New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Monday unveiled his transition team committees, which included former members of the Adams administration who were pushed out or resigned under the current mayor.

Former Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi, ex-Fire Department Commissioner Laura Kavanagh and Hassan Naveed, Adams’ former hate crimes chief who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A string of early season storms that drenched Californians last week lifted much of the state out of drought and significantly reduced the risk of wildfires, experts say.

It’s been the wettest November on record for Southland cities such as Van Nuys and San Luis Obispo. Santa Barbara has received an eye-popping 9.5 inches of ...Read more

The next trip to space for Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft won’t have a crew on board after NASA announced changes to the commercial crew contract that also slashes the total number of missions to the International Space Station.

NASA on Monday announced the update to the 2014 contract that originally called for six operational ...Read more

A judge in Tallahassee rejected today a plea from a Central Florida bear advocacy group to halt the state’s planned bear hunt.

Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey ruled against Bear Warriors United after more than two hours of testimony and arguments from the Seminole County group’s lawyer, Thomas Crapps, and lawyers for the Florida Fish & ...Read more

Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis and is urging anyone who is experiencing symptoms from the infectious disease to seek immediate medical care.

A serious public health risk associated with heavy rainfalls, the disease is caused by the Leptospira bacteria found in water contaminated by the urine of infected animals like rats, cats, ...Read more

The number of confirmed cases of EHV-1, the deadly horse virus, has grown to 17 across eight Texas counties, authorities said Monday. Two horses have died.

The counties affected are Bell, Hood, Wise, Erath, Wharton, Fort Bend, McLennan and Montgomery, according Equine Diseases Communication Center.

The outbreak was first detected last week ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There was the U.S. citizen who said she no longer feels safe after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer slammed her to the ground in downtown Los Angeles and later accused her of assault — a case prosecutors dismissed soon after.

The Long Beach mayor, who said immigration agents have seized more than 50 residents ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police have obtained a court order forbidding the Medical Examiner’s office from releasing all details of their investigation into the death of a teenage girl whose body was discovered in the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla, officials said Monday.

Detectives discovered the heavily decomposed corpse at a Hollywood ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fresh back from a trip to Israel and Uzbekistan, Mayor Eric Adams already has plans to hit the road again next week, when he will visit New Orleans to be honored for “his leadership in fighting antisemitism,” according to the group giving him the award.

The award is being given to Adams by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A judge on Monday rejected an Israeli cybersecurity official’s attempt to throw out his indictment in a child sex sting case.

Tom Alexandrovich was arrested in August as part of a multiagency operation to target suspected child sex predators in the Las Vegas area. His swift release and departure from the country led to ...Read more

The U.S. State Department on Monday formally designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles a Foreign Terrorist Organization, granting the Trump administration expanded legal authority to take military action against the Nicolás Maduro regime.

The move comes as Washington appears poised to launch a new phase of operations in the coming days amid...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Rosa Martinez isn’t sure what Thanksgiving will look like without her husband, seven months after he was deported.

Typically, about 30 members of their family would gather at their home in Brawley in the Imperial Valley, coming in from Merced and San Diego to celebrate.

But now, with her husband of 15 years stuck in Mexicali, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A group that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer created with the goal of making policy recommendations to save lives is urging state lawmakers to ban the possession of assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Whitmer, a Democrat, formed the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force in June 2024. The panel released its ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is set to have another interim director start next week, as President Donald Trump’s administration is about to complete a review of a potential agency reorganization.

Interim chief David Richardson resigned and will leave the role on Dec. 1, and Karen Evans, formerly a top official at ...Read more

MIAMI — The grandmother of a young woman whose body was found underneath a bed on Carnival cruise ship earlier this month said the FBI told the family the teen likely died from asphyxia.

Barbara Kepner said on ABC News’ "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Monday that agents told the family it appears someone applied a bar hold...Read more

In a stunning setback for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, a judge on Monday dismissed federal criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey — finding the prosecutor handpicked by the president “had no lawful authority” to file them.

South Carolina Federal Judge Cameron ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Challengers to Texas’ new congressional map urged the Supreme Court not to pause a lower court ruling requiring the state use its old congressional map next year, arguing in a filing Monday the ruling came with plenty of time ahead of the elections.

The court filing is the latest step in a fast-moving legal fight over whether ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will head to his resort in Florida this week for a Thanksgiving celebration by the sea. Perhaps turkey and trimmings at Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, just off the casino-lined Strip, would have been more apropos.

That’s because, on matters foreign and domestic, the president has turned to staking ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held their first talks since agreeing to a tariff truce last month, discussing trade, Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Trump said the telephone call was “very good” and that the leaders spoke about purchases of soybeans and other farm products ...Read more