NEW YORK — Nearly 1,000 domestic violence arrests in the Bronx over the first three months of 2025 were not prosecuted by the District Attorney’s office because victims declined to cooperate with prosecutors — a number that points to deeper issues that continue to hamper law enforcement efforts.

The unwillingness of domestic violence ...Read more

Ken Burns has made more than 30 documentaries and won multiple Emmys.

But without funding from public television, his educational programming such as “The Civil War” and “Baseball” might never have existed, he told “PBS News Hour” in an interview Thursday.

Even today, the acclaimed filmmaker whose works — including his upcoming ...Read more

OCHOPEE, Fla. — One worked in a celebrated restaurant in Miami’s Design District.

Another is an aspiring DJ.

An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S.

All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound of tents and trailers built to hold up to 3,000 migrants deep in the Florida Everglades.

In the weeks ...Read more

A Germany flush with cash to rearm against the threat from Russia is struggling to muster sufficient recruits in an already stretched jobs market.

The military revamp, following decades of neglect, is playing out as society ages and more and more people exit the workforce. Those trends have already left firms lacking skilled staff and put ...Read more

Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the health care business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, Encompass Health Corp., and other for-profit corporations have had rare but serious incidents of patient harm and perform ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — From 8 a.m. until late at night, Nathan Hill performs countless tasks for his 16-year-old son, Brady. Some of the tasks are small — things most people “take for granted that our kids can do,” Hill said, like popping Brady’s pimples when he gets acne outbreaks.

Others could mean the difference between life or death. A ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A patron who had been tossed out of a popular East Hollywood nightclub early Saturday later intentionally smashed his car into a crowd outside the venue, injuring 30 people — including seven critically — before being pulled out of his vehicle and shot by a bystander, police said.

The driver, who police identified as Fernando...Read more

“Gangster Granny,” the 65-year-old leader of a U.K. crime family, and seven of her associates were sentenced to a combined 106 years in prison for dealing more than $100 million worth of cocaine across the country, officials announced Friday.

Deborah Mason, who’s also known as “Queen Bee” and “Gangsta Deb,” recruited her sister, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — For the next two-and-a-half months at a minimum, private defense attorneys in San Diego and across the nation are being asked to work without pay while defending court-appointed clients in federal criminal cases.

That’s because on July 3, congressional funding ran out for the federal program that pays private attorneys to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Corey Dean screamed for days, pleading for help. He banged on the door, vent and table, trying to get attention. He flooded his cell with dirty toilet water and smeared feces across his face and body.

Deputies in the Vista Detention Facility all but ignored him.

According to sworn testimony, three people locked up in the same ...Read more

Six years after his death, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is again in the spotlight, this one cast by President Donald Trump’s unrelenting MAGA base.

Epstein was arrested in 2019 and found dead in his cell at a jail in New York City just five weeks later. Investigators concluded that he killed himself while awaiting trial on federal sex ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two people were killed when a stolen out-of-control rental car vaulted onto a bustling Chinatown pedestrian island Saturday morning, police said.

One of the victims’ legs was severed during the blistering 7:30 a.m. crash at the corner of Bowery and Canal Street at the mouth of the Manhattan Bridge, police said.

One victim, a 63-...Read more

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp has directed state agencies to prepare for tight budgets as Georgia braces for the effect of federal spending cuts.

The governor’s budget office has directed agencies to prepare amended fiscal year 2026 and fiscal year 2027 budgets with no spending increases, except for enrollment-based programs such as schools and...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles city attorney's office has filed a lawsuit against Airbnb, accusing the home-sharing platform of allow price gouging and unverified hosts and addresses at more than 2,000 rentals following the January firestorm in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.

In a statement, L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto's office ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Benito Flores, who more than five years ago seized a state-owned home in El Sereno to protest against homelessness in Los Angeles, has died.

A 70-year-old retired welder, Flores had been fighting to remain in the home. Last month, he and a group of supporters prevented Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies from ...Read more

CHICAGO — At least 15 people were shot overnight across Chicago, and at least 4 people died from their wounds, police say.

Between about 10 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Saturday, there were at least 10 shootings in several West and South Side neighborhoods, according to police. No one is in custody, police say.

Police responded to a mass shooting ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — In a matter of days, a detention camp for undocumented migrants state officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” rose out of the mosquito-infested Florida Everglades in time for a visit from President Donald Trump on July 1.

The rapid mobilization of workers and materials was made possible by Florida emergency rules that...Read more

The Trump administration is threatening to revoke antitrust immunity for Delta Air Lines Inc. and Grupo Aeromexico’s pricing agreement amid a set of new orders demanding Mexico move forward to address anticompetitive behavior.

Mexican airlines will now be required to file schedules with U.S. authorities and seek approval for large charter ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The three Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives killed in an explosion Friday were described as the “best of the best,” who served their community with honor, courage and unwavering commitment.

The fallen lawmen — identified as Detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn — combined to serve the ...Read more