MIAMI — Trump took a victory lap in Miami on the one-year anniversary of his 2024 election victory Wednesday, but his speech at a business-focused conference in downtown was shadowed by another anniversary: the crossing of the threshold to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Trump’s meandering hour-long speech made little ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The death toll from Tuesday’s UPS plane crash has climbed to 11 including one child, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday.

Beshear said late afternoon that number will continue to climb.

“We are really hurting for those families,” Beshear said. He also said one child was among the dead and it was a young child. �...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Newport News Circuit Court jury has begun deliberating in the case of a Richneck Elementary School teacher shot by a 6-year-old student in 2023.

The seven-member jury received the case about 3 p.m. after hearing about two hours of closing arguments from the attorneys.

Abby Zwerner, then 25, was shot sitting at a table ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's signature plan to impose import taxes on products coming from countries around the world ran into sharp skepticism at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Most of the justices, conservative and liberal, questioned whether the president acting on his own has the power to set large tariffs as a weapon of ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was strolling through her city's capital this week, heading from one government office to another, when she stopped to take selfies with a crowd of admirers.

A man approached from behind, slipped his arm around Sheinbaum's shoulder, leaned in to plant a kiss on her neck and briefly grabbed her...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court will decide in the coming months whether to overturn nearly two decades of precedent to clear the way for an attorney general investigation into insulin pricing in Michigan.

The seven justices listened to about an hour of oral arguments Wednesday morning over whether Attorney General Dana Nessel's ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — At least nine people were killed and several others were injured late Tuesday afternoon after a UPS cargo plane crashed near the Louisville airport.

At around 5:20 p.m., UPS Flight 2976, with three crew members on board, was departing Louisville bound for Honolulu, Hawaii, when “an accident” occurred, according to UPS. ...Read more

NEW YORK — FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker tendered his resignation Wednesday, the morning after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election victory, and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry is expected to follow suit, the Daily News has learned.

In an emailed letter to Mayor Eric Adams sent less than 12 hours after Mamdani’s win over former...Read more

NEW YORK — A gunman fatally shot his elderly mother, his daughter and his daughter’s boyfriend inside the doomed family’s Bronx NYCHA apartment and then took his own life Wednesday morning, police source said.

The 44-year-old shooter called an out-of-state relative and said, “Check on your family,” according to a police source.

That ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the man serving life in prison for killing four University of Idaho students, received at least $10,000 in donations while he was in custody awaiting his murder trial, and seeks to avoid paying any future funds to the victims’ families.

Attorneys for Kohberger and the state appeared virtually in front of 4th ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Last week, Bill Gates published a 17-page memo on his personal website that critics said pitted climate and public health efforts against each other, when they should instead be working in tandem.

Monday night, speaking at Caltech in Pasadena, Gates doubled down, brushing off the critiques that came from across the ideological ...Read more

CHICAGO — Controversial use-of-force tactics by immigration agents under the Trump administration are taking center stage Wednesday in a Chicago federal courtroom, where a judge is deciding whether to put more long-term restrictions on the use of tear gas and other chemical agents on crowds and provide enhanced protections for protesters and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hours after an Election Day shellacking for his party, President Donald Trump on Wednesday poured cold water on reports that Senate Democrats are moving toward reopening the government and urged Republican senators to nix a key Senate rule so the party can pass its own bills without opposition support.

“The Democrat radicals in...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is leading the charge to defend Miami Dade College in higher court from allegations it violated the state’s Sunshine Law, raising the stakes in a case involving Donald Trump’s presidential library that could have sweeping implications for the future of government transparency.

Uthmeier’s ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was strolling through her city's capital this week, heading from one government office to another, when she stopped to take selfies with a crowd of admirers.

A man approached from behind, slipped his arm around Sheinbaum's shoulder, leaned in to plant a kiss on her neck and briefly touched her...Read more

NEW YORK — A Delta plane at LaGuardia Airport was evacuated on the runway due to a bomb threat Tuesday night.

Delta Flight 2313 was supposed to depart for Minneapolis around 6:30 p.m. but was instead evacuated on the tarmac around 8 p.m., according to flight tracking data.

“We were just evacuated from our plane; we don’t know why,” Fox...Read more

Many of the bomb threats made against polling sites across several New Jersey counties appeared to “originate from Russian email domains,” the FBI said in a statement on Wednesday.

“None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far,” it continued. “Election integrity is among the FBI’s highest priorities. We will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Wednesday of President Donald Trump’s claim that he has the power to set large tariffs on products coming from countries around the world.

Most of the justices, both conservative and liberal, said Congress, not the president, had the power to impose taxes and tariffs. And they ...Read more

NEW YORK — FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker tendered his resignation Wednesday, the morning after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election victory at the polls, the Daily News has learned.

In a letter to Mayor Eric Adams sent less than 12 hours after Mamdani’s win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa, Tucker announced his ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge declined to block a Colorado law that requires drugmakers to offer discounted medications to more pharmacies, but a lawsuit challenging the legislation can still proceed.

Drugmaker AbbVie sued the state in June because of Senate Bill 71, which forbade drug companies from limiting how many pharmacies can participate in...Read more