NEW YORK — Six people were injured, including three children, when a driver jumped a curb and slammed into a parked ambulance at an NYPD Halloween trick or treat event in Brooklyn Thursday, cops and police sources said.

Driving a black sedan, the out-of-control motorist, 56, careened onto the sidewalk on Bleecker St. near Knickerbocker Avenue...Read more

A week after launching an unprecedented deployment of military prowess onto Haitian soil, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is asking the Haitian people to trust him, telling them Thursday that he’s not invading their Caribbean nation and all he wants is his men back — and to teach Haiti’s gangs a lesson.

Four aviation technicians ...Read more

On Thursday morning, a former taco truck cruised into the parking lot of a Tampa Heights shuffleboard bar. One side read “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile,” alongside a red-lettered call to “Release all the files.”

The other side of the truck featured a timeline of an alleged relationship between the president...Read more

BOSTON — A group seeking to overturn a recent Massachusetts abortion law expanding physicians’ ability to perform abortions after 24 weeks reported that they have gathered nearly 100,000 signatures.

That tally is overshooting the bar to put a ballot initiative before voters in 2028 and potentially suspend the law in the interim.

“The ...Read more

A federal judge in Miami signaled Thursday that she is strongly inclined to rule in favor of Florida International University in a First Amendment lawsuit brought by four students suspended or expelled over racist, antisemitic and violent messages exchanged in private group chats.

Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga, speaking after two ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal and state authorities searched the autism service providers Iska Inc. and Bright Horizon Therapy Center, along with other sites in Minnesota on Thursday.

An FBI spokesman said they are working with a handful of agencies on “court-authorized investigative activity at several sites.”

The FBI declined to provide ...Read more

Three days after four Salvadoran soldiers went missing in a gang ambush in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s government took to social media trying to project the image that it was in charge and dealing with the crisis.

“The government coordinates the State’s response to the kidnapping of Salvadoran soldiers,” read the caption accompanying a ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced indictments against 18 North Carolina residents on charges of illegally voting as noncitizens in the 2024 election.

The news comes just five days before Election Day and two weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 10 other individuals on illegal voting charges.

“If you ...Read more

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday declined to say whether he supports the NYPD’s use of stingray devices that track cellphones — even as the department utilizes them and is moving forward with a procurement process to operate more.

The Mamdani administration no longer plans to enter into a no-bid contract with a controversial Israeli ...Read more

Maryland’s Congressional delegation on Wednesday pressed the Trump administration for answers and action on the cleanup of spilled jet fuel from Joint Base Andrews that contaminated Piscataway Creek in Prince George’s County earlier this year.

“After more than seven months, the Air Force has failed to fully contain the fuel spill, as ...Read more

DENVER — The man who killed a woman and injured more than a dozen other people in a firebombing on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall last year pleaded guilty to federal crimes Thursday in a deal that allowed him to escape the death penalty.

Mohamed Soliman, 46, is already serving a life prison sentence after pleading guilty to more than 100 state...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson announced a new leadership team ahead of the 2027 legislative session, naming Sen. Brian Feldman majority leader and promoting several Black lawmakers to senior leadership and committee posts.

A statement from Ferguson office said, “Understanding the need for overarching leadership and ...Read more

A federal judge ruled Thursday in favor of Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a group of 22 other Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., in a lawsuit against the Trump administration over changes to Medicaid eligibility for people with severe illnesses.

In June, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced changes to how states ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Soon after a federal judge in Los Angeles sharply rejected a Trump administration effort to block 20,000 California ballots from voters it alleged may be noncitizens, the U.S. Justice Department appealed — leaving attorneys on both sides preparing Thursday for yet another court battle.

That was despite the lower court judge ...Read more

BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy’s attorneys haven’t backed down from their post-mistrial fight to have the charges that she murdered her three children be dismissed.

Clancy is charged with murdering her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Prosecutors say that she strangled them with exercise bands in the basement of their ...Read more

Rashel Mereness was on vacation when this week's record-breaking king tide relentlessly streamed water onto the Redondo Beach International Boardwalk and into her bar, so she called staff to gauge just how bad the flooding was. While on the phone Wednesday morning, one staffer watched a city trash can float by.

"I don't think anybody expected ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice is sending election monitors to three North Carolina counties on Tuesday as part of a massive expansion of the longstanding practice across the country.

Alamance, Wake and Mecklenburg — three of the largest counties in the state — will all receive DOJ monitors on Election Day, the State Board...Read more

Daylight saving time is ending Sunday at 2 a.m., giving trick-or-treaters extra time to recover from their sugar rush as the clocks “fall back” one hour to 1 a.m.

Here’s what to know.

What is daylight saving time?

Daylight saving time was implemented to harness more hours of sunlight in the evening during warmer months, according to the...Read more