Heavy rain brought serious flooding across parts of the Southern U.S. on Saturday, where rapidly rising floodwaters inundated roadways and spurred some evacuations. Meanwhile, snow and sleet made for messy weather in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Throughout Saturday and into the overnight hours, there were numerous Flash Flood Warnings stretching across parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, … Read more
Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepared for meetings on Sunday in Jerusalem as political chaos rippled across the Middle East over President Trump’s insistent proposals to seize the devastated Gaza Strip and force out its Palestinian residents. The trip is Mr. Rubio’s first to the region as secretary of state, and comes as Israel and … Read more
The Trump administration fired 18 immigration judges on Friday, despite a pledge from the president to hire more judges to address the growing backlog of 3.7 million cases, a union official said. In addition to the 18 fired on Friday, the Trump administration had fired two immigration judges earlier in the week, Matthew Biggs, the … Read more
The authorities said they found a body in floodwaters in eastern Kentucky on Saturday, as a severe rainstorm pounded a swath of the South from Tennessee to Virginia. Parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia were under flood warnings on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Kentucky was being hit particularly hard, … Read more
Three top foreign policy aides in the Trump administration plan to meet with Russian officials in Saudi Arabia next week to discuss a path to ending the war in Ukraine, the first substantial talks between the superpowers on the conflict. The meeting would come less than a week after President Trump spoke on the phone … Read more
A new law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah prohibits unions from negotiating wages and other terms for teachers, firefighters, police officers and all other public employees, joining just two other states that have banned collective bargaining in the public sector. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, could have broader implications … Read more
Helen Dhue was flying home after a work trip to Ajo, Ariz., for the National Park Service on Friday, she said. But when she landed in Dallas for a layover, she found out she had been fired. She tried to log on to her work email, but her access was already cut off. Turns out, … Read more
The Rev. Nelson Johnson, a labor activist in North Carolina who was injured in the 1979 shooting in which white supremacists in Greensboro killed five protesters and wounded 11, and who later formed a commission to help his community process the tragedy, died on Sunday at his home in Greensboro. He was 81. His wife, … Read more
President Trump on Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate his attitude as he tests the nation’s legal and constitutional boundaries in the process of upending the federal government and punishing his perceived enemies. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Mr. Trump wrote, first on his … Read more
In the first month of his second term, President Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders, called for mass layoffs of government employees and threatened allies with tariffs as his administration has dramatically been remaking both domestic and foreign policy. And, on the weekends, he has still found time for sports. Last weekend, Mr. … Read more