Severe storms pummel parts of U.S. with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat
CHICAGO — Successive punches of snow and wind were impacting the eastern half of the United States on Monday as severe weather swept across much of the nation, making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest and canceling more than 2,000 flights nationwide. Forecasters said mid-Atlantic states and Washington, D.C., were...
How Trump’s Homeland Security pick, a prolific investor, got a lot wealthier in Congress
A few days after Christmas, Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s expansive stock portfolio got significantly bigger. Mullin reported buying shares in Chevron, the only major U.S. oil company producing in Venezuela. Five days after the purchase, President Donald Trump attacked Venezuela, demanding that its leadership give better terms to U.S. oil companies....
Confidential report calls for sweeping changes to track covid vaccine harms
Citing a survey called “Killer Jab?,” which found that nearly 1 out of 4 Americans reported knowing someone who died from a covid vaccine, a federal work group is calling for sweeping changes to how the medical establishment tracks and treats injuries from the shots. The changes are proposed in...
Trump suggests he may delay China trip, but Bessent says it’s not to pressure on Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may delay his China trip due to the Iran war, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday it’s not to pressure Beijing on the Strait of Hormuz. Bessent said any delay to Trump’s month-end trip to Beijing would not be because of disagreements over the...
Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada
WASHINGTON — Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico — U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup. Much of...
Asian and European nations are tepid to Trump’s call for help unblocking gulf
A call by President Donald Trump for Asian and European countries to send warships to help unblock oil supplies from the Persian Gulf received a cautious public response Sunday as a global oil shock from the war in Iran continued to reverberate through the global economy. Chris Wright, the U.S....
2 dead after 2 boats carrying students capsize off U.S. base construction site in southern Japan
TOKYO — Two boats carrying 21 people capsized Monday off Henoko, a controversial relocation site for a U.S. military base off Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, throwing all into the water and leaving two of them dead, officials said. The Japan Coast Guard said 18 of them were students from...
President Trump ripped for controversial fundraising email: ‘Mentally and morally sick’
President Donald Trump continues to face criticism after sending out a fundraising email that featured a photo of himself at the dignified transfer of the first six soldiers killed in the war with Iran. That photo also shows the President wearing the white USA hat that he failed to take...
Pentagon sees Iran war lasting up to 6 weeks, Trump aide says
A top aide to President Donald Trump said the Pentagon estimates the Iran war, now in its third week, would take between four and six weeks. Kevin Hassett, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, offered the timeline along with a caveat that the ultimate decision on when the...
Israeli military claims brother of man who attacked Michigan synagogue was Hezbollah commander
JERUSALEM — The man who attacked a Michigan synagogue was the brother of a Hezbollah commander killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, Israel’s military claimed Sunday. Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in the March 5 strike in Lebanon along with three other relatives of the attacker in Michigan —...
FCC chair threatens to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over war coverage
Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, threatened to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran, his latest move in a campaign to stomp out what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts. As the war entered its third week, Carr accused broadcasters of...
State Department cuts price of renouncing U.S. citizenship to $450
The State Department is drastically reducing the cost of renouncing American citizenship, ending a yearslong legal battle over the price of relinquishing a blue passport. In an update published in the Federal Register on Friday, the State Department said it was reducing the consular fees of renouncing U.S. citizenship to...
Israeli soldiers fire on family car in occupied West Bank, killing 4
TAMMUN, West Bank — Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said that Ali and Waed Odeh, and two of their four children, were shot...
Snow, wind batter parts of U.S., with threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes starting later SundayVideo
CHICAGO — A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest while damaging wind swept across the Plains. Hawaii also continues to be affected by severe flooding. And portions of the mid-South...
Josh Shapiro doesn’t take Bill Maher’s ‘bait’ about presidential bidVideo
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was cagey Friday night about his presidential aspirations in an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher, ” but he spoke like someone who has his eyes set on 2028. “What is the story with always writing a book when you’re running for president?” Maher asked...
Iceland’s chief ‘Lava Cooler’ is bracing for the next eruption
GRINDAVIK, Iceland — As a swarm of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions began to rip through southwestern Iceland in late 2023, a firefighter named Helgi Hjorleifsson jumped into action. Lava was heading toward the evacuated town of Grindavik, a power plant and the Blue Lagoon — one of Iceland’s most popular...
Kazakhstanis vote in referendum on new constitution that would cement president’s grip on power
Voters in Kazakhstan headed to the polls Sunday for a referendum on a new constitution that would strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s grip on power in Central Asia’s largest country. The proposal merges the Kazakhstani parliament’s two chambers into one and gives the president the right to appoint key government officials,...
Analysis: 2 weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump increasingly has been knocked on his political heels. He’s grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war...
From slavery to the White House, the Ficklin family served presidents for nearly 8 decades
WASHINGTON — John Wrory Ficklin was 7 when he learned that his father, the son of a slave, was important. It was 1963, and the nation was mourning President John F. Kennedy. Wrory Ficklin was sitting with his mother and brother, watching funeral coverage on TV in the family’s Washington...
Trump demands that ‘about 7’ countries join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz
CAIRO — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has demanded about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, but his appeals have brought no commitments as oil prices soar during the Iran war. The president declined to name the countries heavily reliant on Middle East...
AP finds an Israeli group discreetly organized the mystery flights evacuating Palestinians from Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel — The plane carrying about 150 Palestinians from Gaza came as a surprise to everyone on the ground when it landed in South Africa in November. It wasn’t the only one. Since May, at least three flights filled with Gaza residents who’d signed up to leave the...
Hospital officials say Israeli strikes killed 12 in Gaza, including 2 children and a pregnant woman
CAIRO — At least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a pregnant woman and eight police officers, were killed Sunday by Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn Gaza Strip, hospital authorities said. A strike Sunday morning hit a house in the urban refugee camp of Nuseirat in central Gaza and killed four...
The shifting guidelines for blood pressure control
The patient initially came to see Dr. Mark Supiano in 2017 because her family was concerned about her short-term memory loss. While taking her history and vital signs, Supiano, a geriatrician at the University of Utah, saw one disturbing signal: Her blood pressure was 148/86, above normal despite her taking...
The biggest change to voting in Republican election bill could become a burden for many U.S. voters
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Joshua Bogdan was born and raised in the United States. The only time the New Hampshire resident has left the country was for a day and a half in seventh grade, when he went to Canada to see Niagara Falls. Even so, that did not mean proving...
Tehran claims the U.S. attacked it from the UAE as Iran war enters its third week
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran urged people Saturday to evacuate the Middle East’s busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighboring country’s non-U.S. assets for the first time as its war with the U.S. and Israel entered a third week. Tehran said the...
