NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday the city is bracing for potentially massive winter storm, doing everything it can to prepare for bitter cold and as much as a foot of snow forecast to hit New York starting Saturday evening.

Around 2,000 sanitation workers will work 12 hour shifts to salt, brine and remove snow starting Saturday ...Read more

Russian leader Vladimir Putin began talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on the latest peace plan aimed at ending his war in Ukraine.

“It’s so good to see you,” Witkoff said as Putin shook hands with the two envoys in a video posted on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri ...Read more

A number of members of Congress are taking a stand for Haiti’s women and girls, warning that their bodies can no longer serve as a battleground for the country’s deepening crisis.

Forty-eight Democrats in the House have signed onto a resolution introduced by Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York condemning what it describes as the “...Read more

European allies breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after President Donald Trump caved on his divisive demand to take over Greenland, which had appeared to threaten the very future of the NATO alliance.

With few details emerging about Trump’s supposed “framework of a future deal” on Greenland, it doesn’t appear European allies or Denmark...Read more

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated.

“We’d like to get to the point where we can verify where something entered the atmosphere and whether any fragments reached the ground,” Hopkins ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The year before California’s deadliest fireworks explosion in decades, the state agency tasked with regulating and investigating fireworks and explosions prepared to tell lawmakers about its enforcement problems — of which it had many.

Officials with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, a division of Cal Fire, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — About a week before Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a criminal investigation into Native American boarding schools in Michigan, a separate $1.25 million state investigation into the same issue came to an inauspicious end.

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights on Nov. 30 issued a memo to legislative leaders and Gov. ...Read more

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days before shooting and killing him in a robbery attempt.

Raymond Myles, 66, a longtime jurist at the county’s main courthouse at 26th ...Read more

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — A jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of murdering a Cook County judge, following a seven-day trial during which prosecutors said the assailants watched the judge and his girlfriend for days before shooting and killing him in a robbery attempt.

Raymond Myles, 66, a longtime jurist at the county’s main courthouse at 26th ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sepulveda Transit Corridor project would connect Los Angeles' Westside to the San Fernando Valley in less than 20 minutes and ideally eliminate traffic congestion along one of the nation’s busiest corridors by offering an alternative to the snarling 405 Freeway over the Santa Monica Mountains.

The multibillion-dollar Metro...Read more

WASHINGTON — Challengers to California’s new congressional map asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the state from using its new map in this fall’s election, pressing claims the state racially gerrymandered its new map.

The map, passed by ballot initiative last year, would target seats held by five Republicans in the state and was...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal agents have no plans to end the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota, U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino said at a news conference.

Asked whether agents had a targeted end date or arrest quota for Operation Metro Surge, the name given to the Trump administration’s crackdown in Minnesota, Bovino said the ...Read more

One of the two police officers criminally charged for the disastrous response to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting was cleared on all charges Wednesday.

Adrian Gonzales, 52, was acquitted on 29 counts of child abandonment and endangerment.

The jury “talked about gaps. They talked about perspective and what the government didn’t prove ...Read more

NEW YORK — A crew of vandals covered a Brooklyn playground in a Jewish neighborhood with more than 50 swastikas during a two-day attack, police and city officials said Thursday.

The swastikas were drawn with red, yellow, and blue paint on slides, playground equipment and the handball court at Gravesend Park at 56th Street and 18th Avenue in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to ban students from using cellphones in public schools during instructional time, setting the legislation on a path to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's desk.

Under the proposals, which represent a compromise between the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Bar decided not to reprimand or disbar former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz after a House Ethics Committee found “substantial evidence” he had sex with a 17-year-old girl and frequently used illegal drugs while friends with disgraced Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg.

Gaetz’s attorney, Warren Lindsey — a ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were uttered by pilot Michael Smith.

The seven members of mission 51-L, the 25th space shuttle mission, had just lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B and were climbing east over the Atlantic.

“Uh...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal jury was deliberating Thursday in the high-profile trial of a Chicago man accused of soliciting the murder of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last fall.

Juan Espinoza Martínez, 37, a construction worker who has lived in Chicago for years but is not a U.S. citizen, is charged in ...Read more