The United States has reported its first confirmed case of the more contagious form of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a health advisory, stating that while the country’s risk for the more severe form of mpox remains low, doctors should be on alert for patients with ...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket system on its sixth test flight Tuesday, with Donald Trump in attendance at the company's Texas launchpad.

Trump's presence underscores the close ties SpaceX owner Elon Musk has established with the president-elect after pouring more than $100 million into his campaign.

The nearly 400-foot tall structure �...Read more

DENVER — Two years after five people were killed and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at Colorado Springs’ Club Q, survivors and victims’ families say they continue to feel the agony of a tragedy that “we carry with us in countless ways.”

“The pain and memories remain as vivid as if they were yesterday,” shooting survivor Charlene ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Nancy Mace has vowed to “triple” down on her effort to bar transgender women from using female bathrooms at the Capitol and said she planned to file additional legislation on the topic as soon as Tuesday night.

Democrats, meanwhile, have slammed the effort, which Mace acknowledged is aimed at Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del.,...Read more

ATHENS, Ga. — The state presented the last of its evidence against Jose Ibarra on Tuesday, wrapping up three days of testimony that painted him as a man on the prowl for female victims before he eventually set his sights on jogger Laken Riley.

The prosecution called more than 20 witnesses and entered more than 300 items into evidence. Special...Read more

CHICAGO — Former ComEd board member Juan Ochoa testified Tuesday that then-House Speaker Michael Madigan backed him for the lucrative position with the utility after two of his political mentors, U.S. Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, had endorsed Madigan in the general election.

Ochoa’s testimony is at the center of one of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan triple-murder stabbing spree suspect Ramon Rivera was ordered held without bail when he appeared before a Manhattan Criminal Court judge Tuesday afternoon.

Rivera appeared in court wearing a white Tyvek jumpsuit and handcuffs and was silent with his head bowed for most of the proceeding.

“The defendant embarked on a ...Read more

President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday he plans to nominate the longtime celebrity doctor and one-time Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate, Mehmet Oz, to head the federal department in charge of Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump said he will nominate Oz as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, a role that ...Read more

When President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for U.S. solicitor general, he tapped one of the leading anti-abortion lawyers in Missouri: D. John Sauer.

Sauer was solicitor general of Missouri from 2017 through 2022 under Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, when they each served as Missouri attorney general. In that role, ...Read more

Alleging a longstanding pattern of unchecked police misconduct, a philanthropic organization led by rapper Jay-Z is suing the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, in pursuit of records related to specific complaints made against officers and other investigative files.

Team Roc, a social justice arm of Jay-Z’s Roc ...Read more

An apparent hack of a computer file containing potentially damaging witness testimony against former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz became the latest dramatic turn Tuesday in the controversy surrounding Gaetz’s nomination by President-elect Donald Trump as U.S. attorney general.

The hacked file, part of a civil lawsuit, contains 24 exhibits, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX launched its sixth test flight of its powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket from its Texas facility Starbase on Tuesday, but called off an attempt to catch the booster back on land like it did on the previous launch, but was able to successfully refire one of the upper stage’s engines while in space.

Liftoff ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police are investigating antisemitic and racist stickers discovered throughout the city's neighborhood with the largest Jewish population in addition to other areas.

The stickers, plastered on light poles near the busy intersection of Murray and Forbes avenues in Squirrel Hill, contained images of swastikas and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The homeless man accused of carrying out an unprovoked stabbing spree across Manhattan that left three strangers dead got into a violent clash with a correction officer earlier this year that left both hurt and facing charges, the Daily News has learned.

In August, Ramon Rivera, 54 — accused of murdering three New Yorkers in a ...Read more

On Nov. 19, the Invictus Games 25 Instagram page shared a video.

The video featured the founder of the Invictus Games, Prince Harry, sitting in a chair in the middle of the East Side Ink Tattoo parlor in New York City. “This is where people get tattooed, right?”

Harry was patiently waiting for his tattoo artist to meet with him when ...Read more

An outbreak of highly contagious norovirus left 55 passengers and 15 crew members sick during a month-long cruise across the Pacific Ocean.

The Coral Princess, a Princess Cruises vessel, left Singapore on Oct. 17 and headed to Long Beach, Calif. After the outbreak, the healthy crew started enhanced cleaning and disinfection procedures with the ...Read more

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, elected this month as the first openly transgender member of Congress, called U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s attempts to keep her out of women’s facilities at the U.S. Capitol a distraction.

Mace, R-S.C., introduced a bill Monday prohibiting lawmakers, officers, and House employees from using “single-sex ...Read more

ATLANTA — After nearly a year’s worth of testimony from more than 175 witnesses, Fulton County prosecutors rested their case Tuesday in a gang and racketeering trial that has become the longest in Georgia history.

Missing was the trial’s star defendant; Atlanta rapper Young Thug, one of four members of “Young Slime Life” who pleaded ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Top House Democratic leaders who assumed their roles two years ago will continue in their positions in the new Congress after most ran unopposed in leadership elections held Tuesday.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Minority Whip Katherine M. Clark of Massachusetts and Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar of California,...Read more