NEW YORK — Around 2,000 people have filed for an exemption to the NYC pied-à-terre tax — and 4,800 more have at least started the process amid the new levy’s controversial rollout, City Hall said Monday.

The city sent roughly 17,000 homeowners letters to warn them they may be subject to the new tax, which puts a surcharge on pricey ...Read more

Virginia legislators urged Gov. Abigail Spanberger to call the General Assembly into a special session to address the Department of Environmental Quality’s Groundwater Supply report released in July.

In a joint letter sent last week by Sens. Russet Perry, D-Leesburg, and Richard Stuart, R-Montross, the legislators referred to the report’s ...Read more

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna on Monday publicized a letter from the Department of Justice that says the department has not investigated her for allegations involving insider trading in prediction markets.

Luna has for weeks strenuously denied a July Wall Street Journal report in which an unnamed source alleged that Luna said she shared insider ...Read more

Gov. Andy Beshear joined 23 other states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration over access to personal information and data of people who receive low-income assistance.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in Washington, D.C., challenges a new regulation from taking affect that would allow the federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump will travel to Los Angeles on Tuesday and Las Vegas on Wednesday as part of a two-day West Coast trip aimed at highlighting his administration's economic record ahead of the midterm elections, a White House official confirmed.

In Los Angeles, Trump is scheduled to attend a Republican National Committee dinner at ...Read more

A prominent Mexican drug cartel figure has been arrested in connection to the death of a 23-year-old influencer who dated his son.

Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala was taken into custody last week for his alleged involvement in the death of beauty Valeria Marquez. The purported gangster known as �...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday defended his push for free buses in wake of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chair Janno Lieber’s allegation that the mayor’s rhetoric has played a role in increased fare evasion in NYC.

Mamdani campaigned on a promise of making the city’s bus system free for all riders — even though the ...Read more

Iran suggested negotiations with Oman to get more ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz are making progress, but President Donald Trump expressed renewed frustration after calling off what he said was a major attack on the Islamic Republic.

Oil fell on Monday, with Brent crude down about 4.6% to just over $83 a barrel, after Iran’s ...Read more

BOSTON — Five people were shot in Hyde Park just after midnight Monday, and police report one victim has died.

The shooting was reported in the area of 1184 Hyde Park Ave., and police said that upon arrival they discovered the five gunshot victims. They were all taken to the hospital, where one has died. That address is home to the Little ...Read more

MIAMI — With thousands of Haitians in South Florida facing uncertainty after losing their work authorizations last week, activists are renewing their calls to Miami’s elected officials to rescind the city’s immigration enforcement agreement with ICE.

On Monday, about a dozen organizers gathered outside City Hall to call on Mayor Eileen ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In his first court appearance to answer to state murder charges, convicted political assassin Vance Boelter made the bizarre request that Sen. Amy Klobuchar be compelled to testify in his case.

At the Public Safety Facility in downtown Minneapolis on Monday, Boelter asked several questions of Hennepin County Judge Juan Hoyos, ...Read more

SEATTLE — More than a dozen major wildfires continue to burn across Washington, with many of them growing fast over the weekend.

They’ve destroyed hundreds of homes and continue to imperil many more as they chew through the state’s landscape and communities. Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes. Many still have no power.

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Three large wildfires raced through neighborhoods in and around Spokane, Washington, the weekend of Aug. 1, 2026, destroying at least 600 homes and other structures and threatening many more. Tens of thousands of people, including patients at the Veterans Affairs medical center, were forced to evacuate as crews from across Washington and ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Miguel Salguero Olivares pleaded not guilty Monday to raping and killing University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth nearly 14 years ago.

When asked how he pleads to the charges connected to the September 2012 killing, his attorney answered for him.

“Not guilty to all charges,” James Rainsford said.

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Polls show that many Americans today — particularly younger ones — have a less-than-favorable view of free-market capitalism. A recent Gallup survey found that just 54% of respondents had a positive opinion of the economic system.

Yet many of capitalism’s most vocal critics openly ignore the abundant evidence of its success.

The Food and...Read more

Three wildfires are burning the edges of Spokane, the second-largest city in Washington, after they surged over the weekend.

Hundreds of structures have been damaged and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.

All three of the wildfires — the Old Trails, Autumn Lane and Fairview fires, known together as the Spokane ...Read more

Spain’s foreign minister said nearly everyone who illegally crossed into the African enclave of Ceuta last week has left, pledging to return “every last” person to Morocco.

“The vast majority of those who entered have already returned to Morocco,” José Manuel Albares said in an interview Monday morning on TVE, Spain’s state-owned ...Read more

DETROIT — Two people have died from the massive cyclosporiasis outbreak in Michigan, state health officials reported Monday, though they provided few details about the circumstances surrounding the deaths.

The deaths appear to be the first reported by a state health department in the United States amid this summer's cyclosporiasis outbreak, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The state of Michigan has agreed not to enforce a law passed by the Democratic-majority Legislature in 2023 that bans conversion therapy.

The state and Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale counties, which filed the lawsuit challenging the statute, were part of a Friday stipulated order, in which U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate is back on track to consider acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to lead the Justice Department permanently after two key GOP holdouts said they were “pleased” with a deal they struck.

The DOJ said in a statement posted Sunday night that it has “rescinded” a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization”...Read more