HARTFORD, Conn. — President Donald J. Trump has commuted the five-year prison sentence of a real estate developer convicted two years ago of an elaborate fraud he and a partner used to acquire $50 million in mortgage loans and build an extensive residential real estate portfolio across Hartford.

At the time, federal prosecutors said the “...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Airport crews began removing the 15 illuminated pylons from the entrance of Los Angeles International Airport last week as part of a plan to ease traffic congestion ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

The removal is temporary and part of LAX’s Airfield and Terminal Modernization Program Roadway Improvements Project, which is ...Read more

CHICAGO — Lurie Children’s Hospital is scaling back its gender-affirming care for minors, the hospital said Tuesday, days after a top federal official called for an investigation into the hospital.

The hospital will no longer offer gender-affirming medications for patients younger than 18 who have not previously been treated with the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Wind chills of up to 15 degrees below zero hit the Chicago area Tuesday morning, with the National Weather Service warning of “extreme cold temperatures” throughout the day.

Wind chills of 10 degrees below to 15 degrees below zero will continue throughout the mid-morning in portions of north central and northeast Illinois as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency escalates its immigration crackdowns across the country.

Mamdani’s, who’s long been a critic of the agency, told the hosts of ABC’s “The View” that ICE is “terrorizing people.”

“I’m tired of waking up every ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, are expecting their fourth child, the family announced Tuesday.

The unborn child is a boy and is expected to arrive in July, the family said. The Vances are already parents to sons Ewan and Vivek and daughter Mirabel.

“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth ...Read more

President Donald Trump trashed European allies Tuesday and bared leaders’ private text messages as he continues to aggressively push for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.

In a series of odd posts, Trump mocked European leaders and doubled down on his insistence that they cave to his demands for control of the Arctic island, which is a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Do licensed gun owners have a right to carry a loaded weapon into stores, restaurants and other private places that are open to the public?

California and Hawaii are among five states with new laws that forbid carrying firearms onto private property without the consent of an owner or manager. But the Trump administration joined ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Allegations of misuse of taxpayer dollars, sexual harassment and poor planning and budgeting by the Florida State Guard’s top executive has sparked a wave of departures of senior officers, pilots and rank-and-file soldiers who also say they have been retaliated against for speaking out.

In public statements, mostly on ...Read more

MIAMI — Prosecutors on Tuesday morning dropped witness-tampering charges against YNW Melly just as the rapper’s trial was to begin.

Melly, 26, whose real name is Jamell Demons, was accused of colluding with co-defendant Cortlen Henry and fellow inmate Terrence Mathis to keep his ex-girlfriend from testifying in his double-murder case. The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The leaders of a St. Paul church are contemplating legal action against the activists who disrupted a Sunday service after the intruders determined one of the pastors works as the acting director of ICE’s field office in St. Paul.

A statement released on Jan. 20 by Cities Church to the Minnesota Star Tribune said “the group ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania in a legal filing Tuesday pushed back against a federal commission’s demand that in effect would require it to turn over lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling the request “unconstitutional,” “disconcerting” and “unnecessary.”

The filing comes in response to a lawsuit ...Read more

NEW YORK — Temperatures in New York City reached new lows for the 2025-26 winter season on Tuesday, a preview of even lower temperatures expected to arrive over the weekend.

The high temperature in Central Park was only 23 degrees on Tuesday, with a 10-degree wind chill. Meanwhile, the overnight lows were expected to drop to 18 degrees with a...Read more

The New Jersey governor’s pardon was issued Tuesday even before a jury convicted Harris Jacobs, 28, for a hit-and-run in Atlantic City that killed a pedestrian.

The pardon was one of 97 issued by former Gov. Phil Murphy in his final hours in office. Jacobs’ attorney, Lou Barbone, told the news site BreakingAC that his client was notified ...Read more

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five.

A bill signed by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday makes cursive instruction mandatory for some elementary students. The requirements take effect immediately and apply to the 2026-2027 school year.

New Jersey joins Delaware and at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has revived the controversial “Just Home” project in the Bronx, reversing the Adams administration’s attempt last year to nix the controversial project.

The project, at a vacant Jacobi Hospital building in Morris Park, is slated to provide supportive and affordable housing, mostly for people who were ...Read more

DENVER — Denver officials are warning consumers that they have found edible products made with psilocybin mushrooms for sale, illegally, at local gas stations and smoke shops.

Officials recently tested chocolate bars from a brand called PolkaDot and confirmed the presence of psilocybin and psilocin, psychoactive ingredients in “magic ...Read more

Audiotape shared with a New Mexico court by Timothy Busfield's attorneys reveals that the two child actors at the center of sex abuse allegations against the 68-year-old Hollywood veteran initially told police in 2024 that he never touched them inappropriately.

In the audio, first published by TMZ on Monday, the boys, who are twin brothers, ...Read more

DETROIT — The owner of the Oxford Centers in Brighton and Troy, who is already facing a second-degree murder charge after a 5-year-old boy died in one of her hyperbaric chambers, has now been charged with nine counts of health care fraud.

Tamela Peterson, 59, of Brighton, was arraigned Tuesday in 53rd District Court in Howell on nine counts ...Read more