News for March 29, 2025

President Donald Trump defended new tariffs, said he would not fire aides tied to the Signal chat leak, and repeated his push to take control of Greenland.

A protest outside a Tesla dealership in Watertown turned dangerous when a pickup truck hit two protesters, and police are investigating.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a small plane crash into a home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, that killed everyone on board.

American woman Faye Hall has been released by the Taliban in Afghanistan and is now in Qatar’s care before heading home.

A fast-growing South Carolina wildfire is still spreading in the mountains, while firefighters and the South Carolina Forestry Commission work to keep homes and other structures safe.

Mineralys Therapeutics’ experimental blood pressure drug lorundrostat lowered systolic blood pressure in a trial of people whose hypertension was still uncontrolled on standard treatment.

Utah became the first state to ban LGBTQ+ pride flags in government buildings and schools after Gov. Spencer Cox let the new law take effect without his signature.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law banning DEI programs in public colleges and adding new limits on faculty, classroom speech, and college rules.

The U.S. State Department warned that attacks could happen in Syria during Eid, as Syrian authorities said they had arrested militant cells and the security situation stayed tense.

A University of Minnesota graduate student was detained by ICE, and the school said it was not told ahead of time.

Elon Musk is spending heavily in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race to help conservative Judge Brad Schimel, as the outcome could affect state politics and even control of the U.S. House.

Oklahoma education chief Ryan Walters is pushing a religious public charter school case that could help decide how far the Supreme Court will go in weakening the separation between church and state.

Trump’s immigration crackdown is worrying mushroom farmers and immigrant workers in Avondale, Pennsylvania, where the local economy depends heavily on labor that keeps the industry running.