Two of the victims who were shot and killed at Brown University have been identified while the suspect remains at large.

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook were separately identified as the two students killed in a Brown classroom Saturday night at the tail end of a study session for an introductory economics class.

The U.S. Ambassador to ...Read more

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox reported homicides are up nearly 30% this year, as Mayor Michelle Wu continued to tout Boston as the safest major city in the country at a year-end public safety briefing.

Cox said there have been 31 homicides in the city thus far this year, compared to 24 for all of last year, but said that number still ...Read more

Norovirus, also known as the “stomach flu” or “winter vomiting sickness,” is active in California and across the nation. But cleaning and disinfecting can help check its spread, experts say.

Precautions are crucial because the virus is highly infectious and there’s no real treatment for it, the Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more

U.S. negotiators offered more significant security guarantees to Kyiv as part of President Donald Trump’s renewed push to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but the effort still appeared part of a bid to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on territory.

The Trump administration offered to provide Ukraine with strong “Article 5-like” security...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trump’s command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate court’s order to be gone by noon Monday.

Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted the “comeback” of coho salmon after state officials spotted juvenile fish in the Russian River’s upper basin — the first such sighting in more than 30 years.

As the state celebrated the news, however, federal fisheries officials announced that they would not designate Chinook ...Read more

Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students said they drank alcohol within the last 30 days when surveyed in 2021, according to a report released Monday by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Nearly 12% of the teens acknowledged binge drinking – consuming four to five drinks within a couple hours time.

The findings are part of a new, ...Read more

South Florida state Rep. Robin Bartleman has filed a bill that seeks to rectify what she and other advocates say is a gap in the legal system that makes it easy for domestic violence perpetrators with restraining orders to avoid surrendering their guns, a flaw highlighted by the February triple homicide in Tamarac.

Bartleman, D-Weston, cited ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to unveil several top-level hires for his administration this week, potentially including his pick for City Hall budget chief, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Dean Fuleihan, Mamdani’s incoming first deputy mayor, revealed during a Monday forum hosted by the Citizens Budget ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams has “no desire” to remain in public life after he leaves City Hall at the end of December, he said in a media briefing for select outlets Monday, indicating that at least for now he’s done with public service.

Since he ended his reelection bid in September amid fallout from his dismissed corruption indictment...Read more

DENVER — The Arizona man who caused millions in damage to the Colorado Supreme Court building last year was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison.

Brandon Olsen shot out one of the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center’s first-floor windows and broke in shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2024. He was fleeing from a car crash at 13th ...Read more

Former Haitian President Michel Martelly has been blacklisted by the European Union alongside two once powerful lawmakers and a criminal gang, the EU said Monday, citing their alleged roles in Haiti’s escalating gang violence.

Martelly’s name was added to the EU Council’s sanctions list along with that of former senators Youri Latortue, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s down to the wire for officials to deliver a seven-state agreement to stabilize Lake Mead over the next 20 years. That’s why water managers are eager to attend this year’s annual policy gathering in Las Vegas.

Federal and state officials, professors, nonprofit leaders and environmentalists will gather on the Strip this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Cultural Heritage Partners, the group that sued to prevent the Trump administration from painting the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, withdrew its motion Friday, saying it accepted assurances from the General Services Administration that it wouldn’t take any steps regarding the building before March 1, 2026.

The group ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Less than a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, while our nascent nation was still in the throes of the Civil War, two industrious Philadelphians devised a plan to help raise money for injured Union soldiers, war widows, and children left orphaned by the war.

Charles Godfrey Leland, a ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders released draft legislation Friday consisting of a package of health proposals aimed at reducing health care costs in 2026, setting up a possible floor vote this week.

The House Rules Committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon to consider the bill for floor action.

The 111-page bill combines a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., on Friday said he expected video footage of the Sept. 2 military strike at the center of controversy over whether the U.S. killed noncombatants in the Caribbean to eventually be released.

Speaking during a gathering of the Defense Writers Group, Warner, who as a member ...Read more

CHICAGO — The trenches are dug in Chicago’s slow-moving budget battle. And as he seeks to gain ground with a government shutdown weeks away, Mayor Brandon Johnson keeps lobbing the same ordnance: harsh words.

Last week, opponents of his plan to implement a corporate head tax were “cowards.” He tagged them with a pair of new epithets ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner spent years struggling with addiction and with help from his father, Hollywood legend Rob Reiner, told his story to the world.

On Monday, Nick was booked into the Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of murder, hours after his father and mother, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead inside their Brentwood home.

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CHICAGO — Renegade Chicago aldermen battling with Mayor Brandon Johnson over competing 2026 budgets announced tweaks to their proposal Monday morning, but withheld critical details.

The City Council majority group is dropping its plan to raise the garbage pickup fee, Ald. Gilbert Villegas, 36th, said in a statement. The group will also ...Read more