LOS ANGELES — After years of demonstrators repeatedly shutting down freeway traffic around downtown Los Angeles, Caltrans has installed large metal swing gates onto freeway ramps ahead of this weekends "No Kings" protests.

Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol finished installing swing gates early Friday morning on Los Angeles Street ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s $7 billion city budget proposal includes two tax-raising measures that will require state approval, meaning she will have to win over Harrisburg Republicans who control the state Senate to make her plan a reality.

It turns out Parker will also need to convince at least one notable ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orange County circuit court judge faces discipline after an investigation found he told public defenders to “shut up” and asked if a Black person had ever “chopped cotton,” according to court records filed with the Florida Supreme Court this week.

Judge John E. Jordan violated the Code of Judicial Conduct for his �...Read more

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran continued to upend markets, cause death and destruction across the Middle East and elude any diplomatic resolution heading into its fifth week on Friday — even as President Donald Trump claimed victory and a coming end to the conflict.

"We're doing really well in Iran, just so you understand," the president ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Three San Diego warships and the 2,200-plus Marines they carry dutifully trained off Camp Pendleton in recent months, barely visible against the misty horizon.

Their anonymity may soon come to an end in waters 8,000 miles away.

In mid-March, President Donald Trump ordered the USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, known as an ARG, to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD and federal authorities have arrested a man who planned to firebomb the home of activist Nerdeen Kiswani, who heads of one of the city’s more extreme pro-Palestinian protest groups, the Daily News has learned.

Alexander Heifler, 25, was arrested late Thursday after an NYPD undercover cop who learned of the plot, ...Read more

MIAMI — Raúl Gorrín, a wealthy Venezuelan businessman wanted for years in Miami on foreign corruption and money laundering charges, has been detained for several weeks in one of Venezuela’s most secretive and widely denounced detention facilities, three sources familiar with the situation told the Miami Herald.

Gorrín is being held in ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Before the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission travel farther from Earth than any human ever has, they first had to get to the launch site.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen arrived from Houston at 2:15 p.m. to Kennedy Space Center as ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California banned state officials from making bets on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday.

The executive order, which took effect immediately, bars government appointees and their family members (including spouses and children) and their business partners ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tommy Zeigler — who has been on Florida’s death row for nearly 50 years — is asking an Orange County court to dismiss his convictions in the brutal killings of his wife, parents and customer in his furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975 and grant him a new hearing.

It’s the latest move by Zeigler’s attorneys, who have...Read more

On Feb. 24, The Conversation hosted a webinar titled, “What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements.”

Executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Oliver Kaplan, associate professor at...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Newly released police body camera footage captures in vivid detail the moment when a gunman barricaded in a Burnsville home abruptly ended negotiations to surrender and opened fire on first responders, killing three of them.

The line-of-duty deaths early on a frigid morning two years ago marked the most casualties in a Minnesota...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Secret Service agent has been hospitalized after accidentally shooting himself at Philadelphia International Airport on Friday morning.

The agent was injured at 8:42 a.m. while traveling in an unmarked Chevrolet SUV near an access point at the airport, the Philadelphia Police Department said. It was not immediately clear what...Read more

During his first Cabinet meeting since launching the U.S. war on Iran, President Donald Trump spent 10 minutes talking about the price of ceremonial White House pens — which he claimed to have brought down, from $1,000 to $5, by switching to his favored Sharpie brand.

Trump was trying to make the point during the Thursday meeting that he’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said.

Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based message, Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20% in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the planning.

The budget request, slated for release next week, reflects President Donald Trump’s policy priorities and acts as a ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD and federal authorities have arrested a man who planned to firebomb the home of Nerdeen Kiswani, the head of one of the city’s most active pro-Palestinian protest groups, the Daily News has learned.

Alexander Heifler was arrested late Thursday after an NYPD undercover cop who learned of the plot befriended him and helped...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Most Idaho legislators agree: Housing in the Gem State is too expensive.

They just don’t see eye-to-eye on what, if anything, state government should do about it.

Twice in 24 hours a closely divided Senate considered a bill aimed at spurring affordable housing through tax breaks, and twice senators voted down, including a ...Read more

The U.S. and Israel exchanged missile fire with Iran as the war across the Middle East approached the one-month mark, with no sign of Tehran accepting U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands for a ceasefire.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the military would escalate its assault on the Islamic Republic in response to the targeting of...Read more