WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held their first talks since agreeing to a tariff truce last month, discussing trade, Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Trump said the telephone call was “very good” and that the leaders spoke about purchases of soybeans and other farm products ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed the criminal charges against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, finding that the interim U.S. attorney who secured the indictments was illegally appointed.

In two separate orders, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie found that Lindsey Halligan has been “...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal authorities have seized thousands of bottles, shots, tablets and packets containing 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, from two facilities owned by CBD American Shaman founder Vince Sanders, The Kansas City Star has learned.

Rumored for weeks, the seizure was confirmed in a civil forfeiture case filed Friday in the U.S....Read more

The criminal cases against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were dismissed Monday in a stunning pair of rulings finding the prosecutor handpicked by President Donald Trump “had no lawful authority” to bring them.

South Carolina Federal Judge Cameron McGowan Currie found that Lindsey Halligan, Trump...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department on Monday said it was investigating Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a former Navy captain, over his participation in a video urging troops and intelligence personnel to disobey “unlawful orders” and that he could face punishment under military law.

Citing “serious allegations of misconduct,” the ...Read more

A growing number of international airlines suspended flights to and from Venezuela over the weekend after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an advisory Friday warning of a “worsening security situation and heightened military activity” in and around the country’s airspace.

The FAA cited increased U.S. military operations in ...Read more

Days after U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the government shutdown proved how unnecessary the Department of Education is, the Trump administration announced plans to transition key department responsibilities to other government agencies — another step closer to eliminating the department completely.

In an opinion piece for USA...Read more

BOSTON — Residents and city councilors in Medford are expressing outrage over a plan to roll back trash service to once every two weeks, as Massachusetts environmentalists consider a statewide ban on residential food waste disposal.

Medford officials say they are prepared to implement biweekly waste collection in July 2027, following ...Read more

Ukraine and its European allies signaled that key sticking points remained in U.S.-brokered peace talks even as senior officials hailed progress in winning more favorable terms for Kyiv from a proposal backed by President Donald Trump.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lauded a meeting in Geneva on Sunday, where Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators ...Read more

Ukraine and its European allies signaled that key sticking points remained in U.S.-brokered peace talks even as senior officials hailed progress in winning more favorable terms for Kyiv from a proposal backed by President Donald Trump.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz lauded a meeting in Geneva on Sunday, where Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators ...Read more

CHICAGO — As Mayor Brandon Johnson has shaken hands in church pews and given booming speeches in school auditoriums while selling his 2026 budget plan directly to Chicagoans, one color has been notably muted among his supporters: purple.

That’s the signature hue of the Service Employees International Union, whose local affiliates were ...Read more

CHICAGO — International enrollment dropped at nearly two dozen Illinois universities this fall, with some seeing dramatic declines after the Trump administration tightened student visa policies.

A Tribune analysis of 27 of the state’s largest universities found that foreign enrollment dipped at all but four institutions, including the ...Read more

Chile ultra-conservative presidential candidate José Antonio Kast secured a commanding double-digit lead in the first polls taken since he and a leftist rival advanced to the country’s runoff vote.

Kast was backed by 46% of respondents followed by Jeannette Jara, from the Communist Party, with 34%, according to a Cadem poll published late on...Read more

Philadelphia stands to lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended to fight homelessness under a plan issued by the Trump administration that advocates say could significantly disrupt permanent housing programs and return formerly homeless people to the streets.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the ...Read more

Joanne Belknap bears witness.

She bears witness to the young families arriving at Denver immigration court in their Sunday best — baby girls in headbands, men in collared shirts. She notices the trembling hands accepting informational pamphlets she distributes outside the Byron Rogers Federal Building downtown. Among packed, wooden courthouse...Read more

The car wash hadn't yet opened for the day, but its owner was already on edge.

He scanned the street for law enforcement vehicles and hit refresh on a crowdsourced map that showed recent immigration sweeps.

"They were busy in our area yesterday," he warned his employees. "Be careful."

But except for staying home, there were few precautions ...Read more

Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make even bad news more tolerable. Losing that support — especially during a health crisis — can be terrifying. That’s why little-known federal requirements are supposed to ...Read more

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country.

The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too...Read more

Martin Kulldorff, chair of the Trump administration’s reconstituted CDC vaccine panel, made a shocking — and misleading — statement as the group met in September. Referring to a clinical trial, Kulldorff, a biostatistician and former professor at Harvard Medical School, said eight babies born to women who received Pfizer’s COVID vaccine ...Read more