NEW YORK — A machete-wielding man screaming he was “Lucifer” was shot dead by cops after he savagely slashed three elderly subway commuters in a terrifying, unprovoked attack in Grand Central Station in Midtown Saturday, police said.

Holding his weapon firmly in his hand, Anthony Griffin, 44, refused to drop his massive blade after two ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran held direct three-way talks with Pakistan on Saturday to end the six-week-old war in the Middle East, according to a U.S. and an Iranian official familiar with the situation.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have been meeting since about 5:30 p.m. local time with an Iranian team that...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The fallout over sexual misconduct allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., grew Saturday as his fellow gubernatorial candidates faced a new race and Democrats were forced into a rapid test of how they respond to accusations of sexual misconduct.

Within hours of the accusations against Swalwell being made public...Read more

U.S. Department of State on Saturday announced it canceled the green cards of three more Iranian nationals and placed them in custody of federal immigration agents, alleging they had ties to an Iranian woman who was "the leading propagandist" for "violent Islamists."

The three Iranians arrested, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their ...Read more

Szekesfehervar is Viktor Orban’s kind of place. It’s where he was born, where he attended high school and a city that encapsulates his domination of Hungarian politics since returning to power 16 years ago.

Sixty kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Budapest, it’s also now the kind of place that Orban desperately needs to keep hold of in ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The tide seems to be turning against a gambit by Gov. Ron DeSantis to redraw Florida’s congressional districts, a move made at the behest of President Donald Trump to help Republicans maintain control of Congress.

Nonetheless, DeSantis is pushing forward, having called the Florida Legislature back to Tallahassee for a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is launching an investigation into accusations Rep. Eric Swalwell, a candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted a woman in 2019 and 2024, the office confirmed Saturday.

The investigation, which was first reported by CNN, follows accusations published by that outlet and...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — People in Central Florida who slept in Saturday morning may have received a sonic boom wake-up call.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 on a resupply run to the International Space Station hitting liftoff at 7:41 a.m.

The first-stage booster for the flight ...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby reportedly wants a civil case in which he was ordered to pay nearly $60 million in damages to a woman who accused him of sexual assault to be reconsidered.

The 88-year-old sexual predator, who’s been accused of abusing dozens of women, was found responsible last month for drugging and raping Donna ...Read more

It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat.

Then, a sneeze.

Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable days.

Viral upper respiratory tract infections – also known as the currentnews/newsheadlines/s-4067747">Read more

Two U.S. Navy destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz Saturday, laying the ground for the start of a mine clearing operation, U.S. Central Command said.

The USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy transited the Strait of Hormuz and operated in the Arabian Gulf, CENTCOM said in a statement posted to X, adding that more U.S. forces, ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration recently agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Chicago police Lt. Franklin Paz, who alleged he was dumped from a citywide unit after refusing to pressure subordinate officers to meet traffic stop and arrest quotas set by department higher-ups.

Eric Wilkins ...Read more

DENVER — A bipartisan pair of Colorado lawmakers have introduced a bill that would make it easier for residents and counties to declare a town abandoned, and for the state to assist dissolved municipalities with failing water systems.

Senate Bill 157 — sponsored by state Sens. Rod Pelton, a Cheyenne Wells Republican, and Nick Hinrichsen, a ...Read more

A year after being deported from the United States to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, many of the 252 Venezuelans sent away are still dealing with stigma and uncertainty about their future, despite being back in their home country.

“People don’t trust us because of the way we were brought from El Salvador,” said Frengel Reyes, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democratic front-runner in the hotly contested California governor’s race, is facing mounting calls to drop out of the contest after he was accused of sexual assault and misconduct by a former staff member and other women in reports published on Friday.

A woman who worked for the Northern ...Read more

Records were set. History was made. All that was left was to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe. That happened Friday night as they splashed down safe in the Pacific Ocean.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen made the final run of a nearly 700,000-mile trip ...Read more