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Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr (right), shown in a photo with Acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Omeed Assefi. Carr posted the photo just three days after both government agencies green-lit local TV giant Nexstar's $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival Tegna. The move, supported by President Trump, faces headwinds in an antitrust lawsuit in federal court in California.

2 local TV giants merged. Then a court stepped in

Local TV giant Nexstar's $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival Tegna won speedy approval from Trump administration regulators. But it faces a tough challenge from a pair of antitrust lawsuits.

Paulina Gamino of Misfit Toys says new toys the store once would have sold at $25 are now priced up to $45 because of the tariffs, forcing them to cut back their orders.

A year after 'Liberation Day,' Trump's tariffs are hurting small businesses

Many small-business owners say the uncertainty that goes along with the high cost of the Trump administration's emergency tariffs is driving away customers and eating into profits.

Displaced residents travel through the Qasmieh area as they gesture on the way back to their homes in the southern Lebanon, on Friday, after the start of a 10-day ceasefire deal struck between Lebanon and Israel. Despite the truce, the Israeli military and Hezbollah warned residents not to return to their villages for their own safety.

The Strait of Hormuz opens for commercial ships but the U.S. blockade continues on Iran

Iran's foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz is open, following the start of an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. President Trump swiftly responded that the U.S. naval blockade on Iran will continue.

In June 2025, people line up outside the Los Angeles Federal Building, which houses offices for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Logjam of U.S. immigration applications puts millions at greater risk of deportation

An NPR analysis shows how immigrants' attempts to live or work legally in the U.S. are caught in a bureaucratic morass.

For the past four years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has extended a 30-day suspension of rights, effectively creating a police state that keeps Salvadoran deportees from the U.S. trapped in the Central American country's notorious prisons.

Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S.

Migrants deported from the U.S. routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many remain incommunicado from family and lawyers for years.

Rodney Scott (L), commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Todd Lyons (C), acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Joseph Edlow (R), director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, testify before a House appropriations subcommittee on April 16 in Washington, D.C.

Top five takeaways from Homeland Security budget hearings

Lawmakers have been in a stalemate for over 60 days about funding the entire department, which includes agencies that oversee immigration enforcement, disaster relief, cybersecurity and the U.S. Coast Guard.

President Trump has followed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's competitive authoritarian playbook, according to political scientists. But that playbook was not enough to save Orban from a landslide defeat Sunday.

Orbán's defeat is a win for democracy and a warning to Trump, analysts say

Hungarian American experts say Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary is a win for democracy, a warning for Trump and a lesson for Democrats and Republicans.

Tracer rounds illuminate the night sky as people fire live ammunition and fireworks into the air as a ceasefire was beginning between Israel and Hezbollah, in Beirut, Lebanon, in the early hours of Friday.

Israel starts a tense ceasefire in Lebanon, as Trump sounds optimistic on Iran talks

The leaders of Israel and Lebanon agreed to a 10-day ceasefire in Israel's fight against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, but Israel vowed to keep troops in southern Lebanon.

Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech as he celebrates a Mass in the Saint Augustine Basilica in Annaba, Algeria, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, on the second day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa.

Pope heads to Cameroon as separatists announce 3-day pause in fighting

Pope Leo XIV is heading to the central African nation of Cameroon with a message of peace for its separatist region and for talks with President Paul Biya.

The average tax refund is higher this year, but falls short of promises.

Tax season was supposed to bring big refunds. So far they're less than expected

The average refund so far is $350 more than last year at this time, despite projections that it would be closer to $1,000 due to Republican-led tax changes as part of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.

"I'm not really preaching to the musicians and the other artists," Martin says. "I do music for the person that's nine months late on their rent [and] ain't got no job but got two kids."

The transformation of Terrace Martin

After years spent as the go-to guy for a cross-pollinating L.A. music scene, the multi-hyphenate follows his spiritual mission inward for the sprawling series Love Is Louder Than Algorithms.

Sudanese refugees wait for registration at Oure Cassoni camp in Chad after fleeing the conflict on Feb. 23, 2026. The war has displaced about 14 million people, fueling a major humanitarian crisis.

'Humiliated, broken, powerless': Sudan enters fourth year of war

While parts of Sudan's capital show fragile signs of life, across the country the conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary continues to drive mass displacement, hunger and allegations of atrocities.

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