TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew told employees that the social media app’s parent company, ByteDance Ltd., signed binding agreements to create a U.S. joint venture majority-owned by American investors.

In an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg, Chew said he was “pleased to share some great news” and said agreements with Oracle ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors announced new charges Thursday as they continue to investigate a massive fraud crisis across Minnesota’s social services programs, adding that 14 Medicaid-funded programs have cost $18 billion since 2018, more than half of which is fraud.

“Every day we look under a rock and find a $50 million fraud scheme...Read more

NEW YORK — A Park Avenue building where a rampaging gunman killed four people, including a New York Police Department officer on a paid security detail, didn’t have a single security measure to prevent the rifle-toting attacker from getting inside, a lawsuit filed by the slain officer’s widow alleges.

Officer Didarul Islam was apparently ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina and their two children were among those who died Thursday when a jet crashed at Statesville Regional Airport, according to a joint statement released by families of passengers.

Seven people in all were killed: Five adults and two children, according to the North Carolina ...Read more

BOSTON — Tensions are running high in the normally sleepy Brookline neighborhood where an MIT professor was fatally shot Monday. Officials have yet to give an update on a suspect in the killing.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was shot multiple times in his Gibbs Street home Monday and died at an area hospital the next morning. According to the ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — A judge sentenced convicted wife-killer Brian Walshe to life without parole on top of consecutive maximum sentences for lying to police and mishandling a body in court Thursday morning.

Earlier this week, a jury found Walshe guilty of first degree murder for killing and dismembering his wife Ana Walshe at their Cohasset home ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration proposed a sweeping set of rules Thursday designed to prevent hospitals from providing gender-affirming care to minors, a move that could have consequential implications for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

CHOP runs one of the nation’s largest clinics providing medical care ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina and their two children were among those who died Thursday when a jet crashed at Statesville Regional Airport, according to multiple sources.

The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office confirmed seven people were killed in the crash: Five adults and two children.

“I am ...Read more

Contrary to speculation swirling online, Nick Reiner was not kicked out of his parents’ house prior to the brutal murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, according to a new report.

The “When Harry Met Sally” director, 78, and photographer, 70, were found fatally stabbed at their Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon. Nick, 32, was arrested ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center Board has voted to rename the performing arts facility as the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The move is yet another by the second Trump administration to blow past an existing norm or statute, including one that established the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump broke with past presidents with Wednesday night’s end-of-year address to the nation in which he raised his voice repeatedly and cast wide blame for a stubborn economy that has frustrated many Americans.

Former officials and analysts called the speech an unprecedented attempt to upend the State of the Union ...Read more

The Trump administration and House Republicans advanced measures this week to end gender-affirming care for transgender children and some young adults, drawing outrage and resistance from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, families with transgender kids, medical providers and some of California's liberal leaders.

The latest efforts — which seek ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A panel of federal appellate judges expressed skepticism Thursday about Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s effort to toss his contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to provide documents and testimony to the select House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

At oral arguments, three judges of the U.S. ...Read more

NEW YORK — Marathon pretrial proceedings came to a close Thursday that will determine whether jurors see the weapon Luigi Mangione is accused of using to murder UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown sidewalk and other pivotal evidence, with both sides resting after nine days of hearings.

Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's top doctor issued a recommendation Thursday, advising health care providers to follow vaccine schedules for children from the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians, shifting away from guidance coming from President Donald Trump's administration.

The announcement from the ...Read more

Hospitals that offer gender-affirming care to minors will be forced to forgo federal insurance funding under a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of an effort by the Trump administration to curtail the practice.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it will roll out a cross-agency plan to ...Read more

CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV made his most important U.S. appointment to date Thursday, naming a fellow south suburbanite as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown.

Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks will replace the retiring Cardinal ...Read more

U.S. prosecutors have charged Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, the alleged leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, accusing him of masterminding a violent criminal enterprise responsible for murders, kidnappings, sex trafficking and the movement of massive cocaine shipments into the United States, according to a federal indictment ...Read more

BOSTON — Investigators are looking into a possible connection between the Brown University shooting and the murder of an MIT professor in Brookline.

That’s according to reporting from WPRI, a Providence-based news outlet that says “senior law enforcement officials” confirmed they are examining the possibility of the two crimes being ...Read more