President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his sweeping tariffs would help him reduce income taxes for people making less than $200,000 a year, as public anxiety rises over his economic agenda.

Trump has previously argued that tariff revenue could replace income taxes, though economists have questioned those claims.

“When Tariffs cut in, ...Read more

The number of people booked into the Orange County jail on immigration detainers four months into the year nearly eclipses last year’s total and looks likely to keep rising as the Trump administration cracks down on people without legal authority to remain in the country.

From Jan. 1 to April 15, 800 people were booked into the Orange County ...Read more

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein’s nearly four months in office has been defined by the aftermath of Helene. It’s been where the Democrat has found common ground with, and support from, Republicans in the General Assembly.

Now, like state lawmakers, he is appealing to Washington to ensure there’s enough money for Western North Carolina’s ...Read more

CRISFIELD, Md. — Jan Sterling didn’t answer right away, squinting as she concentrated on a response.

“Is there anything President Donald Trump could do to lose your support?”

It’s a complicated question in Somerset County Precinct 08-002 as Trump approaches his 100th day in office this week. The precinct, arguably the Trumpiest in ...Read more

Voter discontent with President Donald Trump’s economic stewardship is sinking his popularity as he approaches the symbolic 100-day mark of his second term, ratcheting up pressure on congressional Republicans to pass his tax plan.

A flurry of polls in recent days from NBC, CNN, New York Times/Siena, ABC News and Fox News, among others, each...Read more

It was just 10 years ago.

Former President Bill Clinton, standing in the scorching Haitian sun next to the pool of Haiti’s newest internationally branded hotel, looked around the foliage-lined courtyard and smiled.

There were toasts, there was chatter — and there was hope. As Haiti’s then-president Michel Martelly welcomed Clinton and U....Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1936, a Central Valley teenager made an incredible discovery.

Gustine High School student Allan Bennison dug up the fossilized remains of a hadrosaurus — a duck-billed dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, The Fresno Bee reported in 2013.

The bones, which Bennison found in Del ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — As summer and hurricane season nears, weather and environmental officials say federal cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will negatively impact climate research, education and storm reporting.

The Trump administration reportedly plans to cut NOAA’s roughly $6.1 billion budget by 27% to $4.5 ...Read more

The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Peters said.

Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her midmorning.

“She wasn�...Read more

A man has been arrested in connection with the theft on Easter Sunday of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s handbag, CNN reported, citing an unidentified law-enforcement source.

The suspect is in custody and authorities expect more arrests of members of a theft ring that has been targeting the Penn Quarter area in Washington, D.C., the person ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s been years since Timothy Ambacher has thought frequently about the crash that claimed one life and injured dozens of people on the Strip nearly 10 years ago.

Ambacher, one of the people prosecutors have said Lakeisha Holloway tried to kill that evening in December 2015, was then a sophomore at Delaware Valley University who...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. told a business forum in Budapest that Hungary and the region should pick the U.S. over China as its economic partner, according to the Portfolio news website.

Trump Jr., who’s holding a roadshow headlined “Trump Business Vision 2025,” said China posed a bigger threat than Russia to the region, according to the business ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Last Monday, after consulting with medical professionals, 10 students at Occidental College launched a hunger strike, hoping to draw attention to their long-standing demands for the college to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

And in this new season of protest, they have tacked ...Read more

The toll from deaths and injuries continued to climb after a powerful explosion on Saturday engulfed a commercial port in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province on the Strait of Hormuz, reports say.

At least 14 people died and more than 750 people have been injured, Agence France-Presse quoted Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni as saying. The ...Read more

BALTIMORE — More than 50 University of Maryland grants were canceled or paused by federal funding cuts under the Trump administration, representing “tens of millions of dollars,” a university official confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.

“With over 50 grants impacted and the number fluctuating each day, this represents tens of millions of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A modest storm brought light showers across the Los Angeles area early Saturday — triggering a mudslide that closed a section of Pacific Coast Highway — with some rain expected through Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Saturday's rain dissipated around noon, and "spotty and sparse" showers continued ...Read more

NEW YORK — The body of missing Princeton student Lauren Blackburn was pulled from the waters of Lake Carnegie on Friday, less than week after he disappeared, university officials confirmed.

“Our hearts are heavy and we share our deepest condolences with Lauren’s family and friends,” Dean of Graduate Students Regan Crotty wrote in a ...Read more

MIAMI — In June 1986, Shirley Brant was in her North Miami Beach office working as a real estate broker when she was shot in the face and killed. Now, nearly four decades after her murder, police say they have finally found her killer.

Jeffrey Taylor, 64, was jailed Friday in connection with Brant’s death. Authorities say new fingerprint ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — A vice president of an insurance brokerage firm and his accomplices targeted the homeless, the unemployed and those with mental health and substance abuse issues in a scheme to earn commission from fraudulent enrollments for the Affordable Care Act, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The scheme involved submitting ...Read more

CHICAGO — A man accused of starting a fire that led to a Chicago firefighter’s death was captured on surveillance footage coming out of an alley in the early-morning hours of April 23 and looking back toward a garage that was soon engulfed in flames and smoke, prosecutors said in court Saturday.

About a half hour later, Fire Department Capt...Read more