BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu continues to be in the national spotlight after she vowed and doubled down that the city will not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement when President-elect Trump regains office.

“The Five” on Fox News spoke at length Wednesday about Wu and other elected officials who have said they will continue...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said he was “shocked” by President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of anti-vaccine activist and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

Calling Kennedy an “agent of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christoper Wray declined to testify publicly at a Senate committee hearing Thursday on threats to the nation, drawing a rare bipartisan rebuke from members who had to cancel it at the last minute.

It was the second scuttled congressional hearing in as many days ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles voted to indict Texas-based oil refiner Phillips 66 for allegedly dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater from its Carson refinery into the Los Angeles County sewer system and then failing to report it, according to a Thursday statement from the U.S. Department ...Read more

DETROIT — It's a good thing not just the early bird gets the worm.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Detroit Metro Airport found live larvae of a rare fruit fly in a traveler's things earlier this year, officials said Thursday.

They said the grubs were among some fresh caper flowers found in the belongings of a traveler from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz dropped his bid to become President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general on Thursday, closing out a campaign that was dogged by sexual misconduct allegations and the specter of an unreleased ethics report.

With the Florida Republican’s withdrawal, the Senate will avoid what was shaping up to be a ...Read more

MIAMI — A 35-year-old man arrested Saturday while boarding a Chicago-to-Miami Amtrak train carried a Lankybox plushie toy, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure — and a plan to kidnap a child from a Fort Lauderdale school, federal agents say.

Homeland Security Investigations agents say they had something, too — text messages as ...Read more

NEW YORK — A thorny thief swiped a gold-plated rose that was part of a 9/11 memorial display at a Midtown Manhattan church, cops said Thursday.

The rose was part of a commemorative display at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on W. 31st St. near Seventh Ave. and down the block from Penn Station.

The crook entered the church around 2:30 p.m...Read more

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Nov. 21, 2024, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and one leading Hamas official. Those named in the action are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Palestinian militant group and the ...Read more

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the Santa Barbara Channel, a zone that teems with fish, kelp forests, seagrass beds and other undersea life, but also vibrates with noise from ship traffic. Suddenly, the noise gets louder.

You start to make a slow, ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a stunning move, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the convictions of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, finding that a special prosecutor’s decision to retry him for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself violated his rights after the Cook County state’s attorney’s office previously dropped ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz dropped his bid to become President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general on Thursday, closing out a campaign that was dogged by sexual misconduct allegations and the specter of an unreleased ethics report.

With the Florida Republican’s withdrawal, the Senate will avoid what was shaping up to be a ...Read more

Deepening Israel's international isolation in the starkest fashion since the start of the 13-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, the Hague-based International Criminal Court said Thursday it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his recently dismissed defense minister, Yoav Gallant, over the conduct of the war...Read more

Matt Gaetz Thursday abruptly dropped his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general amid growing allegations involving drugs and paid sex with young women.

The former Florida lawmaker said he was stepping aside to avoid what he called a “needlessly protracted Washington scuffle” over his nomination to lead the Department of...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Thursday she will chair a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency to cut spending and streamline government.

The new subcommittee, created by House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., would...Read more

Matt Gaetz Thursday abruptly dropped his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general amid growing allegations involving drugs and paid sex with young women.

“It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction,” Gaetz tweeted. “Thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz dropped his bid to become President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general on Thursday, closing out a campaign that was dogged by sexual misconduct allegations and the looming specter of an unreleased ethics report.

With the Florida Republican’s withdrawal, the Senate will avoid what was shaping up ...Read more

ATLANTA — The father of Apalachee School High School school shooting suspect Colt Gray pleaded not guilty Thursday and waived arraignment.

Colin Gray, who was not present in court, was indicted on 29 charges including murder in the second degree, involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct and cruelty to children in the second degree. ...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials released a range of scenarios Wednesday that could be used to manage the overallocated and shrinking Colorado River as time for the seven basin states to reach an agreement grows short.

The Bureau of Reclamation’s four proposed plans are not set in stone, but for the first time offer insight into how federal ...Read more