WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., on Tuesday said the Pentagon’s newly announced escalation of an investigation into him was part of an effort to deter service members and government employees from speaking out against President Donald Trump.

A Defense Department official confirmed on Tuesday that the Pentagon was escalating a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday announced murder charges against Nick Reiner, days after his parents — Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner— were found stabbed inside their Brentwood home.

Los Angeles police responded to the Reiner home in the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue about 3:40 p.m. Sunday after ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new state-run website Tuesday that tracks what his office calls the "criminal cronies" around President Trump — just the latest trolling tactic by the California governor that directly mirrors Trump's own use of public resources for political score settling.

Newsom pegged the website's ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will deliver a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night but gave no details on what the topic will be.

“My fellow Americans: I will be giving an address to the nation tomorrow night,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then.”

The 9 p.m. speech will ...Read more

NEW YORK — With just two weeks left in office, Mayor Eric Adams is heading to Mexico — his fourth international trip since October, the Daily News has learned.

Sources with direct knowledge said Adams — who’s actively trying to line up a post-City Hall job — is expected to depart for Mexico City Tuesday evening. The sources did not ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said her testimony before a Georgia Senate committee Wednesday will be like Christmas coming early.

Willis was asked about her plans to address the committee during a news conference about a recent Fulton County rape conviction.

What ensued was a two-minute tirade in which she criticized ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A judge ordered life sentences Tuesday for a pair of men who hit and killed a retired police chief with a vehicle as teenagers.

Jesus Ayala, 20, received a sentence of 20 years to life.

Jzamir Keys, 18, was sentenced to 18 years to life.

Both pleaded guilty to a count of second-degree murder in October. Their sentences were ...Read more

BOSTON — A 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night.

Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed to his ...Read more

CHICAGO — Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino is back in Chicago as he and his agents made arrests across Cicero and Chicago’s Southwest Side Tuesday morning.

Around 10:30 a.m., a squad of federal agents detained a man at 26th Street and Ridgeway Avenue as residents screamed and filmed them putting the man in a car. Standing on a street ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Inyo County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday it had recovered the body of a young male hiker that fits the description of Joseph Brambila, who disappeared on California's Mount Whitney in early November.

Brambila, 21, has been the subject of searches in the last month, and his family waged a desperate campaign on social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two words have been missing from the Trump administration’s tough-talking, Navy-deploying policy toward Venezuela: or else.

While President Donald Trump and some top aides have expressed deep concerns about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who controversially rose to power in 2013 following the death of Hugo Chávez, they ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another physician who played a role in providing ketamine to Matthew Perry weeks before the actor’s overdose death was sentenced to eight months of house arrest by a federal judge on Friday.

Mark Chavez, a former doctor, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine in October last year. In his plea ...Read more

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said that President Donald Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” and is obsessed with retaliating against critics even if it undermines his own policies, according to a bombshell magazine story published on Tuesday.

Wiles, considered a trusted and loyal Trump insider, also trashed Vice President JD ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted they won’t release the full video of the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat and controversial second strike on survivors after briefing members of Congress on Tuesday morning on military action in the Caribbean.

“In keeping with longstanding Department of War ...Read more

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.25 billion after no one matched all six numbers for the 43rd drawing in a row Monday night, game officials announced.

Wednesday’s jackpot will be the second-largest Powerball prize this year, behind the $1.787 billion prize won in Missouri and Texas on Sept. 6, according to a Powerball news...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Leaders of a secretive religious group in Southern California's Inland Empire region have been charged with murder in two separate cases — the disappearance of longtime member Emilio Ghanem in Redlands and the 2010 death of 4-year-old Timothy Thomas in Colton.

Ghanem vanished in May 2023, just weeks after he decided to part ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for Rob and Michele Reiner.

They attended Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party Saturday and planned to meet Barack and Michelle Obama on Sunday night.

But that gathering with the 44th president and former first lady never happened.

The Reiners were found dead in their Brentwood ...Read more

Immigration arrests under the Trump administration continued to increase through mid-October, reaching rates of more than 30,000 a month. But, rather than the convicted criminals the administration has said it’s focused on, an ever-larger share of those arrests were for solely immigration violations.

In 45 states, immigration arrests more ...Read more