NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday he is vetoing a controversial bill that would have enabled the NYPD to set up “buffer zones” around schools and universities during protests.

Mamdani said he was letting a corresponding bill, which will similarly authorize police to plan for security perimeters around houses of worship, go into ...Read more

President Donald Trump will send envoys to Pakistan with the intention of meeting with Iranian officials, while Tehran sounded a pessimistic tone on the prospects for talks to end the eight-week war roiling the global economy.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to depart Saturday for talks this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare rebuke, University of California Regent Jay Sures, an outspoken supporter of Jewish students and critic of pro-Palestinian activism, is speaking out in a blistering criticism of UCLA student government leaders amid a growing controversy over the campus visit of a freed Israeli hostage held by Hamas after the Oct. 7, ...Read more

The North Carolina General Assembly announced this week a new committee tasked with investigating the release of thousands of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For months, former Gov. Roy Cooper, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in November’s election, has faced attacks from Republicans that he is soft on crime because of a ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records.

As part of the Trump ...Read more

MIAMI — After spending hundreds of millions dollars on Alligator Alcatraz, the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis says that complying with a federal judge’s order to provide more phones for people being detained at the site would be too costly for Florida taxpayers.

In a filing in federal court on Wednesday, lawyers for the Florida ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has reopened an investigation into a Los Angeles Unified School District program originally intended to help elevate the academic achievement of Black students, according to a letter released by the conservative group that alleges the program is a form of race-based ...Read more

King Charles III will not meet with the brother of the woman that his own brother is accused of sexually abusing during the Monarch’s upcoming U.S. visit.

The king begins a four-day trip Monday that includes a visit to New York City and an address to the U.S. Congress. It will not include a meeting with Sky Roberts, whose late sister Virginia...Read more

Nicki Minaj’s full embrace of the MAGA movement has secured her a seat at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C this weekend, according to reports.

The “Super Bass” rapper will attend as a guest of Fox News, which is also hosting its own VIP party before the annual event on Saturday, USA Today reported. Other big ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Friday that she is dropping her investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the cost for renovations at the central bank, a move that could clear a path for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as Powell’s replacement.

“I have directed my office to close our investigation as the ...Read more

Rob and Michele Reiner’s eldest son Jake wrote an essay about the “living nightmare” of their murders, for which his younger brother Nick stands accused.

Nick, 32, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree in the Dec. 14 slayings, for which he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

In...Read more

DENVER — The wife and five children of the man charged with carrying out a terror attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street mall last year have been released from immigration custody, their attorney said in a social media post Thursday.

The family’s release comes days after a federal judge ordered them freed from the detention facility in Dilley, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Eligible San Diego higher education students commuting from Mexico can now cross the border faster through special lanes at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa pedestrian ports of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.

Students enrolled in the pilot program, known as the Coordinated Access Program, or CAP, were able to...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has taken a hit in her approval rating, which dropped seven points in a new UNH Survey Center poll released on Thursday, with 51% of respondents either disapproving of her job performance as governor or left undecided as the 2026 election draws closer.

The UNH poll found that Healey’s net approval rating fell ...Read more

Since the beginning of the Iran war, Pope Leo XIV has frequently called for peace, cautioning that the “delusion of omnipotence” makes military force seem preferable to diplomacy. Although U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, criticized some of the pope’s comments, a growing choir of Catholic voices has criticized the conflict by ...Read more

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.” Couriers carried the printed version by stagecoach and horseback to every colony, where officials posted it and newspapers circulated it.

But the declaration was also meant ...Read more

The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke as “the first wave” of such measures, according to recent reporting by The New York Times. These cases are being assigned to prosecutors in 39 U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.

The administration has ordered Department...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Friday that she is dropping her investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the cost for renovations at the central bank, a move that could clear a path for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as Powell’s replacement.

“I have directed my office to close our investigation as the ...Read more