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Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed U.S. criminals to other countriesVideo
GUATEMALA CITY — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases” even as he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio say it raises clear legal issues. Rubio reached...
FBI agents sue over Justice Dept. effort to ID employees involved in Trump-related investigations
WASHINGTON — FBI agents who participated in investigations related to President Donald Trump have sued over Justice Department efforts to develop a list of employees involved in those inquiries that they fear could be a precursor to mass firings. The class-action complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, seeks...
Rubio says El Salvador’s offer to jail violent American criminals faces ‘legalities’
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals raises clear legal issues but described it as “very generous” and said President Donald Trump would make a decision on whether to move forward with it. Rubio...
Families and doctors sue over Trump’s order to halt funding for gender-affirming care
A group of families with transgender children filed a lawsuit Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s executive order to halt federal support for gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19. PFLAG, a national group for family of LGBTQ+ people, and GLMA, a doctors organization, are also plaintiffs in the...
Trump to attend Super Bowl in New Orleans
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, according to the White House. It will be his first trip as president to the game, as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles. Trump’s trip was confirmed by a White House official...
Remains of all 67 victims from deadly plane and chopper collision near Washington have been recovered
ARLINGTON, Va. — The remains of all 67 victims of last week’s midair collision of an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., have been recovered, authorities said Tuesday. The chief medical examiner is still trying to positively identify one set of remains, officials said in a...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company gave NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity Tuesday, without straying too far from home. Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of space from West Texas. Plans called for creating a few minutes of artificial lunar gravity by repeatedly spinning...
Senate committee advances Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination to be health secretary
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel divided starkly along partisan lines voted on Tuesday to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, sending his bid to oversee the $1.7 trillion U.S. Health and Human Services agency to the Senate floor. Fourteen Republicans...
Trump won’t rule out deploying troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees ‘long-term’ U.S. ownership
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area. Trump’s audacious proposal appears certain to roil the next stage of talks meant to extend the tenuous ceasefire between Israel...
About 10 killed at adult education center in what officials say is Sweden’s worst mass shooting
About 10 people, including the gunman, were killed on Tuesday at an adult education center in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s worst mass shooting. But a final death toll, a conclusive number of wounded and a motive hadn’t yet been determined. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson gave a news...
Dramatic drop in monarch butterfly count nears record 30-year low
MADISON, Wis. — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change take their toll on the beloved pollinator. Here’s what to know: The survey began in 1997 Monarch...
U.S. aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees
PAVLOHRAD, Ukraine — In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia....
China hits back with tariffs on U.S. products; launches investigation into Google
BEIJING — China announced retaliatory tariffs on select American imports and an antitrust investigation into Google on Tuesday, just minutes after a sweeping levy on Chinese products imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump took effect. American tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico were also set to go into effect...
A 1714 Stradivarius violin up for auction could become most expensive music instrument ever sold
NEW YORK — A violin made by the famed Antonio Stradivari in 1714 has the potential to become the most expensive musical instrument ever sold when it goes up for auction on Friday at Sotheby’s in New York. The auction house is estimating the value of the “Joachim-Ma Stradivarius” at...
How Trump’s pledge to punish South Africa reflects Elon Musk’s criticism of his homeland
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a human rights violation, a move that reflects Elon Musk’s repeated and false claims over the years that authorities in his country of birth are anti-white and even...
New York shields abortion pill prescribers after doctor was indicted in Louisiana
ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana. The new law, which took effect immediately, allows doctors...
Lawsuit blames deaths on Ohio train derailment as JD Vance says U.S. needs ‘to do better on rail safety’
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — A lawsuit alleging for the first time that people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine train derailment was announced on Monday’s second anniversary of the toxic crash near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border amid a flurry of new litigation. On Monday, Vice President JD Vance visited...
Ex-deep-sea treasure hunter jailed for nearly 10 years scores a legal win but won’t be freed
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former deep-sea treasure hunter who has served nearly a decade in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has had that term ended by a federal judge in Ohio, but he will remain behind bars for now. U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley...
Pacific Coast Highway reopens nearly a month after devastating Southern California wildfires
LOS ANGELES — The Pacific Coast Highway reopened Monday, nearly a month after it was closed when flames from the deadly Palisades Fire ripped through hillside Los Angeles neighborhoods, destroying properties all the way down to the beach. Traffic along the scenic shoreline route began moving again at 8 a.m....
New York attorney general tells hospitals to continue transgender care after Trump’s executive order
NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments. In...
What is USAID? Explaining the U.S. foreign aid agency and why Trump and Musk want to end it
WASHINGTON — Dozens of senior officials put on leave. Thousands of contractors laid off. A freeze put on billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to other countries. Over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas...
Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, but import taxes still in place for Canada and China
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum put their planned tariffs on hold Monday for a month to give time for further negotiations, and Mexico said it planned to deploy 10,000 members of its national guard to address drug trafficking. Trump’s tariffs against Canada and China...
Salvage crews recover engine, large portion of jet from river after deadly air collision near D.C.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from the wreckage of a commercial airliner involved in last week’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport, officials said Monday. They also recovered more human remains from the...
Investors are betting Musk and Tesla will make a fortune under Trump even as threats mount
NEW YORK — For Elon Musk fans, it’s the half a trillion-dollar bet. That is how much the stock market value of Tesla has rocketed since the presidential election, a vertiginous climb uninterrupted in recent days despite a disappointing financial report that would have sunk the stock of nearly any...
American bald eagles are having a moment, ecologically and culturally
WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is having a moment. The eagles find themselves in an environmental updraft of sorts...
