With children increasingly glued to their cellphones, Connecticut legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with restrictions for those under 18.

Lawmakers are pushing a detailed bill that would reduce children’s exposure to addictive algorithms and notifications without parental consent and create default settings for children’s ...Read more

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo on Wednesday emphasized protest rights under the First Amendment but said he didn’t want to speculate on the recent killings of two Minnesota demonstrators by federal immigration agents.

“Protecting citizens to assemble safely and peaceably is — and must remain — a top priority for officials at every level of ...Read more

The United States is preparing to issue a general license that would ease sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector in a bid to jump-start oil exports and attract investment after the dramatic U.S. capture of former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, the Reuters news agency reported citing U.S. officials familiar with the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A rabbi on his way to a Queens synagogue was punched by a stranger yelling antisemitic slurs — as Jews around the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, the victim told the Daily News on Wednesday.

“I was shocked!” Rabbi David Shushan, 30, told the Daily News as he recounted the harrowing clash in Forest Hills. “It was a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dozens of union members and leaders, health care workers and veterans convened outside the Jesse Brown Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago Tuesday afternoon for a vigil to protest the death of Alex Pretti and commemorate his life.

Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio would not commit Wednesday to seeking congressional authorization if the Trump administration takes further military action in Venezuela.

In his opening statement at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio left open the possibility that the administration could use military ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla wants Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem impeached. Sen. Adam Schiff wants her to resign.

Neither is a good bet to happen at the moment, but the two California Democrats have joined a growing chorus of senators seeking to oust her.

“Let’s face it: There is no trust, and can be no trust, in the ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday said 10 people in Kentucky have died as a result of Winter Storm Fern, which slammed Kentucky with several inches of snow and ice over the weekend.

Beshear released the ages and home counties of the victims: a 68-year-old man in Daviess County; a 79-year-old man in Graves County; a 55-year-old man in Jefferson ...Read more

CHICAGO — Defense attorneys in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to impede immigration agents argued in a court hearing Wednesday that recent events in Minneapolis have augmented the need to keep evidence in the case public.

The comments came during a hearing ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is turning up the heat on Trump administration officials after federal agents killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis over the weekend.

Paul, who is chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called for an investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, in a social ...Read more

NEW YORK — State prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday pushed to try Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in July, before President Trump’s Justice Department presents its case to a jury in federal court.

The defense quickly pushed back on the request as unrealistic.

In a letter to Justice Gregory Carro, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A 16-year-old Minnesota high school student was “lost in the system” after federal agents detained the Ecuadorian immigrant when he went out to get dinner for his family on Jan. 16, court records show.

Six days later, still unable to contact his family or his attorney, the boy was finally located at a shelter in Michigan. It...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia lawmakers are set to consider legislation that would make it harder for ICE to operate in the city, including limiting information sharing, restricting activity on city-owned property, and prohibiting agents from concealing their identities.

Among the package of bills set to be introduced Thursday is an ordinance ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani lambasted former Mayor Eric Adams for a “fiscal crisis” on Wednesday, laying the blame on Adams for a budget gap that could exceed $12 billion. The mayor’s remarks came as he launched a public push on Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes for the city’s richest residents and corporations and to send billions ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two of the federal agents involved in the shooting of Alex Pretti during a federal enforcement operation last weekend have been placed on administrative leave, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson confirmed to the Minnesota Star Tribune on Jan. 28.

In a one-sentence statement, a CBP spokesperson said: “The two officers...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — When Greg Ketter learned that federal law enforcement agents had killed a second Minneapolis resident, he got in his car and drove the 30 minutes from his home in Andover to Nicollet Avenue, where Alex Pretti had been fatally shot.

He hadn’t witnessed ICE agents in Minneapolis like other residents have, he said. But he knows ...Read more

The two federal agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on leave, officials said Wednesday.

While paid administrative leave is standard for law enforcement officers who shoot someone throughout the country, Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino previously said the agents who killed Pretti were still on the job, just ...Read more

DETROIT — No charges will be issued against a Detroit mother whose two children died in February of 2025 of carbon monoxide poisoning as the homeless family was sleeping in their car in the Greektown Casino Parking Garage in Detroit.

The then-29-year-old mother, whose name prosecutors did not release because she was not charged, discovered ...Read more

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A hunk of romaine was easy pickings for Porkchop and her three flippers.

On a rainy day last week, the green sea turtle pumped her limbs and stretched her beak up to chomp a lettuce leaf floating on the surface of a tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. That’s where she’s been on the mend since early ...Read more