NEW YORK — The Upper East Side home where Ivana Trump fell to her death in 2022 has sold for $14 million.

The East 64th Street mansion hit the real estate market at $26.5 million shortly after President Donald Trump’s first of three wives fell down a staircase and suffered accidental blunt impact injuries at the age of 73.

According to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Nearly a year after federal immigration agents whisked Mahmoud Khalil away for protesting Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank — heralding the Trump administration’s harsh crackdown on student activism — the Columbia graduate’s paths to fighting deportation are narrowing.

Lawyers for Khalil filed an opening brief...Read more

Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé unveiled a major reshufflng of his cabinet on Tuesday, retaining just five ministers in a new government largely consisting of untested figures endorsed by political parties and groups that recently signed a sweeping national accord.

In welcoming the group during a swearing-in ceremony, Fils-Aimé ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties aired worries Tuesday about Americans unable to leave the war-torn Middle East, with Democrats more pointedly outraged that the Trump administration provided tardy warnings to U.S. citizens in the region.

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., a former diplomat, told reporters the number of Americans who need to get ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For years, Dr. Brian Acacio's name had considerable cachet among California couples who were trying to start a family.

Acacio boasts having some of the highest IVF success rates in Southern California. His reviews were stellar. Other doctors recommended him. And testimonials from former patients told stories of dreams come true ...Read more

More than a ton of methamphetamine was uncovered during recent law enforcement raids of drug labs in Northern California, representing one of the largest domestic drug seizures in U.S. history, authorities said.

"Operation Trash Panda" was executed last Friday by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office's Intelligence Narcotics Team and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorneys argued Tuesday over whether a federal judge should block the Trump administration from potentially shrinking the number of disaster relief workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency by the thousands.

A group of unions and local governments is asking the court to stop the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA,...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Caroline Thomas Jacobs, a former senior manager at the technology company Apple, as the new director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services on Tuesday.

Thomas Jacobs most recently served as the director of California’s Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, a role she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is unlikely to be constrained by the Republican-led Congress on the war in Iran anytime soon.

Votes expected this week on legislation to halt U.S. military action against Iran are shaping up largely along party lines.

“The idea that we would take the ability of our commander in chief, the president, take...Read more

WASHINGTON — The congressional committee investigating disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is seeking transcribed interviews with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black.

The two billionaires were among seven people House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer sent letters to on Tuesday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday said it wants to know more about how data captured by the controversial license plate reader company Flock Safety is stored and shared.

Commissioner Jeff Skobin requested a report from the department about its relationship with Flock, citing his conversations with city officials and ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — By lunchtime Monday, the Persia House of Kebabs was packed, everyone sipping steaming tea, eating dates and sesame cookies, talking about the war.

Who will step up to lead Iran?

How long will the bombing last?

When can we go back?

Most of the regulars at the restaurant had been born in Iran but left after the 1979 ...Read more

Disagreement over how to develop a Florida still booming with newcomers is dividing Republicans in Tallahassee and in Miami-Dade, where lawmakers are at odds over proposals that could lead to development in protected areas.

Two bills that would incentivize sweeping development changes in rural areas and outside urban boundaries that protect ...Read more

Disability advocates and residents urged the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday to advance legislation designed to prevent people with developmental disabilities from losing Medicaid coverage due to administrative errors and delays.

Senate Bill 742, the Maryland Protecting People With Disabilities Act, would codify in state law ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. and Israeli officials are privately casting doubt on projections from the Trump administration that the war with Iran could end within a matter of weeks — instead warning that a months-long campaign may be required to destroy the country's ballistic missile capabilities and install a pliant government, multiple sources told...Read more

The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday affirming the right of parents to know about their child’s gender identity at school has left California educators with complicated questions about how to protect the sometimes competing rights of students, school employees and family members.

The Supreme Court decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta, while falling ...Read more

The U.S. State Department announced plans to help evacuate Americans who want to leave the Middle East amid the war with Iran, after conflicting messages about the scale of the threat prompted confusion among thousands of U.S. citizens in the region.

In a statement, the department announced that it would send chartered planes to help Americans ...Read more

Medical marijuana may be available to Maryland firefighters and rescue personnel in the future, after a bill allowing its usage advanced a step closer to passing the state Senate on Tuesday.

The bill would protect fire and rescue employees who are registered medical cannabis patients, allowing them to use medical cannabis when off-duty and ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A federal judge temporarily paused a Virginia law limiting social media access for children while a court case challenging the law proceeds.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, of the Eastern District of Virginia, granted a request for a preliminary injunction in a Friday decision.

The opinion pauses a Virginia law ...Read more