Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Friday that the Trump administration is pausing an immigrant green-card lottery program that granted the Brown University shooting suspect legal permission to enter the United States years ago.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” said Noem in a tweet. “...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.

The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major ...Read more

A bankruptcy judge blocked an attempt by a nursing home chain’s primary investor to shield himself from settlement payments and liability in lawsuits alleging hundreds of patient injuries and deaths, encouraging those pursuing millions in damages.

Genesis HealthCare, once the nation’s largest nursing home chain, filed for Chapter 11 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release investigative materials on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an inflection point in a controversy with deep intrigue and potential political ramifications for President Donald Trump.

Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation last month that orders the Justice ...Read more

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay ...Read more

BOSTON — The suspected shooter who murdered two Brown University students on Saturday and an MIT physics professor on Monday 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 press conference at Brown University held ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is shrugging off criticism that he’s endured his “toughest year” amid criticism of his leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus.

The Senate minority leader from Brooklyn said “it goes with the territory” to be a lightning rod for harsh attacks from various factions within his own party, not to mention President ...Read more

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