NEW YORK — Former FDNY Chief Anthony Saccavino pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to accept thousands of dollars in bribes for speeding up inspections for businesses with matters before the department.

Saccavino, 59, is accused of expediting fire inspections for building owners who could pay up in a scheme that saw him and his co-...Read more

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines trended on social media Wednesday while sitting front row for her husband Robert F. Kennedy’s Senate confirmation hearing to become the nation’s next Secretary of Health and Human Service.

While Larry David’s TV ex-wife got some support on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, she also ...Read more

CHICAGO — Early in their final pitch to jurors on Wednesday, prosecutors displayed a screenshot from an undercover video: Michael Madigan, then the powerful speaker of the Illinois House, leaning forward with his hand out.

That image, secretly recorded by alderman-turned-FBI mole Daniel Solis, is surely the portrait of Madigan that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the chaos of fleeing from the fast-moving flames of the Palisades and Eaton firestorms, many evacuees were forced to abandon their cars, some in the middle of the street, to escape the blaze.

There are a few options for disposing of your damaged or destroyed vehicles.

Fire survivors from both communities are currently not ...Read more

DETROIT — Four Macomb County high school students charged in a 2023 shooting that paralyzed a person pleaded no contest to charges, an official announced Tuesday.

Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in a statement that the teens each pleaded to assault with intent to murder, a life felony, armed robbery, a life felony, and conspiracy ...Read more

DENVER – Military officials have opened Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to process and temporarily house detained immigrants.

U.S. Northern Command opened the base to ICE on Monday at the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a statement provided by military ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversity policies and deporting immigrants who are in this country illegally.

Despite fierce criticism, he is likely to succeed on those fronts because the Constitution and the laws generally put those ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The showdown between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature over immigration enforcement continued today with the governor threatening to veto the Legislature’s $500 million bill drafted with input from President Donald Trump’s team.

“The veto pen is ready,” DeSantis posted on X moments before he held a ...Read more

Several California highway projects could be delayed indefinitely after President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order — titled “Unleashing American Energy” — aimed at rolling back pair President Joe Biden-era infrastructure laws, which Trump has termed the “Green New Deal.”

“In recent years, burdensome and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento City Council set a new timeline to find a permanent city manager Tuesday, establishing a plan to hire a recruitment firm by March.

Following a national search, whomever takes the job will be tasked with leading the city’s roughly 6,000 employees, overseeing an annual operating budget of more than $1.6 ...Read more

A Kansas man whose Jan. 6 case was dismissed last week by President Donald Trump is demanding that Kansas State University immediately give him back the teaching job it fired him from, along with four years of back pay.

William Pope, of Topeka — among the hundreds whose criminal cases were dismissed last week when Trump granted clemency to ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Howard County is revamping its arts and culture plan after more than two decades without a major update, officials announced at an event last week.

The Howard County Arts and Culture Plan will be developed during a nearly two-year process involving a steering committee of leaders from local organizations, consultants from the Ohio...Read more

FORT VALLEY, Ga. — Inside the Colonial Revival courthouse here on a recent chilly afternoon, two dozen people spread out on hardwood benches in Peach County Superior Court to await their fates.

A subject at the heart of American citizenship sat front and center. For whatever reason, a month and a half earlier they had failed to show up for ...Read more

“Animals,” “aliens” and “people with bad genes” – President Donald Trump and his supporters often use this kind of dehumanizing language to describe immigrants.

In the 2024 presidential debate between Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, Trump falsely referred to Haitian refugees in Springfield, Ohio, as “...Read more

The many controversial people appointed to the Trump administration, from Elon Musk to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have at least one thing in common: They dislike and distrust experts.

While anti-intellectualism and populism are nothing new in American life, there has hardly been an administration as seemingly committed to these worldviews...Read more

Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church, which began on Dec. 24, 2024, and will continue through Jan. 6, 2026. But what is a Jubilee, and what is this year’s about?

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years. The Jubilee has ...Read more