President Joe Biden will quadruple tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and sharply increase levies for other key industries this week, unveiling the measures at a White House event framed as a defense of American workers, people familiar with the matter said.

Biden will hike or add tariffs in the targeted sectors after nearly two years of ...Read more

Rishi Sunak will pitch himself as the best candidate to achieve a “more secure future” for Britain in a political speech designed to re-capture the narrative ahead of the U.K. general election, just over a week after his party suffered heavy losses in local votes.

The prime minister will tell an audience in London on Monday that the country...Read more

Barb Odanaka remembers her struggles as a new mom and how skateboarding helped her push past those tough days with a newborn, a way to mentally and physically have an outlet away from the dirty diapers.

“The reality is, I was having a hard time transitioning to motherhood,” said Odanaka, now 61, who grew up skateboarding in Newport Beach in...Read more

The governor is defending her administration’s response to an ongoing migrant crisis set to stretch into a second summer and after months of strain on the state’s shelter system.

Gov. Maura Healey thinks her administration has done what it must when it comes to the thousands of foreign nationals who have found their way to the Bay State and...Read more

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party won a local election in Catalonia, both affirming his decision to negotiate with the separatist movement in the wealthy Northeastern region and potentially upending his fragile ruling coalition in Madrid.

The regional Socialist candidate Salvador Illa matched expectations Sunday night, ...Read more

The salvage of a 984-foot container ship with millions of pounds of bridge material sitting atop it can be unpredictable.

After authorities said last week that they would be using explosive devices to break up the span, Tom Gilmour, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral who is a maritime consultant, joked about scheduling the event.

“You’d be...Read more

Mayor Brandon Johnson paused to soak in the scene as row after row of longtime union members and leaders sprang to their feet.

As he approached his first anniversary in office, the freshman mayor whose political career began at the firebrand Chicago Teachers Union looked right at home before the adoring crowd of self-proclaimed troublemakers at...Read more

Harnessing the body’s own cells to fight disease, long a medical dream, is finally a reality.

Now comes the bill.

Last month, Stanford became the first hospital in the nation to use a new $515,000 cell therapy to treat a patient with advanced melanoma. A related approach, costing $420,000 to $475,000, is offering hope to patients with lethal...Read more

Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his people not to panic amid Russia’s ongoing advance in the Kharkiv region that’s jeopardizing a local city.

Ukrainians should trust in their army defending the country’s northeastern border area and not “yield to emotions” despite the fierce fight there and the “extremely difficult�...Read more

Actor and native New Yorker Steve Buscemi was randomly punched in the face in Midtown Manhattan last week.

The 66-year-old star was walking on Third Ave. near E. 27th Street in Kips Bay when a stranger slugged him in the face just before 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.

Medics took the “Fargo” actor to Bellevue Hospital, where he was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — John Fetterman isn't your typical U.S. senator.

Others don't tower over their colleagues — then again, no other senator is 6 feet-8 inches tall. Others don't come to work in a hoodie and shorts — which led to the first-ever Senate dress code. And others aren't as open about their health problems — which included a stroke ...Read more

CHICAGO — DePaul University has reached an “impasse” in negotiations with the school’s pro-Palestine encampment, administrators said Saturday night, as protest organizers worry they’ll be forcefully removed from the Lincoln Park quad, accusing the school of negotiating in “bad faith.”

The future of the nearly two-week old ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel risks fueling a Hamas insurgency in postwar Gaza, cautioning that there will still be thousands of armed militants in the area even if Israel invades the city of Rafah.

It’s the latest warning in a steady escalation of U.S. concern about Israel’s conduct of its Gaza offensive. Blinken ...Read more

The Johns Hopkins University and protesters occupying a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Homewood campus have reached an agreement to end the demonstration immediately.

In exchange for the encampment being dismantled and not restarted, Hopkins will conduct a “timely review of protestors’ key question of divestment,” according to the ...Read more

In the postmidnight darkness of March 26, as their ship lost power and crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the crew of the cargo ship Dali could only imagine the scope of the catastrophe unfolding.

“I understand several of them ran forward looking for survivors,” said Barbara Shipley, the mid-Atlantic representative for a global ...Read more

One of the most bitter political feuds in the nation is expected to culminate in a Manhattan courtroom Monday with a showdown years in the making when Michael Cohen takes the stand at Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial.

Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer — whose payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 ...Read more

SpaceX has lined up another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Sunday night on a southerly trajectory that will hug the Florida coast.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-58 mission carrying 23 of the internet satellites is targeting an 8:53 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during four-hour ...Read more

Ukraine’s military chief described the situation in the Kharkiv region near the northeast border with Russia as “difficult,” as his troops struggle to hold back Kremlin advances there.

While Kyiv’s forces have repelled attempts of Moscow troops to break their defenses in the nation’s northeast, the situation has “significantly ...Read more