CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson released his most recent tax returns to the Tribune this month, with the documents showing he is less wealthy than his predecessors and does not earn outside income.

Johnson’s tax returns show his family brought in just over $176,000 in wages for 2023, his first year as mayor of Chicago. His annual salary was...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Days after another man died in a San Diego County jail and became at least the eighth person to die in custody this year, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to boost the authority of the sheriff’s civilian oversight board.

By a 4-0 vote, the board approved Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe’s plan to broaden the authority...Read more

BOSTON — Immigration and civil rights advocates are demanding the Boston City Council delay a vote on a nearly $12 million federal counterterrorism grant for the region, citing fears around surveillance and President-elect Trump’s mass deportation plan.

The council’s Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice heard advocates express ...Read more

FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday announced he plans to steps down as President-elect Trump prepares to replace him once he takes office next month.

In an announcement at an all-hands meeting of FBI employees at its Quantico, Virginia headquarters, Wray said he will leave office when President Biden leaves the White House.

“The right ...Read more

ALTOONA, Pa. — First thing Monday morning, the call came in from a police officer on scene at a local McDonald's where a suspect in a multistate manhunt had been arrested.

Blair County District Attorney Peter Weeks and his office were quickly thrust into the national spotlight with the capture of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man now ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City has quietly mounted a campaign to lobby for the appointment of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie to oversee Rikers Island and the jail system if a federal judge chooses to appoint a receiver, the Daily News has learned.

Such a move, observers say, would undermine the very point of freeing control of the ...Read more

Police in the Pennsylvania town where alleged killer Luigi Mangione was arrested following the shooting of an UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown say they and others involved in that apprehension are receiving threats.

“We have received some threats against our officers and building here,” Altoona Police Department Deputy Chief ...Read more

WASHINGTON — FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday said he plans to resign at the end of the Biden administration, a move that would clear the way for Donald Trump to appoint his preferred pick for the position.

Wray, who was appointed by Trump in 2017 and is in the middle of a 10-year term, made the announcement at a town hall for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Reports of Joe Biden’s disappearing act have been greatly exaggerated.

The lame-duck president has been globe-trotting, ceasefire-brokering, air strike-ordering, legacy-selling and holiday season-celebrating. And yet polls show the person once known by his man-of-the-people alias “Scranton Joe” remains unable to connect ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Texas Republican Chip Roy, a Rules Committee member who has voted against seven rules for floor debate in this Congress, has added his name to the crowded list of applicants to chair the powerful panel in the next Congress.

Roy, 52, told former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon that he’s in the mix for the role on Bannon’s �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters worked overnight to gain control over a dangerous fire that burned homes in Malibu and forced thousands to evacuate.

The Franklin fire continued to menace the coastal city, growing by 39% overnight and burning close to some residential neighborhoods and an RV park.

At least seven homes have been destroyed and nine ...Read more

Fingerprints found on a water bottle and KIND bar wrapper discarded near the scene of the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson are a match to accused killer Luigi Mangione, two sources told the Daily News Wednesday.

Surveillance images from the Starbucks two blocks from the shooting were the first released after the murder but did ...Read more

Kate Middleton and Prince William’s royal Christmas plans will be a welcome “distraction,” capping off one of the couple’s “most challenging” years as they prepare to ascend the throne “sooner than expected.”

This much-needed festive respite comes after Kate and King Charles simultaneously battled cancer for much of the year, ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that former Illinois state Rep. Edward Acevedo must testify in the corruption trial of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is accused of inducing utility giants ComEd and AT&T Illinois to pay Acevedo nearly $150,000 on consulting contracts for little or no work.

Acevedo, 61, a Chicago Democrat who ...Read more

BOSTON — A longtime Boston City Hall worker who made more than $130,000 a year in the Mayor Michelle Wu administration has been sentenced in connection to a prison money laundering charge.

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office earlier this year offered a plea deal to Freda Brasfield, who had been Wu’s director of administration and ...Read more

It’s a big day for insects.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it is proposing the monarch butterfly for threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act, a big step forward in a process set in motion in 2014 with a petition from conservationists.

After a 90-day public comment period, the agency will make a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new lawsuit alleges that courts across California routinely deny people due process by failing to maintain transcripts of many types of proceedings.

The suit, filed last week by two San Francisco Bay Area legal advocacy groups against the superior courts of Contra Costa, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Clara counties, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An extra $420-million tax break for Hollywood film studios. Twenty-five million dollars to wage legal battles against President-elect Donald Trump. Unanticipated costs for providing healthcare to seniors and undocumented immigrants.

As analysts warn about the need for California to restrain spending, Gov. Gavin Newsom's wish ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former state Sen. Steven Bradford steps out into the bright and blazing Westlake sun. Wearing a dark gray suit and armed with a roll of tape, he affixes a poster to the side of a streetlight. It reads: Jahnay Bryan, 23, missing from Los Angeles since Oct. 16.

The longtime politician shakes his head. Two months is far too long ...Read more