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

It’s been two weeks since California counties started counting ballots on Election Day, and an estimated 620,000 votes remain to be processed.

A handful of counties still have large batches of votes that they have not reported to the California Secretary of State, including Lake, Mendocino, Nevada and San Luis Obispo counties.

In the Bay ...Read more

The Biden administration is beginning to refer to Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuela’s president-elect, a senior administration official said, its strongest acknowledgment yet that the opposition candidate won July’s presidential election.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told partners about the decision in a meeting yesterday at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect JD Vance is arranging meetings between key Republican senators and attorney general pick Matt Gaetz as well as Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump selected to run the Defense Department, according to people familiar with the matter.

Vance will be making the rounds with those candidates, two of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his intent to nominate Mehmet Oz — better known by his television moniker “Dr. Oz” — to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

If confirmed, Oz would oversee a sprawling federal agency that manages health care coverage for nearly half of Americans through ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he plans to nominate Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon and former daytime television host, as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Oz, a 64-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon, has no experience running a government agency, and has been accused by many U.S. physicians ...Read more