NATIONAL NEWS:
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 7, 2024. (Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP)(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New Yor… Read moreTrump trial live updates: 'Get control of this' Cohen says Trump told him of Stormy Daniels story
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(MIAMI) -- Donald Trump Jr. visited Peter Navarro in a Miami federal prison, according to sources familiar with the situation.Navarro, the former Trump White House adviser, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide te… Read moreDonald Trump Jr. visited Peter Navarro in federal prison: Sources
Getty Images - STOCK(NEW YORK) -- In northern Wisconsin, April Stone is carrying on a centuries-old Ojibwe practice of basket making. She uses wood from the black ash tree, a cultural keystone species that's now under threat from the invasive emerald ash borer.Yet for Stone and other tribal … Read moreInvasive emerald ash borer endangers cultural keystone tree species
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Monday might be the first time the jury in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial sees Michael Cohen in person, but they have heard plenty about the former president's one-time "fixer."Witness after witness over the last three weeks have offered thei… Read more'He cannot be trusted': Michael Cohen faces an uphill reputational battle with Trump's jury
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As they sat in the lobby of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, D.C., last month, Garnell Whitfield Jr. and others who have lost relatives nationwide to gun violence listened as U.S. Attorney General Merrick Gar… Read more2 years after racially motivated Buffalo mass shooting, hate crimes targeting Black people persist
Business News:
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- McDonald's could soon be lowering prices and possibly launching a new value meal to its menus.The Golden Arches currently offer some individual items on its $1, $2, $3 menu, but it may be rolling out a new value meal with a McChicken or McDouble, fri… Read moreMcDonald's may consider $5 value meal as food prices continue to soar
Thomas Northcut/Getty Images/STOCK(NEW YORK) -- Roughly 15 years after a housing bubble triggered the worst U.S. financial disaster since the Great Depression, some observers are voicing concern that the industry has fallen into another bubble.Home prices are soaring, despite high mortgage r… Read moreHome prices are soaring. Is this another bubble?
Target has announced that it will only sell their Pride Month collection in select stores after suffering a backlash and boycott last year during the 2023 Pride season. -- Target(NEW YORK) -- Target has announced that it will only sell their Pride Month collection in select stores after suff… Read moreTarget will only sell Pride Month collection in some stores after backlash in 2023
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The borrowing cost for student loans is poised to reach a 16-year high.The interest rate on a federal undergraduate student loan is expected to climb to 6.5% in July, which would mark its highest level since 2008, financial-aid expert Mark Kantrowitz… Read moreStudent loan rates set to reach 16-year high: 'It's a shock'
5./15 WEST/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, struck the latest blow in a high-stakes clash between the social media company and the U.S. government, filing a lawsuit this week challenging a forced sale of TikTok as unconstitutional.The case could nullify the … Read moreTikTok sues to block potential ban. Can it win?