WASHINGTON — Republican-led Senate and House committees say they will increase scrutiny of the Pentagon after a report said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of all crew members of a vessel suspected to be carrying drugs, The Washington Post reports.

The Post reported earlier that Hegseth had given a spoken order that all ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — “Let’s do the ball toss,” a young woman excitedly said to the young man with her as they walked into the St. Paul RiverCentre auditorium Saturday for the 45th annual Minnesota Hmong New Year celebration.

They were already holding hands, but the ball toss courtship ritual has long been a way to signal a person is single and...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau has been interviewing Manhattan North commanders in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest at Park East Synagogue last week that sparked outrage and questions about the department’s response, The New York Daily News has learned.

IAB Group 1, which handles investigations of captains and ...Read more

CHICAGO — As heavy snow blanketed the Chicago area Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service warned of up to 10 inches of accumulation by the morning. More than 1,000 flights were canceled at the city’s airports, while road conditions also grew hazardous.

The weather service expected total snow accumulations between 6 and 10 inches ...Read more

LONDON — Keir Starmer has six months to prove his mettle to his party amid swirling doubts within the governing Labour Party that he can reverse plunging public confidence in his U.K. administration.

The prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves survived a budget statement this week that did just about enough to avoid a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Top administrators across the California State University system will receive more than a half-million dollars in pay raises in what trustees said is an effort to improve recruiting for executive-level candidates — but the policy change sparked outrage from faculty and staff who said it comes as they face “tsunamis” of...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has married partner Jodie Haydon, becoming the nation’s first leader to wed while in office.

The couple tied the knot at a small ceremony on Saturday in the presence of family and close friends at the prime minister’s official residence in Canberra, Albanese said in a statement.

“We are ...Read more

South African police have arrested four men en route to Russia on suspicion they would contravene the country’s laws against assisting foreign military forces.

The men were arrested at the OR Tambo airport near Johannesburg on Friday and will appear in court on Dec. 1, the Hawks, an elite police unit, said in a statement on Saturday. Their ...Read more

The family of Anna Kepner is baffled that no one has yet to be charged in the high school senior’s murder aboard a Carnival cruise ship, even though her stepbrother is reportedly under investigation.

Kepner’s aunt, Krystal Wright, told Fox 35 Orlando this week that the family is in “turmoil” as they’re “just sitting here waiting” ...Read more

A Japanese singer was forced to stop her performance in Shanghai on Friday as the fallout from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks on Taiwan continues to sour ties between Asia’s two largest economies.

Maki Otsuki — known for the theme song to the popular anime "One Piece" — was forced to interrupt her show at an event in the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Westfield Valley Fair reopened at noon Saturday after a shooting Friday night sent three people to the hospital and hundreds running for their lives on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

The incident, which police said was potentially gang-related, happened around 5:40 p.m. Friday on the second floor of the ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — She’s never been the patient kind. But after her husband was taken by the U.S. Border Patrol on Nov. 18, all Esmeralda Escobar can do is wait.

Escobar reads her Bible whenever she thinks of Moises Benitez Diaz, just like he told her to do. To stay patient, she’s clinging to Psalm 25: “Let me not be ashamed. Let not my ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan green card holder detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than three months was released to reunite with his disabled son just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

When Heury Gomez returned home on Nov. 22, he said is first order of business was eating a decent meal, then seeing his mother and 18-year-...Read more

NEW YORK — Immigrant advocates stopped a large-scale federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency operation near Canal Street Saturday by blocking the entrance to a Chinatown garage where the masked agents had gathered, temporarily preventing them from leaving, officials and advocates said.

ICE agents needed to call in the New York ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With a month to go in 2025, Florida has set a record for childhood drowning deaths this year, a grim statistic in a state that already leads the nation in children losing their lives in water.

Two Orlando lawmakers want to change that with required drowning prevention education information for new parents. State Sen. Carlos ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A judge ordered lengthy prison terms for a Nevada daughter and mother who pleaded guilty to working together to kill the daughter’s estranged husband at an Idaho campground.

Melissa Calumpit, 36, and Rosalie Morris, 60, admitted to driving from their home in Battle Mountain, Nevada, on July 12, 2024, to Martin Landing, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops are investigating the death of a 73-year-old woman whose body was discovered as firefighters evacuated a Bronx apartment building during a massive fire, officials said Saturday.

The woman was found inside a sixth-floor apartment of the Sheridan Ave. building near E. 172nd St. in the Concourse section of the Bronx after the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

U.S. forces have been massing in the region as Trump weighs military action that would go beyond U.S. strikes on boats that ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has slammed a report alleging he ordered U.S. service members to launch a second strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel after an initial attack left two survivors, denying experts’ claims that he may be guilty of war crimes.

“As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory and ...Read more

CHICAGO — As heavy snow blanketed the Chicago area Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service warned of up to 10 inches of accumulation by the morning. More than 1,000 flights were canceled at the city’s airports, while road conditions also grew hazardous.

The weather service expected total snow accumulations between 6 and 10 inches ...Read more