News for May 31, 2025

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from taking away protected status from about 5,000 Venezuelans while a legal fight over the policy continues.

Moderna won FDA approval for a new, lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine, but the shot will only be allowed for older adults and some younger people at higher risk.

The U.S. Army says President Donald Trump’s planned military parade could cost up to $16 million in street damage in Washington, D.C., as part of a much larger event for the Army’s 250th anniversary.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will meet President Donald Trump at the White House next week to discuss Ukraine, trade, and other major global issues.

Iran has sharply increased its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, and the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning it must change course and cooperate with the U.N. probe.

Pete Hegseth told Indo-Pacific allies that the U.S. will stand with them against China, but he also pressed them to spend more on their own defense.

MassDOT’s Mass Pike bridge work near the Newton-Weston line is reducing traffic to one lane in each direction and causing major weekend delays.

Chicago police are searching for the shooter after a drive-by attack wounded seven teenagers near St. Sabina Church on the city’s South Side.

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center used an unusual eye-based surgery to remove a rare spinal tumor from Karla Flores after she had been told the growth could have left her paralyzed.

A Japanese American fishing village on Terminal Island that helped build Southern California’s seafood industry is at risk of being replaced by container storage, and local advocates are fighting to save its last buildings.

At a major bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto push won support from many attendees, but his own $TRUMP meme coin still drew strong doubts.

Hamas is weighing a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal that could pause the Gaza war, free some hostages, and open the way for more aid, but major gaps remain.

Nutritionists say high-protein diets can crowd out fiber, which most people do not eat enough of and need for gut and overall health.

Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. will stand by Indo-Pacific allies as China’s military pressure grows, while also urging those countries to spend more on their own defense.

Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who led the NYPD during the 9/11 attacks, has died at 69.

Two people were injured in a shooting on the University of Minnesota campus after a Wayzata High School graduation ceremony, and police say a suspect is in custody.

Rhonda Paulynice was charged after her 6-year-old son was found dead in their Florida home, and deputies said she believed she was trying to “exorcise demons” from him.

A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration must keep its mass federal worker firings on hold for now.