Sitting onstage in an echoey historic synagogue, next to a U.S. senator and a cardboard cutout of his newly released memoir, Gov. Josh Shapiro reflected on the Pennsylvanians who give him hope.

As he had in other stops on his book tour up and down the East Coast, Shapiro often referred to his book’s title, Where We Keep The Light, and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Congress spent months arguing over COVID-19-era enhanced premium tax credits that many people on the Affordable Care Act used to subsidize their health insurance, a relatively narrow debate over a single policy grew into a much broader and more complicated discussion about how to lower health care costs.

Concerns about those ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Cities gun sales have seen their largest year-over-year leap since the pandemic, with some cities experiencing double or even triple the demand compared to the same time last year, a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis of city and county data found.

The data, as well as interviews with gun store owners and gun safety ...Read more

Authorities served a search warrant at a home in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday night in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, who investigators say was kidnapped from her nearby home 13 days ago.

A SWAT team converged on a house about two miles from Guthrie’s Arizona residence and removed two people from inside, law enforcement ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Casey Wasserman, the beleaguered sports and entertainment mogul who is the face of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, is preparing to sell his namesake talent agency.

In a letter to his staff on Friday, Wasserman acknowledged that his appearance in a recently-released batch of documents related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey ...Read more

Casey Wasserman said he is putting his talent and marketing agency up for sale, citing past personal mistakes that have had an effect on the company.

The sports and entertainment talent agent said in a memo to staff on Friday night that he had “become a distraction” to the company’s work and had started the process to sell the business. ...Read more

China is providing crucial support for Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and could end the war with a phone call, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said.

“China could call Vladimir Putin and end this war tomorrow and cut off his dual-purpose technologies that they’re selling,” Whitaker said during a Friday panel at the Munich ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal agent was injured during a clash with protesters in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, authorities said. The incident occurred as scores of local students walked out of class in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Protesters were fighting with federal agents on Alameda Street between ...Read more

Miss Jamaica Gabrielle Henry gave fans an update Friday on her recovery, nearly three months after her devastating fall at the Miss Universe pageant.

In November, the beauty queen was carried off on a stretcher after falling off the stage during the Miss Universe preliminary evening gown competition.

After the fall, the Miss Universe ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s interim guidance on clean energy tax credits released Thursday offered some relief to the industry by laying out a manageable path for new projects. But, it still left investors uncertain.

The industry had been closely watching the long-awaited guidance, which spells out rules for calculating whether ...Read more

The leaders of seven states announced Friday, one day before a Trump administration deadline, that there is still no deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River.

That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline.

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom told world leaders Friday that President Donald Trump’s retreat from efforts to combat climate change would decimate the U.S. automobile industry and surrender the future economic viability to China and other nations embracing the transition to renewable energy.

Newsom, appearing at the ...Read more

The Trump administration spent more than $35 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries they had no connection to, doling out millions of dollars in lump-sum transfers to foreign governments without a system to track how the money was used, according to a report released Friday.

The figures from Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — You may not have noticed, but that endless snowpack has developed a slow leak — in this case historically slow.

Its endurance continues to climb the charts among the snowpacks of yesteryear — and in at least one way may well be unprecedented in the period of record dating to the late 19th century.

As of 7 a.m. Friday, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Republican state officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to stop a state court order to redraw her Staten Island district ahead of the midterms.

The emergency applications, one from several Republican state officials and another from Malliotakis and a group of voters, argued that the last-minute ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in talks over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following an event...Read more

After a year of refusing to choose between Washington and Brussels, Keir Starmer will shift tone in Munich by edging Britain closer to the European Union and calling for an end to over-reliance on American military support.

In a speech he’s scheduled to make to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the U.K. prime minister will urge ...Read more