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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday it would take months to fully resolve the air traffic control problems plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport, with normal operations unlikely to resume until summer.”It’s going to take a little time. I hope by the summer we’re going to be fully functioning,” Duffy told “CBS Mornings” as he announced a major overhaul of the nation’s aging air traffic control system.The plan includes new software, updated equipment and the first new ATC centers since the 1960s amid growing concerns about nationwide system reliability following massive delays and cancellations at Newark.Duffy explained that both primary and…

Officials at the Federal Reserve on Friday showed little sign of deviating from their message that there was no urgency to lower interest rates, despite a claim by President Trump that there was “no inflation.”A solid economy affords the central bank the flexibility to wait and see what the economic impact of Mr. Trump’s tariffs will be, the policymakers made clear in a series of public remarks on Friday.“Right now we have time,” John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in an interview. “Policy is in a good place.”That view was echoed by Adriana Kugler,…

The primary transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area was forced to shut down all trains on Friday morning because of a computer problem, sending commuters scrambling to find alternatives with little notice. Bay Area Rapid Transit, which transports more than 170,000 passengers on weekdays throughout much of the region, said service had been suspended because of a “computer networking” problem. Riders were searching for alternatives, from car pools to local bus services and ferries. The outage came as BART has struggled mightily to attract passengers after the Covid-19 pandemic. Many residents in the tech-driven Bay Area have been…

Washington — Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who was a steady member of the high court’s liberal wing during his tenure despite being appointed by a Republican president, died Thursday. He was 85.The Supreme Court said Souter “died peacefully” at his home.”Justice David Souter served our court with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. “After retiring to his beloved New Hampshire in 2009, he continued to render significant service to our branch by sitting regularly on the Court of…

The U.S.-Canada border, as seen in this satellite map, mostly runs along the 49th parallel — and wasn’t chosen at random. Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images When President Trump hosted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office, conversation turned not only to the relationship between the two countries, but to the border itself. Echoing a phrase he has used in recent months, Trump described the U.S.-Canada border as an “artificially drawn line” — and suggested it should be erased. “Somebody drew that line many years…

“Everyone who knew him knew that he was a sophisticated, well-read, and urbane man, hardly a hayseed from New Hampshire,” Professor Tushnet said, as he had some reason to know; his daughter, Rebecca, spent a year as one of the justice’s law clerks.Justice Souter inspired fierce, almost protective, affection and loyalty from his friends and former clerks. Academic appraisals were less generous. His name was on so few significant opinions and his profile at the court was so low that after his first few years, legal academia essentially stopped paying attention to him. That was most likely a source of…

What’s at stake for U.S., China trade talks What’s at stake for U.S., China trade talks 03:48 President Trump signaled Friday that the U.S. may be open to lowering tariffs on China.”80% Tariff on China seems right!” he wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform. “Up to Scott B.”The conciliatory tone of Mr. Trump’s post comes as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are scheduled to meet with Chinese negotiators this weekend in Switzerland.The U.S. has imposed tariffs of 145% on imports from China, which retaliated with a 125% levy on American goods. Mr. Trump on…

Buenos Aires—The Basilica de San José de Flores didn’t appear in most guidebooks to Argentina prior to 2013. Located in a working-class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, its current structure was completed in 1883 by the Italian architects Emilio Lombardo and Benito Panuzzi, just off Plaza General Pueyrredón. Although its interior is ornate, with ubiquitous gold leaf, the church is a modest structure, with a small apse and sanctuary, and several dozen rows of well-worn pews stretching across its nave.In the years since Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope, however, the basilica has become a minor tourist attraction. It was here that…

In 2018, an anonymous tip led the authorities in California to Eric Uller, who for decades had volunteered at an after-school program associated with the Santa Monica Police Department. An investigation revealed Mr. Uller, 50, had molested at least four boys on the city’s watch.Allegations from dozens of others soon emerged, dating to the 1980s and 1990s. Weeks after his arrest, Mr. Uller hanged himself in his apartment on the day he was scheduled to appear in court.Seven years later, Santa Monica is still paying for his crimes. At last count, the bill had reached nearly $230 million.That’s how much…

Washington —  A federal judge is holding a bail hearing Friday for Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts doctoral candidate who was detained by immigration authorities after the Trump administration revoked her student visa.Ozturk is currently detained at an immigration facility in Basile, Louisiana, where she was transferred after she was taken into custody in Massachusetts in March. The bail hearing in her challenge to her confinement comes after a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration had until May 14 to comply with a district court’s order to transfer Ozturk to immigration custody in Vermont.Ozturk will appear remotely from…