Lebanon and Israel sent negotiators to join a rare summit to address tensions surrounding last year’s ceasefire with Hezbollah, following fears that the militant group is attempting to rearm.

The Lebanese presidency named former ambassador to the U.S. Simon Karam as head of the country’s delegation, while Israel dispatched Uri Resnick, a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A physician who supplied ketamine to “Friends” star Matthew Perry in the weeks leading up to the actor’s death is scheduled to appear in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday for a sentencing hearing.

Salvador Plasencia, known to Perry as “Dr. P,” according to court filings, pleaded guilty to four felony counts of ...Read more

Reports that President Trump’s federal immigration authorities will ramp up enforcement in Minnesota with a focus on Somali immigrants has stirred widespread fear in the Twin Cities’ large community and raised concerns that political rhetoric may soon translate into sweeping action.

Inside Karmel Mall, the commercial and cultural center of ...Read more

An official Department of Defense watchdog reportedly determined that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering U.S. troops by sharing operational details of an attack on Houthi militants in Yemen in real time on a Signal group chat.

The Pentagon inspector general determined that Hegseth gave very specific updates on the missile strikes...Read more

A woman in medical scrubs who was driving on U.S. 1 in the Florida Keys Wednesday morning was stopped by federal immigration agents and forcibly removed from her car, despite screaming she was an American citizen.

About 9:15 a.m. in Key Largo, in front of the Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, federal agents stopped the woman driving a white ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City has gone over a week with no reported new homicides, the Daily News has learned.

The last known homicide in the city was the stabbing death of 80-year-old Lev Vayner inside his apartment on Overlook Terrace near W. 184th St. in Washington Heights on Nov. 24.

The suspect, 45-year-old Alon Riabichev, who Vayner was ...Read more

If the United States launches military action against Venezuela, a group of senators is ready to act quickly to try to block the use of American military force there.

“We share the concerns of the American people who have made it abundantly clear that they don’t want more forever wars — especially ones decided in secret that will drive ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A civil rights organization announced Wednesday that a settlement with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has yielded significant changes toward protecting the rights of transgender people in custody, particularly involving whether they are housed in the men’s or the women’s unit.

In 2023, Gender Justice filed a ...Read more

Lebanon and Israel sent negotiators to join a rare summit to address tensions surrounding last year’s ceasefire with Hezbollah, following fears that the militant group is attempting to rearm.

The Lebanese presidency named former ambassador to the U.S. Simon Karam as head of the country’s delegation, while Israel dispatched Uri Resnick, a ...Read more

In what Sen. Ted Cruz referred to as a “Groundhog Day” Senate committee hearing Wednesday, billionaire Jared Isaacman saw bipartisan support for a second time as President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next NASA administrator.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held the confirmation hearing nearly eight months...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — As U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh prepared to sentence Mark Anthony Tucci for hurling racist, violent threats at two Black women he’d never met, the judge paused for a moment and teared up.

Tucci’s vile language and promises to harm the women were not only criminally inexcusable, McHugh said, they were also a ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal agents, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, were once again seen in the Florida Keys on Wednesday as immigration operations continue to intensify in the area.

In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle. Video ...Read more

Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the long shadow of hepatitis B. Before a vaccine became available in the 1980s, he saw the virus claim young lives in western Alaskan communities with stunning speed.

One of his patients was 17 years old when he first examined ...Read more

Four Republican states have agreed to help the Trump administration gain access to state driver’s license data through a nationwide law enforcement computer network as part of the administration’s hunt for alleged noncitizen voters.

The Trump administration said as recently as October that federal officials wanted to obtain driver’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced a pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife on Wednesday, a move that would wipe away a criminal case that accused the couple of taking about $600,000 in bribes from the government of Azerbaijan and a foreign bank headquartered in Mexico City.

Trump said in a social media post that he was ...Read more

U.S. companies shed payrolls in November by the most since early 2023, adding to concerns about a more pronounced weakening in the labor market.

Private-sector payrolls decreased by 32,000, according to ADP Research data released Wednesday. Payrolls have now fallen four times in the last six months. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of ...Read more

Kevin Grosbusch has a good idea where he’d be if it not for the supportive housing he receives at Catholic Charities’ Endeavors Residence in Minneapolis.

“Truth be told, I would probably be behind a dumpster behind Denny’s restaurant,” he said.

But Grosbusch and thousands of others may soon lose the services that keep them housed.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested military service members shouldn’t follow “unlawful orders” in a recently unearthed 2016 speech that closely mirrors the recent remarks by a group of Democratic lawmakers he has criticized as treasonous.

President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief was captured on tape telling a conservative policy ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jamie Torres-Springer, a senior MTA official and the husband of one of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team heads, is under consideration to become the incoming mayor’s top operations deputy at City Hall, the Daily News has learned.

Torres-Springer is currently the president of construction and development at the MTA, a role he has...Read more

A “very intoxicated raccoon” was found passed out in the bathroom of a liquor store in Ashland, Va., over the weekend after breaking in and ransacking several shelves, officials said Tuesday.

The “Black Friday break-in” was discovered early Saturday morning by an employee at the Ashland ABC store.

The employee called the local animal ...Read more