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FDNY offers first look at plans for 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11
NEW YORK — The FDNY offered a first look this week at some of its plans for commemorating the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attack.
A special FDNY-organized anniversary ceremony will take place Sept. 9, 2026, at the Staten Island FireHawks ballpark to honor the 343 firefighters and paramedics who died during the attacks, ...Read more
Muslim group announces lawsuit after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis labels it a 'terrorist organization'
MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Monday evening designating two Muslim groups as “foreign terrorist organizations.”
The executive order, which was posted on DeSantis’ social media accounts, states that the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Society of Muslim Brothers (Muslim Brotherhood) would be classified...Read more
Judge grants DOJ motion to unseal Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury files
NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday granted a request by the Justice Department to unseal grand jury materials in Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case, complying with new legislation compelling federal law enforcement to release its investigative files on deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
In a 24-page opinion, Federal Judge Paul ...Read more
Missouri campaign turns in 300,000 signatures to strike down gerrymandered map
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A campaign to strike down Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map submitted hundreds of thousands of petition signatures from residents across the state on Tuesday, a major step toward forcing a statewide vote on the map.
The campaign, called People Not Politicians, said it dropped off 305,968 signatures at the ...Read more
Venezuelan ex-general claims Rodríguez siblings run Maduro's criminal regime
Former Venezuelan Gen. Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, currently serving a 21-year prison sentence in the United States, claims in a letter to President Donald Trump that Nicolás Maduro’s regime is effectively run not by the strongman himself but by two of his closest allies: siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez.
Alcalá, who pleaded guilty ...Read more
NASA astronaut back on Earth after 8 months on space station
ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home with two Roscosmos cosmonauts from the International Space Station packed tight in their Soyuz spacecraft landing in the frozen steppes of Kazakhstan on Tuesday to complete an eight-month stay in space.
Kim launched to to the station back on April 8 with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey ...Read more
Ukrainian woman fleeing war arrested at green card interview in front of her US citizen husband
SAN DIEGO — A Ukrainian woman was arrested by federal immigration agents last week while attending her scheduled green card interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in downtown San Diego, an occurrence that immigration attorneys say is becoming increasingly common.
Viktoriia Bulavina first entered the country in ...Read more
President Trump is traveling to Pennsylvania Tuesday. Here's what to know
President Donald Trump is expected to visit Northeast Pennsylvania on Tuesday, promoting his economic agenda — including affordability and gas prices.
The trip — which the White House confirmed with The Philadelphia Inquirer last week — will include stops in Scranton and a rally in Mount Pocono.
Trump is no stranger to northeast and ...Read more
Amid criticism from council, Minneapolis police chief defends nearly $20 million in overspending
MINNEAPOLIS — Amid sharp criticism and questions from the Minneapolis City Council, Police Chief Brian O’Hara defended $19.6 million in overspending Monday, reiterating that it was costly to restore the department’s depleted ranks.
Six city departments were projected to run into the red by year end, but none came close to the Minneapolis ...Read more
Thai leader's hard line on Cambodia clash risks irking Trump
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is using fresh border skirmishes with Cambodia to tap nationalist sentiment at home before an election. In doing so he’s gambling it won’t unduly irritate U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed credit for ending a previous outbreak of fighting.
It’s a delicate line to walk for Anutin, who insists...Read more
Sonic boom possible today as SpaceX lines up national security launch from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX is set to complete its second launch in less than 24 hours on the Space Coast with a national security mission lines up for Tuesday afternoon.
A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off on the NROL-77 mission with a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 ...Read more
Trump says Russia in stronger position on Ukraine, chides Europe
President Donald Trump said Russia is in a stronger military position in its war on Ukraine and chided European leaders for what he called excessive dialog that’s produced scant results in his latest broadside against allies on the continent.
Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published early Tuesday. Asked ...Read more
Seattle is 'getting a grip' on nightlife violence, deputy city attorney says
SEATTLE — Three young people were killed and six others injured during a shootout at a hookah lounge on Rainier Avenue South early on a Sunday morning in August 2023. Seattle police recovered five guns at the scene but more than two years later, there have been no arrests.
Almost a year after that shooting, 22-year-old David Escatell was shot...Read more
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's tax battle intensifies ahead of City Council vote to set residential tax hike at 13%
BOSTON — The battle over Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s renewed tax shift legislation push intensified Monday as the Boston City Council prepared to set tax rates this week that would bring a projected 13% tax increase for the average single-family homeowner next year.
The Council is expected to vote Wednesday to set the residential tax rate at...Read more
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens asks top donors for $250,000 to help fund inauguration events
ATLANTA — Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is soliciting up to $250,000 from top donors to sponsor three days of events celebrating his second-term inauguration.
An email sent by the Dickens Inauguration Committee — a group that registered with the state a week after the mayor’s win in November — outlines tiers of event sponsorships that ...Read more
Thai leader's hard line on Cambodia clash risks irking Trump
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is using fresh border skirmishes with Cambodia to tap nationalist sentiment at home before an election. In doing so he’s gambling it won’t unduly irritate U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed credit for ending a previous outbreak of fighting.
It’s a delicate line to walk for Anutin, who insists...Read more
High schools bullying is up, attendance down as ICE raids sow 'climate of distress,' study says
LOS ANGELES — High school principals across California and nationwide say raids by Immigration, Customs and Enforcement have provoked a “climate of distress” among immigrant students who have been bullied on campus and whose attendance has dropped, according to a study released Tuesday.
Seventy percent of public high school principals ...Read more
Merz says parts of US security strategy unacceptable for Europe
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said elements of a new U.S. national security strategy unveiled last week are unacceptable to Europe and advised President Donald Trump to avoid going it alone.
The conservative German leader said he wasn’t surprised by the strategy release given that Vice President JD Vance had made similar points advocating an “...Read more
Trump says Russia in stronger position on Ukraine, chides Europe
President Donald Trump said that Russia is in a stronger military position in its war with Ukraine and chided European leaders for what he characterized as excessive dialog with scant results.
Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Politico published early Tuesday. Asked whether Ukraine has lost the war, Trump pointed to the ...Read more
While scientists race to study spread of measles in US, Kennedy unravels hard-won gains
The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, the country will enter an era in which outbreaks are common again.
More children would be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some would lose their hearing. Some would die. Measles is also expensive. A new study— not yet published in a ...Read more
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