BRUSSELS — The European Union froze ratification of its U.S. trade deal until President Donald Trump solidifies his upended tariff plans, injecting economic turbulence into an already strained relationship.

EU lawmakers on Monday suspended legislative work on approving the deal. The move came days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned that he plans to deliver a “long speech” for Tuesday’s State of the Union as he battles abysmal approval ratings and seeks to turn around a string of political setbacks.

Boasting of supposed successes that relatively few Americans give him credit for, Trump said he is going to spend as long as it takes to ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield on Monday launched a new city office that will act as a hub for community-driven violence prevention programs, an initiative she and others described as a major shift in public safety policy.

The new Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety is designed "to advance a holistic public-health approach to ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued the Trump administration on Monday in an effort to stop plans to convert a Washington County warehouse into a 1,500-bed immigration detention facility.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for Maryland, is largely based on the Department of Homeland Security’s alleged failure to...Read more

BALTIMORE — The routine, as outlined in court records, was simple, brazen, and repeated over and over for years, at a cluster of Maryland hotels on major thoroughfares some 30 miles northeast of Baltimore: A sex trafficker forced a woman to book hotel rooms in her name, and handed her cash to pay for them.

Dressed in a “seductive” manner,...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When the avalanche struck a party of skiers traveling out of Tahoe-area backcountry last week, three people in the party who weren’t buried dug out three companions who survived, according to new information from the Sierra Avalanche Center.

“Remaining members of the party performed a companion search and were able to...Read more

DETROIT — About half of Michigan voters believe the state is headed in the right direction, but many are unaware of how poorly it ranks nationally on key metrics, according to a new statewide poll commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber.

The Glengariff Group poll of 600 registered Michigan voters was conducted from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2 and ...Read more

Tens of thousands of residents across Maryland’s Eastern Shore were without power Monday after more than a foot of snow blanketed the region late Sunday into early Monday.

Schools closed across the lower shore as the city of Salisbury and Wicomico County declared states of emergency, and a town in Worcester County lost electricity entirely. ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has issued a travel ban in southeast Massachusetts as the region contends with an historic blizzard that has piled over two feet of show in parts of the state and continues to endanger travel on the roads.

Healey’s executive order bans nonessential motor vehicle travel in Bristol, Plymouth, and Barnstable ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado park ranger accused of stabbing himself in a hoax that sparked a large-scale manhunt at Staunton State Park last August took a deal and pleaded guilty Monday.

Callum Heskett pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, and false reporting of an emergency, a misdemeanor, according to a news ...Read more

NEW YORK — After a historic bomb cyclone blizzard brought New York City to a near standstill Monday, it will take time for the city to dig out and get back into gear.

The storm had dropped 19.7 inches of snow in Central Park by Monday afternoon amid a ban on nonemergency travel on all city streets for much of the day.

Though the mayor’s ...Read more

As a bomb cyclone continued to wallop New York City with up to 2 feet of snow, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced public schools will reopen for in-person classes Tuesday, sparking criticism he is being overly optimistic about conditions on the ground.

“I hope our students enjoy their snow day today and stay warm and safe throughout, but I do ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Blizzard of ’26 reached bomb cyclone status overnight Sunday into Monday, as tristate residents awoke to a foot of snow, with more coming down.

By 7 a.m. Monday, 15 inches had fallen in New York City’s Central Park and at both LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports. Islip, Long Island, had received 22.5 inches, and 18.3 ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office spent the weekend urging anti-abortion groups to protest the Republican lawmaker who accused him of crimes in the Hope Florida saga last year, according to multiple people and messages circulating in the faith community.

In an apparent bout of political payback, a spokesperson for...Read more

While Sarah Ferguson’s current whereabouts are officially unknown, she may have landed in the United Arab Emirates after reportedly spending the entire month of January luxuriating at a $17,000-a-night wellness clinic in Switzerland.

The Daily Mail reported that the former Duchess of York sought refuge at the Paracelsus Recovery Clinic in ...Read more

BOSTON — More than 289,000 Massachusetts residents were without power Monday, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency database.

Cape Cod has been hit the hardest, with adjacent Plymouth back as the coldest with 26,510 without power.

The MEMA outage database lists Barnstable and Falmouth next, with 20,000-plus in the dark ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Popular weight-loss drugs, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Trulicity and Mounjaro, produced by independent pharmacy labs, sickened some 8,000 or more Marylanders a year by 2024. The Food and Drug Administration announced this month that it will crack down on compounded versions of GLP-1 drugs, including the popular Hims and Hers brand. ...Read more

Jeffrey Epstein attempted to bring three women who were foreign nationals along with him for a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters in 2013, emails released by the U.S. Justice Department show, an effort that raised security concerns within the Elon Musk-run company.

The women, described in various emails as Epstein’s “assistants” or “girls,...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sought to quell fears Monday after mayhem erupted in 20 Mexican states over the killing of the world’s most wanted cartel kingpin: Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”

“The country is at peace,” Sheinbaum told reporters at her daily news conference in Mexico City...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is heading into the first State of the Union address of his second term fresh off his biggest second-term setback, and after a number of other stumbles that have some GOP allies beginning to push back.

The Supreme Court handed him a stinging defeat Friday when it knocked down most of his global tariffs, ...Read more