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Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many 10/12/2025 07:03am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn't know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighte Truce fizzles as U.S.-China trade tensions return to full boil 10/11/2025 02:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For months, bubbling trade tensions between China and the U.S. seemed to calm to a simmer, with words like ���thaw��� and ���truce��� swapped in for warnings of economic ���war.��� Now, hostilities appear to be returning to full boil. A series of tit-for-tat moves this week by the A sacred lake, a Columbus statue, and an Indigenous people's long struggle for land 10/11/2025 07:36am • GEDDES, N.Y. (AP) ��� Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake, before the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, before the pristine waters became one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation. Local officials aware of that history h The Latest: Budget office says ���substantial��� firings of federal workers have started 10/10/2025 09:41pm • The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues. Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on the social platform X that the ���R Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner 10/10/2025 07:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to place an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a global recession. The president expressed frustration with new export c Senator's letter to Big Ten presidents: Private equity 'unlikely to align' with academic goals 10/10/2025 06:14pm • Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., sent a letter to Big Ten presidents Friday, warning that a move into private equity could have negative consequences, including impacting the schools' tax-exempt status. ���The primary goal of these companies is to make money for the firm, which is unlikely to align wit California governor signs bills to aid Los Angeles wildfire recovery and reform disaster response 10/10/2025 05:51pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills to help the ongoing recovery and rebuilding of the communities in the Los Angeles area impacted by two deadly wildfires earlier this year, his office announced Friday. The bills, signed this week, streamline the proce As trial nears in 2010 death of AU professor, defense says jury shouldn't hear about flight to Mexico, name change 10/10/2025 05:35pm • Approximately 15 years after the death of American University professor Sue Ann Marcum, her alleged killer is arguing Montgomery County jurors shouldn't learn that he spent 12 years in Mexico on the FBI's "Most Wanted List," and that he changed his name. Jorge Rueda Landeros is charged with first How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James 10/10/2025 04:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Before Bill Pulte started targeting President Donald Trump���s political enemies, he practiced on his own family. He accused his grandfather���s widow of insider trading. He was allegedly the driving force behind a website trashing an aunt as a ���fake Christian.��� And he public Moore taps state senator, former sheriff, to lead Maryland State Police 10/10/2025 03:20pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) tapped Sen. Michael A. Jackson (D-Calvert, Charles & Prince George���s) as the next superintendent of the Maryland State Police Friday, replacing Col. Roland L. Butler who is set to retire Nov. 1. Before he was elected to the legislature, Jackson spent 22 years in the Princ DC National Guard director responds to criticism about troops picking up trash during community meeting 10/10/2025 05:49am • The director of the D.C. government Operations for D.C. National Guard emphasized the steps that troops are taking to engage with the community and mentor young people, in addition to helping beautify the city, during a neighborhood meeting in Northeast D.C. on Thursday night. Marcus Hunt spo Today in History: October 10, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns 10/10/2025 04:10am • Today is Friday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2025. There are 82 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, accused of accepting bribes, resigned his office and pleaded no contest to one count of federal income tax evasion. President Richard Nixon soon a Amid 'uncertainty and chaos,' Montgomery County examines the health of retail 10/09/2025 10:57pm • Carrie McCarthy, a division chief at Montgomery County's Planning Board, described the current retail climate as "stable but softening." McCarthy told the Montgomery County Council Economic Development Committee on Thursday that while there are some weak spots, the county's reputation as a wealth A history of President Trump's legal battles with New York Attorney General Letitia James 10/09/2025 10:31pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The day she was elected New York's attorney general, Letitia James blasted President Donald Trump as a ���con man��� and ���carnival barker" and pledged to scrutinize his public policies and personal business dealings. As James mounted a lawsuit claiming that Trump's business perso Georgia school chief indicted for alleged kickback scheme in Illinois school district 10/09/2025 09:35pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The superintendent of Georgia's third-largest school district has been indicted on federal charges alleging he ran a kickback scheme and stole money from his previous employer, a smaller school district in suburban Chicago. A federal grand jury in Chicago on Wednesday indicted Devon