SAN DIEGO — To San Diego and the world, Amin Abdullah, 51, is the heroic San Diego Islamic Center security guard who stood between children, teachers and death. He alerted the school of the threat just before he was fatally shot by two San Diego teenagers in what is being investigated as a hate crime.

But to Hawaa Abdullah, Amin Abdullah was ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 56-year-old woman from Westchester died after she stepped out of an SUV and abruptly fell into an open manhole on a Midtown Manhattan street, police said Tuesday.

Donike Gocaj, from Briarcliff Manor, had just parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV on East 52nd Street near the corner of Fifth Avenue before stepping out of her vehicle at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fewer New York City families applied for free preschool at the outset of this year’s admissions cycle, despite a full-court press by Mayor Mamdani to encourage more parents to sign up their children.

At the same time, more families received offers from 3-K and pre-K programs that they ranked on their applications, increasing the ...Read more

SEATTLE — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into Washington state’s practice of housing transgender women at the Washington Corrections Center for Women near Gig Harbor.

The DOJ states it will investigate allegations that women at the prison were deprived of Eighth Amendment protections ...Read more

California is entering summer with fire danger already running higher than usual, fueled by dry grass, early snowmelt, persistent wind and a hot March that left parts of Northern California especially vulnerable, state fire officials said Tuesday.

“We know we will have an increased level of activity this year,” Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said...Read more

DENVER — Vice President JD Vance will speak to hundreds of graduating cadets at this year’s U.S. Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs, academy officials announced Tuesday.

More than 900 cadets will graduate on May 28 at Falcon Stadium, stepping into roles with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, according to a ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis could face a possible censure and loss of privileges from the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday night after a formal complaint about his reduction of Tina Peters’ prison sentence caught fire early this week.

Hundreds of Democratic elected officials, volunteers and voters have asked the state party to formally ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz appointed Theodora Gaitas as chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday and named Reynaldo Aligada Jr. as the court’s newest associate justice.

Gaitas, a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, is in her first term as an associate justice of the court after Walz appointed her in 2024. She previously ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The two gunmen who opened fire at a San Diego mosque on Monday, killing three people, had met online, where they were radicalized and left behind a hate-filled manifesto, authorities revealed Tuesday.

According to a witness, the pair were “fully armored” and rushed toward the entrance with handguns and rifles before a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has formally — and harshly — answered the House Judiciary Committee, telling the GOP leadership that its inquiries into the city’s handling of immigration issues lack any legal or factual basis.

The Republican-led committee had set a Monday deadline for a reply to letters that ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is bulking up patrols around city mosques in the wake of the fatal shooting outside an Islamic center in San Diego, police said Tuesday.

More cops will be found around city mosques, and local precincts will be increasing patrols going past these houses of worship, even though there are no specific threats to the city’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The former president of a now-shuttered, anti-LGBTQ organization was arrested Tuesday for seeking sex from an undercover deputy posing as a 14-year-old boy, according the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Alan Chambers, 54, of Winter Park, was booked in the Orange County Jail without bond on charges of soliciting a minor, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a year after the deadly Eaton fire swept through Altadena, killing 19 people, a new, outside review of firefighters’ decision-making concluded “there was no failure” by L.A. County fire officials in ordering evacuations.

The report, released Monday and commissioned by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, found...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Tuesday advanced two constitutional amendments that would strip power from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein.

One amendment, introduced as House Bill 144, would remove Stein’s appointments to the State Board of Education — making all of those positions elected instead. The other, filed as House Bill ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans this week filed a bill to reduce the state’s early voting period from 17 days to 10.

If passed this session, the bill, Senate Bill 1084, would apply to the upcoming midterm elections in November.

Legislative leaders have not yet given the bill a committee hearing, but Senate leader Phil Berger has...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday the Luigi Mangione supporters who celebrated the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should not have been issued New York City press credentials, adding that his administration is looking into “what the immediate next steps are” for changing the system of handing out the passes.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday he would not recommend a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a federal prison sentence for her role in a sex trafficking scheme involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The head of the Justice Department made the remark during a budget hearing on Capitol...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California and a coalition of other Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration over new limits on federal borrowing by aspiring nurses, physician’s assistants, therapists, social workers, mental health practitioners and other healthcare workers, arguing the changes will further reduce a struggling but vital ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The National Transportation Safety Board has released surveillance footage that shows the engine popping off a UPS airplane before it crashed after takeoff near Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville.

The crash happened Nov. 4, 2025, and killed 15 people, including the three crew members and 12 people on the ground....Read more