NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams joined the growing chorus of elected leaders Tuesday calling on Amtrak to halt its plans to close a quarter of the East River Tunnel’s rail tubes for repairs — a project Democrats and Republicans alike worry will wreak havoc on the Long Island Rail Road.

In a letter to President Donald Trump’s transportation...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove thousands of active-duty members of the military because they are transgender.

The justices on Tuesday granted an appeal from President Donald Trump’s lawyers and set aside orders for now from judges who had blocked the new policy set by Defense ...Read more

Two United Airlines flights that were set to fly internationally out of San Francisco International Airport were canceled Tuesday morning after the two planes touched wings, authorities said.

Nobody on either flight was injured. The collision happened when the two flights were in an area near a gate.

In a statement, the Federal Aviation ...Read more

The session of Germany’s Bundestag started in a festive mood with greetings for dignitaries there to witness a peaceful handover of power. A little over an hour later, havoc ensued that will leave a lasting mark on the start of Friedrich Merz’s term as chancellor.

In the first round of voting, 18 parliamentarians from the planned governing...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would stop the U.S. bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen effective immediately because they had “capitulated” — a claim the group denied.

“They just don’t want to fight,” Trump said in an Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “And we will honor that, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made clear Tuesday he wanted to defuse tensions with the United States, even after President Donald Trump feigned ignorance at the many reasons for his newly elected counterpart’s visit.

Carney made clear during an Oval Office meeting that he would be open to mending the countries’ wounded ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in a brief order Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to take actions to implement a ban on transgender members of the U.S. military, which could include discharges.

The unsigned order granted an application from the Trump administration to lift a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in ...Read more

Environmental groups are demanding that the Trump administration exercise the federal government’s authority to curb wasteful water use in an effort to address the Colorado River’s chronic water shortages.

In a petition submitted Tuesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council and nine other groups called for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis is opposing the nomination of Ed Martin as Washington’s top prosecutor.

This would be the first time Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, splits from President Donald Trump on one of Trump’s nominees to help the president lead the country in his second term.

“At this point I’ve indicated to the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A pair of NYPD cops jumped by a group of migrant gang members, including a 12-year-old boy, while trying to thwart a robbery in Times Square were struck with scooters, basketballs, bottles and makeshift weapons in a “wolfpack”-style ambush, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.

Police are still looking for at least six teens behind ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio’s new role as national security adviser will place him closer to President Donald Trump at a higher frequency as the administration struggles to hatch a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

But the added responsibility will also test the bandwidth of the secretary of state, with experts expressing skepticism Rubio...Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced late Monday she won’t run for a key congressional post even after she won a big boost Monday when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called her a “very compelling candidate” to fill the spot.

The progressive lawmaker said she doesn’t believe she could win enough support from establishment ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The State Bar of California is suing the vendor that administered its February bar exam, a disastrous rollout of a new testing platform that shook confidence in the organization's leadership, prompted lawmakers to call for an audit and the state Supreme Court to order the agency to revert to the traditional exam format in July.

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Two months after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with a half-dozen Caribbean leaders in his first official visit to the region, more heads of government will get a chance to air their concerns.

The prime ministers of six eastern Caribbean nations — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice wants to dismiss a legal challenge against a common abortion medication brought by Missouri and Kansas, pitting top Republican officials in the two states against the Trump administration.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, along with Idaho’s ...Read more

Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney met Tuesday with President Donald Trump amid major tensions over the trade war and Trump’s push to annex the northern neighbor as a 51st state.

Carney, who won election last week on a platform of confronting Trump’s threats, sought to strike a more cordial tone in the planned face-to-face ...Read more

A newly released report from the U.S. National Intelligence Council concludes that while the Nicolás Maduro regime tolerates the feared Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, it is unlikely the Venezuelan strongman exercises direct control over the organization.

That finding contradicts a central assertion made by former President Donald Trump in his...Read more

NEW YORK — Columbia University plans to lay off about 180 researchers after the Trump administration revoked $400 million in federal funding over claims the school did not do enough to protect Jewish students from harassment.

The staff were expected to receive notices Tuesday. The move impacts 1 in 5 Columbia researchers who were funded in ...Read more

ATLANTA — Citing “alarming” rates of assaults on teachers, the Georgia Federation of Teachers has a suggestion for lawmakers: Hold parents accountable for their children’s actions.

The union unveiled the Georgia Parent Accountability Act last week. It would penalize parents — through fines, required community service at schools or ...Read more