New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his secret meeting with President Donald Trump a day earlier, as well as his proposal to the president to build 12,000 apartments in Queens.

At the White House meeting Thursday, the mayor asked Trump for the green light — and $21 billion — for the plan to build atop Sunnyside Yard. To ...Read more

DETROIT — A federal floodplain notice published by the Department of Homeland Security spells out new details about the agency's plans to use a warehouse in Romulus as an immigration processing and detention facility.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in response to the notice blasted federal officials Friday for failing to engage the ...Read more

Newly unsealed federal indictments level charges against 30 more people involved in an ICE protest at during a St. Paul church service last month and reveal what prosecutors say was a carefully crafted operation that terrorized and physically threatened congregants and pastors.

“At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton denied any wrongdoing in his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein as he sat for a deposition with House lawmakers Friday, saying he had no idea of the crimes the now-dead sex offender was committing, according to prepared remarks.

The former Democratic president, during a deposition in New York, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has been placed on indefinite administrative leave, officials announced Friday — two days after FBI agents raided his home and office related to an undisclosed criminal investigation.

Andres Chait, a senior LAUSD administrator who has served as chief of school operations, was...Read more

More than 70 million baby boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – are alive today. In 2026, the oldest of them are turning 80.

With longer lives often comes more complicated health needs: multiple chronic conditions, long lists of medications, balance problems that can increase the risk of falls, and changes in memory. Many ...Read more

Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced by human activity. Many of these places, designated as Superfund sites by the Environmental Protection Agency, can be found in Houston, Texas, the city where my colleagues and I live and work.

Hazardous contaminants...Read more

President Donald Trump hinted Friday that talks with Cuban leaders are progressing and suggested the island’s profound economic collapse could open the door for the United States to regain significant influence over decisions on the Caribbean island just 90 miles off the Florida Keys.

“The Cuban government is talking with us,” Trump said....Read more

Leaders of the Caribbean Community said Friday they plan to send humanitarian aid to Cuba, stressing that the island’s deepening economic crisis could destabilize the wider region.

The announcement came in a joint statement the 15-member regional bloc, known as CARICOM, said it was issuing along with the United States. U.S. Secretary of State...Read more

A 27-year-old man from Guatemala died in South Florida in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month, federal authorities said.

Jairo Garcia-Hernandez “collapsed unexpectedly” and died on Feb. 16 at Larkin Community Hospital in South Florida, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a press release. The cause of death ...Read more

University of Kansas students protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence on campus on Friday morning.

Social media posts spread online of ICE agents outside the Ambler Recreation Center on the KU campus around 8 a.m. Local advocacy group Sanctuary Alliance said it confirmed one person was detained by ICE near that location.

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President Donald Trump directed U.S. government agencies to stop using Anthropic PBC’s products, capping a feud between the artificial intelligence giant and the Pentagon over safeguards on its technology.

Trump said Friday that there would be a six-month “phase out period” for agencies including the Defense Department that are using ...Read more

From nearly 300,000 without power to about 4,000 in one week.

And they were celebrating that blizzard bounce-back Friday in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as Mayor Jon Mitchell said nearly all the streets were plowed after 37 inches of snow fell on the Whaling City.

“This was a very large storm, the largest on record. The records go back to the...Read more

The FBI has received more than 1,500 tips since Savannah Guthrie announced her family was offering $1 million for information leading to her mother's return. But with still no sign of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, the "Today" show co-anchor took to social media once again on Friday, pleading for help.

Nancy Guthrie, in her daughter's ...Read more

A chaotic encounter between Cuban security forces and a boatful of men who had set out from Florida this week could have lit a fuse at a time of increased tension between the U.S. and Havana. Instead, calmer heads are prevailing, for now.

Cuban officials have said that the men were terrorists who had planned and trained for an attack on the ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Friday defended the state’s front-loaded spending on immigration enforcement, saying he expects the Trump administration to fully reimburse Florida despite ongoing legal fights and the absence of a formal repayment commitment.

The attorney general’s remarks come just days after Florida ...Read more

Trump supporters planning an “invasion” of Disneyland while wearing MAGA hats and Make Disney Great Again T-shirts will be met by flag-waving counterprotesters at the front gate of the Anaheim theme park promising to “stand against hate.”

The Disneyland MAGA Invasion and Disneyland Raza Invasion will both be at the theme park on ...Read more

NEW YORK — One of the two social media trolls accused of trying to set a Black woman’s boot on fire during a clash on a Manhattan street filled with racist insults claimed Friday he had no memory of the crime — even though he recorded the entire thing.

“I don’t remember the incident,” Michael Santiago, 31, told the Daily News in ...Read more

Before his homeland of Cuba accused him of being a terrorist hellbent on toppling the island’s government, Pavel Alling Peña was a writer.

For years, the 45-year-old man shared the poems he wrote and the elaborate videos he made reciting them with his Facebook friends.

“Before you, the sun was a parabola of light, a star that cast a ...Read more