U.S. & World

Many people involved in the abortion debate say a movement of so-called abortion abolitionists who want to punish women for having abortions is widening its influence.

The Prada Group has agreed to buy rival Versace from the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings in a deal valuing the Milan fashion house at 1.25 billion euros ($1.4 billion.) Versace, which was founded in 1978 by the late Gianni Versace, has been owned since 2018 by the Capri Holdings, which includes Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo.

A dead gray whale measuring about 50 feet in length washed up on the shore in Huntington Beach Friday afternoon, the city’s fire department Marine Safety Division said in a social media post on Saturday. 

The brother of Merce Camprubi Montal, the young wife and mother who died in this week’s New York City helicopter crash along with four other family members and the pilot, threw flowers into the mist-covered Hudson River on Saturday to honor the victims, NBC News reported.

The United States government has filed a status update in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador — as ordered by Judge Paula Xinis, but it doesn’t say much. An official with the State Department simply states that Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center......

The internet has offered up a host of alternatives as egg prices continue to be stubbornly high. Influencers are dyeing everything from marshmallows to potatoes.

Vaughn Drake Jr. of Lexington, Kentucky, was 23 years old when he served as an Army engineer at Pearl Harbor more than 80 years ago.

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by 19 state attorneys general who sued over privacy issues amid DOGE’s assertion that it was working to modernize Treasury payment systems.

Apple’s iPhone and other tech got a reprieve from Trump’s China tariffs policy, but most businesses will soon face ‘irreversible’ damage from the trade war.

The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required.

“We have a U.S. citizen, a child, who was murdered in cold blood,” one official told NBC News. “Why should we not be treated equally as any other American?”

Financial markets have been roiled since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on China, where Apple and other tech companies make many of their products.

More than two dozen religious groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing the policy violated the right to practice their religion.