The union representing FDNY firefighters is demanding answers after City Hall officials discovered 68 boxes of information on the dangers of Sept. 11 toxins despite claiming for years they couldn’t find any records on what authorities knew about Ground Zero health hazards.

“For years, our members made life-and-death medical decisions based ...Read more

High surf swept three people off the beach and into the ocean in Big Sur on Saturday, the second such incident at Garrapata State Park in a week.

Two women and a man were swept off the rocks at Sobrenas Point around 3 p.m., according to a news release from the California State Parks.

Both women made it back to shore on their own and were taken...Read more

A domestic flight was struck by bullets on Sunday while landing at the Guy Malary terminal of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, sources told the Miami Herald.

The aircraft, operated by Sunrise Airways, was arriving from Les Cayes in the country’s southwest region. No injuries were reported.

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New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Sunday he still believes President Trump is a fascist and despot despite their surprisingly cordial meeting at the White House on Friday — but believes they can work together on affordability.

“Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe,” Mamdani said on NBC’s “Meet the ...Read more

As the number of children in the infant botulism continues to rise, the company manufacturing the recalled formula admits third-party testing found botulism in its formula.

And, the FDA says, some of the nation’s largest grocery sellers, including No. 1 Walmart and No. 2 Kroger, are still selling ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula.

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As vicious infighting in President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement over the controversial H-1B visa magnifies uncertainty for foreign workers in the U.S., Canada last week approved a new fast track program to entice holders of the visa into taking their skills northward.

The budget Canada passed Nov. 17 contained a provision ...Read more

Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s military chief in a rare airstrike on Beirut as an almost year-old ceasefire deal with the Lebanese government wavers.

The Israeli army said the attack on Dahieh, on the southern outskirts of the capital, killed Hezbollah chief of general staff Abu Ali Al-Tabtabai, the militant group’s No. 2 after Secretary...Read more

If Donald Trump was bent on ruining South Africa’s Group of 20 Summit as part of his overarching attack on the multilateral order, let it be said that he didn’t succeed — but he widened the cracks.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, beset by Trump’s false claims of White genocide in his country and a U.S. boycott, managed to get ...Read more

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he plans to contact Donald Trump to express concern over the U.S. military buildup near Venezuela, warning that the situation could destabilize South America.

“I’m very concerned about the military apparatus the U.S. has deployed in the Caribbean Sea,” Lula told reporters at the end of the G20 ...Read more

President Donald Trump doubled down on his call for six Democrats — including two members of Congress representing Pennsylvania — to be jailed over a video directed at U.S. troops.

Writing on his Truth Social platform Saturday night, Trump once again claimed without evidence the six Democrats were traitors for telling troops to “refuse ...Read more

The Trump Administration and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey continue to spar over the release of Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding and soaring energy costs as the weather gets colder.

After sending the Boston Herald a written response Friday to Gov. Healey’s call for President Donald Trump to release the LIHEAP funding ...Read more

Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s military chief in a rare airstrike on Beirut as an almost year-old ceasefire deal with the Lebanese government wavers.

The Israeli army said the attack on Dahieh, on the southern outskirts of the capital, killed Hezbollah chief of general staff Abu Ali Al-Tabtabai, the militant group’s No. 2 after Secretary...Read more

Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to avoid jail went awry Saturday, when police detained the former Brazilian president after he took a soldering iron to a court-mandated ankle monitor and sparked fears that he planned to flee.

Now the question is whether Bolsonaro just torched the Brazilian right’s efforts to find a challenger to Luiz Inacio Lula ...Read more

The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded not only Ukraine and its allies but even some key U.S. ...Read more

Israel carried out a rare airstrike on Beirut, describing the target as Hezbollah’s military chief, as an almost year-old ceasefire deal with the Lebanese government wavers.

The daylight attack on Dahieh, on the southern outskirts of the capital, was the first of its kind in months and left five people dead and 28 injured, according to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — While SpaceX continues to test its Starship and Super Heavy rocket in Texas, Space Force officials in Florida are preparing for a first launch as early as mid-2026.

SpaceX is awaiting the completion of a pair of environmental impact statements for its plans to launch from both Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the weeks since federal investigators announced that the devastating Palisades fire was caused by a reignition of a smaller blaze, top Los Angeles Fire Department officials have insisted that they did everything they could to put out the earlier fire.

But the Los Angeles Times has obtained records that call into question the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No one seems to know what happened to Vicente Ventura Aguilar.

A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn't have lawful immigration status, was taken into custody by immigration authorities on Oct. 7 in South Los Angeles and suffered a medical emergency.

But it's been more than ...Read more

NEW YORK — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Canal St. in lower Manhattan Saturday afternoon again, arresting a West African migrant street vendor allegedly selling counterfeit goods.

The arrest, at Canal St. near Broadway around noon, came only about 15 minutes after the New York Police Department had completed its own vendor...Read more

The Trump administration is advertising for “deportation judges” in its ongoing push to fill jobs to aid its mass deportation campaign.

The call for judges by the U.S. Department of Justice marks the latest step in an enforcement strategy that has spread from border cities to major metropolitan areas. It reflects an effort to speed up every...Read more