...
American YouTuber who left a Diet Coke can for a reclusive tribe on an island is arrested in India
NEW DELHI — Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from...
Israel strikes tents near hospitals in Gaza, killing and wounding reporters
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel struck tents outside two major hospitals in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least two people, including a local reporter, and wounding another nine, including six reporters, medics said Monday. Twenty-three other people were killed in separate strikes across the territory, according to hospitals....
Answering your questions about President Trump’s vast new tariffs
WASHINGTON — After weeks of anticipation and speculation, President Donald Trump followed through on his tariff threats this week by declaring a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States. Global markets cratered the...
As markets implode, U.S. trading partners puzzle over whether there’s room for negotiations
BANGKOK — The impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’sblast of tariff hikes was reverberating across world markets Monday as America’s trading partners puzzled over whether there is room for negotiating better deals. Several countries said they were sending trade officials to Washington to try to talk through the crisis, which...
Trump administration orders national parks to remain open amid staffing shortagesVideo
The Trump administration has issued an order demanding that all national parks remain open amid severe staffing shortages — an action that one conservation group called “reckless and out of touch” as park personnel brace for millions of visitors this summer. “This order is intended to ensure that all national...
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’
GREENBELT, Md. — The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the...
Tentative deal reached in Republican fight over proxy voting for new parents
WASHINGTON — A tentative deal has been reached with the Florida Republican leading a bipartisan push to allow proxy voting in the U.S. House for new parents, potentially ending a standoff that halted legislative work for days and threatened to delay a vote this week to advance President Donald Trump’s...
Trump digs in his heels as global markets keep dropping over tariffsVideo
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President Donald Trump remained defiant on Monday as global markets continued plunging after his tariff announcement last week. He said other countries had been “taking advantage of the Good OL’ USA!” in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform. “Our past ‘leaders’ are to...
Colorado artist denies trying to distort Trump in portrait
A Colorado artist denies trying to distort Donald Trump’s likeness in a portrait that hung until recently in the state Capitol and says the president’s criticisms are hurting her business. She also disputed that the work drew a lot of complaints before Trump weighed in. Trump called the portrait by...
Rising rivers threaten South and Midwest after barrage of rain, tornadoes
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Rivers rose and flooding worsened Sunday across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days of heavy rain and wind that killed at least 18 people. From Texas to Ohio, utilities scrambled to shut off power and gas, while cities closed...
No state has ended personal income taxes since 1980, but Mississippi and Kentucky may change that
About 45 years have passed since a U.S. state last eliminated its income tax on wages and salaries. But with recent actions in Mississippi and Kentucky, two states now are on a path to do so, if their economies keep growing. The push to zero out the income tax is...
Pope makes surprise appearance at St. Peter’s Square, 2 weeks after leaving hospital
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on Sunday, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican since leaving t he hospital two weeks ago after a life-threatening bout with pneumonia. The pontiff...
RFK Jr. visits epicenter of Texas measles outbreak after death of 2nd child who was infected
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas’ still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child who was not vaccinated and died from a measles-related illness. Kennedy said in a social media post that...
