CHICAGO — When rank-and-file firefighters joined them to demand a contract last month, the Chicago Teachers Union framed the team-up in powerful terms: “Two unions. One fight.”

Now, with a pending deal for teachers clinched last week, only one of them remains in the ring.

Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2 is rounding out the fourth year...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City will pay three shelter guards $350,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging they were assaulted by Tim Pearson, a former top adviser and longtime confidant to Mayor Eric Adams, during an infamous 2023 incident at a migrant shelter, according to paperwork obtained by the Daily News.

The taxpayer-funded settlement ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Bensalem Township wants to build a new fire station. Sharon Hill's library needs renovations, and SEPTA's subway entrances on Market Street were planning a much-needed facelift.

Each project was slated for federal funding this year, which has vanished. When Congress passed the continuing resolution, or CR, to keep the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s transportation department is not planning to sue if the MTA blows through Secretary Sean Duffy’s deadlines to end the state’s congestion pricing program, new court filings reveal.

The filings come as Duffy has repeatedly talked — and tweeted — tough, threatening funding to the transit agency and deriding ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The family of a man killed by a Las Vegas police officer filed a federal lawsuit on Monday.

Metropolitan Police Department Officer Alexander Bookman fatally shot Brandon Durham, 43, on Nov. 12 after Durham called police to report a burglary.

The Clark County district attorney’s office is expected to seek an indictment of ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers have backed a pair of bills to reform the much-maligned process that helped seat nearly a quarter of the Legislature, while rejecting a competing proposal that would’ve required changing the state constitution.

The two favored bills, which cleared an initial House committee on Monday, are essentially a package ...Read more

BALTIMORE — About a dozen Johns Hopkins University graduate students and recent graduates had their visa records terminated by the federal government, the university announced Tuesday.

In response, the Baltimore university is providing support to those students through the Office of International Services, such as academic advising and health...Read more

ATLANTA — Val Kilmer, the actor behind iconic characters from “Batman Forever,” “Top Gun,” “Tombstone” and more, has died. The 65-year-old film star died April 1 from a battle with pneumonia, an infection that raises increased risks for older adults.

Here’s everything to know about the infection and why older adults should take ...Read more

For his first bill in the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has joined a Republican colleague to propose a federal tax credit for certain homeowners who retrofit and harden their homes against wildfires and other natural disasters.

Schiff is introducing the measure alongside fellow freshman Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., a former U.S. Navy Seal ...Read more

Iran said it will start high-level talks with the U.S. in Oman this weekend, confirming Donald Trump’s announcement that they’re planning to meet to resolve a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

“The talks will be held on Saturday in Oman. They will take place in an indirect format, and we don’t accept any other method of ...Read more

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world.

Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire year. Yet, water and greenery are everywhere. This is the nation’s agro-industrial heartland, and, thanks to irrigation canals, ...Read more

TIJUANA, Mexico — When the Russian man arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 1, he knew he was too late. Still, he held on to hope that even with President Trump in office he could be let into the United States to seek asylum.

Slavik, a 37-year-old engineer, said he fled Russia after being beaten by security forces for supporting the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Purple flags, representing the nearly 300 Mecklenburg County residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023, fluttered in the humid breeze last August in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day on the city’s predominantly Black west side.

As recently as five years ago, the event might have attracted an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- In Pomona, Michael Lerma is a “mythical” figure, his attorney says.

Lerma, 68, hasn’t walked the streets of his hometown on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County since the 1980s, when he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. But according to federal prosecutors, he controls an “empire” of gang ...Read more