NEW YORK — A federal jury has awarded $2.56 million to a protester who says she was left brain damaged after NYPD cops slammed her head to the pavement during a 2020 Black Lives Matter George Floyd demonstration in Brooklyn.

Before talking to the streets on June 3, 2020, Brigid Pierce, then 37, held a director of marketing job, had written ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Recent temperature swings in the Bluegrass State underscore why Kentucky lawmakers are still clinging to coal, according to Senate Republicans who responded to new research by environmental groups calling for an end to the state’s alleged overreliance on fossil fuels.

Mid-December’s subfreezing temperatures proved why ...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer serving on New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team has a track record of praising and associating with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader infamous for his bigoted rhetoric about Jews and others, according to a new report.

The details about Jacques Léandre, a local election lawyer who serves on the...Read more

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is offering undocumented immigrants who voluntarily leave the country a $3,000 “holiday stipend,” billing it as “the best gift that an illegal alien can give themselves and their families.”

DHS shared an Instagram post with a banner declaring “Limited Time Offer” in all caps across the top of...Read more

MIAMI — Roman Catholic Church leaders are making a plea to President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to halt all immigration deportation efforts through the holiday season.

Speaking on behalf of the Bishops of the Catholic Church in Florida, Archbishop Thomas Wenski — Miami’s top Catholic leader — appealed to officials to ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams is taking his end-of-term travel to the country of Georgia, where he’s toured a sports car dealership and new luxury suite at a Tbilisi hotel, the New York Daily News has learned.

The getaway appears to be for fun, not business. Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for the mayor said Adams “is not on an ...Read more

For more than a month, the San Francisco Bay Area has been subjected to a seemingly ceaseless stampede of earthquakes — the latest in a series of seismic swarms that have rattled windows and raised fears across California.

The latest swarm has been centered in the East Bay suburb of San Ramon, where a magnitude 4 earthquake struck Friday ...Read more

ATLANTA — The 67 dogs were on heavy chains, many without food, water or shelter, on a sprawling 17-acre property in South Georgia, according to federal prosecutors.

Many had wounds and scars from dogfighting, and some were aggressive to the other dogs. There was evidence Dun Bradford had been breeding the pit bull-type dogs for fighting for ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Lexington’s skies could soon be host to new drones flying to emergency situations across the city.

The Lexington Department of Public Safety wants to join a growing number of municipalities using drones to respond to 911 and emergency dispatch calls. If approved, the drones would be leased by the city from a private company...Read more

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Trump administration officials held “productive and constructive” meetings with Ukrainian and European counterparts in Florida as part of efforts to end Russia’s war.

The talks included U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov and other European ...Read more

Health experts typically advise getting your COVID-19 and flu vaccine by the end of October. However, if you’ve missed that window, you can still get them well into the respiratory virus season and see a benefit.

Flu activity, particularly flu A, is on the rise across the U.S. this month, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for...Read more

Hours after news of an impending federal immigration crackdown sent shock waves through the Somali community, Chief Brian O’Hara stood in solidarity with vulnerable residents.

At a news conference, he reiterated that his officers do not cooperate with immigration enforcement and that his agency is not notified in advance about ICE raids. He ...Read more

The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say.

Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for disability rights agencies that Congress set up in every state decades ago. Many of the Justice Department lawyers quit in 2025 after being ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The coastal sun was shining on Sarah Bridges, she recalled, when she decided to stage a one-person protest on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s porch in Hyannis Port.

The Minnesota mom would sit there — after showing up unannounced in 2005 with an 18-inch stack of documents — until the famed environmental attorney agreed to read the...Read more

It was the words of President Donald Trump, spoken 2,300 miles away, that prompted Mikaiil Hussein — a U.S. citizen who first came as a refugee from Somalia over 30 years ago — to take steps to protect himself.

The labor leader said that he now carries his U.S. passport card with him wherever he goes, in case he is stopped by federal ...Read more

Florida’s first statewide black bear hunt in a decade is more than halfway over but state wildlife leaders have offered no information on its progress, not even a death count.

“Are we overkilling like in 2015?” asked Joe Humphrey, a Seminole County resident who described himself as a hunter at odds with the Fish & Wildlife Conservation ...Read more

The U.S. has pursued a third oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, intensifying a blockade that the Trump administration hopes will cut off a vital economic lifeline for the country and isolate the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. Coast Guard chased the U.S.-sanctioned Bella 1 on Sunday as it was en route to Venezuela. It ...Read more

Immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra is on the precipice of being released from an immigration detention facility after an immigration judge ruled Sunday that she can post bail.

Denver immigration judge Brea Burgie set Vizguerra’s bail at $5,000, but she included no other restrictions, like an ankle monitor. Her family intends to immediately...Read more