The Shipping News: President Trump announced that he has suspended the Jones Act for Puerto Rico, relaxing the 1920 law that says all shipping between two American ports must be on US-flagged vessels. The move theoretically allows more aid to …

Breaking: Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for murder, hanged himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell overnight. He was just 27. Hernandez was convicted of murdering a friend in 2013. Just …

What Would Mario Say?: The University of California Berkeley had an anti-free speech movement last night. About 1500 protesters gathered to object to the scheduled speech by an editor of the right-wing and racists Breitbart News. Some of the protesters pushed …

Freedom: President Obama Commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning,  originally known as Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who handed over a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks. She will be released this May rather than in 2045. A White …

Crash: Seventy-six people died overnight in the crash of a charter plane outside Medellin, Colombia that was carrying a Brazilian soccer team, its staff, and journalists following the team. Five or six people were reported to have survived the crash. …