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Trump announces travel ban and restrictions on 19 countries set to go into effect Monday
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of 12 countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions. The ban takes effect Monday at 12:01 a.m., a cushion that may avoid...
Trump administration signals it will slash funds for long-delayed California high-speed rail project
LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration signaled Wednesday that it intends to cut off federal funding for a long-delayed California high-speed rail project plagued by multibillion-dollar cost overruns, following the release of a scathing federal report that concluded there is “no viable path” to complete even a partial section of...
Judge says migrants sent to El Salvador prison must get a chance to challenge their removals
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give more than 100 migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador prison a chance to challenge their deportations. U.S. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg said that people who were sent to the prison in...
U.S. judge issues order stopping the deportation of family of man charged in Boulder firebombing
BOULDER, Colo. — A federal judge issued an order Wednesday to prevent the deportation of the wife and five children of an Egyptian man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman to halt...
What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus U.S. authorities say was smuggled in from China?
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors charged two Chinese researchers on Tuesday with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer — charges that come amid heightened political tensions between the two countries and as the Trump administration moves to revoke visas from visiting Chinese students. Yunqing Jian and Zunyong...
U.S.- and Israeli-backed group pauses food delivery in Gaza after deadly shootings
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in the Gaza Strip after health officials said dozens of Palestinians were killed in a series of shootings near the sites this week. Israeli strikes across the territory, meanwhile, killed 26 people...
A quiet Tiananmen Square anniversary shows China’s ability to suppress history
BEIJING — For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China passed like any other weekday. And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it. Security was tight Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in...
Trump says Putin told him that Russia will respond to Ukrainian attack on airfields
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields as the deadlock over the war drags on. Trump said in a social media post that his lengthy call...
Ground beef sold at Whole Foods may be tainted with E. coli, USDA says
U.S. agriculture officials are warning that ground beef sold at Whole Foods markets nationwide may be contaminated with potentially dangerous E. coli bacteria. Officials issued a public health alert for 1-pound, vacuum-packed packages of Organic Rancher beef, produced on May 22 and May 23, by NPC Processing Inc., of Shelburne,...
Man allegedly linked to California fertility clinic bombing arrested at JFK airport
NEW YORK — The FBI arrested a Washington state man accused of providing chemicals to make explosives for last month’s bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, federal authorities said Wednesday. Daniel Park, 32, was taken into custody Tuesday night at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport upon...
Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds
WASHINGTON — A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law, according to a newly released federal investigation. The government’s findings, which have not been previously reported, were a small victory for 36-year-old Kyleigh Thurman,...
Measles vaccination rates drop after covid-19 pandemic in counties across the U.S.
Childhood vaccination rates against measles fell in the years after the covid-19 pandemic in nearly 80% of the more than 2,000 U.S. counties with available data — including in states that are battling outbreaks this year. A Johns Hopkins University study, published in JAMA this week, illustrates where more vulnerable...
Trump’s promised steel and aluminum tariffs go into effect
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump hiked nearly all of his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to a punishing 50% on Wednesday in a move that’s set to hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely push up prices for consumers even further. Foreign-made steel and aluminum is...
Man accused of trying to get witness against him deported by writing letters threatening Trump
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin man is facing charges accusing him of forging a letter threatening President Donald Trump’s life in an effort to get another man who could testify against him in a criminal case deported. Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint filed Monday that Demetric D. Scott was behind...
Massachusetts high school volleyball team rallies around teammate detained by immigration agents
BOSTON — Crowds wearing white packed the stands of a Massachusetts high school gymnasium Tuesday to support an 18-year-old volleyball player detained by federal immigration authorities. “Our game on June 3rd will be played in honor of Marcelo. We will continue to pray and fight for our brother,” the Milford...
Authorities searching for Washington state father of 3 dead girls
A man in central Washington state is wanted for murder after his three young daughters were reported missing and then found dead. Authorities asked the public Tuesday for help finding Travis Decker, 32, who is wanted for three counts of murder and kidnapping, according to police in Wenatchee, about 100...
Biden-era guidance on emergency abortions revoked
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will revoke guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition. That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upended national abortion...
Canadian wildfire smoke causes ‘very unhealthy’ conditions in Midwest and reaches Europe
MINNEAPOLIS — Smoke from Canadian wildfires carried another day of poor air quality south of the border to the Midwest, where conditions in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan were rated “very unhealthy” Tuesday. The fires have forced more than 27,000 Canadians in three provinces to flee their homes, and...
Trump’s new FEMA director says he’s unaware of hurricane season
President Donald Trump’s acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA told staff that he was unaware that the U.S. has a hurricane season, but officials claimed he was only joking. David Richardson, who has no previous disaster management experience, told an all-hands meeting at the nation’s main disaster...
New Orleans jail escapee releases videos online, prompting search of home
NEW ORLEANS — A man who identifies himself as New Orleans jail escapee Antoine Massey released videos on social media while on the run from authorities, leading to a police raid that failed to recapture him, an Associated Press source says. Authorities were so convinced about the authenticity of the...
Newark mayor sues U.S. Attorney Alina Habba after arrest at immigration detention site
NEWARK, N.J. — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor on Tuesday over his arrest on a trespassing charge at a federal immigration detention facility, saying the Trump-appointed attorney had pursued the case out of political spite. Baraka, who leads New Jersey’s biggest city, is a candidate...
Immigration authorities detain the family of the man charged in the Colorado attackVideo
BOULDER, Colo. — The wife and five children of the man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators in Boulder who were calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, injuring 12 of them, were being taken into custody Tuesday by federal immigration authorities, officials said. Mohamed Sabry Soliman,...
Judge denies privacy in divorce case of former UPMC doctor charged with attempting to kill his wife
WAILUKU, Hawaii — A judge denied a request to keep proceedings private in a divorce case for a Hawaii doctor accused of attempting to kill his wife on a hiking trail. Gerhardt Konig’s wife filed for divorce last month after he was indicted on an attempted murder charge. Konig, a...
The Goodyear Blimp turns 100. To celebrate, a flight over Ohio
MOGADORE, Ohio — The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week. The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925. The airships took...
Kennedy has ordered a review of baby formula. Here’s what you should know
As federal health officials vow to overhaul the U.S. food supply, they’re taking a new look at infant formula. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed the Food and Drug Administration to review the nutrients and other ingredients in infant formula, which fills the bottles of millions of American...
