NEW YORK — The NYPD’s stepped-up focus on quality of life infractions is being expanded to all corners of the city, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.

The citywide expansion follows a two-month pilot program in six NYPD precincts that resulted in more than 2,700 parking summonses issued, nearly 3,500 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former Interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon was pushed out of his post as an assistant deputy mayor last month, the Daily News has learned.

Donlon, who served as the NYPD’s top cop for just over two months in 2024, was moved in November into a City Hall role with a steep pay cut in the office of the deputy mayor for public ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday kicked off the G7 summit in Canada by saying that he had given Iranian leaders 60 days to cut a deal over their nuclear program before Israel launched its ongoing military assault on the country.

The U.S. commander in chief again urged the Islamic republic to reach an agreement “before it’s too late.” ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Jurors in the Karen Read retrial defense team made a pitch that the verdict slip jurors will use to record their decisions be changed in the midst of deliberations — an effort the judge denied. Jurors ended the day without a verdict.

Monday was the first full day of jury deliberations that will decide the fate of Read, a 45-...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Officials at the California High-Speed Rail Authority defended the project from a scathing federal audit they say is “an inaccurate, often outright misleading, presentation of the evidence.”

The Federal Railroad Administration’s 310-page report report, released last week, laid the groundwork for the Trump administration...Read more

DETROIT — The suspect accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another over the weekend included the names of several Democratic members of Michigan's congressional delegation in notes he wrote, according to two sources familiar with the evidence.

It wasn't immediately clear if the Michigan officials' names were featured in a ...Read more

Colombian senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, underwent another emergency neurosurgery Monday after suffering acute intracerebral bleeding, according to the Santa Fe Foundation, the hospital in Bogotá where he has been hospitalized since being shot in the head during a political event earlier this month.

The hospital ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday his name was not among those of Midwestern officials kept on lists by the 57-year-old man charged with assassinating the Democratic leader of the Minnesota House and her husband.

Pritzker, who was in Minnesota on Friday for a state Democratic Party fundraiser, made the comments about 12 hours ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As federal and state murder charges were unveiled against Vance Boelter on Monday, the shocking scope of his potential plans to assassinate state lawmakers and how he fled the Twin Cities were laid out in a 20-page criminal complaint in U.S. District Court.

Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, Minnesota, stands charged with six federal ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Just two months after an arsonist attacked Gov. Josh Shapiro's Harrisburg residence, Shapiro and Western Pennsylvania lawmakers found themselves condemning the shooting of two Minnesota legislators and their spouses, and offering support as political violence continues to rattle the nation.

Vance Boelter, 57, who was captured ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As federal and state murder charges were unveiled against Vance Boelter on Monday, the shocking scope of his potential plans to assassinate state lawmakers and how he fled the Twin Cities were laid out in a 20-page criminal complaint in U.S. District Court.

Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, stands charged with six federal crimes, ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — State transportation officials have shut down the 400-mile road to Alaska’s oil fields after “a significant flooding event,” washouts and erosion across a broad stretch between mileposts 305 and 356, according to the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

Repairs are underway at key damaged areas, and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A special election to fill slain DFL House Leader Rep. Melissa Hortman’s seat will be held at some point before next February.

Hortman and her husband were killed early Saturday morning in their Brooklyn Park home. After a massive weekend manhunt, a suspect is being held on $5 million bond and faces multiple murder and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Brooklyn Park police Sgt. Rielly Nordan had just wrapped up his shift early Saturday morning when he heard that Champlin police were responding to a shooting at a home — and one of the victims was a state senator.

Nobody knew then in the early hours of Saturday morning that lawmakers, or anyone other than Sen. John Hoffman ...Read more

United Launch Alliance scrubbed Monday an attempt for what would have been its second launch of the year, another mission for Amazon’s effort to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation.

ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno said a possible issue with the gaseous nitrogen purge line was the culprit.

“We will need to stand down ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Manhattan judge presiding over Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial dismissed a man from the jury Monday for a “lack of candor.”

During jury selection in the case, Juror No. 6 said he lived in the Bronx, but in a recent offhand conversation with a court security officer from the jury department, he indicated he ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina state Rep. Julie von Haefen is under fire after posting a video on social media including a protester holding a sign with an image of a guillotine and a mask of what appears to be a beheaded Donald Trump.

The sign reads, “In these difficult times, some cuts may be necessary.”

The picture was taken during ...Read more

Israel and Iran exchanged fire for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, stoking fears of an all-out war with the potential to drag in others in the oil-rich region and force the U.S. into a more hands-on stance.

Iran fired several waves of drones and missiles over the last 24 hours, while Israel continued hitting the Islamic Republic’s ...Read more