Turkey tends to march to its own drum in international affairs.

Take the United Nations vote on Dec. 14, 2022, when the body’s General Assembly approved a resolution in favor of a New International Economic Order. Some 123 member states – largely the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America – voted in favor; only 50 cast a ...Read more

Gerald Ford knew Richard Nixon could be prosecuted for crimes he committed as president. That was simply a fact, when President Ford gave his predecessor “a full, free, and absolute pardon” 50 years ago this week.

Former presidents did not enjoy broad immunity from criminal prosecution until July 1, 2024, when six members of the ...Read more

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed in August 2024 that a photograph of a large crowd of supporters welcoming Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Detroit on Aug. 7 was doctored. Trump falsely wrote on Truth Social that the crowd did not exist because “she ‘A.I.’d’ it.”

Multiple independent ...Read more

The Sept. 10, 2024, debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was a referendum on gender and the U.S. presidency – Trump’s, that is.

During the past decade, U.S. voters have watched as Trump’s toxic masculinity – a particular version of masculinity that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul has been diagnosed with skin cancer.

Hochul, 66, announced Thursday she was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, “a tiny, tiny speck on my nose.” She said she would undergo a procedure Friday to surgically remove the cancer.

“You can’t even see it,” Hochul told reporters. “I’m gonna have a small ...Read more

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis plans to defy a pair of subpoenas and skip a Friday hearing before the GOP-led state Senate committee investigating her conduct, according to her attorney.

The move will set up a showdown in court, where her attorneys have argued the subpoenas are void because they were improperly issued and overly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed the last of a bundle of retail theft bills crafted by Democratic lawmakers to address the rise in organized retail theft crimes that have shaken Californians.

"California already has some of the strictest retail and property crime laws in the nation — and we have made them even stronger ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new effort in Los Angeles public schools will deemphasize standardized testing and look for new ways to measure student progress, a small but ambitous rejection of a decades-old nationwide approach to student evaluation.

Under a Board of Education resolution, adopted Tuesday by a 4-3 vote, up to 10 schools could, as early as ...Read more

DETROIT — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has appealed to President Joe Biden after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied relief aid to southwest Michigan counties recovering from four tornadoes.

The twisters struck Branch, Cass, Kalamazoo and St. Joseph counties in a May storm that inflicted major damages on homeowners and local businesses.

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BOSTON — The Norfolk County Sheriff’s office has charged one of their own with being the bagman in an alleged conspiracy to bring more than 230 stripes of suboxone, a narcotic, into the jail.

Jean Guirand, 40, of Saugus, was hired as a correctional officer in April and was still under probation when the alleged conspiracy occurred. The ...Read more

ATLANTA — A social worker falsely accused of giving contraband to an incarcerated client facing the death penalty has been paid $750,000 to end her federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections investigator who arrested her.

Lily Engleman was cleared in 2021 of criminal charges alleging she gave items to inmate Ricky Dubose ...Read more

NEW YORK — Feuding MAGA conspiracy theorists Laura Loomer and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused each other of racism in a social media war of words that began on Wednesday, which Loomer spent with Donald Trump.

Days earlier, Loomer posted a message on X stating that “if Kamala Harris wins, the White House will smell like curry,” along ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan plans to spend $2 million in the race for two seats on the Michigan Supreme Court, marking the first time the organization has tried to influence the election of justices to the state's highest court.

The ACLU also plans to spend $300,000 in three state House races where tight ...Read more

CHICAGO — Adding further political pressure on Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Jewish alderman on Thursday said a top official in his administration is unfit for the role following a controversial social media post made shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

Ald. Debra Silverstein’s criticism of Kennedy Bartley comes after several aldermen ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man who prosecutors say was with two other gang members at the time they killed actor Johnny Wactor has pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and grand theft charges.

Leonel Gutierrez, 18, was arrested last month along with two other people on suspicion of murder in Wactor's May 25 shooting death after a lengthy investigation by...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has been charged in a new indictment that remains under seal, prosecutors said Thursday.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office announced the new indictment at a court hearing but did not announce the charges as Weinstein could not be arraigned on them. He was rushed to hospital from ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The prolonged starvation of 7-year-old Deonte Atwell was a case of “willful torture,” a prosecutor said Thursday, and the culprit was his own mother.

Michelle Doe, 37, was ordered held without bond on a charge of first-degree murder after Assistant State Attorney Melissa Kelly reminded the judge of the heart-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration sanctioned a raft of Venezuelan judges, election officials and other allies of Nicolás Maduro on Thursday for their role in suppressing the presidential election results last month.

Most of the 16 individuals targeted for U.S. sanctions and visa restrictions, issued by the Treasury and State departments,...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban is resigning Thursday, a week after news broke that federal investigators had seized his cell phone as part of a larger investigation that has ensnared a number of NYPD officers and several members of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, inside sources told the Daily News.

The decision follows calls ...Read more