LAS VEGAS — Speaking from his room at a Las Vegas hospital on Nov. 19, 16-year-old Mason Huff had a message for anyone who rides an e-scooter.

“Wear a helmet and stay vigilant,” Huff said, just after taking an allotment of pain medications. “Anything can switch up on you at any time.”

Two days prior, Huff, a student at Lake Havasu ...Read more

Black Friday shoppers were sent scrambling for cover after shots were fired at the Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara, California, injuring three, police said.

Three people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening gunshot woundst, according to the San Jose Police Department,. Injured were an adult man, an adult woman, and a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Northwestern University will pay a $75 million fine to settle allegations of antisemitism from the Trump administration, restoring hundreds of millions of federal funding, officials announced Friday.

As part of the agreement, Northwestern also said it will continue following federal anti-discrimination laws, review its international...Read more

Lee calls himself lucky.

The septuagenarian was meeting friends at a restaurant when a fire broke out at a Hong Kong building next to his on Wednesday. The flames quickly spread to the tower that housed Lee’s home, leaving him and his wife among hundreds uprooted by the city’s deadliest blaze in decades.

Nearly two days on after the ...Read more

Additional U.S. Marines being sent to Haiti to defend the embassy from gang attacks face a grim reality: They’re increasingly being targeted by American-made, military-grade firearms.

Haiti doesn’t manufacture weapons and has been under an arms embargo since 2022, but it’s awash in guns. And the Government Accountability Office says 90% ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras who’s serving a decades-long U.S. sentence for cocaine trafficking, two days before the nation’s election.

Trump announced the pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez in a Truth Social post on Friday.

Hernandez “has been, according to many people that I...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened a slew of aggressive actions to curtail legal migration to the U.S. in response to one National Guard member dying after being ambushed near the White House, though the scope of those moves and what legal or congressional mechanisms he may pursue remain unclear.

Trump, who has amplified his anti-...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers will be taking up a bill this session that seeks to establish a permanent commission on the status of transgender people.

The legislation (S. 2725) An Act Establishing a Commission on the Status of Transgender People, would task the commission with conducting an ongoing study of all matters concerning ...Read more

First lady Melania Trump announced on Friday that she’s launched her own production company, “Muse Films,” ahead of the release of a controversial Amazon documentary billed to focus on her life as she prepared to return to the White House alongside her husband, President Donald Trump.

“PRESENTING: MUSE FILMS, my new production company,�...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Air traffic at the San Diego International Airport was temporarily delayed Friday because of a hazmat spill that has been cleaned up.

Airport operations were back to normal by mid-afternoon, said airport spokesperson Nicole Hall.

Some news outlets had noted delays of up to 50 minutes, citing figures from the Federal Aviation ...Read more

A search was underway in New Jersey on Friday for a 21-year-old Rutgers University student who’s been missing more than a week.

Mortimer Wortman, who also goes by Morty, was last seen on Nov. 21 around 10:30 p.m. in Jackson Township, near the Collier Mills Wildlife Management Area, in the woods off High Bridge Road. Police have said Wortman ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spoke with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro last week and the two discussed a possible meeting, according to The New York Times, as the U.S. ramps up pressure on Caracas ahead of potential military strikes.

The leaders still have not made plans for such a meeting, the Times reported Friday, adding that U.S....Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — This weekend might not be the best time to go surfing, tidepooling, or frolicking along the shoreline.

The National Weather Service has issued a warning to Northern Californians of potentially deadly “sneaker waves” reaching 13 to 18 feet in height along the coast until at least 10 p.m. Sunday. These waves get their name ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is terminating every document former President Joe Biden signed with an autopen in his latest move to eradicate his predecessor’s legacy.

In a Truth Social post Friday, Trump accused Biden of signing “approximately 92%" of documents through the use of an autopen. The president threatened perjury...Read more

A Colorado man was found fatally stabbed on the Caribbean island of Tobago after separating from his friends to purchase marijuana, according to local police.

The victim was identified on Friday as 43-year-old Christopher Brown, a builder from Silverthorne, ABC News reported.

Brown was found unresponsive late Wednesday night, with several stab...Read more

South Africa’s central bank governor warned that the U.S. move to exclude the country from the Group of 20 next year was placing the international gathering at risk.

South Africa has been a member of the bloc since its formation in 1999 and “I cannot think of one country that got told that they cannot come to G-20,” not even sanctioned ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened a slew of aggressive actions to curtail legal migration to the U.S. in response to one National Guard member dying after being ambushed near the White House, though the scope of those moves and what legal or congressional mechanisms he may pursue remain unclear.

Trump, who has amplified his anti-immigration ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops arrested four protesters who tried to block the entrance of the Midtown Apple Store during a Black Friday sale, police said.

A coalition of about 70 protesters, including pro-Palestinian demonstrators, holding signs reading, “Think before you buy” and “Israel is killing children,” and waving Palestinian flags, stopped ...Read more