The state Supreme Court has turned back a weapons possession challenge when it ruled that courts can issue protective orders barring gun ownership in cases where subjects of the orders are not explicitly accused of crimes involving violence or threats of violence.

The decision rejects arguments by an anonymous defendant who claimed that he was ...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said he held a “productive call” with European leaders on the next steps in President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring a halt to Russia’s war in Ukraine, following new challenges in the peace negotiations this week.

Witkoff, in a post Wednesday on X, said that he along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ...Read more

The Trump administration backed off its effort to block a court order returning control of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In a brief filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers said they no longer oppose lifting a partial administrative stay and formally...Read more

After a year of major shifts in the federal government’s policy toward vaccines, Americans are now more likely to trust the American Medical Association than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when the two conflict on vaccine guidance, a new survey shows.

The survey, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public...Read more

What would New Year’s Eve in Times Square be for the crowds there and people watching remotely without a couple of key ingredients? The glitzy ball and all ... that ... confetti.

There’s something quite magical, really, about millions of bits of colorful paper flying like snow through the air over a raucous rabble. So American of us, though...Read more

A body was uncovered in a Texas field amid the search for Camila Mendoza Olmos, a 19-year-old who has not been seen since Christmas Eve, officials said.

The medical examiner has not determined a cause and manner of death, but foul play is not suspected at this time, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told reporters, adding that self-harm may ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's plan to stabilize its struggling rural health care systems will get a $193 million infusion as President Donald Trump's administration implements a new five-year program that some say will not offset future Medicaid cuts.

The federal funding — which the state plans to first spend on the most pressing rural care ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When President Donald Trump announced earlier this year that he was nominating David Metcalf to be Philadelphia’s U.S. attorney, it initially seemed as if the move was in line with Trump’s chaotic and contentious attempt to upend the nation’s justice system.

The decision was abrupt, apparently made without advanced input ...Read more

DENVER — The Trump administration, in its ongoing push to boost fossil fuels, issued an emergency order Tuesday to keep an aging coal-fired power plant in Craig, Colorado, operating even though it was scheduled to be retired this week.

The move was criticized by Colorado environmentalists, who said it will cost utility ratepayers and harm ...Read more

DENVER — A Ferris State University marketing professor arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers last month was fired, the university confirmed Tuesday.

The university declined to expand on the firing of the former professor, Sumith Gunasekera.

Dave Murray, associate vice president for marketing and communications at ...Read more

The Trump administration is freezing child care payments to Minnesota and demanding a comprehensive audit to identify any illicit activity in government programs, escalating a fight with the state over alleged fraud.

“We have frozen all child care payments to the state of Minnesota,” Jim O’Neill, the deputy secretary for the Department of...Read more

NEW YORK — Shortly after the ball drops in Times Square, the curtain will rise on Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral administration, when Mamdani is sworn in as the city’s 112th mayor.

Mamdani, 34, is planning two inauguration ceremonies on Thursday: a private swearing-in at the old City Hall subway station just after midnight, followed by a ...Read more

Pakistan recorded its deadliest year of violence in a decade, with gunfights, airstrikes, and suicide bombings marking much of 2025, as relations with neighboring Afghanistan deteriorated.

The number of deaths from insurgent attacks climbed to 3,967 nationwide, the highest since 2015, according to the latest data from the South Asian Terrorism...Read more

The Palestinian Authority has for years taken care of the families of any West Bank or Gaza Palestinian killed, hurt or imprisoned by Israelis — whether a murderer or an innocent shepherd. The monthly stipends embodied the belief that such individuals were part of the national struggle.

Under international pressure to stop the practice — ...Read more

India’s capital recorded its worst pollution in nearly a decade this winter, sparking rare public protests and criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party over its handling of the air quality emergency.

In November and December, when pollution in New Delhi typically peaks, the air quality index was above 300 on 88% of days, according ...Read more

Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Germans to ignore “scaremongers and doomsayers” and trust in the country’s ability to overcome its numerous challenges, including mounting Russian aggression and geopolitical upheaval.

The conservative leader, whose coalition with the Social Democrats has been in power for about eight months, said he’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The acting director of the National Park Service believes 2025 was a “kick-ass year.” Advocates for what polls say is the most popular federal agency might use the same term, but with a far different meaning than Jessica Bowron intended in a year-end email to Park Service managers.

“The past 11 months have been devastating ...Read more

The Los Angeles Police Department has placed a security hold on information relating to the grisly double murder of Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner, for which their son Nick stands charged.

The department confirmed to NBC4 that though the Reiners’ causes of death “have already been made public,” LAPD wanted “to ensure ...Read more

The wife of former first lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband was found dead in the couple’s living room by police responding to a domestic dispute call, authorities in Delaware said Tuesday.

Police found Linda Stevenson, 64, “unresponsive in the living room” around 11:16 p.m. Sunday and “immediately administered life-saving measures,” the ...Read more