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Chief justice rejects Trump demand for impeachment of federal judge

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching judges shortly after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of one who ruled against his deportation plans. The rebuke from the Supreme Court’s leader demonstrated how controversy over recent flights of Venezuelan immigrants has inflamed tensions over the judiciary’s role, with a legal case challenging Trump’s actions now threatening to spiral into a clash of constitutional powers. “For more than two centuries, ...

Astronauts back on Earth after nine months stuck in space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico in the early evening, just hours after departing the International Space Station. Splashdown occurred off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle, bringing their unplanned odyssey to an end. Within an hour, the astronauts were out of their capsule, waving and smiling at the ...

Last pilot from Battle of Britain dies at age 105

LONDON (AP) — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that Britain might be forced to capitulate during the early months of World War II. John “Paddy’’ Hemingway, an Irish national who enlisted in the Royal Air Force before the war began, died Monday at his home in Dublin, the RAF said. He was 105. Hemingway was just 20 years old when he and his comrades in the Royal Air Force took to the skies to fight off wave after wave of Nazi aircraft ...

Court blocks Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from being enforced, a three-judge panel of appellate judges ruled Tuesday. The law also banned trans women and girls from participating in female sports. The state attorney general vowed an immediate appeal. On Tuesday, the state’s 10th District Court of Appeale reversed the decision made last summer to allow the law to go into effect after a judge found it “reasonably limits parents’ rights.” The law bans counseling, gender-affirming surgery and ...

Ohio Valley Newsliners

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 10:50 p.m. Monday, a caller from Markatan Street in Flushing reported someone tried to break into her house. A deputy responded and patrolled the area but did not locate anyone. At 7:42 p.m. Monday, a 911 hangup call was received from an address on National Road in Morristown. There was no answer on callback. A deputy responded and reported all was well there – they never called, according to the report. At 6:59 p.m. Monday, a caller reported that a male driving a truck almost hit kids riding bikes on Maumee Road in Wayne Township. At ...

Judge: DOGE action on USAID likely violates the Constitution

WASHINGTON (AP) — The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked DOGE from making further cuts to the agency. The order requires the Trump administration to restore email and computer access to all employees of USAID, including those put on administrative leave, though it stops short of reversing firings or fully resurrecting the agency. In one of the first DOGE lawsuits against Musk himself, U.S. District ...