Nation and World
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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 ...
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San Diego plane crash is a devastating loss to the alternative rock music community
May 24, 2025 9:41 pm - NEW YORK — The alternative music community is in mourning after a private jet hit a power line in foggy weather early Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, ...
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9 of a doctor’s 10 children are killed in Israel’s latest strikes in Gaza
May 24, 2025 6:23 pm - CAIRO — The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza 's Health Ministry said Saturday, a toll that doesn't ...
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Israel may change tack to allow aid groups in Gaza to stay in charge of nonfood aid
May 24, 2025 5:42 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — As pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, Israel appears to be changing tack and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave remain in cha...
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Ex-Minneapolis police chief recalls ‘absolutely gut-wrenching’ moment of seeing George Floyd video
May 24, 2025 5:36 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo vividly remembers receiving a call around midnight from a community activist. The caller told him to watch...