Author: The Carolinian

BY: BRIAN WITTE ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A federal judge who had ordered the Trump administration to reinstate fired federal probationary employees across the country at more than a dozen agencies has narrowed the scope of his ruling so it now applies to workers in the 19 states and the District of Columbia that challenged the mass dismissals. U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday

[caption id="attachment_11330" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Photo by Ivan Samkov / Pexels[/caption] BY: KELCIE MOSELEY-MORRIS  STATELINE - The decades-old federal law protecting the privacy of individual health information is threatened by multiple lawsuits that seek to throw out a rule restricting disclosure of information in criminal investigations, including for those seeking legal abortion and other reproductive health care. In one of the cases, the Texas federal judge who has been at the center

[caption id="attachment_7281" align="alignnone" width="970"] (Jackie Valley/The Christian Science Monitor via AP)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) - The problems for Head Start began days after President Donald Trump took office. Trump's administration announced it would freeze federal grants - the primary funding for the early education program that serves more than half a million low-income children. Then came glitches with the funding website that forced nearly two dozen Head Start centers to close temporarily. Even after

[caption id="attachment_10309" align="alignnone" width="981"] Damage from Hurricane Helene (AP Photos)[/caption] BY  JEFF MARTIN AP News - Potentially deadly flash flooding, high-magnitude tornadoes and baseball-sized hail could hit parts of the Midwest and South on Wednesday as severe thunderstorms blowing eastward become supercharged, forecasters warned. There were already tornado warnings Wednesday morning near the Missouri cities of Joplin and Columbia - merely the opening acts of what forecasters expect will be a more

BY  JENNIFER PELTZ AND MICHAEL R. SISAK NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge dismissed New York City Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case on Wednesday, acquiescing to the Justice Department's extraordinary request to set aside criminal charges so the Democrat could help with President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. The judge, though, denied prosecutors the ability to potentially bring the criminal case back after the mayoral election. Judge Dale E. Ho's order to dismiss the case "with prejudice"

[caption id="attachment_11245" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Industrial containers box for logistic import export business.[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) - After weeks of White House hype and public anxiety, President Donald Trump is set on Wednesday to announce a barrage of self-described reciprocal tariffs on friend and foe alike. The new tariffs, coming on what Trump has called "Liberation Day," are a bid to boost U.S. manufacturing and punish other countries for what he says are years of unfair

[caption id="attachment_11223" align="alignnone" width="800"] (AP News/Eric Gray)[/caption] BY  AARON BEARD (AP NEWS) Down on hands and knees in the Alamodome, workers lurched forward to generate enough leverage to slide one large wood panel alongside another. Nearby was a 15-pound sledgehammer at the ready for a few swings into the panel sides - a plastic block absorbing the impact and providing protection to the precious wood - to wedge them into place.

BY  JILL COLVIN (AP News) A trio of elections on Tuesday provided early warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump at the beginning of an ambitious term, as Democrats rallied against his efforts to slash the federal government and the outsize role being played by billionaire Elon Musk. In the marquee race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the conservative judge endorsed by Trump and backed by Musk and his groups to the

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="599"] (AP Photo)[/caption] THE HILL - Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Tuesday set a new record for longest floor speech in Senate history, having held the floor for 25 hours and 5 minutes to decry potential GOP spending cuts in their looming tax bill and policies put in place by the Trump administration. Booker, the No. 4 member of Democratic leadership, wrapped up at 8:05 p.m. EDT Tuesday,

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," the latest step in a broadside against culture he deems too liberal. Trump claimed there has been a "concerted and widespread" effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing "objective facts" with a