New York’s governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure “antisemitic theories” would not be taught
Judge halts mass firings of federal workers at some agencies
The 2025 Carnival Season -- marked by a weekslong pre-Lenten bash and complete with colorful parades, shimmery beads tossed from floats and streets lined with costumed revelers -- is reaching its conclusion on the Gulf Coast
Attorney General Pam Bondi has released government documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, but the first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and didn’t include any new bombshells about the sex trafficking case
A 66-year-old suspect in the 1977 slaying of a Hawaii teenager has agreed to be extradited from Utah to face a murder charge
Wall Street once again fixated on an earnings report from Nvidia, the main player in the artificial intelligence mania
Apple announced Monday that it plans to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including plans to hire 20,000 people and build a new server factory in Texas
Condemned South Carolina killer chooses firing squad execution in what would be first use of that method in US in 15 years
A major cryptocurrency exchange says it was the victim of a sophisticated hack that stole about $1.5 billion worth of digital currency, marking one of the biggest online thefts of all time
Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio has been arrested near the U.S. Capitol on a charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others who received presidential pardons for crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the nation’s capital
Lady Gaga has confirmed that she will perform a free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on May 3
UnitedHealth Group shares tumbled Friday on a report that the U.S. Department of Justice has started an investigation into the health care giant’s Medicare billing practices
Spanish authorities said they have discovered a suspected drug smuggling tunnel linking Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in north Africa
Officials in the Czech Republic say an assailant has attacked and killed two women with a knife at a shopping center, and that a Czech teenager has been arrested for the crime
Panamanian authorities say they recaptured a woman who had escaped confinement from a Panama hotel where she and nearly 300 deportees from the United States were being held as they awaited repatriation to their countries
A Singapore court has granted a stay of execution to a Malaysian man just hours before he was set to be hanged for drug trafficking
A Japanese court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison
The Trump administration has stopped support for legal representation in immigration court for children who enter the United States alone, a setback for those fighting deportation who can’t afford a lawyer
The head of the U.S. Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, says he intends to step down
Six soldiers in Guyana have been injured after armed men in neighboring Venezuela opened fire in an attack expected to further heighten tensions between the two South American countries
A pro-Russian hacker group is attacking Italian government websites in what it said was a reaction to a speech by Italian President Sergio Mattarella in which he compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the Nazis’ “wars of conquest.”
Social Security head steps down over DOGE access of recipient information, sources say
Shakira says that she will resume her world tour and perform in Lima, Peru, Monday evening, following the cancellation of a concert over the weekend due to a stomach illness
Police in the Philippines have filed criminal complaints against former President Rodrigo Duterte after he said during a campaign rally that 15 senators should be killed in a bomb attack so there will be more vacant seats for his own party’s candidates to fill
Prosecutors in New York City say they are charging a Manhattan man with murder for killing his older roommate
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness
