PHILADELPHIA —Three former Philadelphia elected officials who were convicted on corruption charges and left office in disgrace have found a second chance — with taxpayer-funded jobs.

Former Traffic Court Judge Willie Singletary and former State Rep. Leslie Acosta both landed positions in Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's administration, according ...Read more

BOSTON — The Wu administration has spent millions installing bike lanes throughout Boston since the mayor took office, and is planning to spend millions more in future years, but some argue the hefty investment has led to more headaches than benefits.

An analysis of the city’s $4.7 billion capital plan for fiscal year 2025-29 reveals a ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration have ramped-up rhetoric about possible plans for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, calls to Central Kentucky immigration lawyers have soared, multiple lawyers said this week.

Immigration lawyers and groups working with Lexington’s international ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration could try to remove fluoride from drinking water, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy, who was tapped last week by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, called fluoride an “industrial waste” and linked it to cancer and other diseases and disorders while ...Read more

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether.

Hurricane Helene, which hit North Carolina in September, wrecked a Baxter International facility that produces 60% of...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — He attacked in the dark. Striking in the early morning hours, the rapist targeted women and girls who he knew were alone, brazenly breaking into apartments and townhomes around Spartanburg to terrify, assault and abuse.

From 1995 to 2003, he raped or attempted to rape 13 girls and women, with the victims ranging in age from ...Read more

Beginning in January 2025, Republicans in Washington will achieve what’s commonly known as a governing “trifecta”: control over the executive branch via the president, combined with majorities for their party in both the House and the Senate.

You might think that a trifecta, which is also referred to as “unified government” ...Read more

FERGUS FALLS, MINN. – As an Indian migrant family struggled to cross the border during a brutally cold blizzard, they made desperate phone calls to the alleged smuggler who had arranged their passage from Canada.

The migrants told the alleged smuggler, Fenil Patel, that they couldn’t find the driver who was supposed to pick them up on the U...Read more

Among all the things that Philadelphians love about the Jersey Shore, the taste of the Atlantic Ocean is not one of them.

Fortunately, the Philadelphia Water Department assures that it's highly unlikely that its customers ever would have saltwater running through their taps. But in recent weeks the so-called salt line — the boundary between ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump continues to reach into the ranks of loyalists, allies and television personalities as he fills out the remainder of his Cabinet.

On Tuesday, he chose Cantor Fitzgerald LP Chief Executive Officer Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department, a central position in an administration that will likely ...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — The caipirinhas were flowing, the samba and fervo dancers were swaying and a light ocean breeze enveloped the VIP guests in Rio de Janiero. But as the Group of 20 communique popped up online, the mood was far from festive.

The behind-the-scenes squabbling over language characterizing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East had ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Facing President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively backed a “sanctuary city” law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement.

Because the law, which passed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Years of high-profile intercontinental ballistic missile tests by North Korea have fallen short of demonstrating that Pyongyang can successfully launch and deliver a nuclear warhead against the U.S. mainland, the head of American forces in the Indo-Pacific said.

North Korea’s recent test flight of a Hwasong-19 ICBM, its ...Read more

Muslim college students across California say they have faced an increase in harassment and discrimination on their campuses in the last year, according to a new report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The report from the Muslim advocacy organization, released Tuesday, comes amid heightened tensions at many Bay Area schools in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan triple-murder stabbing spree suspect Ramon Rivera chose his victims because they were preoccupied doing something else and he was able to sneak up on them, a police source told the Daily News.

Rivera revealed the chilling detail to cops before he was ordered held without bail when he appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court ...Read more

The president was Eisenhower. The Dodgers belonged to Brooklyn. The cost of a Los Angeles-London round-trip flight was $720 — a staggering amount in 1956. Yet in his off hours, a young Manhattan lawyer named Arthur Frommer pressed ahead with a wild idea.

As a U.S. Army serviceman in postwar Europe a few years before, Frommer had seen the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams, who has said that Monday’s fatal stabbing spree was a failure of government, said Tuesday he wants to expand involuntary hospitalization policies to make it easier for cops and outreach workers to get mentally ill people off the streets.

Following a bloody stabbing spree that left three dead Monday, the mayor ...Read more

A French medical charity that is the only life-saving option for many Haitians at a time when escalating gang violence has shuttered hospitals and health clinics and sent pharmacies up in smoke said Tuesday it is suspending all services in metropolitan Port-au-Prince after a series of attacks and threats by Haitian police.

Médecins Sans Fronti...Read more

WASHINGTON — Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, denied allegations Tuesday that it took her agency around three days to respond to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.

Criswell testified before two congressional committees Tuesday about the federal response to hurricanes Helene and Milton, saying that ...Read more