Wall Street rises as corporate profits pile higher

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks rose again as stronger-than-expected profits keep piling higher for companies, despite uncertainty around President Donald Trump's trade war. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% Tuesday, its sixth straight gain. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.5%.

El Salvador won't release wrongly deported man

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ‘s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.

US consumer confidence plunges to lowest in 5 years

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COIVD-19 pandemic as anxiety over the impact of tariffs take a heavy toll on consumer expectations for future growth. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell 7.9 points in April to 86, its lowest reading since May 2020.

Supreme Court says Trump return deported man

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration's emergency appeal.

White House accuses Amazon of hostile and political act

NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon is not planning to list added tariff costs next to product prices on its site - despite speculation spanning from a report that claimed the e-commerce giant would soon show new import charges, as well as fiery comments from President Donald Trump’s White House denouncing such a move.

Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Editorials from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and others

Editorials from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and others

UN humanitarian agency cuts staff 20% due to 'brutal cuts' in funding

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. humanitarian agency said it is cutting its 2,600 staff operating in more than 60 countries by 20% because of "brutal cuts" in funding that have left it with a nearly $60 million shortfall.