U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation to exempt public schools from a $100,000 annual fee to hire international workers, a fee put in place for some visas by a Trump administration order in September.

Administrators at Alaska school districts, already burdened by high teacher vacancy rates, have pressed federal and state lawmakers...Read more

LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. — Weekends used to start in Manuel Tejeda-Mendez’ barber chair, customers stopping in for an after-work haircut before heading out to enjoy their Friday night.

The weekly ritual brought those customers to Long Prairie’s Central Avenue, the main street in this rural Minnesota town. Along that corridor are about a dozen ...Read more

Much of Virginia is under the “substantial risk” of severe weather on Monday.

The commonwealth could see severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds, large hail and strong tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather service’s forecast said there remains a substantial risk of severe weather Monday along ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said she would not raise taxes on New Jerseyans, but when she made her budget pitch on Tuesday, it became clear that the promise didn’t extend to businesses.

That caught business leaders off guard.

“Prior to the budget address, the governor had said many times, ‘no new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes,’ ...Read more

John “Gabe” Horneff, an orthopedic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, had noticed a peculiar trend: Some patients taking GLP-1s would come in with significant tendon injuries from relatively minor physical excursion.

For example, some suffered tears in the rotator cuff in the shoulder area while doing simple housework like vacuuming or ...Read more

Michael Zabetakis’ monthly health insurance premium nearly tripled when the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits expired in January — rising from about $500 to nearly $1,500 as he waits to turn 65 in July and qualify for Medicare. By his birthday, the Glen Burnie, Maryland, native will have shelled out $6,000 for his health care.

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Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms swirling toward the eastern U.S. have knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.

Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, high winds are shaking power lines ...Read more

The brother of the man who carried out Thursday’s attack at a West Bloomfield Township synagogue was a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike days earlier, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday.

The IDF tweeted a post on X that identified the commander as Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, saying he managed weapons operations in a ...Read more

It takes 20 minutes to find out if you have HIV.

On a Monday in March, Dulce Delgado, a 37-year-old woman living in a tent on a hill, held out her hand. Prizma Mercado, a member of a roving medical team called Healthcare in Action, pricked a finger. Blood welled up on the skin and Mercado dropped a small amount onto a test strip.

The timer ...Read more

A group of Bay Area billionaires has poured $35 million into a campaign to block a proposed California wealth tax, backing three ballot initiatives designed to kill or weaken the measure.

The billionaires have put $35 million into a new political action committee called Building a Better California that is gathering signatures to put on the ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran signaled no letup in fighting as President Donald Trump dangled the possibility of negotiations to end a conflict that’s brought shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz to a near standstill and upended energy markets.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Islamic Republic hasn’t asked for talks or a ceasefire...Read more

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Backers of Magyar’s Tisza party lined the capital’s Andrassy Avenue for more than a mile on Sunday ahead of the April 12 vote. ...Read more

A top aide to President Donald Trump said the Pentagon estimates the Iran war, now in its third week, would take between four and six weeks.

Kevin Hassett, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, offered the timeline along with a caveat that the ultimate decision on when the war will conclude lies with Trump. He was among several...Read more

A 55-year-old man died after a man he bumped into on a Penn Station subway platform punched him in the face, sources familiar with the incident said Sunday.

The two men were walking near each other when the victim bumped into the attacker on the uptown C and E platform about 6:55 p.m. Saturday, sparking an argument, the sources said.

The ...Read more

In addition to the specific revelations in the files released by the Department of Justice on the Jeffrey Epstein case, another takeaway emerges: the sheer breadth of the convicted sex offender’s reach.

The millions of documents released to date contain references to individuals and groups from seemingly everywhere, including Maryland, where ...Read more

In one of his latest missives on social media, President Trump complained that he wasn't getting enough credit for "totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise."

"We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time," he wrote of a war that has crippled the global supply of oil, ...Read more

John “Gabe” Horneff, an orthopedic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, had noticed a peculiar trend: Some patients taking GLP-1s would come in with significant tendon injuries from relatively minor physical excursion.

For example, some suffered tears in the rotator cuff in the shoulder area while doing simple housework like vacuuming or ...Read more

Prime Minister Viktor Orban ratcheted up his anti-Ukraine rhetoric, casting next month’s Hungarian election as a choice between sticking with him or installing a puppet of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Orban, the European Union leader who is closest to Russia and also an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, told a crowd outside the Hungarian...Read more

After two weeks of war with Iran, the Trump administration is being forced to temper its expectations of a swift end to the conflict, with U.S. intelligence and defense officials expressing doubt it can achieve the overthrow of Iran's government and the destruction of its nuclear program through military means.

It was an outcome forewarned by ...Read more

Trade negotiators led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders’ summit later this month.

The trade negotiators are expected to review the latest developments in a truce reached in November and discuss ...Read more