NEW YORK — Dozens of Columbia University students were temporarily suspended as of Friday for their alleged involvement with a brief takeover of the main campus library in a pro-Palestinian protest, the Daily News has learned.

At least 65 Columbia students were placed on interim suspension pending further investigation, according to a ...Read more

BOSTON — Seventeen years after the Brood XIV cicadas last emerged as adults and annoyed people with their loud buzzing calls, they’re coming back.

Residents along inner Cape Cod and over the bridge into southeastern Plymouth County should expect the 17-year periodical red-eyed cicadas to surface by late June.

While the noisy cicadas are ...Read more

Republicans have waged a yearslong battle against cultural institutions. It reached an abrupt zenith on Thursday night.

President Donald Trump’s firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday marked the arrival of the conservative culture wars to the world’s largest library. At its core was the intersection of Trump administration...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump floated an 80% tariff on China ahead of negotiations due to begin Saturday as he urged Beijing to do more to open their markets to U.S. goods.

“80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B,” Trump said in a social-media post Friday morning, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

“CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP...Read more

A week after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a woman turned herself in to U.S. Capitol Police, revealing she had a knife, two “Molotov cocktails” and planned to kill Trump Cabinet members, court documents say.

It was a plan she said was inspired by Luigi Mangione, who is facing federal charges in the fatal shooting of United ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly 18 months after the first of six guilty verdicts, the federal government has made good on its pledge to move some of California’s allegedly most dangerous inmates into the federal prison system.

Five Aryan Brotherhood members — Ronald “Renegade” Yandell, William Sylvester, Jason Corbett, Pat “Big Pat” ...Read more

A federal judge freed a Turkish graduate student on bail while she fights possible deportation over the Trump administration’s claims of antisemitism in an op-ed she helped write.

The ruling Friday in favor of Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk is the latest setback for the administration, amid a crackdown on foreign students it...Read more

A man died Thursday after rushing into the perilous waters of San Francisco's Ocean Beach fully clothed in an attempt to rescue his dog, authorities said. While the dog made it out of the ocean alive, the man was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Northern California beach is notorious for its strong rip currents, powerful waves and icy water ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s prison system once again is without execution drugs after its stockpile expired earlier this year, the latest in a series of hurdles to carrying out the death penalty in the state.

The Idaho Department of Correction has spent $200,000 in state funds on the hard-to-find lethal injection chemicals since 2023, according ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Kent County's top prosecutor said he'll decide in the coming weeks whether to retry a former Grand Rapids police officer for second-degree murder after a mistrial was declared Thursday, but experts say it could be a challenging road ahead given the case's media attention and other factors.

Christopher Schurr, 34, was on ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police will hold a vote of no confidence against Police Chief Johnny Jennings following reports of a settlement between Jennings and the city and allegations of unethical conduct at city hall.

The organization posted on Facebook Friday that a preliminary vote of no confidence will...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most California voters are confident in the state’s voting system, a new poll shows, with one large exception: Republican voters.

Nearly two-thirds of GOP voters in the state say fraud is either somewhat or very prevalent in California elections, according to the poll from UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental ...Read more

Forecasters are confident it’s a particularly bad water year for the Colorado River, worrying some about a likely return to record low levels in reservoirs that are reminiscent of 2022.

Las Vegas is almost entirely dependent on Lake Mead, the country’s biggest reservoir, for its water supply. Flows into Lake Mead come from Lake Powell, the ...Read more

DORAL, Fla. — Dozens of Venezuelans gathered at El Arepazo, an iconic restaurant in the heart of Doral’s Venezuelan community, for a vigil Thursday night in support of deportation protections now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The event was organized for the Venezuelan American Caucus to show support for the Venezuelan community on...Read more

ATLANTA — A woman has been arrested after police said she damaged a Tesla dealership with an automatic BB gun in Gwinnett County, one of several acts of violence targeting the electric vehicle company across the United States in recent months.

Alexa Beckstead, 23, was charged with felony second-degree criminal damage to property after police ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia officials on Friday celebrated a new $37.8 billion state spending plan that devotes more money to schools, prisons and other priorities.

Now they must wait to see whether federal budget cuts and economic turmoil force them to rewrite that plan.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed the fiscal year 2026 budget at the Georgia Capitol ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Two city employees who were fired after making failed bids for local office last year sued Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott last week, accusing him of directing their firings because he saw them as aligning with his political opponents.

The lawsuit was filed May 2 by Margo Bruner-Settles and Liam Davis, who ran for city council seats...Read more

SEATTLE — A police response earlier this week to a locally famous nude beach on the shores of Lake Washington has brought into sharp relief the ongoing tension between the park’s history as a safe place for people in the LGBTQ+ community and its wealthy neighbors frustrated by how it’s being used.

The response Sunday, coupled with a ...Read more