June 5, 2025 5:14 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance. That’s according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The findings are raising political stakes for the GOP’s signature domestic priority. Senate GOP Leader John Thune said after a meeting with Trump at the White House that they’re committed to getting it done. Republican leaders are determined to muscle the package through Congress by Trump’s July Fourth deadline. But billionaire Elon Musk is trashing the package, posting “Kill the bill,” and Democrats are piling on their own opposition.
June 4, 2025 11:08 am
(WPXI) – The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is aiming to undo or revise more than 30 major environmental regulations, many of them written or updated by the Biden administration. These include rules for cleaner vehicles, power plant emissions, and limits on tiny airborne particles known to harm human health. The Associated Press set out to examine what might happen if all the rules were eliminated. The AP also drew from studies published in the journals Science and Nature Communications and emissions estimates from the independent and nonpartisan Rhodium Group in order to calculate the possible annual death toll. The estimate of global deaths includes estimates of heat deaths from added carbon emissions, using a peer-reviewed formula developed by Daniel Bressler, a former White House climate economist during the Biden administration. It estimates one person will die for every 10,217 tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere. The Rhodium Group estimates that the Trump administration’s rollbacks would lead to 2.8 billion additional tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2035 translating to, on average, more than 25,000 deaths each year.
June 5, 2025 5:11 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department has cut back on the inflation data it collects because of the Trump administration’s government hiring freeze, raising concerns among economists about the quality of the inflation figures just as they are being closely watched for the impact of tariffs. The department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces the monthly consumer price index, said Wednesday that it is “reducing sample in areas across the country” and stopped collecting price data entirely in April in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Provo, Utah. It also said it has stopped collecting data this month in Buffalo, New York.
June 5, 2025 5:09 am
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against the wife and five children of a man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher said the order Wednesday was urgently needed to ensure the protection of the family’s constitutional rights. Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces federal hate crime charges and state charges of attempted murder in the Sunday attack in downtown Boulder. None of his family members has been charged in the attack that injured 15 demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
June 5, 2025 2:15 pm
June 5, 2025 5:13 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least five people, including a one-year-old child, were killed in a Russian drone strike on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky overnight, regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said Thursday. Six more people were wounded in the attack and have been hospitalized, Chaus said. According to him, six Shahed-type drones struck residential areas of Pryluky early Thursday morning, causing severe damage to residential buildings. Hours later, seventeen people were wounded in a Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Thursday, including children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old woman, regional head Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram.
June 4, 2025 2:17 am
The Printscape PONY League World Series has announced that DICK’S Sporting Goods will be the Presenting Sponsor and Official Sporting Goods Retailer of the World Series. In a release, officials say “this partnership aligns two organizations with roots in Southwestern Pennsylvania who are fully committed to supporting youth sports. DICK’S Sporting Goods, a leading U.S. based full-line omni-channel sporting goods retailer, brings its long-standing commitment to youth athletics to the Printscape PONY League World Series, a tournament that has showcased the best 13- and 14-year-old baseball talent from around the globe since 1952.” With these designations, “DICK’S Sporting Goods will enhance the overall fan and player experience via on-site activation while supporting tournament operations and outreach initiatives. The company’s sponsorship will also be visible through a mixture of physical and digital assets associated with the event, including prominent signage, television and live-streaming elements, and social media.” The 2025 Printscape PONY League World Series will take place Aug. 8-13 at Historic Lew Hays PONY Field in Washington as 10 teams from around the world will compete to be crowned World Series champion
June 4, 2025 1:31 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields. The president said in a social media post that “It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace.” The call that lasted for an hour and 15 minutes was Trump’s first known with Putin since May 19. Trump said he and Putin also discussed Iran’s nuclear program.
June 4, 2025 1:34 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities say a Washington man provided chemicals to make explosives that were used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May. Authorities arrested 32-year-old Daniel Park on Tuesday night in New York upon his return from Poland. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli say Park shipped 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Guy Edward Bartkus, who bombed the clinic. The chemical compound is an explosive precursor that can be used to make homemade bombs, Essayli said. Park also traveled to Southern California in late January to stay with Bartkus for about two weeks, Essayli said. Bartkus was killed in the explosion.
June 4, 2025 10:53 am
The Congressional Budget Office estimates an increase of 10.9 million people without health insurance under President Donald Trump’s big bill, including 1.4 million who are in the country without legal status in state-funded programs. The budget office says the package would reduce federal outlays, or spending, by $1.3 trillion over that period. Meanwhile, Trump has promised to hike nearly all of his tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to a punishing 50% on Wednesday, a move that would hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely push up prices for consumers.
