Wall Street ends mixed amid Trump’s new tariff deadlines

July 9, 2025

(AP) — A choppy day in the markets left major U.S. stock indexes little changed Tuesday as the Trump administration pressed its campaign to win more favorable trade deals with nations around the globe by leaning into tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% a day after posting its biggest loss since mid-June. The benchmark index remains near its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gave back 0.4%. The Nasdaq composite eked out a gain of less than 0.1%, staying near its own record high. The sluggish trading came as the market was ...

Travelers no longer have to remove their shoes during security screenings at U.S. airports

July 9, 2025

(AP) — Travelers racing to catch a flight at U.S. airports no longer are required to remove their shoes during security screenings, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday. Noem said the end of the ritual put in place almost 20 years ago was immediately effective nationwide. ...

Democrats threaten government shutdown if Republicans pass $9.4 billion rescissions bill

July 9, 2025

(The Center Square) — As lawmakers begin crafting the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund the federal government in fiscal year 2026, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has implied that his party will refuse to cooperate in the process if Republicans revoke billions in funding from previous years. The Senate is set to vote on a rescissions package that narrowly passed the House in June and would cancel already appropriated federal funds for public broadcasting and some foreign aid programs. Republicans only need a majority vote for the legislation to pass the upper ...

Dems propose law requiring ICE agents to show identification, remove their facial coverings

July 9, 2025

(The Center Square) — Citing transparency, congressional Democrats proposed a law Tuesday that would prohibit federal immigration authorities from covering their faces in many situations. The proposal follows months of civil unrest over President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. The ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentencing set for Oct. 3 after split verdict in federal sex crimes case

July 9, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in his federal criminal case on Oct. 3, a judge said Tuesday after probation officials rejected the defense and prosecution’s plan to move the date up by about two weeks. Combs, who remains jailed after a split verdict last week, spoke briefly to his lawyer Marc Agnifilo during a virtual hearing on the scheduling issue that lasted all of two minutes. At one point he asked the lawyer to turn on his camera so they could see each other’s faces. The hip-hop mogul’s lawyers had been urging Judge Arun Subramanian to ...

Texas officials face scrutiny over response to catastrophic and deadly weekend flooding

July 7, 2025

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Before heading to bed before the Fourth of July holiday, Christopher Flowers checked the weather while staying at a friend’s house along the Guadalupe River. Nothing in the forecast alarmed him. Hours later, he was rushing to safety: He woke up in darkness to ...