BALTIMORE — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order that authorized an Anne Arundel County power plant to operate more often than typically allowed, including areas served by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company — a feat that Maryland conservative lawmakers called “a major win.”

PJM Interconnection, which ...Read more

Controversial attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is suing a Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendor for allegedly refusing to serve him pierogi because of his political views.

The polarizing defense attorney, whose famous clients include Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump, described the incident on Thursday’s episode of his podcast, �...Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas.

The move, first reported by The New York Sun on Friday, comes a week after Maxwell’s meetings with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation redacted President Donald Trump’s name and those of other high-profile individuals from government files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The redactions were made by a team of FBI employees tasked with reviewing the Epstein files for potential ...Read more

Five people have been charged in connection with a New Jersey car crash on New Year’s Day 2024 that killed a Princeton woman who worked in the governor’s office.

The mega-crash unfolded on Route 1 in Plainsboro around 1:56 a.m. It “involved six vehicles and was touched off by a drunken driving crash,” which culminated in the death of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States is moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called “highly provocative statements” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ghislaine Maxwell has been quietly moved from a federal institute in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum security prison in Texas for white-collar female criminals.

“Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” the agency told McClatchy.

No reason ...Read more

MIAMI — The captain of the tugboat pushing a barge that slammed into a Miami Yacht Club summer-camp sailboat Monday morning in Biscayne Bay — killing two young girls and critically injuring two others — was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the Coast Guard said.

Capt. Frank Florio, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trade deals and a luxury ballroom and Triple H in the Roosevelt Room. Oh my.

President Donald Trump began the week trying to play down his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but he wrapped it up announcing more trade deals, revised tariff rates for dozens of countries and a major White House renovation project, as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gunman Shane Tamura fired nearly 50 shots Monday during his rampage on a Park Avenue skyscraper, where he killed an NYPD officer and three civilians before taking his own life — with slightly more shots fired at the 33rd-floor office he mistakenly took an elevator to, police said Friday.

The degree of damage on the upper floor, ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX was back one day after a weather-related scrub and threaded the needle amid threatening clouds to send up the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station.

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Crew Dragon Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 11:43 a.m. Eastern time carrying ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs was “no ordinary john,” but a violent and controlling mastermind of perverse sex sessions where participants were drugged and brutalized, prosecutors wrote in new court papers opposing his latest bail bid — and indicating they’ll push for a longer prison term than expected.

In late-night filings ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Despite California's ban on foie gras, the pumped-up bird livers are being sold in Southern California stores.

Foie gras, which is made by force-feeding ducks and geese, was spotted by Times journalists this week on the shelves of Wild Fork Foods stores in Venice, Manhattan Beach and Westlake Village.

Ben Williamson, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As heat waves grow longer and more intense across Southern California, the absence of shade is becoming a serious public health concern — but vast stretches of Los Angeles remain dangerously exposed.

Research shows shaded areas can have a “heat burden” — a combined measure of temperature, humidity and wind — up to 68�...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The abandoned power line suspected of igniting the Eaton fire could have been removed years ago under a rule proposed by state Public Utilities Commission staffers, but the regulation was weakened amid opposition from Southern California Edison and other utilities, according to records and interviews.

State regulators have long ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seventeen-year-old Briana Soto was walking home from her job at McDonald's last March when she was shot and killed just steps from her Long Beach home. Now, her killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

On Thursday, Troy Lamar Fox, 34, received a sentence of 358 years to life for the first-degree murder of Soto and the...Read more

CHICAGO — Former President Joe Biden called on attorneys to lead the fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration in a speech at a downtown Chicago hotel on Thursday in which he also reflected on his more than five-decade career in politics and beginnings as a young lawyer.

“It’s not enough to honor the heroes who came...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Wildfire smoke has been easy to spot in Minnesota this week, coating the Twin Cities in a brownish haze that obscured the downtown skylines. But experts in lung health are more concerned about the particles you can’t see.

Particles in the smoke are so small that they can evade some of the lung’s natural defenses, causing not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing the university's alleged "discrimination" in admissions and failure to "promote a research environment free of antisemitism."

The decision to pull funding comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi and ...Read more