NEW YORK — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is reportedly stepping away from the job he started in February.

The former New York City police officer plans to leave his FBI post in Washington, D.C. and resume his career as a media personality, according to the New York Times.

Bongino is said to have told multiple people that this week could be...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The children of Rob and Michele Reiner broke their silence Wednesday, issuing a statement thanking the public for their support in the days since their brother was arrested on suspicion of murdering their parents.

Jake and Romy Reiner asked that speculation about the case “be tempered with compassion and humanity.”

Here is ...Read more

A handful of moderate Republican lawmakers Wednesday joined congressional Democrats to force a vote on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits that could avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans, even as GOP leaders bulldozed ahead with a doomed plan of their own that would allow the aid to expire.

Four GOP ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Fayette County Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins told families Tuesday he would recommend the school board keep open The Stables for at least another year after parents rallied around the specialty program.

The cash-strapped district has considered closing the program, which offers specialized learning for students in a...Read more

DENVER — The Trump administration plans to shut down and dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, a global leader in climate and Earth systems research — a move that drew sharp rebuke from elected officials in Colorado.

“This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,” Russ ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner made his first appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday morning, roughly three days after allegedly killing his parents — beloved Hollywood figures Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner — inside their Brentwood home.

Flanked by his attorney, Alan Jackson, and two other lawyers, Reiner was barely visible ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The 990-foot SS United States could be making waves as an artificial reef at the bottom of the Florida Panhandle coast as early as March, according to a tentative timeline from its new owners in Florida.

Even so, hope still springs eternal for the most ardent swath of ship enthusiasts who’d rather see it restored to its ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is appointing Jahmila Edwards, a top official in the city’s DC 37 union, as his intergovernmental relations chief, sources familiar with the matter tell the Daily News.

Edwards’ appointment is expected to be announced at a press conference in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, the sources said. Mamdani, ...Read more

MIAMI — Is your license plate frame illegal in Florida?

That’s the question drivers have been confused about since a revised law took effect Oct. 1.

The law isn’t new. The penalties are.

But drivers are jamming social media wondering whether they should remove their car dealer or sports team frames, or leave them alone. There are plenty...Read more

The U.S. is preparing a fresh round of sanctions on Russia’s energy sector to increase the pressure on Moscow should President Vladimir Putin reject a peace agreement with Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. is considering options, such as targeting vessels in Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of tankers used to ...Read more

Congressional Republicans bulldozed ahead Wednesday with a doomed health bill that wouldn’t extend Affordable Care Act tax credits that could avert skyrocketing insurance premiums for more than 20 million Americans on Jan. 1.

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected efforts by some Republican moderates to win a vote on an amendment that would call...Read more

Nobel Laureate María Corina Machado has left Norway, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store told Bloomberg on Wednesday.

Machado’s whereabouts are currently unknown, and Store provided no further details. Spokesperson Magalli Meda said by text message that Machado “is taking care of her health” and that she needs some time off.

The ...Read more

The U.S. is preparing a fresh round of sanctions on Russia’s energy sector to increase the pressure on Moscow should President Vladimir Putin reject a peace agreement with Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. is considering options, such as targeting vessels in Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of tankers used to ...Read more

Australian authorities charged the surviving gunman in Sydney Hanukkah attack that killed 15 with 59 offenses, including murder and terrorism.

The 24 year-old, who’s been identified as Naveed Akram, remains under police guard in the hospital, New South Wales police said in a statement Wednesday. He was shot by authorities during the attack, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Greg heard about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and the alleged involvement of their son Nick, the news struck a painfully familiar chord.

It wasn't the violence that resonated, but rather the heartache and desperation that comes with loving a family member who suffers from an illness that the best efforts and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Greg heard about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and the alleged involvement of their son Nick, the news struck a painfully familiar chord.

It wasn't the violence that resonated, but rather the heartache and desperation that comes with loving a family member who suffers from an illness that the best efforts and ...Read more

John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. He joined the CDC’s HIV prevention team in 2011 to help lead its Medical Monitoring Project, the only in-depth survey of HIV across the United States. The project has shaped the country’s response to the epidemic over two ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations.

A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a cut of profits.

Enraged peasant farmers fed up with paying graft turn on cartel thugs in a bloody showdown.

In Mexico, these ...Read more

Nancy Hunt arrived at an emergency room from a Genesis HealthCare nursing home in Pennsylvania in such dreadful shape, including maggots infesting her gangrened foot, that the hospital called an elder abuse hotline and then the police, her son alleged in a lawsuit.

Hunt died five days later. Her death certificate said the foot injury was a “...Read more