More than half the world’s population is not getting enough of seven crucial nutrients. It’s an issue the World Health Organization said is a major threat, especially for children and pregnant women in low-income countries.

Published in the journal the Lancet Global Health, researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UC ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD inspector has been tapped to become the department’s First Amendment protest supervisor — a newly created position mandated by a federal legal settlement forcing police to overhaul how they handle demonstrations, the Daily News has learned.

The settlement was reached last September after talks between the city, various ...Read more

Multiple sexual assaults facilitated by spiked drinks were reported to UC Berkeley recently, according to school officials.

According to a WarnMe message sent to the community Tuesday, the incident occurred Friday around 11:55 p.m. on College Avenue. WarnMe is an emergency notification system to send warnings from campus police.

There were ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Jewish teacher who was targeted during a protest at a Queens high school over her support of Israel is suing New York City for failing to protect her and allowing antisemitic harassment — despite advance notice of the demonstration.

Karen Marder, who continues to teach at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, said its former ...Read more

NEW YORK — Winnie Greco, a senior City Hall adviser to Mayor Adams, reported in her latest financial disclosure that she has for decades owned a Bronx house that was raided by the FBI this year — raising questions why she didn’t list the same property on previous financial forms.

Greco owns the property in Pelham Bay with her husband, ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Freddie Owens is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, when he will be brought into South Carolina’s death chamber and given a lethal injection.

Details about how he spends his final day, however, will not be made public due to the state’s shield law and the S.C. Department of Corrections policy.

The...Read more

BALTIMORE — When the gunfire started, Jonathan Chih’s first thought was that the silhouetted figure standing several feet away from him along a dark road in Cockeysville had punched him in the face

It took a moment before Chih, then a detective with the Baltimore County Police Department’s vice and narcotics section, realized the person ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, facing federal sex trafficking charges, has been moved out of solitary confinement at the notorious MDC Brooklyn jail, the Daily News has learned.

Combs, who was indicted Tuesday on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, was initially placed in the special housing unit, or SHU, which is SOP for ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump, 50% to 45%, in a nationwide Florida Atlantic University poll released Thursday.

There has been little change in the last three weeks despite momentous events, including the Harris-Trump debate last week and the thwarted assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday.

In FAU’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Even as the national International Brotherhood of Teamsters is remaining neutral in the presidential race, the Pittsburgh-based Teamsters Joint Council No. 40, representing 14 locals and 35,000 workers, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

It's one of several Teamsters organizations nationally to do so, including ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After more than a month of checkpoints and sheriff’s patrol cars snaking around the perimeter of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Palm Beach County officials are calling for help to fit the bill.

In a letter signed by County Mayor Maria Sachs, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Town of Palm ...Read more

CHICAGO — The judge overseeing the bribery trial of former AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza, accused of funneling payments to an ally of Michael Madigan to win the speaker’s support, has declared a mistrial in the case.

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman announced his decision Thursday afternoon, a few hours after the jury had ...Read more

ATLANTA — In September of 1838, Nancy Still filed a claim to recoup $820 she said was stolen from her after federal troops expelled her and other Cherokee Indians from their homes in what is now North Georgia. Forced to migrate west to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, thousands of Cherokee died on the way.

“The troops compelled her to go and...Read more

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan and bicameral talks to head off a partial government shutdown after next week appeared to be underway Thursday after the collapse of Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-part stopgap funding package Wednesday night.

Senate appropriators were in the paper-trading stage while, at least at the staff level, discussions were taking...Read more

The employer of the six workers who were filling potholes when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed filed a claim against the Singaporean companies behind the massive container ship that felled the span.

Brawner Builders Inc., of Hunt Valley, alleges that Grace Ocean Private Ltd., owner of the 984-foot Dali, and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., the ...Read more

A Washington state woman is permanently scarred after flying with Delta Air Lines, according to a new federal lawsuit that says a flight attendant served her dangerously hot coffee that spilled onto her, leaving her with first- and second-degree burns.

During the Delta flight from Paris to Seattle on Dec. 15, 2023, Cheryl Myers was watching a ...Read more

BOSTON — An effort to repeal a new gun law in Massachusetts has managed to secure roughly half of the signatures needed to immediately suspend the enforcement of the statute and place a question before voters in the 2026 election, according to a top organizer.

The campaign to strike down a law that — among many things — bans people under ...Read more

Lebanon’s death toll from a series of walkie-talkie and pager explosions this week rose to 37, according to local authorities, an illustration of the devastation wrought by a wave of suspected Israeli attacks aimed at Hezbollah militants.

A second wave of blasts Wednesday killed 25 and injured more than 600, the Lebanese health ministry said....Read more

DETROIT — The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that Oxford schools and its employees have governmental immunity in two lawsuits related to the 2021 Oxford High School shooting that left four students dead as well as six others and a teacher injured.

A three-judge panel ruled Thursday that because of this, the district and its employees can...Read more