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

NEW YORK — Despite multiple arrests and a history of mental health problems, Ramon Rivera, accused of killing three strangers in a wild Manhattan stabbing spree, was never sentenced to more than a year in jail.

He was most recently release from Rikers Island on Oct. 17 after serving two-thirds of a 364-day burglary sentence.

Mayor Eric Adams...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan won reelection Tuesday to her post as leader of House Democrats' messaging arm.

Dingell faced a challenge from freshman U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, but ultimately won by a wide margin to retain her position as chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Dingell ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Attorneys working for Danny Masterson contacted jurors from the actor's rape trial despite a judge's order meant to limit publicly available information about their identities, drawing alarm from the jurors and Masterson's victims, court records show.

In an order made public in September, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday told the judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case they concede he may need to consider pushing back sentencing until Trump is out of office — but they plan to fight Trump’s renewed efforts to get the verdict tossed.

In a court filing, prosecutors asked state...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’ll nominate billionaire Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald LP and co-chair of the transition team, to be his commerce secretary as well as top trade adviser.

The move is widely seen as a consolation prize for Lutnick, who is overseeing Trump’s transition ...Read more