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Federal court rules against new global tariffs Trump imposed after loss at the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — A federal court ruled Thursday against the new global tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court. A split three-judge panel of the Court of International Trade in New York found the 10% global tariffs were illegal after small businesses sued. The...
U.S. will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support. The department told The Associated Press on Thursday that the revocations would begin Friday and be focused on those who owe $100,000 or more. That...
Tornadoes cut across Mississippi as severe storms damage 500 homes
BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. — Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties, damaging around 500 homes, uprooting trees and injuring at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday. There were no reports of deaths after the tornadoes cut across the state’s southwest late Wednesday evening, said...
Hamas says a son of its chief negotiator was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The son of Hamas’ lead negotiator died after being wounded by an Israeli strike on Gaza, the militant group said Thursday, as another Israeli strike killed three Hamas security forces, according to local officials. Israel meanwhile said it killed three Hezbollah militants in a strike...
Man who firebombed a demonstration in Colorado, killing 1, sentenced to life in prisonVideo
BOULDER, Colo. — A judge sentenced a man to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday after he pleaded guilty to killing one person and injuring a dozen others in a 2025 firebombing attack on a demonstration in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Speaking...
Man arrested on suspicion of weapon possession after report former Prince Andrew was threatened
LONDON — A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon after reports that the former Prince Andrew was threatened by a masked man while walking dogs near his home. Norfolk Constabulary said that the arrest came Wednesday evening after a man was reported “behaving in an...
FDA’s new playbook: Lots of media announcements but not much rulemaking
WASHINGTON — In one of his first major announcements as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called a news conference to unveil a plan to “phase out” synthetic food dyes. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary opened the event by saying his agency was “removing all petroleum-based food dyes”...
Vatican and State Department stress solid ties after Rubio’s fence-mending visit over Trump attacks
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican raised the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” in talks Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who came to Rome on a fence-mending visit after President Donald Trump’s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war. Both the Vatican and...
Russia says Ukraine launched a major drone attack after Moscow shunned ceasefire offer
Russian air defenses shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday, in what appeared to be a major attack after Moscow spurned Kyiv’s ceasefire earlier in the week and tension mounted over safety at Russia’s upcoming Victory Day celebrations. Incoming drones were destroyed over 20 Russian regions,...
These numbers show the global impact of Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz has jolted the world economy, causing a spike in fuel prices that has rippled through other sectors with effects far beyond the Middle East. It has also left tens of thousands of mariners and hundreds of ships stranded in the Persian Gulf. Iran...
Investigators searching home connected to killer of California college student Kristin Smart
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Authorities plan Thursday to enter the second day of their search of a home connected to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996, according to law enforcement. The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office served the warrant Wednesday in the...
Health officials track dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after 1st fatality
MADRID — Health authorities across four continents Thursday were tracking down and monitoring passengers who disembarked a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship before its deadly outbreak was detected, and trying to trace others who may have come into contact with them since then. In Argentina, a team of investigators has yet to...
Mount Everest season opens late, with climbers undeterred by huge ice block and high travel costs
KATHMANDU, Nepal — An unstable ice block dangerously hanging over the key trail on Mount Everest, high travel costs and increased permit fees haven’t deterred hundreds of climbers from attempting to scale the world’s highest mountain. Around 464 climbers and an equal number of their Nepali climbing guides are at...
China signals again that Taiwan is a priority ahead of Trump-Xi meeting
BEIJING — China again signaled that Taiwan would be a priority topic ahead of a highly anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, saying that U.S. must adhere to the “one China principle” for a stable relationship with Beijing. Last week, China’s top...
Greece, birthplace of democracy, seeks to put humanity ahead of AI in updated constitution
ATHENS, Greece — Greece is preparing major constitutional changes, including an amendment requiring that artificial intelligence serve human society. Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined the proposed revisions on Thursday, casting them as necessary to safeguard future generations given global concerns about AI’s risks to democratic governance and humanity itself....
Clarence Thomas becomes the second longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history
WASHINGTON — The first baby boomer on the Supreme Court hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in history at a time when his influence has never seemed greater. Once an outlier on the nation’s highest court, Justice Clarence Thomas has become a towering figure in the...
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court is not political
HERSHEY — Supreme Court justices are not “political actors,” Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the law. “I think, at a very basic level, people think we’re making policy decisions, we’re saying we think this is how things should be, as opposed...
Justice Department can keep 2020 election ballots seized from Georgia’s Fulton County, judge rules
ATLANTA — The federal government doesn’t have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee’s decision came after lawyers for the county had argued that the ballots and...
Federal government turns over evidence from the shooting death of Renee Good for court review
MINNEAPOLIS — The federal government has turned over evidence from the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross to a magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for Minnesota, according to an attorney involved in a case tangential to Ross. Eric Newmark said that the federal government informed...
FBI searches Virginia Senate leader’s office as part of corruption probe
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop Wednesday, bringing into public view what was described as a yearslong corruption investigation. The searches at Democratic Sen. L. Louise Lucas’ office and cannabis business are part of what two people familiar...
Judge releases note that cellmate says he found after Jeffrey Epstein’s suspected suicide try
NEW YORK — A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the millionaire sex offender’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was made public Wednesday, years after being sealed and locked in a courthouse vault as part of an unrelated legal dispute. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White...
Trump, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, seeks to halt $83M payment in sexual abuse case
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award. The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...
Israel strikes Beirut suburbs for 1st time since ceasefire was announced
WASHINGTON — Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs Wednesday for the first time since a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group was announced on April 17. Fighting has continued since then in southern Lebanon. The last attacks in Beirut were before that, on April 8, when a series of...
IRS may owe you a refund for coronavirus-era fines. Here’s how to apply
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of taxpayers who were penalized by the IRS during the coronavirus pandemic for failing to pay their taxes or filing late may qualify for a refund or termination of the penalties they incurred during that period. However, the relief is not automatic or guaranteed, and...
CNN founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died at age 87
NEW YORK — Ted Turner, the brash and outspoken television pioneer who created a media empire and transformed the news business by creating CNN and introducing the 24-hour cable news cycle, died Wednesday. He was 87. He died surrounded by his family, according to Turner Enterprises, the company that oversees...
