FERGUS FALLS, MINN. – As an Indian migrant family struggled to cross the border during a brutally cold blizzard, they made desperate phone calls to the alleged smuggler who had arranged their passage from Canada.

The migrants told the alleged smuggler, Fenil Patel, that they couldn’t find the driver who was supposed to pick them up on the U...Read more

Among all the things that Philadelphians love about the Jersey Shore, the taste of the Atlantic Ocean is not one of them.

Fortunately, the Philadelphia Water Department assures that it's highly unlikely that its customers ever would have saltwater running through their taps. But in recent weeks the so-called salt line — the boundary between ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump continues to reach into the ranks of loyalists, allies and television personalities as he fills out the remainder of his Cabinet.

On Tuesday, he chose Cantor Fitzgerald LP Chief Executive Officer Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department, a central position in an administration that will likely ...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — The caipirinhas were flowing, the samba and fervo dancers were swaying and a light ocean breeze enveloped the VIP guests in Rio de Janiero. But as the Group of 20 communique popped up online, the mood was far from festive.

The behind-the-scenes squabbling over language characterizing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East had ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Facing President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively backed a “sanctuary city” law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement.

Because the law, which passed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Years of high-profile intercontinental ballistic missile tests by North Korea have fallen short of demonstrating that Pyongyang can successfully launch and deliver a nuclear warhead against the U.S. mainland, the head of American forces in the Indo-Pacific said.

North Korea’s recent test flight of a Hwasong-19 ICBM, its ...Read more

Muslim college students across California say they have faced an increase in harassment and discrimination on their campuses in the last year, according to a new report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The report from the Muslim advocacy organization, released Tuesday, comes amid heightened tensions at many Bay Area schools in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan triple-murder stabbing spree suspect Ramon Rivera chose his victims because they were preoccupied doing something else and he was able to sneak up on them, a police source told the Daily News.

Rivera revealed the chilling detail to cops before he was ordered held without bail when he appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court ...Read more

The president was Eisenhower. The Dodgers belonged to Brooklyn. The cost of a Los Angeles-London round-trip flight was $720 — a staggering amount in 1956. Yet in his off hours, a young Manhattan lawyer named Arthur Frommer pressed ahead with a wild idea.

As a U.S. Army serviceman in postwar Europe a few years before, Frommer had seen the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams, who has said that Monday’s fatal stabbing spree was a failure of government, said Tuesday he wants to expand involuntary hospitalization policies to make it easier for cops and outreach workers to get mentally ill people off the streets.

Following a bloody stabbing spree that left three dead Monday, the mayor ...Read more

A French medical charity that is the only life-saving option for many Haitians at a time when escalating gang violence has shuttered hospitals and health clinics and sent pharmacies up in smoke said Tuesday it is suspending all services in metropolitan Port-au-Prince after a series of attacks and threats by Haitian police.

Médecins Sans Fronti...Read more

WASHINGTON — Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, denied allegations Tuesday that it took her agency around three days to respond to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

Criswell testified before two congressional committees Tuesday about the federal response to hurricanes Helene and Milton, saying that ...Read more

The head of the Massachusetts Democratic Party appeared to suggest Tuesday that Gov. Maura Healey plans to seek a second term as governor, comments he later walked back in a phone call with the Herald.

Healey made history in 2022 as the first openly lesbian governor in the country and the first woman elected to the executive office in ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday ordered federal prosecutors to destroy records of notes taken from Sean “Diddy” Combs’ jail cell.

Manhattan federal court Judge Arun Subramanian issued the directive following a court hearing attended by Combs after his lawyers complained about federal authorities photographing personal notes ...Read more

Funeral arrangements have reportedly been set for Liam Payne, following the One Direction singer’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last month.

The memorial for the 31-year-old is scheduled to take place Wednesday in his native country of England, according to Reuters. Other British outlets reported that it will be a private ...Read more

The Senate confirmed Quinnipiac Law School professor Sarah Russell’s nomination to a federal judgeship late Tuesday afternoon over opposition from Republicans trying to block the outgoing Biden administration’s lame duck appointees as they prepare to assume the majority in the chamber.

Russell was approved by a 50-44 party line vote. She ...Read more

Incoming Democratic Attorney General Jeff Jackson would enter office in January with significantly constrained and revised powers under wide-ranging legislation GOP state lawmakers rushed to the North Carolina House floor Tuesday.

The far-reaching bill, which was released publicly Tuesday evening, several hours after a draft was obtained by The...Read more