Some of the celebrities and high-powered executives who gathered at Conan O’Brien's annual holiday party on Dec. 13 are likely to be called to testify in the first-degree murder trial of Nick Reiner, especially if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity in the fatal stabbing of his parents, legendary director Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. ...Read more

MIAMI — An Italian filmmaker who gunned down an Australian hotelier on Miami’s Virginia Key in the '90s can now leave prison to make pizzas and windsurf in Italy, thanks to the Italian judicial system and the U.S. push to return him to his native country to serve out his life sentence.

The Italian courts recently granted work release to ...Read more

DETROIT — Planning is underway for a potential visit by President Donald Trump to Michigan on Tuesday, according to four sources familiar with the behind-the-scenes preparations.

The sources requested to speak on the condition of anonymity because the plans weren't finalized as of Friday afternoon and because they weren't authorized to ...Read more

Calling a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling a “straightforward path” to a legal victory, lawyers for the state of Illinois said Friday they hope to quickly resolving ongoing litigation over President Donald Trump’s controversial efforts to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area to bolster immigration enforcement.

The status ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is revisiting a decision by his predecessor to let ex-City Hall adviser Tim Pearson get taxpayer-funded legal representation against four lawsuits accusing him of sexual harassment and professional retaliation.

As reported by the Daily News earlier this week, Pearson, who served as a top ...Read more

BOSTON — The nightmare in the Round Hill neighborhood of Sagamore has begun.

As of Friday, the state officially seized ownership of most of the 14 homes there by eminent domain for the $4.5 billion MassDOT project to replace the Cape Cod bridges.

“Here I am at this age in my life, and I have to start all over again? How do you even do that...Read more

U.S. State Department officials, including the interim U.S. ambassador to Colombia, John T. McNamara, traveled to Venezuela on Friday for the first time since strongman Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in his residence in Caracas, as Washington weighs reopening its embassy in Caracas after nearly six years.

The visit reflects the ...Read more

BOSTON — The circulating bird flu has been confirmed in the Bay State, as agricultural officials report that backyard chickens tested positive for the disease and were killed.

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and its partner agencies “safely depopulated and disposed” of a backyard flock of chickens due to the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and its state-funded programs are heading into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in Washington and on Wall Street.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget chief warned Friday that surging revenues tied to the artificial intelligence boom are being offset by rising costs and federal funding...Read more

BARTOW, Fla. — The state of Florida announced Friday that its testing has uncovered a variety of toxins at amounts above federal standards in 16 infant formulas on the market. But officials during a news event in Bartow led by Gov. Ron DeSantis did not share specific testing data, methodology or contaminant levels found in each brand.

The ...Read more

BOSTON — Freshly sprung from jail, ex-Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is spinning a twisted tale of treachery and deceit that she says left Brian Worrell and the Black community on the losing end of this week’s vote for City Council president.

Fernandes Anderson, who resigned last year after being convicted on federal ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Alpha News on Friday published what appeared to be video recorded by ICE agent Jonathan Ross during the deadly shooting of Renee Good on Wednesday in Minneapolis.

The 48-second video, posted by the Minnesota-based conservative outlet, begins with Ross exiting his vehicle and approaching Good as she sits behind the wheel of her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers sought to ensure the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein this week, after the Justice Department last month blew through a statutory deadline for the production of documents about the deceased sex offender.

Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., main backers of the Epstein Files Transparency ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s top prosecutors moved Friday to preserve a state role in reviewing the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, repeatedly emphasizing their actions were not a challenge to federal authorities but a response to being cut off from evidence they say is essential for transparency.

Hennepin County...Read more

NEW YORK — Wealthy celebrities and investors — including many who could be targeted by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed tax hikes on millionaires — pumped tens of thousands of dollars into his transition coffers last month, new filings reviewed by the Daily News show.

The December donors include members of the super-wealthy Pritzker and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The "Rising Together" float in Pasadena's Rose Parade was supposed to celebrate the resiliency of Los Angeles in the face of the unprecedented double disaster that flattened thousands of homes and took 31 lives last January.

But amid the float's proud phoenix and colorful California poppies, two frustrated fire survivors ...Read more

Former Navy Seal, professional wresting superstar and ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura hinted that his frustration over the state of the nation has him considering a return to government.

“I’ll give you a quote,” the 74-year-old Minneapolis native told reporters in response to ICE activity taking place in his state. “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget Friday painted a somewhat brighter picture of California’s economy than was forecast last year, but warned that “risks and uncertainty remain elevated.”

The budget forecast, similar to that of independent analysts, offers a better outlook than the governor’s May revision. But it also ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds lost to fraud, adding on Jan. 9 in a call with reporters while in the Twin Cities that the Trump administration is launching a series of steps to root out fraud and hold fraudsters accountable.

It comes as Minnesota ...Read more