New York police are searching for a man they allege punched Emmy-winning actor Steve Buscemi in Manhattan last week.

Police named 50-year-old Clifton Williams as the suspect behind the alleged assault that left the "Boardwalk Empire" and "The Big Lebowski" star's left eye bloodied and bruised, The Times confirmed Wednesday. Police responded ...Read more

ATLANTA — Conservative activists are preparing to question the validity of thousands of Georgia voter registrations this summer, an election-year effort under the state’s new voter challenge law.

The coming wave of voter eligibility challenges will seek to disqualify voters who appear to have moved from Georgia, building on 250,000 ...Read more

ATLANTA — Paige Alexander, the CEO of the Carter Center, shared that former President Jimmy Carter is “at home, enjoying peanut butter ice cream and getting the food he wants any time he wants it.”

Alexander gave the update to the hosts of “Politically Georgia” on Wednesday.

“It’s 15 months of hospice at this point, and he is ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden said he has accepted an invitation from CNN for a June 27 debate in Atlanta against former President Donald Trump, setting the stage for a potential summer showdown in a pivotal battleground state.

“Over to you, Donald,” Biden said in a statement confirming the debate, which would be held at the cable network...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The alleged sexual abuse of three Rosemead High School students between their freshmen and senior years by a trio of coaches and teachers is at the heart of a negligence lawsuit filed against the educators and their employer, the El Monte Union High School School District.

The plaintiffs, who are identified in the lawsuit just ...Read more

A second teenage suspect pleaded guilty to murder charges Wednesday for his role in a spree of Jefferson County rock-throwing attacks last year that targeted seven drivers and killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell.

Nicholas Karol-Chik, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder and a crime of violence ...Read more

A second teenage suspect pleaded guilty to murder charges Wednesday for his role in a spree of Jefferson County rock-throwing attacks last year that targeted seven drivers and killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell.

Nicholas Karol-Chik, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder and a crime of violence ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to renew a series of key taxes that fund the state’s Medicaid program, ending a months-long dispute with a group of hard-right lawmakers who sought to block the renewal.

The legislation, called the Federal Reimbursement Allowance or FRA, would keep the state’s Medicaid ...Read more

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was being treated for “life-threatening” injuries after being shot in what the nation’s Interior Ministry described as an assassination attempt.

Fico, 59, was attacked after a government meeting in the town of Handlova some 165 kilometers (100 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava. The premier was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Citing her advocacy for social justice and environmental sustainability, Los Angeles County leaders last month declared April 30 as "Jane Fonda Day."

The backlash was immediate.

Within days, politicians and members of the Vietnamese American community sharply criticized the decision to honor the actress on the date known in the...Read more

The U.S. warned Israel it risks creating a power vacuum across swaths of Gaza and urged the country’s leaders to focus more on post-war planning for the Palestinian territory.

“We can’t have anarchy and a vacuum that’s likely to be filled by chaos,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Wednesday during a trip to ...Read more

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. is accelerating arms supplies to Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s military confronts a Russian assault on the nation’s northeast.

Kremlin troops are attempting to push deeper into the Kharkiv region, taking control of some villages close to the border, after weeks of intensified air...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the school resource officer on duty during the massacre of 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was in court Tuesday asking a Broward judge to force the Broward Sheriff’s Office to pay the legal fees connected to his 2023 negligence trial.

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Deaths from drug overdoses fell last year in the United States as fewer people lost their lives to fentanyl and other opioids, marking the first time the death toll had dropped in five years, according to newly released estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Federal officials said the numbers show a 3% decline in the ...Read more

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was rushed to a hospital after being shot in what the nation’s Interior Ministry described as an assassination attempt.

Fico, 59, was attacked after convening a government meeting in the town of Handlova some 165 kilometers (100 miles) northeast of the capital Bratislava. The premier is being treated for a �...Read more

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was rushed to a local hospital after being shot in what the nation’s Interior Ministry described as an assassination attempt.

Fico was attacked after convening a government meeting in the town of Handlova. The extent of his injuries wasn’t immediately clear, according to local media reports. The alleged ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Bob LaBrant, the former general counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, has asked Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office to rule on whether the system lobbyists have used to secretly provide event tickets to lawmakers is legal.

LaBrant's request on Tuesday came a day after The Detroit News released the findings of ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado restaurants can continue delivering and selling to-go alcohol under a new law passed by the legislature this year, enshrining a pandemic-era lifeline into the state’s dining culture.

Gov. Jared Polis originally — and temporarily — approved delivery and to-go alcohol via an executive order after the pandemic began four ...Read more