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May 3, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potentia...

May 3, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A ship carrying 16 people and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip was rocked by explosions early Friday off the coast of Malta, setting the vessel on fire and putting it at risk of sinking, acc...

May 3, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

LONDON — TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data privacy law after regulators found the company had improperly transferred users&r...

May 3, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois judge sentenced a man to 53 years in prison on Friday for the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old boy in 2023 and the nonfatal stabbing of the boy’s mother, a...

May 3, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

President Donald Trump’s executive order to defund NPR and PBS was met with fiery pushback on Friday, as the organizations challenged the legality of the move and said it could jeopardiz...

May 3, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger li...

May 2, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

U.S. President Donald Trump said all purchases of Iranian oil or petrochemical products must stop and any country or person buying any from the country would be immediately subject to secondar...

May 2, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Lawyers, teachers and politicians marched among thousands of demonstrators across the U.S. on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, the targeting of lawye...

May 2, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump ousted his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Thursday and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement in the first majo...

May 2, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in its bid to strip temporary protected status for more than 300,000 Vene...

May 2, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — A six-day immigration sweep in Florida in April resulted in the arrests of more than 1,100 people, the Trump administration said Thursday as it increasingly relies on local...

May 2, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

NEW YORK — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from using an 18th-century wartime law to deport some Venezuelan migrants, in the most sweeping...

May 2, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

SEOUL, South Korea — President Donald Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas.

May 2, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A slow-moving storm brought deadly flooding to Oklahoma on Wednesday, shutting down roadways and sweeping away cars.

May 2, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations is considering a massive overhaul that would merge major departments and shift resources across the globe, according to an internal memo prepar...

May 2, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — As forecasters predict another devastating year of wildfires, a tool developed by Environmental Protection Agency scientists to study the health effects of hazardous smoke h...