LAS VEGAS — A former Nevada congressional candidate pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a murder charge in connection with the death of an Idaho man he is accused of fatally injuring in a Strip hotel room.

Late last month, a grand jury indicted Daniel Rodimer, 45, a former pro wrestler who ran for Nevada’s 3rd congressional district in 2020....Read more

ATLANTA — Emory University’s undergraduate students voted in favor of a no confidence resolution of its president, Gregory L. Fenves, the school’s student government association announced Wednesday.

About 3,400 of Emory’s 8,100 undergraduate students voted on the referendum. Of those who voted, 2,499 voted in favor of the motion, 844 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The body that represents the University of Southern California's faculty voted on Wednesday to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around commencement.

In the USC Academic Senate’s vote, 21 members favored censuring the president and provost...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A California high roller who says he was drugged while playing blackjack in a private Las Vegas Strip gaming salon has doubled a reward to $1 million for information leading to an arrest.

Dwight Manley, a California real estate executive and sports agent with high-roller status at MGM Resorts International, sued the company after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An overwhelmingly bipartisan coalition put a stop to U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort Wednesday to remove Mike Johnson as House speaker.

The vote to table the Rome Republican’s motion to vacate was 359 in favor and 43 opposed. Greene and 10 other Republicans voted against the motion to table. So did 32 Democrats, ...Read more

BOSTON — The state Republican Party is calling for an investigation into Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “clear-cut violation” of public finance rules in mixing campaign funds and City Hall resources for a private “electeds of color” holiday party.

The mayor’s office, however, vehemently denied assertions of wrongdoing in ...Read more

The Boston City Council duked it out over two resolutions that sought to show its support for the local Jewish community and denounce antisemitism, but only one was ultimately approved over the objections of a councilor forced to withdraw his.

The resolution adopted Wednesday, via a 12-0 vote, recognizes Jewish American Heritage Month, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops on Wednesday released images of one of the protesters they say vandalized a 121-year-old statue in Central Park.

A group splintered off from a large demonstration near the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the Met Gala on Monday evening and headed south down Fifth Ave., the Daily News previously reported.

At 59th St., members...Read more

LOS ANGELES — City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino.

In a series of press conferences and public statements over the last two weeks, San Bernardino County and Chino officials have called for Gov. Gavin Newsom's...Read more

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. has paused the supply of “high-payload” munitions to Israel over concerns about a potential military offensive on the Gazan city of Rafah.

The delivery was supposed to contain 3,500 bombs, split roughly evenly between 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) and 500-pound explosives, according to a senior ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man identified as a cousin of Rabbi Meir Kahane — the controversial founder of the Jewish Defense League assassinated in a Manhattan hotel — has been arrested for ramming his car into a pro-Palestinian protester on the Upper East Side.

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old real estate developer, was arrested at Park Ave. and E. 72nd ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Pro-Palestinian protesters urged students throughout California State University’s Southern California campuses to take part in a CSU-wide day of action on Wednesday as tensions continue to flare over the Israel-Hamas war.

No major outbreaks were reported in the greater Los Angeles area, however. Across a number of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial Thursday morning, testing the ability of both the adult film star and the former president to keep their cool.

Daniels on Tuesday ended her testimony in the midst of a harsh cross-examination in which Trump’s lawyer repeatedly accused ...Read more

A Mexican judge laid out Wednesday the evidence against a man arrested in connection with the disappearance and killings of two Australian brothers and their American friend, including the testimony of a witness who told investigators that the suspect allegedly boasted that he attacked "three gringos."

Identified only by his first and middle ...Read more

As COVID-19 swept over Phoebe Putney Health System and Southwest Georgia in the first days of the pandemic, residents and public health officials were desperate to know what patients had and how far it was spreading. The Albany, Georgia-based outbreak turned out to be one of the four largest in the world in terms of the percentage of the ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a new round of criminal charges Wednesday against lawyer Stefanie Lambert, alleging Lambert, who's worked to advance dubious election fraud claims nationally, and former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott allowed someone to access non-public voter information.

Nessel, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city’s Department of Investigation has launched a probe into accusations that top NYPD officials flouted local laws by thumbing out what have been criticized as politically charged social media posts, a spokeswoman for the watchdog agency told the New York Daily News on Wednesday.

The spokeswoman, Diane Struzzi, said the ...Read more

Two former students of a high school in Mountain View, California, were awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement after they were expelled for wearing acne face masks, which were interpreted as "blackface," and sued.

A Santa Clara County jury sided with the former Saint Francis High School students who claimed the district was in breach of ...Read more