The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer include COVID vaccines on its recommended schedule of immunizations for “healthy children and healthy pregnant women,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a video statement posted to X on Tuesday.

Food and Drugs Commissioner Marty Makary said that ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the federal government from withholding funding from New York state in the ongoing battle over New York City’s congestion pricing.

Judge Lewis Liman ruled early Tuesday afternoon that the order would be in place until June 9.

The order comes one day before a ...Read more

NEW YORK — A suspect wanted for the caught-on-video beatdown of an off-duty NYPD cop robbed of his wallet and pistol has been captured in Virginia, cops said Tuesday.

U.S. Marshals, working with the NYPD, used the handcuffs belonging to the wounded cop when they took 23-year-old Taveon Hargrove into custody, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch ...Read more

ATLANTA — The consequences of supporting President Donald Trump when he cried foul over his loss in the 2020 election are still being felt by several high-profile attorneys with Georgia ties.

Disbarment, imprisonment and legal sanctions are among the penalties doled out to Rudy Giuliani, McCall Calhoun, Sidney Powell and Lin Wood for their ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Executions are on hold in Idaho.

The state prison system suspended its ability to carry out the death penalty through at least the end of the year as officials begin the transition to firing squad executions. The move requires a remodel at the maximum security prison to be ready when the new law prioritizing the controversial ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A prominent reproductive health care provider warned that Idaho residents may be forced to go without care after federal lawmakers voted in favor of a spending bill that bars Medicaid recipients from using its facilities.

Planned Parenthood, which operates hundreds of health clinics across the country, said the One Big ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former assistant Capricorn Clark, her voice quivering, told a Manhattan jury Tuesday that the armed rap mogul kidnapped her late one night in 2011 to help him “kill [Kid] Cudi.”

Taking the stand as the 17th witness, Clark bolstered testimony from Combs’ ex, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, and Kid Cudi...Read more

Authorities quickly released information about the driver of a car that careened through a street crammed with pedestrians celebrating Liverpool soccer club's Premier League championship with a parade Monday.

At least 50 people were hospitalized after the Ford Galaxy, shown on a social media video, drove directly into a tight cluster of fans ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut federal funding to California if the state continues allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.

Trump blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom in an early morning post on Truth Social saying the state under his leadership “continues to ILLEGALLY allow MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS.” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a middle-school student's claim he had a free-speech right to wear a T-shirt stating there are "only two genders."

Over two dissents, the justices let stand a ruling that said a school may enforce a dress code to protect students from "hate speech" or bullying.

After three months of ...Read more

NPR and three of its member stations filed suit in federal court Tuesday against President Donald Trump's White House over the president's executive order to block funding for public media.

Trump's order called for an end to government dollars for the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed entity that provides funding to NPR and PBS...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The onslaught of executive actions emerging from President Donald Trump’s second administration — some of which have aimed to entirely reshape the federal government — has had attorneys for Santa Clara County and San Francisco working at breakneck pace.

The counties are at the forefront of the resistance against the ...Read more

As the stock market plunged in reaction to the draconian tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump — before the president backed down and the market soared — Congressman Jared Moskowitz was buying.

On April 7, the Florida Democrat bought 23 stocks, worth between $23,023 and $345,000. He also sold two stocks, worth between $2,002 and $30,000...Read more

CHICAGO — When Illinois enacted a sweeping clean energy law in 2021, the state was seen as ahead of the curve in promoting renewable energy standards and creating clean energy jobs.

But with advances in technology such as generative artificial intelligence driving up energy usage across the country, Illinois lawmakers from both parties, as ...Read more

SpaceX looks to get its developmental Starship back into space, this time with less explosions, and for the first time flying with a reused Super Heavy booster.

The massive combined rocket and spacecraft is targeting liftoff from the company’s Texas site Starbase during a 60-minute window that opens at 7:30 p.m. EDT (6:30 p.m. CDT).

This ...Read more

BOSTON — Half a year later, the Boston Police Department has not turned over court-ordered records from an internal affairs investigation of an officer involved in a high-speed chase that killed three teenagers driving a suspected stolen car, with a gun inside.

Suffolk Superior Judge Katie Rayburn has warned that the department could be ...Read more

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. —Two decades after Macomb County officials first noticed a peregrine falcon nest atop the Old County Building in downtown Mount Clemens, the species continues to come back to nest and now three newly born chicks have been banded so they can be monitored.

Over the holiday weekend, Macomb County officials successfully ...Read more

NEW YORK — A second suspect turned himself in Tuesday for questioning in the kidnapping of an Italian man and torturing him inside a luxurious SoHo apartment to get access to his cryptocurrency account, police said.

The new suspect surrendered to detectives at the 13th Precinct stationhouse and is being questioned with charges pending.

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Russia supports Turkey hosting another round of peace talks with Ukraine after a first meeting made no progress in U.S. efforts to halt more than three years of war.

“We are grateful for Turkey for its readiness to continue assisting with such negotiations and a peace settlement,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday after...Read more