CHICAGO — The trenches are dug in Chicago’s slow-moving budget battle. And as he seeks to gain ground with a government shutdown weeks away, Mayor Brandon Johnson keeps lobbing the same ordnance: harsh words.

Last week, opponents of his plan to implement a corporate head tax were “cowards.” He tagged them with a pair of new epithets ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner spent years struggling with addiction and with help from his father, Hollywood legend Rob Reiner, told his story to the world.

On Monday, Nick was booked into the Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of murder, hours after his father and mother, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead inside their Brentwood home.

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CHICAGO — Renegade Chicago aldermen battling with Mayor Brandon Johnson over competing 2026 budgets announced tweaks to their proposal Monday morning, but withheld critical details.

The City Council majority group is dropping its plan to raise the garbage pickup fee, Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, said in a statement. The group will also ...Read more

A manhunt for the shooter who killed two students during a rampage at Brown University entered its third day after authorities released an earlier person of interest.

Investigators determined that “evidence now points in a different direction,” away from the person they had previously detained, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In the last six months, President Donald Trump has sent troops, immigration agents or both to Democratic cities from coast to coast. The list includes Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Memphis, Portland, Charlotte, New Orleans and Minneapolis.

But not Philadelphia.

The city that seemed an obvious early target, condemned by ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year’s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said.

But as four people allegedly tied to a left-wing, anti-government group gathered last week in the Mojave Desert to make and test several test bombs, FBI officials say they were able to foil ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City of New York plans to lower the speed limit on Central Park Drive to 15 mph, Transportation Department officials told the Daily News.

The speed limit — part of a broader redesign of the roadways in Central Park — will apply to all vehicles in the park, including official city motor vehicles and pedal-powered bicycles.

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LOS ANGELES — Rob Reiner’s son Nick was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday.

Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell said that officers responded to the Reiner home at about 3:40 p.m. Sunday. Detectives from the elite ...Read more

Though tanning may be far from people's minds this winter, a new study out of Northwestern Medicine is highlighting the risks of tanning beds, and showing how they can lead to skin cancer.

Not only is the use of tanning beds associated with nearly triple the risk of developing melanoma, but heavy users of tanning beds also had more damage to ...Read more

SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and state leaders pledged to strengthen gun laws a day after a father and son killed 15 people in the nation’s deadliest terror attack.

The National Cabinet tasked police ministers and attorneys general to explore options including caps on the number of firearms an individual can hold, ...Read more

In a viral social media post, Rep. Thomas Massie criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the killing of famed director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, over the weekend.

Massie called Trump’s words, which, without evidence, suggested that the Reiners were killed in their Los Angeles home because of their opposition to the president...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- More details are emerging about the killing of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, on Sunday. Their son Nick has been arrested on suspicion of murder, though police have provided few details.

Here is a timeline of what we know:

Saturday

--Family friends told The Times that Rob and Nick got into an argument on Saturday evening at...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump soon will cap an all-gas-no-brakes 2025, with assessments mixed about a first year back in the White House that has overhauled the presidency.

Trump 2.0 reentered office on Jan. 20 with one of the most aggressive domestic and foreign policy agendas in American history. That included an unprecedented ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Brian Walshe was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Norfolk Superior Court late Monday morning in the killing and dismembering of his wife, Ana Walshe, in the early hours of New Year's 2023.

Over a 10-day trial in Norfolk Superior Court, prosecutors gave evidence that Walshe, 50, killed his wife before dismembering ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The last minted pennies sure cost a pretty penny.

On Thursday, a three-coin set of the final pennies minted for circulation sold at auction for $800,000. Another of the sets sold for $180,000.

In all, the final pennies sold for a combined nearly $17 million.

Sold by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the sets represented the 232 ...Read more

Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators gave an upbeat assessment of talks in Berlin on ending Russia’s war, with a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voicing optimism that the sides could close in on an agreement by the end of the day.

Zelenskyy’s top security official, Rustem Umerov, cited “real progress” in the German capital after ...Read more

Amazon.com Inc.’s business ties with Israel’s military and the US Department of Homeland Security are the focus of a shareholder proposal demanding that the company investigate whether such contracts comply with its responsible AI policies.

Filed by American Baptist Home Mission Societies and reviewed by Bloomberg, the resolution asks ...Read more

Michele Singer Reiner, who was killed along with her husband, filmmaker Rob Reiner, on Sunday at their home in Los Angeles, was a photographer who moved from still images into filmmaking and later into producing, with work that blended performance, politics and persuasion. She was 70.

Singer Reiner was gigging as a photographer in the late ...Read more

President Donald Trump promised Americans big tax refunds next year. Many filers — particularly those who could most use the financial boost — may soon be disappointed.

“Your sort of typical W-2 worker with no kids will see very little change year-over-year,” said Adam Michel, director of tax policy studies at the libertarian Cato ...Read more