NEW YORK — As Mayor Zohran Mamdani dashed kids’ hopes of a snow day next week, the MTA said it was preparing for potential buildup of snow and ice on aboveground subway lines.

The MTA will work to keep aboveground service on elevated tracks running as long as the third rail is clear and train operators have visibility, transit sources told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Long before and after his return to the White House, President Donald Trump perennially linked Joe Biden with John L. “Jack” Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who brought criminal charges against him.

But when Smith testified publicly for the first time Thursday, it was Democrats who repeatedly raised the issue to...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year, marked a key tool in Republican officials’ yearslong effort to halt abortions. It severely ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials on Friday confirmed the 2005 death of renowned author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson was a result of suicide, almost six months after the state started reviewing the case by request of the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.

State investigators started reviewing the case after Thompson’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Thousands of marchers descended on the National Mall on Friday as some of the nation’s most powerful politicians pledged to take the next steps to ending abortion.

The annual March for Life rally serves as a key jumping point for abortion-related policy announcements from conservatives. But anti-abortion advocates had warned ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and constitutional rights experts expressed outrage after reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials had written a memo stating that deportation agents are allowed to enter immigrants' homes — by force, if necessary — without a judicial arrest warrant.

The internal memo authorizes ICE...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota businesses shuttered Friday and crowds hit the streets to protest in bone-chilling temperatures as part of a statewide demonstration to support immigrant communities and demand federal immigration agents leave the state.

An estimated 700 restaurants, shops, museums and entertainment venues closed for the “Day of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The ICE vehicle had barely made it two blocks when something went wrong.

Tippy Amundson, 39, and Heather Zemien, 55, were sitting handcuffed in the back seat of a three-row SUV on the afternoon of Jan. 22 in Brooklyn Park, detained by federal immigration agents and heading toward the Whipple Federal Building. The third row had ...Read more

MIAMI — In the dark of night, Quatisha Maycock, 5, was dumped in the Everglades to suffer a grisly fate: death by alligators.

The extent of the brutal injuries that Quatisha suffered were at the center of medical testimony presented in the ongoing death-penalty resentencing of Harrel Braddy, who was convicted almost two decades ago of killing...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The White House posted a digitally altered photo of Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong that depicts her crying as she’s arrested by federal agents in connection with the demonstration at a church service on Jan. 18.

In a previous version of the image posted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — After weeks of minimal public communication, federal officials held their third news conference in a week on Friday, the latest in a series of attempts to elevate their own narrative of the enforcement crackdown in Minnesota.

Officials accused critics of “irresponsible rhetoric,” highlighted arrests of violent offenders and ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of an Arlington man arrested by immigration authorities is demanding his release so he can be with his disabled son during his son’s final hours.

The man, Maher Tarabishi, was arrested by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Oct. 28. Before his arrest, Maher Tarabishi was the primary caretaker for his son...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than a year, a Texas oil firm has clashed with California officials over controversial plans to restart offshore oil operations along the Santa Barbara County coast.

Now, California’s feud with Sable Offshore Corp. has spread to the Trump administration.

On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that...Read more

A rape and assault trial unfolding in a London courtroom has opened a window onto the private life of President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, revealing that the 19-year-old had developed a “very close” online relationship with a woman in London and witnessed her allegedly being attacked by her jealous ex-boyfriend via FaceTime — ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District released a litany of test results for the fire-damaged Palisades Charter High School ahead of the planned return of students next week, showing the district’s remediation efforts have removed much of the post-fire contamination.

However, some parents remain concerned with a perceived ...Read more

MIAMI —The Florida-based conservative fundraising platform PSQ Impact landed a giant client this week — Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation — despite having just launched last month.

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., could stand to benefit from the deal.

He’s one of the largest shareholders on the Board of Directors for the...Read more

The Indiana Senate advanced an immigration bill on Thursday, on second reading, that would allow local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws and require Indiana law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.

Senate Bill 76, authored by State Sen. Liz Brown, states that the enforcement of federal immigration laws may be carried out by ...Read more

BOSTON — The U.S. attorney’s office is requesting that Black Lives Matter charity fraudster Monica Cannon-Grant fork over more than $220,000.

Cannon-Grant, along with her now-deceased husband Clark Grant, were charged with 27 fraud-related offenses in a federal indictment in March 2023. She entered a plea agreement last September in which ...Read more

DETROIT — Temperatures across Michigan on Friday were already cold and expected to drop to some of the lowest in years, according to the National Weather Service.

Blame the so-called polar vortex, the phenomenon of swirling, cold air from the Arctic Circle that pushes south into the U.S.

One of the most recent polar vortices to vex Michigan ...Read more