NEW YORK — Amid debate in the mayoral election over NYPD staffing levels, Mayor Eric Adams on Friday announced a plan to significantly increase the department’s headcount, potentially leaving his successor with upward of 40,000 police officers by 2029, officials said on Friday.

Under Adams’ plan, announced Friday, the city would invest ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Transportation Authority released new renderings of the replacement Francis Scott Key Bridge, providing the most detailed look to date at the two-mile span planned over the Patapsco River as demolition and test pile work continue.

The new bridge would feature two 12-foot lanes in each direction, along with 10-foot-...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump late Thursday called for Senate Republicans to end the partial government shutdown by using the “nuclear option” to eliminate the legislative filibuster.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that Democrats “want Trillions of Dollars to be taken from our Healthcare System and given to others, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Democratic senators say Donald Trump’s recent acknowledgment of constitutional challenges to seeking a third term should end any notion that he could run again.

But some of the president’s Republican allies aren’t ruling it out. And one conservative group has begun building a road map toward a legally uncertain third ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs is getting down and dirty in federal prison, where his first job as an inmate is cleaning and drying laundry.

TMZ reports that the 55-year-old disgraced Bad Boy Records mogul will be stationed in the laundry room — a far cry from the height of his hip-hop and entrepreneurial glory days — at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix...Read more

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains were discovered in a desert just outside of Las Vegas, sparking a mystery for which authorities so far have few answers.

A local stumbled upon the site of the remains in July outside Searchlight, Nevada, a rural community about an hour south of Vegas, KLAS reported. By August, officials with the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two federal judges ruled the Trump administration’s decision to suspend food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans during the government shutdown is likely unlawful and that U.S. officials must use contingency funding to at least partially keep the program operational.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The search for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard took a new turn on Thursday when the FBI searched the girl's Santa Barbara County home weeks after she was reported missing.

Detectives escorted the girl's mother, Ashlee Buzzard, off the property to another location "that would not interfere with their ability to conduct a thorough ...Read more

DETROIT — FBI counterterrorism agents arrested at least three people Friday —including a juvenile — according to two sources familiar with an investigation that Director Kash Patel says thwarted a violent plot tied to international terrorism over Halloween weekend.

The sources have been briefed on certain aspects of the investigation but ...Read more

Virginia Giuffre’s family celebrated Prince Andrew’s ouster from royal life over his alleged ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, vowing that their fight for justice will continue.

“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Californians renewing their public health plans or who plan to sign up for the first time will be in for sticker shock when open enrollment begins on Saturday. Monthly premiums for federally subsidized plans available on the Covered California exchange — often referred to as Obamacare — will soar by 97% on average for 2026.

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WASHINGTON — Two weeks ago, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced a pause of $11 billion in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funding. So far, though, the list of projects targeted is a mystery, prompting some people on Capitol Hill and in state governments to ask: Where’s the list?

Congressional aides from both sides of...Read more

President Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture on Friday said the “silver lining” of the looming cutoff of SNAP food aid is a greater awareness of the downsides of what she derided as a “boated” and “corrupt” program.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, who says she won’t dip into a contingency fund to pay for SNAP amid the ...Read more

An active-duty United States Marine is accused of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from northwestern Indiana with the intent of sexually assaulting her, the FBI said.

William Richard Roy — who was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina — traveled all the way to Chicago on October 24 and met the alleged preteen victim at a park in Hammond,...Read more

The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald, as the U.S. prepares to initiate the next stage of its campaign against the Soles drug cartel.

The planned attacks, also reported by The Wall ...Read more

DETROIT — FBI agents arrested multiple people in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend, Director Kash Patel posted on X Friday morning.

"This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Abigail Zwerner said she thought she was going to die.

Zwerner recalled on the witness stand Thursday the moment a 6-year-old boy pulled out a handgun out of his front hoodie pocket and pointed it at her during a reading class at Richneck Elementary School.

It was just before 2 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2023.

Zwerner, then 25, was...Read more

President Donald Trump is demanding the Senate to “go nuclear” and scrap the filibuster rule so Republicans could unilaterally end the government shutdown.

Calling the power play a “Trump card,” the president pushed GOP senators to end the longstanding rule requiring 60 votes for most legislation, generally requiring some support from ...Read more

Carmakers around the world are planning to scale back production after an export freeze on a Chinese semiconductor company based in Netherlands threatened to disrupt the industry’s supply chains.

Honda Motor Co. said it has cut or suspended production this week at some plants in North America as a countermeasure to the chip shortage, which ...Read more