MIAMI — Donald Trump will build a high-rise tower in downtown Miami, his son announced Tuesday after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to give his presidential library foundation valuable public land next to Miami’s Freedom tower.

“Once completed, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library will be visible for miles into the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul is demanding the Trump administration immediately reverse a shocking 86% cut in funding for anti-terrorism programs in New York, including crucial NYPD programs that have thwarted terror attacks.

The approximately $187 million in planned cuts implemented by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem include a $100 ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — President Donald Trump plans to visit Norfolk on Friday to discuss the country’s “great Naval assets,” a White House official told The Washington Post.

Trump told top brass Tuesday at Quantico about his interest in bringing battleships back to the fleet.

“Some people would say that’s old technology. I don’t think ...Read more

The Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students and academics violated the First Amendment by targeting them for expressing their political views, a federal judge ruled in an unusual opinion that broadly and sharply criticized President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge William G. Young in Boston said that noncitizens have the same ...Read more

NEW YORK — A photojournalist on assignment at 26 Federal Plaza was hospitalized Tuesday following a chaotic incident with federal immigration enforcement agents, according to video footage and witnesses who spoke to the New York Daily News.

Footage taken by freelance photojournalist Stephanie Keith shows wild scenes on the 12th floor of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The FDNY has transferred 17 firefighters out of a pair of Bronx firehouses where videos of probationary firefighters being hazed were recorded, the New York Daily News has learned.

According to department orders released Monday, the FDNY has removed nine members of Engine 38/Ladder 51 on Eastchester Road near Williamsbridge and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the first time in four years, the federal government plans to begin processing initial applications for DACA, the Obama-era program that grants deportation protection and work permits to immigrants brought to the United States as children.

The move, outlined in a proposal Monday by the Justice Department, would reopen DACA ...Read more

DETROIT — More family and friends of victims of Sunday's attack at a Grand Blanc Township church have launched GoFundMe pages seeking help.

The pages were verified Tuesday by the online fundraising platform.

Benjamin Phelps and his young son were among those wounded in the attack, according to a page launched Monday by Sarah Kunzler.

"We ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom body shamed President Donald Trump on Tuesday after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told military brass there’s no room for “fat generals” or troops in the U.S. military.

Trump and Hegseth summoned top-ranked U.S. officials from around the globe to Virginia for a morning rally in which the former Fox News ...Read more

EASTPOINTE, Mich. — "Every child in America" saw video of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death, Randi Weingarten said, and the nation's teachers had to figure out how to talk to them about it.

Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers union in the United States, said this week ...Read more

Hurricane Imelda formed Tuesday as it moved away from Florida and the Bahamas with a path that could make a direct hit on Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time advisory, the fourth hurricane of the season had maximum sustained winds that had grown to 85 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane. ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Tuesday authorized the state’s National Guard to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, plunging Missouri into national mass deportation efforts led by the Trump administration.

Kehoe, a Republican, said in an announcement Tuesday morning that Missouri National Guard troopers ...Read more

California Republican James Gallagher, the GOP’s former Assembly leader, has often accused the state’s progressive lawmakers of heavy-handed government intrusion, but this year he added his name to a legislative push for healthier school meals.

His party followed suit, with all but one Republican voting to send a bill to Democratic Gov. ...Read more

NEW YORK — The price of a subway or bus ride in New York City will increase to three dollars next year, after the MTA board voted to approve a fare hike Tuesday. LIRR and Metro North commuter rail prices are also going up.

The fare increase, approved in an 11-0 vote, will go into effect in early January.

Subway and bus rides will go up ten ...Read more

NEW YORK — Behind the mask of his public persona as “Diddy,” Sean Combs is a “cruel, power-hungry, manipulative” and vicious man incapable of rehabilitation, his ex-girlfriend and star witness at his trial, Casandra Ventura, told a judge in court filings Tuesday, as the feds sought a prison term of more than 11 years.

In a letter...Read more

DENVER — Staff at Colorado’s juvenile detention centers violated policies meant to protect youth during strip searches more than 1,000 times during nine months between 2023 and 2025, according to a new review by the Child Protection Ombudsman of Colorado released Tuesday.

There is no effective oversight to ensure strip searches at juvenile ...Read more

DETROIT — The leader of the Mormon congregation in Grand Blanc Township said members are "shaken" and hurting after Sunday's mass shooting and fire that destroyed their church and killed four, but, through faith, "we can find joy again."

Bishop Jeffrey Schaub, in a video released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Sunday...Read more