WASHINGTON — House appropriators have made it more difficult for members to secure fiscal 2025 earmarks for some social services programs in their districts, according to new guidance Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., announced Thursday.

Nonprofits are now blocked from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Economic ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices said Thursday they agree a former president should be shielded from prosecution for his truly official acts while in office, but not for private schemes that would give him personal gain.

They also suggested the case against former President Trump will have to be sent back to the lower...Read more

Burning coal to generate electricity is rapidly declining in the United States.

President Joe Biden’s administration moved Thursday to speed up the demise of the climate-changing, lung-damaging fossil fuel while attempting to ease the transition to cleaner sources of energy.

A suite of new regulations adopted by the U.S. Environmental ...Read more

Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry and his cabinet officially resigned on Thursday, indicating he will not stay around for the transition to a new era of governance. The decision leaves a political vacuum as the country continues to struggle with a worsening security and humanitarian crisis.

Henry announced the resignation in two letters to his ...Read more

ATLANTA — A group of people protesting the Israel-Hamas war and Atlanta’s planned public safety training center set up camp at Emory University’s quadrangle Thursday morning, prompting clashes with law enforcement and the detainment of several activists.

The encampment mirrored a growing number of college protests across the country.

In ...Read more

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NEW YORK — An NYPD chief blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wednesday over her criticisms of police treatment of Columbia University pro-Palestine protesters who were temporarily cleared out of their encampment.

Ocasio-Cortez slammed Columbia’s decision to call on the NYPD to clear out the protesters.

“Not only did Columbia make the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The first of 11 ships trapped for a month behind the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge left the Port of Baltimore Thursday morning using an alternate shipping channel that opened less than two hours earlier.

Balsa 94, a cargo ship, sailed just before 10 a.m. with the help of two tugboats, passing chunks of the fallen steel ...Read more

NEW JERSEY — A New Jersey couple has been convicted of luring two women, both of them undocumented immigrants, to the United States and then forcing them to perform domestic labor and childcare, officials announced.

Bolaji Bolarinwa was found guilty of two counts of forced labor, one count of alien harboring for financial gain, and two counts...Read more

NEW YORK — Former National Enquirer David Pecker is slated to return to the stand Thursday at Donald Trump’s Manhattan Supreme Court hush money trial — where the jurors are expected to hunker down for their first full day of testimony.

While lawyers for the former president argue before the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to get him out ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Local migrant services groups are urging San Diego County leaders to collaborate with those working directly with migrants on the ground before deciding how to spend its recent $19.6 million allocation from the federal government.

The grant is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Shelter and Services Program, or SSP, ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston police arrested 108 pro-Palestinian protesters at the Emerson College encampment early today in a showdown over setting up tents on a public way.

BPD reports four officers were injured, three “minor” and one with more serious injuries. “No protesters in custody have reported injuries at this time,” police told the ...Read more

NEW YORK — In a bombshell ruling Thursday morning, the New York state Court of Appeals has overturned fallen movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan rape and sex crime conviction.

The 4-3 ruling reverses a Manhattan Supreme Court jury’s 2020 verdict that Weinstein was guilty of rape for an attack on aspiring actress Jessica Mann at the ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump has downplayed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia where a counter-protester was killed by right-wing extremists.

Trump said the violent Unite the Right rally was “a peanut” compared to the pro-Palestinian protests sweeping college campuses since Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation for ...Read more

In a dramatic reversal of the nation's landmark #MeToo trial, a New York appeals court on Thursday overturned the sex assault conviction of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, citing errors by the trial judge.

The state appeals court found, in a 4-3 decision, that the judge who presided over Weinstein's 2017 trial prejudiced the disgraced Hollywood ...Read more