U.S. News Headlines

• Retail sales rise 0.6% in February, but impact of Iran war threatens to derail spending April 1, 2026
  Shoppers increased their spending in February, particularly on cars and clothing, after pulling back at the start of the year due to severe winter storms
• DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases amid review of Noem-era contracts April 1, 2026
  Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem
• Four-time champion Italy has failed to qualify for a third straight World Cup April 1, 2026
  Four-time champion Italy has failed to qualify for a third straight World Cup
• Captain charged in boat crash that killed 3 girls from Miami sailing camp April 1, 2026
  Federal prosecutors say a tugboat captain has been charged with seaman’s manslaughter in a boat crash that killed three girls from a sailing camp in Miami
• Record low Colorado mountain snow won't bode well for water in the drought-stricken US West April 1, 2026
  Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record
• Good Friday is a unique and solemn day for Christians, with ancient prayers and fervent processions April 1, 2026
  Good Friday is a unique and uniquely solemn day in the Christian calendar
• Securing Iran's enriched uranium by force would be risky and complex, experts say April 1, 2026
  Should the United States decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, experts and former U.S. government officials say it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers
• Supreme Court hears high-profile fight over Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship April 1, 2026
  The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens
• California woman returns home after the Trump administration deported her to Mexico April 1, 2026
  A U.S. resident of 27 years who was deported to Mexico by the Trump administration has returned home to Sacramento
• Lithium mine clears hurdle despite conservationists' worries for rare wildflower April 1, 2026
  A federal judge ruled against conservation groups in their efforts to block a proposed lithium-boron mining project in Nevada
• Military suicides long-term rate for active duty troops still rising: Pentagon April 1, 2026
  The Pentagon says fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024
• Appeals court suspends order for Voice of America employees to return to work March 31, 2026
  An appeals court panel has suspended a federal judge’s order for the Trump administration to bring hundreds of Voice of America employees back to work from paid leave
• Judge rules HUD effort to change criteria for homeless funding is unlawful March 31, 2026
  A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration's effort to change the criteria for using tens of millions of dollars in funding to aid homeless people was unlawful
• Bystander video shows handcuffed woman escape from half-opened police cruiser window March 31, 2026
  Authorities in western Michigan say a woman who shimmied out the rear window of a police cruiser while handcuffed and then fled has been arrested
• Supreme Court seems likely to rule for a Black death row inmate in Mississippi March 31, 2026
  The Supreme Court seems likely to rule for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him
• Librarian fired for refusing to move over 100 books from children's to adult section March 31, 2026
  A local Tennessee library board has fired the county’s top librarian for refusing to comply with its vote to move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children’s to the adult section over claims
• Ex-Arkansas medical board chair indicted over alleged drugging and abduction of patients March 31, 2026
  A federal indictment accuses an Arkansas doctor of drugging and abducting psychiatric patients to profit from health care reimbursements
• Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris is free after 6 months in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse March 31, 2026
  The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an Oklahoma woman in the 1980s has been released from an Oklahoma jail
• Winning numbers drawn in Monday’s Powerball March 31, 2026
  The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the "Powerball" game were: 07-11-31-41-57, Powerball: 20
• For César Chavez supporters, a painful question: What to do with his legacy now March 31, 2026
  Sexual abuse allegations against the revered labor leader César Chavez have led to a swift fallout, leaving many to reconcile the legacy of a man who fought tirelessly for the rights of farmworkers