A 39-year-old Mexican man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of shooting five people at a Las Vegas birthday party in 2022 and was found to have entered the United States illegally five times during a period of over 10 years, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

Jose Alberto Santacruz-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five months after the Trump administration shuttered a suicide and crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, Los Angeles County has launched an effort to try to create its own hotline to fill the void.

In July the Trump administration eliminated the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline's "press 3" option, which previously connected ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children.

The investigation, being conducted across different divisions of the FDA, comes at a time when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Rocky statue sitting atop of Philadelphia Art Museum’s famed steps could soon be there permanently — and the one at the bottom may be going back to the Italian Stallion himself, Sylvester Stallone.

That’s according to a recent proposal from Creative Philadelphia, the city’s office for the creative sector, which is ...Read more

MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s raucous rally Tuesday night in Pennsylvania was billed as the launch of a national tour focused easing voters’ economic anxieties that threaten Republicans’ hold in Washington with the 2026 midterms looming.

But the economy couldn’t maintain the president’s interest for the duration of ...Read more

Federal fisheries officials on Monday rejected a bid to designate West Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

In response, one of the conservation groups that petitioned for the listing, the Center for Biological Diversity, says it is considering a legal challenge.

“The major species protections ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced the last-minute appointment of a police-union-backed candidate to head the agency responsible for providing independent oversight of the NYPD.

The decision to name former journalist Pat Smith as the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s interim chair drew outrage from anti-police-violence ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York state prosecutors on Tuesday released a video excerpt of the first police encounter in December 2024 with Luigi Mangione, then the main suspect in the New York shooting of a health care executive five days earlier.

The video shows Joseph Detwiler, an officer in Altoona, Pennsylvania, questioning Mangione. A McDonald’s ...Read more

An armed conflict within Haiti’s powerful coalition of gangs has reportedly led to multiple fatalities and has at least one major gang leader on the run.

The confrontation began around 4 a.m. Tuesday in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Reports say dozens of gunmen were killed in the conflict, including a high-ranking gang leader ...Read more

NEW YORK — For many New Yorkers, the 9/11 attack feels like it happened just yesterday, but nearly 25 years have passed since the terrorist strike, and the FDNY wants to commemorate next year’s anniversary with a little something extra.

Along with the traditional somber reading of the victims’ names at Ground Zero, ceremony organizers on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is dropping a new twist into the heated debate over the city’s horse carriage industry by ordering that some of the steeds deployed in Central Park undergo medical exams from an outside veterinarian who has spoken at events hosted by an anti-carriage group, the Daily News has learned.

The Adams administration’s...Read more

MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — A smattering of people pushed their luck Tuesday at the Mount Airy Casino Resort, tapping neon slot buttons, flipping dice onto felt craps tables, and wandering the rows of glowing, dinging machines.

A floor below, President Donald Trump was set to speak in a sprawling ballroom, where event staff hung a huge blue banner: ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla on Tuesday urged the federal government’s independent special counsel to more aggressively investigate whether the Trump administration violated the law by pressing Republican state officials to redraw congressional boundaries to help the GOP.

The Office of Special Counsel told The Sacramento Bee it received ...Read more

Canada’s ambassador to Washington is preparing to leave office, and Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering a former BlackRock Inc. senior executive for the job ahead of crucial trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico.

Kirsten Hillman, who serves as ambassador and Canada’s chief trade negotiator with the U.S., has informed Carney she will ...Read more

Gov. Wes Moore is leaving the door open for the Maryland General Assembly to “consider other business” when it meets on Dec. 16 to elect a new House speaker. In that discussion, Maryland Republicans want to highlight veto overrides and redistricting, a debate that has raised concerns among the GOP about potentially eliminating the state’s ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday adopted a resolution vowing to fight efforts by the Trump administration to expand offshore oil and gas drilling more than three miles off the coast of California.

The measure, approved on a 4-1 vote, was introduced by board chair Terra Lawson-Remer and chair pro tem Paloma ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to vote this week on a likely futile plan to counter Democrats’ push to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies as health care costs for more than 20 million people are set to spike on Jan. 1.

Neither the Republican legislation announced Tuesday nor Democrats’ proposed three-year extension are expected to ...Read more