NEW YORK — An Italian tourist who was allegedly tortured and held against his will inside a Manhattan apartment for several weeks managed to escape his captors and get help, according to a report and police sources.

Cops have apprehended the alleged kidnapper, who police sources identified as John Woeltz, 37, a crypto trader from Kentucky.

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Ukraine and Russia began the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, even as Moscow resists efforts for a ceasefire.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine took in 390 people from captivity in Russia a week after the two sides agreed on exchanging 1,000 prisoners each in talks in Istanbul. More groups ...Read more

Nearly three dozen cities and counties have sued the Trump administration over its threat to withhold federal transportation funding if the city refuses to align its politics with the president’s stances on issues of immigration and diversity.

The 105-page lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – There’s a new virus wiping out Minnesota turkey flocks, and unlike with bird flu the federal government doesn’t cover producers for losses.

Last year, Minnesota growers lost an estimated 2.2 million turkeys to avian metapneumovirus (aMPV), according to a study prepared for the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association.

That ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Mildred Manning-Joy waited 45 minutes for her prescription to be filled at the Veteran Affairs Durham Health Care Facility.

She watched as a single worker took orders, filled prescriptions and serviced the window.

“That’s way too much to ask of anyone,” Manning-Joy said.

And as the line behind her continued to grow, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dug in on his threat to impose a 50% tariff on the European Union and said a potential 25% charge on smartphones would apply to all foreign-made devices, in the latest escalation of a trade war that is rattling markets and confusing businesses.

Trump on Friday reiterated his complaints about the EU, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two men accused of a brutal attack at the Dodgers Stadium parking lot following a 2022 Elton John concert have been acquitted of battery and vandalism charges after a four-week jury trial.

A jury on Thursday found Chad Reeves, 44, and Reese Hopkin, 40, not guilty of battery causing serious injury to Jaime and Lillian Grenfell, a...Read more

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Vice President JD Vance used his keynote address at the U.S. Naval Academy Friday to lambast the foreign policy of previous administrations and offer advice to the new graduates.

“You’re not just graduates of some random university about to embark on careers in the private sector. And I’m not just giving another ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened a sweeping 50% tariff on the European Union and a 25% levy on Apple Inc. if the tech giant failed to move iPhone manufacturing to the U.S., reigniting investor fears about his trade agenda.

Trump said Friday in a social media post that the higher charge on the E.U. would start on June 1 because �...Read more

YUCAIPA, Calif. — Sandra Ruiz thought nothing of it when a man and his 8-year-old daughter walked into her intro to computer science course.

After all, working parents were nothing new at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa.

"I thought, 'Here comes a dad — the student — and his daughter,'" the veteran assistant professor said. "I thought he...Read more

Motivational speaker and former Marine Brandon Rumbaugh, who lost both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan, has been accused of repeatedly raping a teen at his Pittsburgh-area home.

Authorities launched an investigation into Rumbaugh earlier this month, after a 13-year-old girl came forward with the allegations against him. She described ...Read more

A federal judge Friday quickly moved to block President Donald Trump’s effort to ban Harvard University from enrolling international students and revoking their visas.

District Court Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that Harvard made a “sufficient showing” that it would be hurt by the administration’s effort to revoke its certification to ...Read more

SpaceX’s last two efforts to make progress on its Starship and Super Heavy rocket ended with streaks of debris hurtling across the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration, though, is now satisfied it’s safe for SpaceX to try again.

The FAA on Thursday announced the in-development rocket that launches from Starbase, SpaceX’s Texas site, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore and Democratic lawmakers left Annapolis this week with a pin in the 2025 session and — more than ever in their time together at the helm of Maryland politics — some hard feelings.

In a high-pressure year that featured what many lawmakers are publicly and privately referring to as a “communications breakdown”...Read more

MIAMI — Get ready, South Florida. The most dreaded time of the year starts June 1 and runs through Nov. 30.

Forecasters expect this to be another above average hurricane season with warmer than usual ocean temperatures. But before you make jokes about hosting a hurricane party or dusting off your favorite storm memes, its time for some real ...Read more

COMPTON, Calif. — Students from among the poorest families in California are about to get the newest, most up-to-date public high school in the state as the rebuilt Compton High prepares to open.

The brand-new $225-million, 31-acre campus is strikingly innovative — even experimental in some ways: The library has no books; it's all digital. ...Read more

A pregnant mother in Ohio facing deportation to El Salvador hopes that a federal lawsuit can keep her in the country.

The lawsuit against United States Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is filed on behalf of the woman’s 9-year-old child, an American citizen, and her unborn child who is due in October, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal probe found Columbia University violated the rights of Jewish students since campus protests took hold following the Oct. 7 Hamas-led terror attack on Israel, the government announced this week.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that Columbia had shown “deliberate indifference towards ...Read more