NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury on Wednesday cleared Sean “Diddy” Combs of sex trafficking and RICO charges and found him guilty on lesser counts of transporting people for prostitution, a stunning verdict taking a potential life sentence off the table for the Bad Boy Records mogul.

The eight men and four women who deliberated the case ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump and his advisers begin weighing replacements for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, they’re running into one significant complication: It’s not clear that Powell will leave the U.S. central bank next year.

The Fed chief has repeatedly declined to say whether he will step down when his four-year ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the closure of the migrant mega-shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel after it shuttered its doors last month.

The hotel, which closed in 2020 during the pandemic and opened as a shelter in May 2023, served as the main entrance point for migrants entering the city during the peak of the crisis. Images from the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Just seconds after Bryan Kohberger told a 4th District judge Wednesday that, yes, he had “willfully” and “deliberately” murdered four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022, the judge asked prosecutors to lay out the “factual basis” for the case if it had gone to trial.

Speaking deliberately, Latah County ...Read more

ATLANTA — Part of a wing flap of a Delta Air Lines plane that departed from Atlanta late Tuesday was later found on a driveway in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

That part came from a Delta Boeing 737-900ER that landed safely at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Atlanta-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon came under criticism Wednesday for its decision to halt sending air defense missiles to Ukraine, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle arguing that move was shortsighted at a time when Russia has ramped up its missile and drone barrages.

They challenged the Pentagon’s argument that the pause is necessary while ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ACLU of Missouri on Wednesday sued to block a proposed abortion ban from reaching the statewide ballot next year, marking the first major legal challenge intended to halt a Republican-led attempt to ban abortions again in Missouri.

The lawsuit, filed in Cole County, argues the proposed abortion ban, which would also ban...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his threat to arrest the Democratic mayoral nominee if he got in the way of ICE agents.

“I don’t want to talk about this other stuff,” Adams said Wednesday in response to a question on whether he ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Wednesday to keep track of a weather system that could form off one of Florida’s coasts this weekend that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 8 p.m. Eastern time tropical advisory, the NHC said an area of low pressure was forecast to develop either off of Florida�...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger admitted in court Wednesday to the murder of four University of Idaho students in 2022, finally bringing some closure to the highly publicized case that brought national attention to the grieving college town.

“Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” 4th Judicial District Judge Steven Hippler asked ...Read more

In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move which city officials and attorneys blasted as “utterly unlawful.”

In the past month, Department of Homeland Security attorneys have routinely ...Read more

A legal group co-founded by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and architect of the Trump administration's immigration policies, filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Dodgers earlier this week, accusing the team of "engaging in unlawful discrimination under the guise of 'diversity, equity and inclusion.'"

The ...Read more

The University of California on Wednesday said student governments and all other "university entities" are banned from boycotting Israel, a direct response to a Trump administration directive that institutions engaging in such boycotts would not qualify for federal medical and science research grants.

In a letter to chancellors, UC President ...Read more

A major change by the Social Security Administration could affect some beneficiaries’ incomes — potentially cutting their benefit payments in half starting this month.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) will now withhold up to 50% of benefits from those who have received overpayments from the agency. Overpayment can happen when a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to halt implementation of a presidential proclamation that cracked down on border crossings and asylum claims, finding that the policies violate federal law.

Judge Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the ruling in a challenge...Read more