NEW YORK — A flash flood warning has been issued for Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island until 6:15 p.m., with authorities warning people not to walk or drive where water covers the road, ensnarling commuters as extreme thunderstorms overtake NYC following a dangerous heatwave.

Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency to allow ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A key Senate Democrat broadened his attack on the Trump administration’s handling of records about the financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network, urging the Internal Revenue Service to investigate his tax and estate planning work for private equity titan Leon Black.

Ron Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, the police officer gunned down in a Midtown Manhattan mass shooting inside a Park Ave. office building, was posthumously promoted to detective first grade during his funeral Thursday as a sea of mourners, most of them police, gathered outside to pay their respects.

An estimated 15,000 people were on hand...Read more

NEW YORK — The last of the Park Avenue mass shooter’s final victims was in temporary safety in a panic room, only to be killed when she stepped outside of it during a lull in the gunfire, police sources and authorities said.

Initially, it was believed that the victim, Rudin Management associate Julia Hyman, 27, may have thought the gunman, ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has suffered a setback in his death penalty sentencing appeal.

Tsarnaev had been trying to toss the federal judge from the case, as the killer fights to dodge a death sentence.

But a federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the judge — George A. O’Toole Jr. — will stay on for the ...Read more

MIAMI — At a rally in Hialeah in 2023, then-candidate Donald Trump made a pledge: to end the “invasion” of the United States by undocumented immigrants. The announcement, made in a city where three-fourths of residents are foreign-born, was greeted with thunderous applause as Trump said his next administration was going to root out ...Read more

ATLANTA — Three right-wing members of the State Election Board have revived a fight over the 2020 presidential election and called for President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to intervene.

The surprise move Wednesday by the Republican board members — the same three praised by Trump as “pit bulls” during a campaign rally last fall ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 4.3 earthquake rumbled through Muscoy in San Bernardino County on Thursday morning, triggering shaking across the Inland Empire, Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquake occurred at 9:32 a.m. at a depth of about 3.3 miles and was followed by a magnitude 3.1 aftershock ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A witness criticized the safety of the airspace around Ronald Reagan National Airport since a mid-air crash in January, as National Transportation Safety Board officials examined whether the air traffic control tower at the airport was ill-equipped to handle the area’s heavy congestion.

“The airspace system, since 1986 — ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As yet another self-imposed deadline for President Donald Trump's tariff threats looms Friday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is raising concerns about impacts on the state economy.

"I have heard from countless Michiganders alarmed by the way Washington Republicans are handling tariffs,” Whitmer said in a press release. “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration defended its broad tariff regime Thursday to a panel of sharply skeptical federal judges who repeatedly questioned whether Congress gave the president such broad tariff powers.

The 11-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit grilled the Justice Department attorney and challengers ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled plans for a glitzy new White House ballroom with a hefty $200 million price tag even as Republicans implement draconian cuts to health and other social programs.

Construction is set to begin in September on the new 90,000-square-foot space that would seat up to 650 people adjacent to the White House�...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The next four humans in the parade of SpaceX launches from the Space Coast will have to wait at least another day for their trip to the International Space Station after weather caused a late scrub Thursday.

“Hold, hold, hold. We are standing down due to violation of weather rules,” came the callout from mission ...Read more

As climate change drives temperatures higher, prolonged periods of heat exposure are doing more than just making classrooms uncomfortable. According to a new systematic review published in PLOS Climate, extended exposure to heat significantly impairs students’ cognitive abilities, affecting their academic performance, especially in complex ...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Miami’s decision to postpone the scheduled November 2025 election to 2026 without voter approval was unconstitutional, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal has ruled, siding with a lower court.

On Thursday, the appellate court handed down its ruling in the lawsuit filed by mayoral candidate Emilio González, who ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Officer Didarul Islam, the cop gunned down in a Midtown Manhattan mass shooting inside a Park Ave. office building, was posthumously promoted to detective first grade during his funeral on Thursday as a sea of mourners, mostly police, gathered outside to pay their respects. An estimated 15,000 people were on hand.

Islam was ...Read more

NEW YORK — In an effort to get Sean “Diddy” Combs out from behind bars, lawyers for the hip-hop mogul have asked the judge presiding over his Manhattan sex crimes case to set aside the recent guilty verdicts, arguing the disgraced rap icon had a First Amendment right to fund and organize the notorious “freak-off” sessions central to ...Read more

Victoria Gomez de la Torre doesn’t know when — or if — the migrant children she serves are going to get the education help they’ve come to rely on.

Gomez de la Torre oversees the migrant education program for 12 central Florida counties. The federally funded service helps the children of migrant agricultural workers, who move within and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday imposing new tariff rates on trading partners that take effect Friday, the White House said.

The signing will take place “at some point this afternoon or later this evening,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during a news briefing, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Delta flight heading from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam encountered “significant” turbulence after take off Wednesday, sending beverage carts and other items flying through the cabin and leaving at least 25 people hurt.

Nine of the injured were taken to Hennepin Healthcare in downtown Minneapolis after the Airbus A330-900 ...Read more