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After California lawsuits, Trump administration pauses plan to divert billions of dollars from homeless housing
The Trump administration has temporarily paused a plan to divert billions of dollars in homelessness spending away from permanent housing, a move that critics of the plan, including a Silicon Valley congressman, said is a win for local efforts to fight homelessness and prevent formerly unhoused Californians from being forced back to the street. ...Read more
Dems urge ICE to release detained Detroit high schoolers and parents
A team of Democratic lawmakers from Michigan is calling on federal authorities to release four current or recent students at a Detroit high school and their families, all whom have been detained in the last few weeks.
The detainees have been living in the U.S. after fleeing violence and instability in their homelands of Venezuela and Senegal, ...Read more
Trump floats autopen investigation into Biden's Fed nominees
President Donald Trump suggested he could seek to oust Federal Reserve governors appointed by President Joe Biden if their commissions were signed by autopen, in his latest bid to exert control over the central bank.
The gambit is unlikely to come to fruition.
Previous Trump declarations that he was voiding Biden actions where the former ...Read more
Deported 5 times, Mexican man returned to U.S., shot 5 at Las Vegas party, DOJ says
A 39-year-old Mexican man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of shooting five people at a Las Vegas birthday party in 2022 and was found to have entered the United States illegally five times during a period of over 10 years, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.
Jose Alberto Santacruz-...Read more
Trump administration ended a crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youths. LA County wants to launch its own
LOS ANGELES — Five months after the Trump administration shuttered a suicide and crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, Los Angeles County has launched an effort to try to create its own hotline to fill the void.
In July the Trump administration eliminated the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline's "press 3" option, which previously connected ...Read more
FDA investigating possible adult deaths from COVID vaccines
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children.
The investigation, being conducted across different divisions of the FDA, comes at a time when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...Read more
Philly wants to keep the Rocky statue atop the Art Museum steps
PHILADELPHIA — The Rocky statue sitting atop of Philadelphia Art Museum’s famed steps could soon be there permanently — and the one at the bottom may be going back to the Italian Stallion himself, Sylvester Stallone.
That’s according to a recent proposal from Creative Philadelphia, the city’s office for the creative sector, which is ...Read more
Trump strays from script at Poconos rally, calling affordability a 'hoax' and Pa. a 'dumping ground' for immigrants
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s raucous rally Tuesday night in Pennsylvania was billed as the launch of a national tour focused easing voters’ economic anxieties that threaten Republicans’ hold in Washington with the 2026 midterms looming.
But the economy couldn’t maintain the president’s interest for the duration of ...Read more
NOAA's denial of endangered status for salmon sparks talk of legal challenge
Federal fisheries officials on Monday rejected a bid to designate West Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
In response, one of the conservation groups that petitioned for the listing, the Center for Biological Diversity, says it is considering a legal challenge.
“The major species protections ...Read more
Mayor Eric Adams names former journalist backed by police union to head NYPD watchdog
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced the last-minute appointment of a police-union-backed candidate to head the agency responsible for providing independent oversight of the NYPD.
The decision to name former journalist Pat Smith as the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s interim chair drew outrage from anti-police-violence ...Read more
Mangione prosecutors release video of his encounter with police
NEW YORK — New York state prosecutors on Tuesday released a video excerpt of the first police encounter in December 2024 with Luigi Mangione, then the main suspect in the New York shooting of a health care executive five days earlier.
The video shows Joseph Detwiler, an officer in Altoona, Pennsylvania, questioning Mangione. A McDonald’s ...Read more
Dispute over kidnappings triggers deadly war among Haiti's gang coalition
An armed conflict within Haiti’s powerful coalition of gangs has reportedly led to multiple fatalities and has at least one major gang leader on the run.
The confrontation began around 4 a.m. Tuesday in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Reports say dozens of gunmen were killed in the conflict, including a high-ranking gang leader ...Read more
FDNY plans for 9/11 25th anniversary include stadium event, podcast, film, more
NEW YORK — For many New Yorkers, the 9/11 attack feels like it happened just yesterday, but nearly 25 years have passed since the terrorist strike, and the FDNY wants to commemorate next year’s anniversary with a little something extra.
Along with the traditional somber reading of the victims’ names at Ground Zero, ceremony organizers on ...Read more
Top California budget adviser reflects on 'daunting' fiscal outlook
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature’s top budget adviser reflected Tuesday on his office’s recent sobering forecast, calling the fiscal outlook “daunting.”
Gabriel Petek, California’s Legislative Analyst, warned in a report last month that the state’s current $18 billion deficit is driven by structural spending ...Read more
Opera singer Jubilant Sykes stabbed to death in LA home, son arrested
LOS ANGELES — Jubilant Sykes, a renowned opera and gospel singer who was also a Grammy nominee, was stabbed to death inside his Los Angeles-area home on Monday. He was 71 years old.
His 31-year-old son, Micah Sykes, has since been arrested and booked by the Santa Monica Police Department on suspicion of homicide.
Police in Santa Monica ...Read more
NYC Mayor Adams hiring outside vet to examine Central Park carriage horses seen as assault on industry
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is dropping a new twist into the heated debate over the city’s horse carriage industry by ordering that some of the steeds deployed in Central Park undergo medical exams from an outside veterinarian who has spoken at events hosted by an anti-carriage group, the Daily News has learned.
The Adams administration’s...Read more
Trump came to a Pa. casino to promise prosperity. Gamblers here had a mixed view of the economy
MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — A smattering of people pushed their luck Tuesday at the Mount Airy Casino Resort, tapping neon slot buttons, flipping dice onto felt craps tables, and wandering the rows of glowing, dinging machines.
A floor below, President Donald Trump was set to speak in a sprawling ballroom, where event staff hung a huge blue banner: ...Read more
Did the Trump administration violate the law by pushing redistricting?
WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla on Tuesday urged the federal government’s independent special counsel to more aggressively investigate whether the Trump administration violated the law by pressing Republican state officials to redraw congressional boundaries to help the GOP.
The Office of Special Counsel told The Sacramento Bee it received ...Read more
Canada's US envoy to step down; Mark Wiseman seen as likely successor
Canada’s ambassador to Washington is preparing to leave office, and Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering a former BlackRock Inc. senior executive for the job ahead of crucial trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico.
Kirsten Hillman, who serves as ambassador and Canada’s chief trade negotiator with the U.S., has informed Carney she will ...Read more
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore calls special session for House speaker vote, doesn't include redistricting
Gov. Wes Moore is leaving the door open for the Maryland General Assembly to “consider other business” when it meets on Dec. 16 to elect a new House speaker. In that discussion, Maryland Republicans want to highlight veto overrides and redistricting, a debate that has raised concerns among the GOP about potentially eliminating the state’s ...Read more
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