Nation and World
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A second crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in a posh NYC townhouse
May 27, 2025 9:56 pm - NEW YORK — A second cryptocurrency investor surrendered to police Tuesday in the alleged kidnapping of a man who said he was tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhatta...
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Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm
May 27, 2025 6:49 pm - A leader of the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport millions of immigrants recently earned consulting fees from a detention center company that is expected...
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Ukraine braces for expected Russian summer offensive in the east
May 27, 2025 4:10 pm - KYIV — Russia is expected to mount a major offensive this summer against Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which it has been trying to conquer since the beginning of the ...
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Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona sacred to Apaches
May 27, 2025 3:59 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they ho...
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Supreme Court declines case about T-shirt declaring ‘only two genders’
May 27, 2025 3:50 pm - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take the case of a Massachusetts middle school student who said his free speech rights were violated when school administrators f...
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Israeli troops fire warning shots as Palestinians overwhelm new Gaza food center
May 27, 2025 2:21 pm - Chaos erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza as desperate Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences. Nearby Israeli troops fired warning shots, sending people fleeing in panic.
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NPR sues Trump administration over executive order to cut federal funding to public media
May 27, 2025 2:18 pm - National Public Radio and three of its local stations sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday, arguing that his executive order cutting funding to the 246-station network violates their free speech and relies on an authority that he does not have.
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Wall Street rallies as its roller-coaster ride whips back upward after Trump pauses more tariffs
May 27, 2025 10:39 am - Wall Street is rallying Tuesday as the roller-coaster ride created by President Donald Trump’s trade policies whips back upward, this time because of a delay for his tariffs on the European Union.
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Judge orders government to facilitate return of deportee after error
May 24, 2025 9:45 pm - A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man whom officials deported to Mexico despite his claims that he would b...
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Trump administration lifts broad sanctions against Syria
May 24, 2025 9:43 pm - The Trump administration on Friday lifted a wide range of sanctions against Syria, the first major step to fulfill a promise made this month by President Donald Trump to ...