Day care providers, parents and advocates from across the Bay Area rallied Monday as part of a statewide push for affordable child care amid concerns of additional cuts from the Trump administration to a struggling system still reeling from the pandemic.

More than half a dozen child care providers from the region closed their doors Monday and ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — As state and federal officials prepare to strictly enforce English rules for commercial drivers in the coming weeks, many immigrant truckers across the country are speaking out and calling the rule unfair.

But people in the industry say knowing basic English is important for safety.

Trump signed an executive order on April 28 ...Read more

It was the kind of week that would make even a seasoned diplomat’s head spin: China trade talks, India-Pakistan truce, a ceasefire with the Houthis and Iran nuclear negotiations. Not to mention a Gaza hostage release, new trade framework with the U.K. and the tantalizing prospect of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

For President Donald ...Read more

BOSTON — Harvard President Alan Garber sought “common ground” with the Trump administration in the latest communications Monday, but again said the university will “not surrender its core, legally-protected principles out of fear of unfounded retaliation.”

“As your letter suggests, we share common ground on a number of critical ...Read more

Despite having more years in public office than other candidates in the Democratic primary race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly on Monday embraced her underdog status in the nascent campaign against a pair of opponents expected to be flush with campaign cash.

To take on Republican President Donald Trump and Vice...Read more

Two Johns Hopkins University student protesters for Palestine were injured during the university’s response to an encampment Thursday morning, a campus activist group said.

“Within the hour, demonstrators were met with indiscriminate aggression and physical harassment by armed Johns Hopkins Police and Baltimore Police officers, resulting in...Read more

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine voters appear to have delivered a blow to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and a boost to the rival Duterte clan, whose members and allies outperformed expectations in Monday’s midterm elections.

Ex-President Rodrigo Duterte looks set to become mayor of Davao City despite his detention by the International ...Read more

Thousands of people across New Jersey and the nation celebrated the release of Tenafly native Edan Alexander on Monday after the 21-year-old American-Israeli man spent more than 19 months in Hamas captivity.

“For 19 excruciating months, we have all been hoping and praying alongside Edan’s family members for his safe release. With every day ...Read more

Xi Jinping’s decision to stand his ground against Donald Trump could hardly have gone any better for the Chinese leader.

After two days of high-stakes talks in Switzerland, trade negotiators from the world’s biggest economies announced Monday a massive de-escalation in tariffs. In a carefully coordinated joint statement, the U.S. slashed ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The suspect in the deadly shooting on the Florida State University campus last month was released from the hospital Monday and transferred to a detention facility, according to the Leon County Sheriff’s Office.

Phoenix Ikner, 20, was taken by the Tallahassee Police Department to the Leon County Detention Facility, the ...Read more

NEW YORK — When Sean “Diddy” Combs discovered his ex, R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, was dating someone else, the multimillionaire hip-hop mogul grabbed an employee in the middle of the night for assistance hunting down and murdering the other man, a Manhattan jury heard in a bombshell opening statement from the feds on Monday....Read more

WASHINGTON — China and the United States retreated from an emerging economic crisis on Monday, agreeing to drastically reduce tariffs on each other for the next 90 days as they continue to negotiate a more permanent trade deal, providing welcome news for investors and retailers who increasingly feared a breakthrough was out of reach.

The ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities were seeking suspects Monday in the assassination of a mayoral candidate who was shot dead during a campaign rally in the gulf coast state of Veracruz.

The attack Sunday evening in Texistepec killed Yesenia Lara Gutíerrez, 49, who was running for mayor of the town of 20,000.

Three other people, all men, ...Read more

A Colorado school district banned transgender athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identities last week, then filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn polices and state law that stand in the way.

District 49 named CHSAA, the Colorado Civil Rights Division and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser in the lawsuit. The district, which...Read more

The Episcopal Church said Monday it would not help resettle white South African refugees in the U.S. because of its “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.”

The denomination cited its moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration as the reason ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — The protesters fighting the court’s buffer zone in the high-profile Karen Read case have scored a win in federal appeals court.

The buffer zone around Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham was expanded for the Read retrial after jurors during the first trial reported that they could hear loud protesters during deliberations.

As ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — John Curran, a business consultant from James City County, announced Monday that he intends to reenter Virginia’s lieutenant governor race as a write-in candidate.

Curran initially ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor but did not turn in enough signatures to qualify for the ballot ahead of the April ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Fired Karen Read investigator Michael Proctor’s supervisor rated his professionalism a four out of five in a quarterly review even after knowing Proctor called Read a “vile” name and joked about searching for nudes on her phone.

“I believe that as a U.S. citizen he has the right to comment. That’s his First Amendment...Read more