Nation and World
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A Tennessee earthquake rattles homes as far away as Atlanta with 4.1 magnitude
May 10, 2025 5:23 pm - ATLANTA — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on S...
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Pope Leo XIV lays out vision of papacy and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity
May 10, 2025 4:51 pm - VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing...
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Israeli airstrikes kill 23 in Gaza as outcry over aid blockade grows
May 10, 2025 4:43 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City — Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Saturday killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza, including three children and their parents whose tent w...
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Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?
May 10, 2025 4:00 pm - WASHINGTON — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the ...
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Newark mayor denies trespassing at immigration detention center following arrest
May 10, 2025 3:52 pm - Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest while the Democrat was ...
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India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal
May 10, 2025 8:01 am - India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.
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Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies
May 09, 2025 9:08 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The Republican administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston i...
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‘Don’t get in my way,’ the new acting head of federal disaster agency warns in call with staff
May 09, 2025 7:36 pm - WASHINGTON — The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming chan...
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Supper with the pope: Wheaton restaurant hosted the future pontiffMay 09, 2025 7:28 pm - A group of theologians from Loyola University Chicago met with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, last August at Ivy Restaurant in Wheaton.
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ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations
May 09, 2025 6:33 pm - As the Trump administration battles to use a wartime law to speed deportations of alleged gang members, it has moved dozens of detained Venezuelans to the one court distr...