A federal judge paused the Trump administration’s decision to drastically slash the number of recommended childhood vaccines, halting the implementation of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unprecedented change to national immunization policy.

The decision Monday by Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District ...Read more

Grammy winning country music star Zach Bryan so disliked Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its ticket selling unit that he tried to avoid the company’s concert venues on his 2023 tour and even released an album titled “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster.”

But Bryan still ended up having to perform at some Live Nation arenas on the tour, Jay...Read more

The US. Supreme Court announced Monday it will have oral arguments next month on Trump administration requests to end temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria.

In a one-page order, the high court said it would schedule an hour in April to hear arguments about whether some 356,000 people from the two countries should keep their deportation...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump expressed frustration Monday that U.S. allies were not enthusiastic about sending warships to protect merchant vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a sign of Washington’s growing isolation as it tries to stabilize one of the world’s most critical shipping lanes amid its war against Iran.

Trump ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Jared Taylor speaking engagement that had been scheduled for March 9 at Salisbury University has not been rescheduled after the school postponed the event last week, citing safety concerns after hundreds raised objections on social media.

Salisbury University, the Maryland GOP and civil rights leaders all condemned Taylor as an ...Read more

NEW YORK — Four people were killed, including a child, in a Queens fire Monday afternoon, the FDNY said.

Two people were rushed to the hospital in critical condition from the scene, a storefront with two residential floors above it on College Point Blvd. near Avery Ave. in Flushing.

“This is a difficult and tragic day,” FDNY ...Read more

DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency this month sent six proposed permits to regulate air pollution from oil and gas wells on the Western Slope back to Colorado regulators because the state did not require adequate emissions monitoring at the sites.

The partial rejection of the Title V air permits, which regulate how much pollution ...Read more

The warm winter has left very little snow in California’s Sierra Nevada, and now an extreme heat wave is accelerating the rapid melt in the mountains.

The Sierra snowpack measures 45% of average for this time of year, according to state data, down from 73% of average in late February.

When water expert Newsha Ajami went skiing near Lake ...Read more

MIAMI — Zoo Miami received another bomb threat Monday, marking the fourth one since Friday, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.

By 6 p.m. the sheriff’s office declared the property all clear, said Ivan Castro, a Zoo Miami spokesman.

The sheriff’s office thinks the threats are “swatting calls,” hoaxes to provoke a strong law-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In early February, environmental advocates warned followers on social media that a crucial vote to roll back a mine ban next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness was imminent.

“The bill to overturn the 20-year mining ban near the Boundary Waters is heading to the Senate floor THIS WEEK!” read a post from Save the ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Even before last week’s attack against a ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University, the U.S. military had been showing some concern.

Students enrolled in JROTC programs within Hampton schools had been told not to wear their uniforms more than a week prior to the shooting at ODU. The school district implemented its temporary ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The ICE plaque is gone.

The fake but authentic-looking Pennsylvania historic marker, erected by two artists who sought to ruefully commemorate a local immigration arrest, disappeared from its post in Philadelphia sometime Monday.

Huston West, one of the artists, said he was walking his dog around 1 p.m. when he noticed that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Maryland man who sent dozens of threatening letters to Jewish institutions across the country — including the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia — was sentenced Monday to more than three years in federal prison.

Clift A. Seferlis, 55, of Kensington, Maryland, apologized for his actions ...Read more

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is using his bully pulpit to push back against coverage of the U.S. military action in Iran that his boss President Trump doesn't like, marking an extraordinary escalation in his clashes with the media.

On Saturday, Carr posted a message on X suggesting TV stations could lose their ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has blocked efforts by the Trump administration to withhold $600 million in health care grants from Illinois, California, Colorado and Minnesota, while the states’ lawsuit over the cuts proceeds.

The judge had previously issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the federal government from holding back the ...Read more

DENVER — Several crosswalk audio signals were hacked in Denver over the weekend, surprising pedestrians with not only a verbal indication that the walk light was on, but with an anti-President Donald Trump message.

“The walk signal is on, (expletive) Trump. The walk signal is on, Trump murders children,” the robotic voices of the hacked ...Read more

DENVER — A consortium of universities filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration’s planned dismantling of Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, alleging that the planned reorganization violates the Constitution and federal law.

The plaintiff is the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a nonprofit ...Read more

Lawyers in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case against immigration protesters in Broadview asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss the main conspiracy charge, saying it criminalizes First Amendment rights to speech and assembly and creates a “chilling” effect on the public.

The 18-page motion is the latest attack on an ...Read more