You probably have a cabinet full of rapid COVID-19 tests you’ve accumulated. The expiration dates have come closer and closer, with some tests even reaching them.

The Food and Drug Administration, however, has said those expiration dates are subject to change, providing a list of the tests that have had their dates extended.

COVID-19 rapid ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tracey Collins, Mayor Eric Adams’ longtime girlfriend, retired last week from her high-ranking position in the New York City public school system — a departure that comes as the system’s internal watchdog and the Department of Investigation are probing claims that her job amounted to a “no show” gig with a six-figure ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Residents in the foothills above Camarillo who returned to their neighborhoods days after fleeing the Mountain fire were greeted by nothing more than devastation.

More than 130 structures were lost, the majority of them houses, when flames marched through the area. More than 80 other structures were damaged. Entire homes were ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read’s team wants to look into Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey’s personal email and cell phone for any references to their client’s case, saying they have evidence he’s been making improper communications with the court and witnesses.

“As grounds for this motion, recent reporting, corroborated by documentary evidence, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump will inherit a Biden administration legacy of aggressive antitrust enforcement through the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission — an approach that legal experts said Trump himself sowed in his first term and has split his party over the last four years.

The Biden administration has major antitrust ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump announced that Susie Wiles, who managed his reelection campaign, would become his chief of staff. It makes Wiles the first woman to hold the role, the most senior political appointee in the White House with significant power and influence.

Though she’s considered a “Washington outsider” by some, Wiles is a ...Read more

ATLANTA — DeKalb County fire crews battled a massive blaze at a tow yard just outside Lithonia early Friday morning.

Officials believe that a hybrid or electric vehicle could be to blame for the fire at South DeKalb Towing & Transport yard on Rogers Lake Road. The fire engulfed up to 75 vehicles, company owner Walter Jackson told reporters at...Read more

Liam Payne did not commit suicide according to the prosecutor on the case.

The former One Direction star died on Oct. 16 after falling from the third floor of his hotel room in Argentina.

Prosecutors told TMZ that suicide has officially been ruled out as the cause of the 31-year-old’s plummet from his suite at the Casa Sur Palermo Hotel, but...Read more

A dozen Salisbury University fraternity members have been arrested on hate crime charges in the brutal assault of a gay man because of his sexual orientation, authorities in Maryland said Thursday.

The victim, who has not been named, was allegedly lured to an off-campus apartment on Oct. 15 by “a group of men” using a social media account �...Read more

Most people agree that actual facts matter – in such activities as debate, discussion and reporting. Once facts are gathered, verified and distributed, informed decision-making can proceed in such important exercises as voting.

But what happens when important, verified facts are published and broadcast widely, yet the resulting ...Read more

At least one University of Kentucky student received an anonymous racist text similar to ones sent to Black people across the U.S. this week, University of Kentucky police said Friday.

Many of the texts, reported by children, students and adults in at least 20 states, order recipients to report for duty picking cotton at a plantation and ...Read more

Dutch police arrested more than 60 people after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam, with the leaders of both the Netherlands and Israel condemning the violence.

Amsterdam municipal authorities said supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv, which played Dutch team Ajax on Thursday night, were attacked in several areas of the city. Police ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge paused the election interference prosecution against President-elect Donald Trump, canceling all upcoming court deadlines as Special Counsel Jack Smith winds down the case.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued the order Friday shortly after Smith had filed a request to pause the proceedings. Smith said he ...Read more

Just as cold and flu season arrives, the Food and Drug Administration proposes pulling many decongestants from store shelves.

The reason? An administration review found oral phenylephrine — a common ingredient in over-the-counter cold medications — doesn’t work. For some products, it is the only ingredient, the FDA said in a news release ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read’s team wants to look into Norfolk DA Michael Morrissey’s personal email and cell phone for any references to their client’s case, saying they have evidence he’s been making improper communications with the court and witnesses.

“As grounds for this motion, recent reporting, corroborated by documentary evidence, ...Read more

A New Jersey prosecutor’s detective killed during a violent home invasion last month was shot execution-style, prosecutors said.

Cumberland County Det. Sgt. Monica Mosley was getting ready for bed when a group of masked men burst into her Bridgeton home the night of October 15, just after 10 p.m., police said. She tried to fight off her ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — While Hurricane Rafael headed west into the Gulf of Mexico and no threat to land for now, the National Hurricane Center kept track of another system with low odds to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 7 a.m. tropical outlook, the trough of low pressure with disorganized showers and...Read more

DETROIT — A west Michigan man convicted of sexually exploiting a girl as part of an online child porn network faces 30 years in federal prison, officials said.

Richard Anthony Reyna Densmore, 47, of Kaleva, was given the sentence by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, in Grand Rapids, ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors might soon charge a Fort Lauderdale man with killing his estranged wife in Spain on top of the initial kidnapping offense — a legal move that would include the possibility of pursuing the death penalty, according to court records.

David Knezevich, 36, a native of Serbia, has been locked up in a federal jail in ...Read more