ORLANDO, Fla. — Five people have filed separate lawsuits against Universal Orlando Resort, claiming they suffered severe and permanent injuries — in some cases, bleeding of the brain, spinal cord damage and paralysis — after their heads slammed repeatedly against the seat in front of them while riding Stardust Racers at the new Epic ...Read more

CHICAGO — The budget counterproposal crafted by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson won a critical first vote before the full City Council on Friday, setting the mayor up to soon concede their remarkable weekslong fight — or issue Chicago’s first mayoral veto of a budget in decades.

Aldermen voted 29-19 to approve the revenue piece of an ...Read more

ATLANTA — Earlier this month, Georgia officials sent redacted voter registration data to the U.S. government. The Trump administration determined it was not enough.

The U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday it had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Macon against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Separately, the ...Read more

BOSTON — Police are probably going to sift through a lot more Reddit posts in the future.

One of those online posts played a big role in helping investigators find the suspect who killed two students at Brown University, and injured nine others, before slaying the MIT professor in Brookline.

The 48-year-old suspect, Claudio Neves-Valente, ...Read more

Relatives of former President John F. Kennedy aren’t happy that President Donald Trump is adding his own name to The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

Signage referring to the Washington, D.C. cultural institution as the Kennedy Center was altered Friday to reflect that the building is now called The Donald J. Trump and...Read more

A new report says Nick Reiner has a diagnosis of schizophrenia and that his behavior became “erratic and dangerous” due to a medication change in the weeks before he allegedly killed his parents Rob and Michele Reiner at their home in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood.

The 32-year-old, who is charged with two counts of first-degree murder...Read more

CHICAGO — Though a new Illinois law allows doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives, several Illinois health systems with religious affiliations say they will not participate.

OSF HealthCare, Ascension and Hospital Sisters Health System all say they will not take part in medical aid-in-dying.

The new law, which sparked ...Read more

The congressionally mandated deadline for the federal government to disclose voluminous materials gathered on Jeffrey Epstein arrived Friday, with the Justice Department set to blow it — promising that while a batch was coming, it would take weeks to roll out the full array of documents.

In an interview on Fox News, Deputy Attorney General ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Transit Authority’s plan to boost the number of police officers and K-9 guards on the city’s mass transit system is “materially deficient,” President Donald Trump’s administration said Friday as it threatened to cut the system off from up to $50 million in federal funding.

Trump’s Federal Transit ...Read more

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Friday that the Trump administration is pausing an immigrant green-card lottery program that granted the Brown University shooting suspect legal permission to enter the United States years ago.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” said Noem in a tweet. “...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls.

The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major ...Read more

A bankruptcy judge blocked an attempt by a nursing home chain’s primary investor to shield himself from settlement payments and liability in lawsuits alleging hundreds of patient injuries and deaths, encouraging those pursuing millions in damages.

Genesis HealthCare, once the nation’s largest nursing home chain, filed for Chapter 11 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release investigative materials on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an inflection point in a controversy with deep intrigue and potential political ramifications for President Donald Trump.

Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation last month that orders the Justice ...Read more

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that COVID vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay ...Read more

BOSTON — The suspected shooter who murdered two Brown University students on Saturday and an MIT physics professor on Monday has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.

“Tonight our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said at a press conference at Brown University held ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is shrugging off criticism that he’s endured his “toughest year” amid criticism of his leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus.

The Senate minority leader from Brooklyn said “it goes with the territory” to be a lightning rod for harsh attacks from various factions within his own party, not to mention President ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Fayette County School Board on Thursday unanimously agreed to support and find alternative funding for The Stables beyond next school year, rejecting a recommendation to close the program after next school year if such founding was not found.

The decision bucked Superintendent Demetrus Liggins’ recommendation to either ...Read more