WASHINGTON (@AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. carried out a strike in the Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela and was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang. The president said that 11 people were killed in the military operation.

SAN FRANCISCO (@AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a major makeover of Google’s search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly, but rebuffed the U.S. government’s request to break up the company.

WASHINGTON (@AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both cities.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) — Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti on Tuesday announced a bid for Congress in Pennsylvania, adding another competitive Democrat to the 2026 midterm election lineup in a state that gives her party perhaps its best chance to gain seats without redistricting.

WASHINGTON (@AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (@AP) — Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe is calling Missouri lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of a growing national battle between Republicans and Democrats seeking an edge in next year’s congressional elections.

DES MOINES, Iowa (@AP) — U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa’s first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month that she will not seek reelection.

Police said 14 of the injured were children, with their ages ranging from 6 to 15, and they are all expected to survive. The three adults who were injured are parishioners in their 80s, officials said.

Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote on social media.

NEW YORK (@AP) — The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, U.S. officials announced Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (@AP) — A shooting Wednesday at a Minneapolis Catholic school killed two children as they prayed and injured 17 other people, 14 of them kids, the police chief and mayor said. The shooter also died.

RT @AngelasInk: Shapiro admin accused of retaliating against elder abuse whistleblower • Spotlight PA

The unanimous decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Pennsylvania to stop throwing out such ballots and upheld the decision earlier this year by a federal judge in Pittsburgh.

A conservative election researcher from Pennsylvania whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 defeat is now an election integrity official at the US Department of Homeland Security. Via @AP: .

Hoax calls about active shooters on college campuses _ some featuring gunshots sounding in the background _ has sent waves of fear through students. It's hit at least 10 campuses from Arkansas to Pennsylvania. Via @AP: .

HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that it is unconstitutional for the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania to throw out mail-in ballots simply because the voter didn't write an accurate date on the return envelope.

VILLANOVA, Pa. (@AP) — A report of a shooter on Villanova University’s campus was a “cruel hoax,” the school’s president said Thursday.

WASHINGTON (@AP) — The Trump administration can slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the Supreme Court decided Thursday.

DENVER (@AP) _ The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s two-term elected state treasurer, said Monday that she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection bid.