The second pilot involved in a midair helicopter collision in New Jersey has died, authorities said Monday.

Two choppers collided in the skies above Hammonton Township on Sunday morning, sending both aircraft to the ground in a horrifying wreck about 30 miles southeast of Philadelphia.

Cops identified the victims Monday as Michael Greenberg, a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Maryland will receive $168 million to bolster its rural healthcare services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on Monday.

The money will be allocated from CMS’ Rural Health Transformation Program. The program is a five-year, $50 billion health care fund that was included in the One Big, Beautiful Bill to ...Read more

A Clark County Detention Center inmate who was found dead inside a cell with an imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star has been identified.

Christopher Kelly, 42, was found dead inside a cell at the jail Friday night, a Clark County coroner’s office spokesperson said in an email. Kelly’s cause and manner of death are still being ...Read more

President Donald Trump teased that he has a preferred candidate to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, but is in no hurry to make an announcement — while also musing that he might fire the central bank’s current leader, Jerome Powell.

“I do, still do — hasn’t changed,” Trump said at a press conference Monday, when asked if he ...Read more

Top officials in the administration of President Donald Trump are directing more federal law enforcement resources to investigate allegations of rampant government fraud in Minnesota — a move that comes in the wake of a viral video claiming significant abuse in Somali-run day care programs.

A video posted to social media platforms on Friday ...Read more

Standing alongside President Donald Trump at his Palm Beach estate, Volodymyr Zelenskyy could only smirk and grimace without overtly offending his host. "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed," Trump told reporters, shocking the Ukrainian president before claiming that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is genuine in his desire for peace.

It was just ...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed concern that Iran is moving to rebuild its nuclear capabilities and bolster its ballistic missile program after strikes by the U.S. and Israel earlier this year, and threatened to target the country again to prevent Tehran from stockpiling weapons.

“Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they...Read more

About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of Paycheck Protection Program fraud that siphoned tens of billions of dollars from taxpayers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While more than 200 have ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Hamas would be given a “very short period of time” to disarm following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the U.S. looks to shore up the ceasefire in Gaza and move to the second phase of the plan.

“We talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament. And they’re going to be given a ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck a facility inside Venezuela, in what would be a significant escalation in its campaign against alleged drug trafficking operations there.

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump told reporters Monday, confirming comments from last week.

Trump...Read more

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro will soon become the top-earning governor in the U.S. after an automatic cost-of-living pay bump goes into effect on Jan. 1.

Shapiro, a Democrat up for re-election next year who is often named as a 2028 presidential contender, was already the second-highest paid state leader after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. At about $245,...Read more

Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade ended Sunday, but state wildlife officials still won’t say how many bears were killed.

They also haven’t explained why.

“We’ll provide updates as soon as we’re able to,” a spokesperson, Shannon Knowles, replied by email Monday morning.

The 23-day hunt, which began Dec. 6 and is planned as an...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida government officials and nonprofits will expand access to shelters ahead of a cold front that will move through the region Tuesday, bringing frigid conditions that will last into the new year.

Tuesday night will likely be the coldest of the week, with temperatures in the 30s expected across the region. The wind...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis Assistant Fire Chief Melanie Rucker will lead the city’s Fire Department in an interim role following the retirement this week of Chief Bryan Tyner, the city announced Monday.

Rucker first joined the department in 1999, and she had most recently been serving as the department’s public information officer.

Her ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The cost of city tap water is increasingly becoming an issue across the Twin Cities area, where residents say they are being soaked by rising rates.

Water rates are rising by as much as 25% in some suburbs, and city leaders say the increases are necessary as many issues — from maintenance of aging systems to expensive projects...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan — When Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire earlier this year, it brought into question the fate of militias Israel cultivated during the devastating two-year war as an alternative ruling force in Gaza. Many expected that Hamas — still the dominant force in the Strip — would hunt them down.

Instead, Israel has shifted the ...Read more

ATLANTA — The planned execution of a Georgia inmate convicted of murdering two women in Cobb County has been halted by a Fulton County judge.

Stacey Ian Humphreys, found guilty of shooting real estate agents Lori Brown and Cynthia Williams in 2003, was due to be executed before Christmas.

But the state’s warrant for his execution expired ...Read more

A call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, coming after fresh U.S. talks with Ukraine, raised new questions over the prospects for a peace deal as the Kremlin signaled new complications.

Putin told Trump that Moscow would revise its negotiating position on Ukraine as he claimed a drone attack on one of his residences, according to the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly half of the people who died in domestic violence incidents in Minnesota last year were bystanders or those who were trying to intervene.

Even as the state’s total domestic violence-related homicides in 2024 dropped from a record number set the year before, the number of bystanders and interveners who were killed ...Read more