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Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago, in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban. Casper rejected the Republican administration’s argument that the lawsuit to block the ...

Trump holds tense meeting with Senate Republicans after calling off bill signing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump held a tense meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol on Wednesday after he abruptly canceled the signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill that GOP lawmakers have touted as a major election-year achievement. Trump’s decision not to sign the bill capped weeks of friction with the Republican majorities in Congress. The president made it clear that, for now at least, he’s in no mood to compromise as he pressures the Senate to move forward with the voting bill, which lacks the support to pass. Trump called it a “great ...

Today in History

On June 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. The conflict would last for over three years and would bring about an estimated 4 million deaths, three quarters of them civilians. Also on this date: In 1876, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand, began in the Montana Territory. As many as 100 Native Americans were killed in the battle, as were 268 people attached to the 7th Cavalry Regiment, including George Armstrong Custer and Mark Kellogg, the first Associated Press reporter to die in the line of ...

All 32 of the nation’s biggest banks clear the Fed’s annual ‘stress test’

NEW YORK (AP) — All 32 of the nation’s biggest banks passed the Federal Reserve’s annual “stress test” of the financial system, the central bank said Wednesday, a sign that the banking system would remain healthy even if a major economic contraction occurred. The annual stress test measures whether a bank’s capital, a financial cushion it uses to absorb losses, would remain at healthy levels even after hundreds of billions of dollars in projected losses. The tests are required under the Dodd-Frank Act, the law passed after the 2008 financial crisis that nearly brought down ...

18-year-old suspect arrested in shooting that killed two inside Northern California library

A shooting at a library in Northern California left two people dead and an 18-year-old suspect under arrest, police said Tuesday. Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge said gunshots and screams could be heard on a 911 call Monday evening from the Chico branch of the Butte County Library. Chico, a city of about 100,000 people, is 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco and home to California State University, Chico. The suspect fled out the back of the library as officers entered, but additional law enforcement personnel behind the building took the man into custody, ...

Donors gave U.S. charities $617 billion in 2025, according to the new Giving USA report

By RASHEEDA CHILDRESS Chronicle of Philanthropy, via AP In a year marked by economic uncertainty and political turbulence, philanthropic donations rose last year, according to an authoritative annual report on American giving. Donors gave U.S. charities $617 billion in 2025, an inflation-adjusted 3% increase over last year, according to “Giving USA 2026: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2025.” Bequests last year jumped by nearly 17%, the third year of the last four to clock double-digit increases in this form of giving. The trend could signal the beginning of ...