NEW YORK — In a dramatic reversal, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration moved Thursday to kill a controversial plan to build a housing complex in the Bronx for former inmates with serious health issues that has sparked deep controversy.

Instead, Adams’ new effort would involve finding a new, unidentified location for the project, though it ...Read more

NEW YORK — Scores of cops will be on hand to protect the more than 200 dignitaries expected to attend this year’s United Nations General Assembly next week, Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Thursday.

New Yorkers can expect street closures, particularly on the East Side of Manhattan near the United Nations, on ...Read more

MIAMI — A Broward County judge on Thursday dismissed the case against a Miami-Dade police officer — charged in the deaths of two innocent bystanders, including a UPS driver, during a 2019 shootout at a busy intersection — citing Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.

Broward Circuit Court Judge Ernest Kollra ruled in favor of suspended ...Read more

Amid a surge of applications for Florida’s first bear hunt in a decade, the state is reducing the number of black bears that can be taken in the controversial December event.

State wildlife authorities this week cut the number of available bear tags by 15, to 172. Each tag, distributed through an application process that opened last Friday, ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado man who saw his murder conviction overturned in April in part because of faulty DNA evidence connected to a statewide scandal will be prosecuted again in connection with the 1994 Boulder killing, the district attorney announced in court Thursday.

Michael Clark, 50, was released on bond in April while prosecutors ...Read more

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has called for boycotts and protests against broadcast outlets that are tied to Wednesday’s decision by the Walt Disney Co. and its ABC network to indefinitely suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s nightly talk show, including against WGN’s television and radio stations and ABC-7 in Chicago.

It was part of a larger ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A protester says they were attacked outside the Pulse memorial Saturday after trying to stop a man from removing rainbow and transgender flags and throwing them into traffic.

Cait Aparicio was at Pulse that afternoon to protest the state’s controversial removal of the rainbow crosswalk outside the memorial last month.

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In the past few days, armed gunmen in Haiti have killed dozens of farmers in a rural fishing village north of Port-au-Prince, attacked an armored police vehicle, killing the driver and injuring two cops in the hills above the capital, and set fire to a police station in the country’s breadbasket to consolidate their hold on the Lower ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Charlie Kirk could’ve become president one day.

Speaking at a joint press conference with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump heaped praise on the slain conservative activist and disclosed that he told Kirk he had what it takes to win the White House.

“He was a great young man with an...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday continued to track Tropical Storm Gabrielle while also eyeing a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa that could become the season’s next named storm.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. Eastern time advisory on Gabrielle, the system had 50 mph sustained winds located about 755 miles east of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison hasn’t accepted responsibility for igniting the Eaton fire, but it is now offering each victim who lost their home hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a draft of its planned compensation program.

The owner of a 1,500-square-foot home destroyed in the wildfire, given as an example in the ...Read more

Since 2013, political violence in America has surged, making public service and activism increasingly dangerous. From assassination attempts to the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, attacks once unthinkable are becoming disturbingly routine, which political scientists say threatens the stability of U.S. democracy.

Assassins have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the independent board that can raise or lower interest rates.

The appeal "involves yet another case of improper judicial interference with the President's removal authority — here, interference with the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mystery deepened this week surrounding the case of a girl whose decomposing body was found in an abandoned Telsa registered to singer D4vd.

The discovery made national headlines earlier this month. But this week, authorities identified the girl as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, a resident of Southern California's Inland Empire ...Read more

One of D4vd’s reported leaked songs is titled “Celeste,” and pays tribute to a love interest with the same name as the 15-year-old whose body was found decomposing in the singer’s Tesla last week.

TMZ reports that the nearly four-minute track was initially leaked as “Celeste_Demo unfin” in December 2023.

The song also appears to ...Read more

Just before Tyler Robinson turned himself in for the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, authorities say he appeared to leave a trail of incriminating messages on the online gaming platform Discord.

At first, his messages were playful. When a friend on a group chat noticed his likeness to the skinny white man in the grainy photos ...Read more

Two Russian oil refineries were attacked on Thursday as Ukraine stepped up strikes on its enemy’s energy infrastructure.

Gazprom’s Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical facility in the Bashkortostan region was set on fire after being hit by drones, local governor Radiy Khabirov said. The site is more than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s call with Chinese President Xi Jinping is slated to take place on Friday at 9 a.m. Washington time, according to a U.S. official.

The call will be the first direct engagement between the leaders of the world’s largest economies since June, with the future of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app and a tariff truce between ...Read more

The man who fatally shot three police officers in southern Pennsylvania was identified Thursday as Matthew James Ruth.

Ruth, 24, was killed in the shootout, in which he wounded two additional officers, authorities said. The cops involved have not been publicly identified.

Officers arrived at the home in North Codorus Township to arrest Ruth on...Read more