NEW YORK — New York City public defenders are calling for an investigation into how a handcuffed woman gave birth inside a Brooklyn courtroom as she awaited arraignment on low-level drug charges.

Samantha Randazzo gave birth to a healthy baby boy just before 12 a.m. Saturday inside Brooklyn Criminal Court on Schermerhorn Street in downtown ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Shortly after attorneys for President Donald Trump moved Monday to dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over claims it had leaked his personal tax returns, the Justice Department announced that a settlement in the case would be used to create a $1.776 billion fund for other victims of “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday announced a new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate anyone for perceived targeting by past administrations as part of settling President Donald Trump’s $10 billion suit against the IRS.

Monday’s DOJ announcement came shortly after Trump attempted to drop his lawsuit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump filed a notice Monday that he is seeking to dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, which he had brought over the leak of the president’s tax returns.

ABC News reported that the president and the IRS have discussed creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate Trump’s allies ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The owner and operator of the cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge two years ago is asking that a civil trial scheduled to begin next month be postponed.

In a court document filed Monday, Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited requested that the civil case, scheduled for June 1, be stayed ...Read more

DENVER — Sensors in southern Colorado recorded a small earthquake near Walsenburg early Monday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The 3.0-magnitude earthquake shook land roughly 3 miles southwest of Walsenburg just before 6:30 a.m. Monday, according to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey. This magnitude of earthquake is ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he intends to lead Labour into the next general election, facing down mounting pressure from within his own party to step aside in the wake of disastrous local election results this month.

Speaking to broadcasters, Starmer was asked whether he would set out a timetable to stand down if leadership favorite,...Read more

NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers began a chaotic commute to work Monday as 11th-hour talks between the MTA and Long Island Rail Road workers continued.

The MTA and a consortium of unions representing 3,500 LIRR workers returned to the bargaining table at 7:30 a.m. Monday morning, following a late-night session that ran until about 1 a.m. ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doubling his expansion plans for New York City’s universal preschool program for 3-year-olds, bringing the total number of new 3-K seats this fall to 2,000, he said Monday.

The mayor also announced the opening of a new public preschool in Brooklyn that had been completed but left empty for years.

“On ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Monday both denied and granted bids by Luigi Mangione to suppress key evidence in his state homicide case — critically, allowing prosecutors to present the alleged murder weapon in a significant setback for the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

State Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro�...Read more

Carmen Teresa Navas, the 82-year-old Venezuelan mother who spent months desperately searching prisons, military facilities and government offices for answers about her detained son, died Sunday just days after authorities admitted that he had died nearly a year ago while in state custody — a revelation that has intensified outrage over alleged...Read more

Keir Starmer will not set out a plan for leaving office, his spokesman said as pressure mounts on Britain’s prime minister to step aside to end the leadership crisis engulfing the ruling Labour Party.

“There will be no timetable for departure,” Tom Wells, Starmer’s official spokesman, told reporters on Monday. “The prime minister is ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers began a chaotic commute to work Monday as 11th-hour talks between the MTA and Long Island Rail Road workers failed to result in a contract.

The MTA and a consortium of unions sat at the bargaining table until about 1 a.m. Monday, but left without ending the strike, which has now gone into its third day.

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NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers began a chaotic commute to work Monday as 11th-hour talks between the MTA and Long Island Rail Road workers failed to result in a contract.

The MTA and a consortium of unions sat at the bargaining table until about 1 a.m. Monday, but left without ending the strike, which has now gone into its third day.

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — In a midwife’s suburban Atlanta home with a playground and chicken coop outside, Madie Collins lay on an examination table while the midwife measured her pregnant belly. Unlike at many a doctor’s office, no crinkly paper sheet covered the table and no antiseptic chill lingered in the air. The room next door, where ...Read more

State education officials repeatedly raised concerns about possible fraud in the federally funded meals program during the pandemic, but their supervisors stopped them from taking more aggressive action, according to law enforcement interviews and other investigative records newly obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Front-line regulators ...Read more

As June 2024 came to a close, Gov. JB Pritzker was characteristically bullish while he marked the end of Pride Month by signing into law a requirement that Illinois’ largest nonprofit foundations disclose the demographic makeup of their boards of directors and officers.

“Here in Illinois, we reject hate, bigotry, and discrimination and ...Read more