Ukraine blasted Olaf Scholz’s telephone diplomacy with Vladimir Putin, as many of Kyiv’s allies took a dim view of the German chancellor’s phone call with the Russian president.

Germany said the hourlong call on Friday was aimed at urging the Kremlin leader to enter talks to end his war on Ukraine. But the first direct communication ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way into Central America this weekend, but lose organization before its remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east toward Florida next week.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 1 p.m. advisory, Sara was located about 30 miles south-southwest ...Read more

NEW YORK — A members-only social club in Manhattan co-owned by prominent political donors to Mayor Eric Adams was selected to host a city government event this month where the mayor delivered remarks about making New York the world’s “most business-friendly” city, the Daily News has learned.

The event, an annual procurement fair held by...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a matter of hours, the Mountain fire charged rapidly across the Santa Susana Mountains and into nearby foothill neighborhoods, forcing widespread evacuations and demanding intense firefights from crews showered in red-hot embers.

Even as hundreds of firefighters around the region immediately kicked into action, the wind-...Read more

KFARAKKA, Lebanon — In normal times, you'd rarely hear of Kfarakka, a hamlet nestled in the lush green mountains of north Lebanon whose primary claim to fame is that it's the country's top olive oil producer.

These are not normal times.

Hoping for an end to the devastating war with Israel, many Lebanese have turned to this village of some 3...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With potential trouble brewing in the Gulf of Mexico and the Thanksgiving holiday around the corner, many neighborhoods across Central Florida still have stacks of sticks and other storm waste piled outside from Hurricane Milton.

Cities and counties say their cleanup crews and contractors have been working long hours and extra...Read more

A one-time substitute teacher who was banned from a Minnesota school district after being accused last month of re-enacting George Floyd’s murder in class has now lost his job as a police officer in western Wisconsin, the city’s mayor said Monday.

Prescott Mayor Robert Daugherty told the Minnesota Star Tribune that the City Council on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul has chosen to chair the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in the next Congress, asserting that the legislative body “must stand up once again for its constitutional role.”

A longtime critic of government overreach and a skeptic of certain national security measures, Paul’s chairmanship is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With state lawmakers set to question officials overseeing recovery efforts after hurricanes Florence and Matthew, North Carolina’s federal representatives are also calling for accountability.

At the beginning of November, eight Republican members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation — all except for Rep. Patrick ...Read more

A powerful storm system could bring heavy snow, high winds and cold temperatures to parts of upstate New York by the end of next week, weather officials said.

The storm, which is predicted to develop east of the Rocky Mountains early next week, is expected to move from the Central Plains northeastward to the Great Lakes, between Thursday and ...Read more

Nationwide support for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest level in decades due to shifting attitudes among younger generations, new polling reveals.

Today, 53% of American adults are in favor of the death penalty, which is the smallest share measured since the 1970s, according to a Gallup poll.

The results, pulled from Gallup’s crime...Read more

A former Georgia Southern University and Detroit Lions linebacker was arrested Thursday in Savannah and charged with assaulting police during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

Leander Antwione Williams, 31, faces charges of assaulting police and civil disorder, both felonies, along with five misdemeanor charges relating to his alleged ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in the city of Monterey in 2017, according to a statement the city released Thursday in response to media inquiries.

The city's statement discloses that it had one police report connected to an...Read more

Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies among the leaders of his team.

Trump announced Thursday he’ll nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of the Health and Human Services ...Read more

A cigarette tossed out during a traffic stop held DNA that helped identify a man accused of killing a 51-year-old Indiana man over 40 years ago, police said.

John Blaylock was found beaten to death in Griffith, Indiana, in 1981, but his killer was not known, according to police and the Chicago Tribune.

Detectives resumed the investigation in ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in the city of Monterey in 2017, according to a statement the city released Thursday in response to media inquiries.

The city's statement discloses that it had one police report connected to an...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy has heightened concerns about an already in limbo program benefiting more than 150,000 undocumented Californians.

The program — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA — grants residence and work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the ...Read more