PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania State University’s administration has proposed closing seven of its 20 Commonwealth campuses, according to multiple sources close to the board of trustees.

They are: Dubois, Fayette, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Shenango, Wilkes-Barre, and York, according to the sources. Collectively, they enrolled nearly 3,200 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Pacific Palisades couple is seeking a court order that would force California’s insurer of last resort to turn over claims documents following allegations it has delayed payments to fix their fire-damaged home.

The lawsuit by Scott and Lissette Jungwirth accuses the California FAIR Plan Association of bad faith, breach of ...Read more

Two people were arrested and a family ripped asunder in Worcester, Massachusetts, when a crowd swarmed federal immigration agents as they snatched a woman ahead of Mother’s Day.

One of those arrested was the woman’s 16-year-old daughter, who was charged with reckless endangerment of a child, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams said Monday that the feds intended to “humiliate” him with a plan to carry out a search warrant on him at the New York City Marathon finish line.

Federal agents considered intercepting the mayor at the finish line of the marathon in 2023, a trove of documents released Friday as part of Adams’ now-dismissed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Almost four months into his second term, President Donald Trump has moved away from his populist campaign rhetoric to a much bolder and disruptive economic policy approach built on tariffs — even being open to a potential recession — and urging Americans to consume less.

On the campaign trail, his sales pitch focused, in ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — At the center of the fentanyl crisis sits a Chinese messaging app, six attorneys general said in a letter to the encrypted platform Monday.

WeChat could face criminal charges for allowing dealers and money launderers to seamlessly funnel billions between Mexican cartels, Chinese money laundering organizations and U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Rep. Henry Cuellar asked a federal court to throw out last year’s federal indictment against the Texas Democrat, arguing it violates the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause.

Cuellar’s legal team, in a filing Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, argued the indictment contains...Read more

The Trump administration’s temporary trade deal with China didn’t arrive in time to prevent a slowdown in the U.S. economy, forecasters say, even if it reduces the risk of a full-blown recession later this year.

Labor-market data could start to show the hit to employment by the end of May, they expect, while accelerating inflation should ...Read more

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo is pledging if elected mayor to stop a shelter development in southern Brooklyn that has drawn intense pushback from local residents, including the neighborhood’s Council member, who recently endorsed Cuomo’s bid for City Hall.

The shelter, planned on the corner of 86th Street and 25th Avenue in Bensonhurst, would ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A conservative super PAC is urging Sen. John Fetterman to support President Donald Trump’s tax cut plan in a new ad wooing the Pennsylvania Democrat as his relationship with his own party has become increasingly strained.

In the spot called “Stand out,” running on cable and digital platforms, Club for Growth praises ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday said he will implement a prescription drug payment plan that could dramatically lower prices paid by Medicare and possibly Medicaid, although details remain murky.

Trump claimed his proposed plan to tie drug prices to those paid in foreign nations would lower payments by the U.S. by up to 90%, although experts said...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A young boy leaned forward and held his head in his hands. For several minutes his grandmother had been talking about him with federal immigration Judge Loreto Geisse in a Sacramento courtroom.

Geisse sensed the 11-year-old wasn’t following along closely.

“Are you bored?” the judge asked the boy, who The Sacramento...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

LOS ANGELES — After conducting an investigation into Los Angeles County’s faulty emergency alerts during the deadly January wildfires, U.S. Congressman Robert Garcia issued a report Monday calling for more federal oversight of the nation’s patchwork, privatized emergency alert system.

The investigation was launched by Garcia and more than...Read more

CHICAGO — On Jan. 20, Chicago police Officer Josue Najera celebrated President Donald Trump’s second inauguration with family at the president’s namesake tower on the Chicago River.

Najera — 44 years old and assigned to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s security detail — was scheduled to work later that night, from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. the ...Read more

NEW YORK — When Sean “Diddy” Combs found out his ex, R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, was dating someone else, he grabbed one of his employees in the middle of the night to help him hunt down and murder the other man, a Manhattan jury heard in a bombshell opening statement at the mogul’s trial Monday.

“For years, the ...Read more

The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is calling on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to prioritize U.S. efforts to deal with the crisis of gang violence in Haiti.

Rubio, who supported Haiti while he was in the Senate, should reconsider restoring funding cuts, push for money for the ongoing international armed mission to fight...Read more

WASHINGTON — China and the United States retreated from an emerging economic crisis Monday, agreeing to drastically reduce tariffs on one another 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

BOSTON — A group of gun violence prevention advocates launched a campaign Monday to persuade voters to keep in place a major gun law that gun owners and Second Amendment rights supporters are attempting to repeal through the 2026 statewide elections.

The “Vote Yes for a Safe Massachusetts” campaign slammed gun rights groups trying to ...Read more