NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged at Grand Central Terminal on Thursday to work toward driving down crime in the New York City subway system as her proposed blitz of subway safety spending made it through budget negotiations in Albany unscathed.

The funds include $77 million to keep up NYPD overtime for overnight train patrols — funding ...Read more

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere some time this month.

The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, intending to land on Venus. However, the probe never left Earth’s orbit because of a rocket malfunction. Since then, the rocket has very gradually lost altitude as it circled the world in a highly ...Read more

A musical comedy inspired by Luigi Mangione is set to debut next month in California — illustrating how the Towson native accused of stalking and fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has become something of a folk hero to many.

“Luigi: the Musical” is being described on its website as “a story of love, murder and hash ...Read more

From the onset, the international mission to help Haiti wrest back control from armed gangs faced challenges and skepticism.

There were legal challenges in Nairobi and pushback in Washington from congressional Republicans as the Biden administration sought to provide the first $40 million in seed money to get the Kenya-led mission going, as a ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — As Robert Gaunt, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, puts it, the sensation of touch doesn't actually come from the fingers. It comes from electrical impulses sent to the brain.

In research published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications, Pitt researchers attempted to use brain stimulation to recreate touch ...Read more

As California begins requiring homeowners to take steps to protect their properties from wildfires, a new state bill aims to offer cash for mitigation efforts, including clearing vegetation and installing fire-resistant roofing.

Assembly Bill 888, dubbed the California Safe Homes Act, would provide the grant funding to low- and middle-income ...Read more

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Lorie Franklin is due to give birth to her and husband Lehman’s first child, a girl, on May 27, but her advanced pregnancy didn’t keep her away from a bill signing Thursday at the Savannah Convention Center.

Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation ensuring couples like the Franklins, who conceived via in vitro fertilization, ...Read more

The health program that treats Sept. 11 first responders has started resuming enrollment of new participants and approving treatments for ailing patients after on-again, off-again Trump administration cuts had hobbled the program for weeks, the Daily News has learned.

A Department of Health and Human Services official informed doctors and ...Read more

Tesla on Thursday denied a report suggesting it had launched the search process for a new CEO, just as founder Elon Musk gears up to relinquish his leadership role with the Department of Government Efficiency and exit President Trump’s White House.

“Earlier today, there was a media report erroneously claiming that the Tesla Board had ...Read more

Former President Joe Biden will appear on ABC morning show “The View” next Thursday.

The 46th President will be joined by former first lady Dr. Jill Biden at 11 a.m. for their first interviews since leaving the White House in January. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg gave viewers an idea of what to expect on Thursday’s show.

“We’ll ask ...Read more

DENVER — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by residents of Denver’s Cedar Run Apartments against its corporate owner, citing insufficient evidence to back up their allegations of poor living conditions.

Denver County Court Judge Brian Williamson ended the case with an oral ruling issued from the bench in late March. A representative of ...Read more

A second survey using ground-penetrating radar on land that was once a cemetery found seven more possible graves near Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.

That’s a total of 10 possible graves, eight identified areas of interest and nine areas where graves could have been removed, based on both studies.

St. Petersburg began looking ...Read more

ATLANTA — A Griffin couple will spend decades behind bars for starving their 10-year-old son who prosecutors said weighed just 36 pounds when he was found wandering in their neighborhood in 2023.

Tyler and Krista Schindley pleaded guilty Thursday to all of the charges against them in the abuse case, including cruelty to children, false ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday named Mike Waltz as his new ambassador to the United Nations after multiple reports said he would be ousted as national security adviser over his controversial role in the leaked group chat of American military attack plans on the Signal messaging app.

Instead of appointing a new national security adviser, ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday postponed the retrial of of ex-AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza on bribery counts related to former House Speaker Michael Madigan, allowing the new U.S. Attorney in Chicago to consider next steps in the case and avoiding the possibility that Madigan would be sentenced in the same same courthouse while ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A 54-year-old man was arrested and charged in San Diego federal court this week on allegations that he attempted to smuggle exotic parakeets across the U.S.-Mexico border by hiding the birds inside his cowboy boots.

The alleged smuggler, a Mexican citizen, was arrested on suspicion of hiding the birds in nylon stockings concealed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has decided to remove Mike Waltz from his post as national security adviser and will instead nominate him to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

“From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is tapping Secretary of State Marco Rubio to replace Mike Waltz as his national security adviser, handing one Floridian two powerful titles just as he demotes another.

Trump described Rubio’s new role as an “interim” one, leaving his options open as he overhauls his National Security Council in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Jim McDonnell took over as Los Angeles police chief late last year, he promised to take stock of the department within 90 days and start overhauling what needed fixing.

Nearly six months later, seemingly little has changed and there are growing questions about when — or even if — McDonnell will shake things up.

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Virginia Giuffre’s father said he does not believe she died by suicide, adamantly insisting that “someone got to her” some 15 years after she first accused financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually exploiting her as a teen.

Sky Roberts made the claim during an emotional interview with Piers Morgan on Thursday. He told the the talk show host ...Read more