NEW YORK — A suspect has been arrested for a felony for injuring cops responding to a giant snowball fight in Washington Square Park — an incident Mayor Zohran Mamdani said should not result in criminal charges, angering NYPD officials.

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was nabbed by police early Thursday after he was identified as one of four men ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled to meet behind closed doors Thursday afternoon, a day after federal authorities raided the home and office of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in what appears to be a probe related to AllHere, a now-defunct company that developed a failed AI chatbot for the district.

At noon on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal Department of Homeland Security agents made “misrepresentations” to enter a Columbia University residence early Thursday morning to detain a student, university and local elected officials said.

Columbia acting President Claire Shipman said DHS professed to be searching for a missing person. The agency allegedly used a ...Read more

MIAMI — A steady stream of Haitians with temporary protected status poured into a Broward County library parking lot Wednesday morning, not for books but for a much-needed lifeline: the chance to renew their driver’s license.

After a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration could not end immigration protections for Haitians — for...Read more

Pressured by businesses on the importance of immigrant labor, some Republican states are backing off plans to require all employers to check for legal employment status before hiring workers.

State and federal legislation to require that employers use E-Verify, a federal system to check legal status, has been limited this year as a push grows ...Read more

Iran said nuclear talks with the United States have progressed “very intensely and very seriously” as the two sides continued negotiations over a deal into the early evening in Switzerland.

With days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two countries started their third round of Omani-mediated ...Read more

CHICAGO — By Wednesday afternoon, the day before the first public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, long rows of barricades stretched throughout the parkway in the middle of Drexel Boulevard, where thousands are expected to gather Thursday and Friday to honor one of America’s most enduring civil rights leaders.

More than a week of ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis – U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New...Read more

NEW YORK — A pair of social media trolls — including one who sports a “Make America Great Again” red hat — have been arrested for trying to light a Black woman’s boots on fire during a clash on a Manhattan street filled with racist insults, police said Thursday.

The duo, known online as “ScrubsNYC,” were nabbed late Wednesday, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal Department of Homeland Security agents made“misrepresentations” to enter a Columbia University residence early Thursday morning and detained a student, Acting President Claire Shipman said.

“This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential...Read more

Nalin Haley, the son of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Republican organization aimed at engaging young conservatives across three South Carolina counties.

In a post on X, Haley said he is serving as founder and chair of the Tri-County Young Republicans, a group organized in York, Lancaster and...Read more

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is slated to meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon in the White House with housing reportedly on the agenda, sources confirmed to the Daily News.

The mayor traveled to Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning. The D.C. meeting, and the mayor’s travel, was not advised and did not appear on his public...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton was set to give closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state will give a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in ...Read more

At least two of the men involved in a recent shootout with the Cuban coast guard off the country’s coast are on Cuba’s wanted list for terrorism.

Amijail Sánchez González, 47, and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, 47, were two of the people on board a Florida-registered speedboat involved in a deadly clash with Cuba’s coast guard off the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman who was mauled by a dog at a Los Angeles city animal shelter has been awarded $5.4 million by a jury.

Genice Horta, 51, said that neither the shelter nor the rescue group she worked for told her the dog, a Belgian Malinois named Maximus, had bitten a teenager and a shelter employee, sending both to the hospital.

After ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the wake of Winter Storm Fern, some Central Kentucky residents say they’re seeing high utility bills they either can’t afford or which caught them off guard.

Among them is Emma Moore, a Kentucky Utilities customer. When Moore recently opened her bill, mailed Feb. 10, she was astonished by what she was being charged for...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Faculty at Florida’s colleges and universities may soon be able to carry guns on campus as part of state lawmakers’ planned expansion of the school guardian program.

Lawmakers first created the program after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in which a gunman killed 17 people, including ...Read more

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called an early election for March 24, betting a popularity boost from a standoff with Donald Trump over Greenland will help secure her another term in office.

The move comes after the U.S. president revived claims over the Arctic territory in early January, causing a diplomatic rift with Europe. The...Read more

NEW YOKR — A suspect has been arrested for the giant snowball fight in Washington Square Park that left two cops hurt — an incident Mayor Zohran Mamdani said should not result in criminal charges, angering NYPD officials.

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was nabbed by police early Thursday after he was identified as one of four men shown in social ...Read more