LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Fayette County School Board on Thursday unanimously agreed to support and find alternative funding for The Stables beyond next school year, rejecting a recommendation to close the program after next school year if such founding was not found.

The decision bucked Superintendent Demetrus Liggins’ recommendation to either ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minnesota funeral director has been charged with the post-death decapitation of a woman whose skull was found by Boy Scouts in western Wisconsin woods nearly a quarter-century ago.

Benjamin Carl Hanson, 57, of Bayport was charged Thursday in St. Croix County Circuit Court with two felonies — hiding a corpse and felony...Read more

NEW YORK — At the same time she held a full-time job in the Adams administration, Jasmine Ray, the mayor’s ex-girlfriend, was pulling in a $100,000 annual salary from a city-funded daycare center — even though a legal agreement held she was only supposed to spend 10 hours per week on the daycare gig, the Daily News has learned.

Ray ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin said he’s willing to discuss bringing Russia’s war in Ukraine to an end, even as he ruled out changes sought by Kyiv and Europe to a U.S. peace plan drawn up with Moscow.

Putin said he had “practically agreed” on proposals for ending the war set out at summit talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In January 2018, conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham was having dinner at Toscana, an Italian restaurant in Brentwood, when she spotted the renowned Hollywood director — and unabashed liberal — Rob Reiner.

She asked him to come on her show, “The Ingraham Angle.” He was on set the next day.

After introducing him as...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As South Carolina faces climbing measles cases, a lawmaker wants to ban all vaccine mandates for children under two-years-old.

The bill is one of several proposed policies for 2026 that reflect the priorities of President Donald Trump and his administration.

Some vaccines, including measles, are mandatory for children ...Read more

To fix what he sees wrong in Europe, President Donald Trump has prescribed the continent’s ancient and most lethal poison — nationalism.

Nationalism is a patriotism, a love of one’s own country, that has curdled into a hatred both of other countries and of minority groups at home. In the 20 th century, nationalism was the driving force ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Requiring the Ten Commandments in schools, banning public diversity initiatives and restrictions on who can use which bathroom could all be topics of ideological battles waged in the South Carolina statehouse next year.

Culture war issues, including diversity, equity and inclusion policies, abortion and book bans, have shaped...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When an LAPD captain stood up during a meeting this fall and asked Chief Jim McDonnell to explain the role of his most trusted deputy, Dominic Choi, other top brass in attendance waited with anticipation for the reply.

Multiple department sources, who requested anonymity to discuss the private meeting and speak candidly about ...Read more

The Trump administration halted the U.S. green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she’s asking U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the ...Read more

A powerful Pineapple Express storm could deliver a wet, white and potentially wild Christmas to California, with the possibility of snow in the Sierra Nevada and plenty of rainfall across Southern California.

The incoming atmospheric river system is shaping up to be the strongest in years to hit the Los Angeles area on the holiday — and ...Read more

The suspected shooter who killed two Brown University students on Saturday has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, according to multiple reports.

Reports from the Associated Press and Fox News do not identify their source for the information. A press conference on the case is set to begin within minutes.

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NEW YORK — At their final meeting of the year, New York City Council members on Thursday passed a slew of housing-related bills that would require the city to build more affordable housing for families and put local nonprofits at the front of the line for building sales.

But a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, who can still use his veto pen ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams appointed four members late Thursday to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board in a last-minute attempt to stymy Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s promise of a rent freeze for stabilized tenants.

The mayor’s move comes in his last days in office. Mamdani is set to take office Jan. 1.

“We are just as committed to a ...Read more

The suspected shooter who killed two Brown University students on Saturday has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.

“Tonight our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said at a 9:35 p.m. press conference. “I want to thank the people of Providence for stepping up and coming...Read more