MIAMI — After weeks of requests from politicians and media, the state of Florida said it has no formal, completed plan for how to handle a hurricane at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigrant detention site in the heart of the Everglades.

Two weeks ago, the Miami Herald requested “the completed hurricane/disaster plan for Alligator Alcatraz�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department filed an ethics complaint accusing a federal judge in Washington of making “improper” comments about President Donald Trump earlier this year, ratcheting up growing tensions between the executive and judicial branches.

The misconduct claim against U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg was ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Blackstone executive, who was also a mother of two, and a heroic NYPD officer survived by his pregnant wife and sons were among the four people fatally shot inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper on Monday.

Gunfire erupted inside the Park Avenue office tower, which is owned by Rudin Management and houses offices for the NFL as ...Read more

The Trump administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Tuesday revoking a science-based determination that pollution fueling climate change harms public health. The so-called endangerment finding has since 2009 underpinned federal regulations for vehicles, power plants and other sources under the Clean Air Act.

EPA ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is making yet another bid at bail as the Harlem-born mogul awaits sentencing his Oct. 3 sentencing for two prostitution-related charges.

Lawyers for the 55-year-old convicted Bad Boy Records founder, who was recently denied presentencing bail, argue that he should be released on $50 million bond and reside at...Read more

CHICAGO -- Allen Hall hunched at a picnic table outside the University of Chicago Medical Center last week under the beating sun, his head in his hands.

A few days before, Hall’s 24-year-old daughter, Arneka McReynolds, had taken a special trip down to Chicago with her fiance from their home in Michigan to attend the Simeon Career Academy ...Read more

NEW YORK — Didarul Islam, the NYPD officer killed by a rampaging gunman in a mass shooting in a Park Avenue skyscraper, was a Bangladeshi immigrant who joined the force to leave behind a legacy his family could be proud of, mourners said Tuesday.

Islam, 36, a father of two with a baby on the way, was one of four people gunned down by Shane ...Read more

Investigators are looking into whether a Las Vegas man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Manhattan on Monday was targeting the National Football League after it emerged that the gunman was a Los Angeles high school football player with a documented mental health history.

New York Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the shooter, identified...Read more

As European Union leaders work through the consequences of their new trading arrangement with the U.S., they are confronting the bitter reality of just how far they have fallen.

Donald Trump held court on Sunday at one of the golf courses he owns on the Scottish coast, touting the new ballroom he’d had built at the clubhouse and delivering a...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- A rideshare driver allowed to live in the U.S. under a program for immigrants who arrived undocumented as children said that he mistakenly drove into Tijuana while transporting passengers near San Ysidro.

Now, Erick Alexander Hernández, a 34-year-old man originally from El Salvador, is in immigration custody in San Diego and being...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- When it comes to meteor showers, the Perseids pop. It's not just about the quantity of meteors (as many as 100 per hour) and their showy quality (fireballs!) but also their superb timing.

The annual shower hits its peak on warm, laid-back August nights as the Earth crosses paths with the dust cloud left by comet Swift-Tuttle on ...Read more

COVID-19 is once again on the rise in California.

It remains to be seen whether this latest uptick foreshadows the sort of misery seen last year — when the state was walloped by its worst summertime surge since 2022 — or proves fleeting. But officials and experts say it's nevertheless a reminder of the seasonal potency of the still-...Read more

During severe thunderstorms, rising air shoots icy pellets the size of Dippin’ Dots ice cream into the bitter cold of upper atmospheric layers. There, supercooled water freezes onto the small particles to form hail, which then falls when it gets too heavy for the storm’s upward draft.

As climate change warms average global temperatures, ...Read more

MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies on that government-subsidized health coverage was trying to coax his old car to start after an eight-hour shift making sandwiches.

James asked that only his middle name be used to tell his story so ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — For many Americans, the apartment where 29-year-old IT specialist Lee Chang-hee lives might be the stuff of nightmares.

Located just outside the capital of Seoul, the building isn't very tall — just 16 stories — by South Korean standards, but the complex consists of 36 separate structures, which are nearly identical ...Read more

Across the nation, Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health care, and in rural America, residents disproportionately rely on the public insurance program.

But Medicaid cuts in the massive tax and spending bill signed into law earlier this month will worsen mental health disparities in those communities, experts say, as patients ...Read more

With gun violence still a persistent problem despite recent drops in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of gun control efforts into law Monday — one that requires Illinoisans to more quickly report lost firearms and another mandating law enforcement agencies statewide participate in a federal gun tracing platform.

The two modest measures...Read more

NEW YORK — A police officer and three other people were killed after a gunman opened fire Monday evening at a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses The Blackstone Group and NFL headquarters, police said.

The “lone shooter” was later “neutralized,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Police sources said the man shot and ...Read more