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Schumer to advance GOP funding bill, unwilling to risk government shutdown as deadline nears WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending bill to prevent a midnight Friday government shutdown. He worried a shutdown would give President Donald Trump and Elon Musk “carte blanche” to gut government further. The Democrats wanted to slap limits on Trump and Musk.
But they have few options. Democrats are pushing a stopgap 30-day funding bill as an alternative. But Schumer said Republicans rejected it outright.
As the Senate opened with one day to go before Friday’s midnight deadline, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, “It’s time to fish or cut bait.” Two judges in mass firings cases order Trump administration to rehire probationary workers for now SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two federal judges have handed down orders requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies. The decisions Thursday slow down, for now, the president’s dramatic downsizing of the federal government.
Both judges separately found legal problems with the way the mass terminations were carried out and ordered the employees at least temporarily brought back on the job. The Trump administration has already appealed the first ruling, which White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called unconstitutional and promised to fight. A 10% drop for stocks is scary, but isn't that rare NEW YORK (AP) — The U.
S. stock market has just dropped 10% from its high set last month, hurt by worries about the economy and a global trade war. It’s an arbitrary number, but it’s big enough that Wall Street has a name for such a decline: a “correction.
” Such drops have been regular occurrences through history, and some investors see them as potentially healthy things that can clear out excessive and dangerous risk-taking. But they’re frightening in the moment, particularly for a new generation of investors who got in the market when it seemed like stocks only go up. Trump administration asks Supreme Court to partly allow birthright citizenship restrictions WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out.
In emergency applications filed at the high court on Thursday, the administration asked the justices to narrow court orders entered by district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington that blocked the order President Donald Trump signed shortly after being sworn in for a second time. Three federal appeals courts have rejected the administration’s pleas. The order would deny citizenship to those born after Feb.
19 whose parents are in the country illegally. It also forbids U.S.
agencies from issuing any document or accepting any state document recognizing citizenship for such children. Trump threatens retaliatory 200% tariff on European wine after EU proposes American whiskey tax WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey. The European import tax, which was unveiled in response to steel and aluminum tariffs by the U.
S. administration, is expected to go into effect April 1, just ahead of separate reciprocal tariffs that Trump plans to place on the EU. Trump on Thursday called the EU among “the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities," complaining about the lack of U.
S. auto sales in Europe and about lawsuits and fines against U.S.
tech companies there. The European Commission says Europe wants to “negotiate to avoid tariffs.” Ukraine loses a ceasefire bargaining chip as its troops cede ground in Russia KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As momentum builds for a ceasefire with Russia, Ukraine has lost a valuable bargaining chip.
The Ukrainian army stunned Russia in August by attacking across the border and taking control of more than 1,300 square kilometers of land. It was a much-needed morale boost for Ukraine — but more importantly, the country’s leaders believed the capture of Russian territory might help in any future peace negotiations with its enemy. Now, after months of intense pressure from Russian forces, Ukraine only holds about 30% of the Russian land it had seized.
Its forces are in retreat from large parts of Russia's Kursk region after a rapid near-defeat Thursday in the city of Sudzha. American Airlines plane catches fire at Denver airport gate. Passengers evacuated on slides DENVER (AP) — An American Airlines passenger plane has caught fire after landing at Denver International Airport, prompting slides to be deployed so passengers could evacuate quickly.
The Federal Aviation Administration says Flight 1006 was headed from Colorado Springs to Dallas Forth Worth on Thursday. After the crew reported engine vibrations, it diverted to Denver and landed safely around 5:15 p.m.
The FAA says that while taxiing to the gate, an engine caught fire. A photo posted by CBS News shows passengers standing on a plane’s wing as smoke surrounded the aircraft. American says 172 passengers and six crew members were on board.
No injuries were reported. March megastorm may bring blizzards, tornadoes, flooding and even fires across much of US More than 100 million people in the U.S.
are in the path of an expected massive March storm starting Friday. It's a sprawling system that may bring blizzards, tornadoes, fires and flooding as it tracks across the Great Plains eastward. Moisture and heat from the abnormally warm Gulf could fuel heavy rainfall that is raising concerns for flooding from the Central Gulf Coast through the upper Ohio Valley.
Tornadoes are possible in the nation’s heartland. Scientists said the storm’s strength and potential for far-reaching impacts is notable, but its timing isn’t unusual. Extreme weather can pop up in spring because storms feed on big temperature differences between the warmth that’s starting to show up and lingering chill of winter.
Columbia University says it expelled some students who seized building last year NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring and temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated. The university said in a campus-wide email Thursday that its judicial board brought a range of sanctions against dozens of students who occupied Hamilton Hall based on its “evaluation of the severity of behaviors.” The university did not provide a breakdown of how many students were expelled, were suspended or had their degree revoked.
Gene Hackman's estate asks court to block release of death investigation records SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The estate of deceased actor Gene Hackman is seeking to block the public release of autopsy and investigative reports related to the deaths of Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa, especially photographs and video.
Their partially mummified bodies were discovered at home in Santa Fe in February. Authorities last week said Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s disease as much as a week after a rare, rodent-borne disease took the life of his wife. An advocate for government transparency says sensitive images are off-limits from public records requests in New Mexico, though investigative reports are typically accessible.
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