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Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event
Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from the Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename...
‘That was awesome!’ California’s earthquake early warning system let many know about temblor
Monday’s magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success for California’s earthquake early warning system, with users in some areas saying they received alerts on their phones before they felt shaking. The alerts in some cases provided pivotal seconds of lead time — a heads-up that could be critical in the event...
White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for U.N., NATO and other groups
WASHINGTON — The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and...
Trump criticizes Iran for ‘tapping us along’ with second round of nuclear talks set for Saturday
ROME — President Donald Trump complained Monday about the pace of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran as the two countries start a new round of pivotal negotiations. “I think they’re tapping us along,” he said in the Oval Office during a meeting with El Salvador’s president. The...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies at 89
LIMA, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89. He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,”...
Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events, seen as a major blow to rights
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s parliament Monday passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics call another step toward authoritarianism by the populist government. The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines...
Army to control land on Mexico border as part of base, migrants could be detained, officials say
WASHINGTON — A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, which could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants, U.S. officials told The Associated...
5.2-magnitude quake shakes Southern California, tumbling rocks onto roads and items off shelvesVideo
SAN DIEGO — A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, sending boulders tumbling onto rural roadways outside San Diego and rattling items off shelves and walls, but officials reported no injuries or major damage. The quake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, struck at 10:08 a.m. local time,...
Search suspended for 5 missing from capsized boat involved in ‘failed suspected smuggling venture’
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The search has been suspended for five people missing after a boat capsized during a “failed suspected smuggling venture” off of Florida’s Atlantic Coast, the Coast Guard said Monday. On Sunday, Coast Guard crews rescued four people from the ocean some 29 miles off of...
Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism
BOSTON — The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, since the institution said Monday it won’t comply with the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus. In a letter to Harvard Friday, the administration called for...
Months after CEO’s killing, a reported intruder is arrested near UnitedHealthcare headquarters
MINNETONKA, Minn. — A person was arrested near UnitedHealthcare’s headquarters in Minnesota after reports of an intruder, months after the company’s CEO was killed, authorities said Monday. Police in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka said the suspect was arrested outside of the United Healthcare corporate campus. The Minnetonka Police Department...
Wisconsin clerk who failed to count almost 200 ballots resigns amid internal investigation
MADISON, Wis. — The municipal clerk in Wisconsin’s capital city has quit amid investigations into how she failed to count nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November elections. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s office announced City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl’s resignation Monday. The mayor’s spokesperson, Dylan Brogan, said Witzel-Behl submitted her resignation...
Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student’s case
A federal judge in Vermont who is considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials in Louisiana raised the possibility Monday of having her brought back to his court for a hearing. U.S. District Judge William Sessions took under advisement...
El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing Maryland man back to U.S.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Bukele called the idea “preposterous” even though the U.S. Supreme...
Cleveland Browns’ quest for domed stadium starts NFL fight for Ohio dollars
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A political battle fit for the gridiron is underway in Ohio, where state Republican leaders are clashing over whether to single out the Cleveland Browns for help building a new suburban domed stadium or impose tax hikes to fund stadium upgrades for the Cincinnati Bengals and other...
Blue Origin launches an all-female celebrity crew with Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren SanchezVideo
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched his fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space Monday with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King. It was the latest wave in space tourism, where more of the rich and famous than ever before — or lucky and well-connected — can enter...
Russia claims its deadly attack on Ukraine’s Sumy targeted military forces as condemnation grows
BRUSSELS — Russia on Monday claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine’s Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned the attack as a war crime. Ukrainian officials have said two ballistic missiles on Palm Sunday morning hit the...
Suspected U.S. airstrikes kill at least 7 people in Yemen, Houthi rebels say
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Suspected U.S. airstrikes around Yemen’s rebel-held capital killed at least seven people and wounded 29 overnight, the Houthis said Monday as they also claimed shooting down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone. Since its start nearly a month ago, the intense campaign of U.S. airstrikes under...
Coast Guard says 1 dead, 4 rescued and 5 missing from capsized boat off Florida’s Atlantic Coast
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — U.S. Coast Guard crews were still searching on Monday for five people missing after a boat capsized off Florida’s Atlantic Coast. The Coast Guard said in a social media post that one person was found dead and crews rescued four others on Sunday about 29...
Trump administration still won’t say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month and remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador, despite a Supreme Court ruling and lower court order...
Trump’s commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs comingVideo
NASHVILLE — Tariff exemptions announced Friday on electronics such as smartphones and laptops are only a temporary reprieve until the Trump administration develops a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday. “They’re exempt from the reciprocal tariffs but they’re included in the...
State Department wants staff to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias during Biden’s term
WASHINGTON — As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias, including formal or informal actions due to opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice, that occurred during the Biden...
FAA says company whose sightseeing chopper crashed, killing 6, is ceasing operations immediately
NEW YORK — The Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday that the helicopter tour company whose sightseeing chopper broke apart in flight and crashed in New York, killing the pilot and a family of five visitors from Spain, is shutting down operations immediately. The FAA, in a statement posted on X,...
The dead in upstate New York plane crash included 2022 NCAA woman of the year and family members
COPAKE, N.Y. — A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes on a trip to the Catskills for a birthday celebration and the Passover holiday. The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after...
Supreme Court slows Trump’s mass deportations but doesn’t stop them
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court this week put an important check on President Donald Trump’s power to arrest and quickly deport people who are alleged to be members of a foreign crime gang. Those who face deportation “are entitled to notice and opportunity to challenge their removal” before a federal...
