NEW YORK — Maria Quero and her husband, David Dominguez, undertook a dangerous journey from Venezuela to get to New York. But in many ways, Tuesday felt like the most daunting leg of the trip yet.

As around 40 families were given the boot from the Row Hotel Tuesday, marking the first wave of migrant families facing eviction from their city ...Read more

If the investigation into Monday’s explosion at a downtown Fort Worth hotel finds it was caused by a natural gas leak, the incident would be part of a worsening trend of such incidents across the country, according to energy sector watchdog groups.

The massive explosion at Sandman Signature Hotel, which left 21 people injured, has not been ...Read more

Masked gangsters briefly took control of a TV station in Ecuador during a live broadcast as violence escalated throughout the nation, prompting President Daniel Noboa to mobilize the military in a bid to “neutralize” the criminals.

Attacks, kidnappings and prison riots multiplied over the past 24 hours since Noboa imposed a nationwide ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia appeared inclined during a hearing Tuesday to reject former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on criminal charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Trump’s attorneys have argued that presidents have immunity from...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has confirmed it has opened two separate investigations into Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca “Becky” Hill, who rose to fame during the trial of former-lawyer Alex Murdaugh.

One investigation concerns Hill’s alleged interactions with the jury during Murdaugh’s trial ...Read more

NEW YORK — A judge ordered former President Donald Trump not to attempt to argue in court that he didn’t sexually assault writer E. Jean Carroll, when her long-running defamation suit against him goes to trial next week.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Tuesday the proceeding wouldn’t be a “do over” of a separate trial Trump lost...Read more

The era of apartheid in South Africa is one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.

The word itself has become shorthand for systems of oppressive rule around the world — and even before the current war in Gaza unleashed a massive wave of demonstrations, it was an increasingly popular refrain of pro-Palestinian activists.

But does the ...Read more

The Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association has ended its fight against a California aquarium that says people shouldn’t buy and eat lobster because of the risks the fishery poses on the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

A federal judge in the Northern District of California on Monday dismissed a class action lawsuit that four Bay State...Read more

A Front Range property management company specializing in student rentals has agreed to pay the state $1 million after illegally billing tenants for routine apartment services like repairs, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday.

Boulder-based Four Star Realty reached the settlement with Attorney General Phil Weiser after an...Read more

CHICAGO — In the Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General’s annual report released Tuesday, the district watchdog urged CPS to adopt new training protocols for volunteers and vendors as part of its ongoing efforts to address adult-on-student sexual misconduct.

And, in light of investigations revealing the district potentially lost...Read more

ATLANTA — The allegations are salacious: arguably the most famous district attorney in the country hired her romantic partner to help prosecute a former president and then profited from the arrangement.

But, if true, will they derail the election interference case against Donald Trump?

Legal experts were split on whether the claims could ...Read more

NEW YORK — A dozen students at Brooklyn’s Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters were taken into police custody as they tried to stop attempts to block a secret tunnel they had dug in a bizarre attempt to expand the house of worship, officials said Tuesday.

Cops were called to the famed headquarters on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Ave. in ...Read more

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday trumpeted her agenda for the new year, outlining proposals aimed at overcoming post-pandemic mental health challenges, cracking down on retail thefts and illegal weed stores, and addressing the state’s urgent affordability crisis.

Speaking from the Assembly Chambers in her third State of the State...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider ex-Minneapolis police Officer Tou Thao's appeal of his federal conviction for violating George Floyd's civil rights in 2020.

The high court delivered its rejection through a one-sentence denial communicated Tuesday by the clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A consistent drip of members announcing they will not seek reelection combined with a desire to portray Capitol Hill as a toxic place everyone wants to flee can create a narrative that there’s a mass exodus underway from the House.

But that’s not the real story, at least not yet.

Up to this point, 38 House members have ...Read more

On the eve of the opening of the Florida legislative session, a Republican lawmaker filed a bill that essentially bans all abortions in Florida.

Miami-Dade County Rep. David Borrero’s proposed bill (HB 1519), filed Monday, states that “a person or an entity may not purposely perform or attempt to perform an abortion except to save the life ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Doctors for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he had been hospitalized over complications from prostate-cancer surgery, shedding new light on health concerns that the White House acknowledged it didn’t fully know about until Tuesday.

A routine screening in early December revealed Austin had prostate cancer and doctors put him...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former Compton gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur can be released on $750,000 bail and placed under house arrest with electronic monitoring pending a June trial, a Clark County, Nevada, judge decided Tuesday.

Court-appointed lawyers for Duane “Keffe D” Davis had sought his release on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As a reporter asked Sen. John Fetterman about his renewed call to expel Sen. Bob Menendez, Menendez got off the elevator near Senate chambers and walked by.

“Ask him, ‘Why are you still here?’” Fetterman said to reporters — and to Menendez — as he passed.

The exchange came the same day Menendez defended himself in a ...Read more