As New York City ushered in its long-awaited congestion pricing plan, the FDNY sounded the alarm over what it calls a looming public safety crisis — one they warn could mean slower response times, longer shifts and millions of dollars in extra costs.

The tolling program, the first of its kind in the United States, was introduced just after ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers over the weekend teed up bills on issues ranging from clean energy and criminal justice to public health and child welfare for consideration before a lame-duck session ends on Tuesday and a new General Assembly is sworn in.

Among the measures before the Senate is a bill that would eliminate barriers for people...Read more

The Golden Globes unofficially kicked off Hollywood awards season Sunday night, as comedian Nikki Glaser hosted the star-studded ceremony.

Three years after a massive boycott and untelevised ceremony, the stars were back on the red carpet and inside the Beverly Hilton hotel, while CBS aired the festivities live.

HBO series “Shogun” won big...Read more

The new Senate Majority Leader says he wants to get President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet through the confirmation process as quickly as possible but spent a good part of Sunday cautioning there is “a process” that must be followed first.

U.S. Sen. John Thune, in the wake of a deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, said that the ...Read more

Plans by the Trump Administration to begin the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, which the president-elect’s Border Czar says will likely lead to collateral arrests inside immigrant communities, are part of a “shock and awe” campaign to “instill panic” in those communities, according to immigration advocates.

Incoming Border...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday called for $615 million to be included in the federal budget to shore up urban centers against terrorism in the wake of an attack in New Orleans and an explosion in Las Vegas — and the potential for copycats.

With the current agreement to keep the government from shutting down lasting only through March ...Read more

More than three months after winning the most seats at federal elections, far-right leader Herbert Kickl is on track to become the Freedom Party’s first Austrian chancellor in a tie-up with the conservative People’s Party.

Kickl, 56, is set to meet President Alexander Van der Bellen at 11 a.m. in Vienna on Monday to discuss forming a ...Read more

Four years after a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol to support Donald Trump’s last-gasp effort to overturn his election loss, the events of Jan. 6, 2021, have evolved into a political and cultural flashpoint — with little lasting damage to the president-elect.

The attack faced bipartisan condemnation in the immediate aftermath. But as Trump ...Read more

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that will increase Social Security benefits for millions of Americans — his first public bill signing ceremony in more than two years.

The Social Security Fairness Act will boost Social Security payments to more than 2.5 million retirees — some by as much as $550 a month — by changing the ...Read more

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces on Sunday launched a new offensive in the western Russian region of Kursk, following their surprise incursion into the territory last summer.

"Kursk region, good news: Russia is getting what it deserves," the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram, indirectly confirming ...Read more

Last year, about a quarter of all health insurance claims were denied in California — a reality mirrored nationwide that has stoked public anger toward health care companies, and led to accusations that such decisions lack human empathy.

But this month, a new state law is taking on the latest twist in the debate, ensuring that a human’s ...Read more

Latest weather data shows that Anne Arundel and other southern and central counties could see 9 to 11 inches of snow Monday as meteorologists predict the heaviest portion of the storm to pass over Central Maryland — prompting increased snowfall predictions statewide.

Baltimore’s expected 4- to 6-inch prediction was increased to 6 to 9 ...Read more

New Orleans truck attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar traveled to Egypt and Canada in the summer of 2023, and investigators are examining whether the foreign trips were part of his preparations, an FBI official said.

“Our agents are getting answers as to where he went, whom he met with, how those trips may or may not tie into his actions in our city,...Read more

A Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo that wouldn't stop making circles in a parking lot.

L.A. tech entrepreneur Mike Johns posted a video three weeks ago on LinkedIn of his call to a customer service representative for Waymo to report that the car kept turning in ...Read more

Parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties are expected to see wind gusts up to 80 mph this week, putting the parched region at "major risk" of wildfires, the National Weather Service warned.

The Santa Ana winds will begin to pick up Tuesday morning and increase in intensity through Wednesday, with gusts from 55 to 80 miles per hour, said Rich ...Read more

The number of U.S. districts and individual schools offering free breakfast and lunch for all students increased significantly in the 2023-24 school year, a new report found.

When comparing the 2022-23 school year to 2023-24, 7,500 more schools and 1,300 more school districts adopted the federal Community Eligibility Provision program, which ...Read more

The Bay Area’s homeless population grew 6% to an estimated 38,891 people in 2024, according to new federal data, extending a decade-long surge fueled by the housing affordability crisis, and drug and mental health challenges among those living on the region’s streets.

In California, homelessness rose 3% to more than 187,000, while the U.S. ...Read more

Austria’s anti-immigrant Freedom Party crept closer to appointing its first chancellor after receiving an invitation by the nation’s president to discuss forming a government.

Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl will meet Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen late Monday morning in Vienna after efforts to form a centrist coalition ...Read more

Speaker Mike Johnson vowed that an ambitious bill addressing a range of President-elect Donald Trump’s priorities will be voted out of the U.S. House in April, a tight schedule for his narrowly divided chamber.

In an interview on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures," Johnson said Republicans would use what is known as the reconciliation ...Read more