President Donald Trump says he’s doubling the tariff rate on steel to 50%, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos and other goods.| AP News
A federal judge has temporarily halted her order directing the government to explain what it’s done to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. The ruling from U.S.| AP News
The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. is set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war.| AP News
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the state’s attorney general.| AP News
The Egyptian man charged with injuring a dozen people in Boulder, Colorado, in an attack on demonstrators seeking the release of Israeli hostages is among hundreds of thousands known to overstay their visas each year in the United States.| AP News
TikTok is ramping up a public relations campaign to fend off the possibility of a nationwide ban by the Biden administration.| AP News
The short-video app TikTok has chosen Oracle as its corporate savior to avoid a U.S. ban ordered by President Donald Trump.| AP News
A jury has convicted a failed political candidate of federal charges in connection with a series of drive-by shootings.| AP News
Six people in a rural Texas county have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.| AP News
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is zeroing in on New York Attorney General Letitia James.| AP News
A jury trial has begun in Utah for a man accused of faking his death and fleeing to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges.| AP News
Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, President Donald Trump confirmed at a press conference on Monday.| AP News
A federal judge in New York says transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell should not be released.| AP News
A disruption to a system housing United Airlines’ flight information that caused more than 1,000 delays has been resolved. However, delays continued into Thursday.| AP News
The mother of a Black teenager who was fatally shot in Alabama this week said she believes her daughter was killed because of her transgender identity.| AP News
A judge has stopped the delivery of World War II-era radioactive soil from New York to a Detroit-area landfill.| AP News
President Donald Trump says his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since returning to the White House had a “very positive conclusion," announcing the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals.| AP News
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has endured a nearly six-hour grilling by U.S. lawmakers, some of whom are pushing to ban the popular short-video app nationwide.| AP News