The Trump administration halted the U.S. green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that she’s asking U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the ...Read more

A powerful Pineapple Express storm could deliver a wet, white and potentially wild Christmas to California, with the possibility of snow in the Sierra Nevada and plenty of rainfall across Southern California.

The incoming atmospheric river system is shaping up to be the strongest in years to hit the Los Angeles area on the holiday — and ...Read more

The suspected shooter who killed two Brown University students on Saturday has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, according to multiple reports.

Reports from the Associated Press and Fox News do not identify their source for the information. A press conference on the case is set to begin within minutes.

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NEW YORK — At their final meeting of the year, New York City Council members on Thursday passed a slew of housing-related bills that would require the city to build more affordable housing for families and put local nonprofits at the front of the line for building sales.

But a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, who can still use his veto pen ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams appointed four members late Thursday to the city’s Rent Guidelines Board in a last-minute attempt to stymy Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s promise of a rent freeze for stabilized tenants.

The mayor’s move comes in his last days in office. Mamdani is set to take office Jan. 1.

“We are just as committed to a ...Read more

The suspected shooter who killed two Brown University students on Saturday has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.

“Tonight our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier,” Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said at a 9:35 p.m. press conference. “I want to thank the people of Providence for stepping up and coming...Read more

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. was acquitted on Thursday of all the charges against him in connection to the alleged abuse of his teenage daughter.

The 51-year-old Democrat, who won reelection in November, had been indicted in September 2024, alongside his wife, La’Quetta Small, the city’s superintendent of schools. Both were charged ...Read more

A top official in Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s incoming administration resigned abruptly Thursday after a series of anti-Jewish tweets were uncovered, just one day after her appointment was announced.

Cat Da Costa, who would have served as Mamdani’s head of appointments in the mayor’s office, resigned hours after the social media posts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued a notification to pilots to exercise extreme caution because of a “worsening security situation and heightened military activity” around Venezuela, as President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

U.S. military aircraft have been operating...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to return astronauts to the moon through NASA’s Artemis space program with an eye toward building a permanent lunar presence.

The directive reinforces NASA’s current plans for sending Americans back to the moon by 2028 and for Americans to begin establishing the outpost by 2030. It ...Read more

TikTok’s long-delayed plan to separate from Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. was put in motion Thursday when the video sharing sensation said it’s being bought by a group of buyers led by Oracle Corp.

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew told employees that the company and ByteDance signed binding agreements to create a US joint venture ...Read more

After long-awaited government data showed underlying U.S. inflation cooled to a four-year low in November, economists agreed on at least this much: something was off.

In a report fouled by the record-long government shutdown, inflation in several categories that had long been stubborn seemed to nearly evaporate. Chief among those were shelter ...Read more

A federal judge blasted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for ignoring court orders to release a Jamaican immigrant married to a U.S. citizen whom ICE detained for days inside a “putrid and cramped” holding cell on Long Island.

Following his arrest by ICE agents on Dec. 5, Erron Clarke was subjected to “inhumane and unlawful ...Read more

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, and other authorities, including the U.S. Marshals, are searching on a street off Route 28 in Salem, New Hampshire, as the investigation into Saturday’s Brown University shooting developed into a multistate manhunt with possible connections to the slaying of an MIT professor in his Brookline, Massachusetts, ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a move that could further reduce gender-affirming care for minors in Illinois, the federal government is proposing rules that would strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide such services.

The administration of President Donald Trump has been threatening since early this year to block federal funding for ...Read more

A Northern California elected official is under scrutiny over comments she made at an after-school meeting of a conservative students club, where she attributed her daughter's sexual orientation to childhood trauma and repeated talking points criticized workplace diversity and the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

The ...Read more

SYDNEY — The gray arched footbridge, just a few meters from the grassy park where Jewish people gathered to celebrate Hanukkah last Sunday, gave the Bondi Beach gunmen an elevated vantage point over the crowd they attacked.

Police on Thursday peeled back the metal barriers that had surrounded the scene of Australia’s worst-ever terror ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday unveiled plans to create a state Department of Housing while spending $244 million on housing, part of his proposed 2026 supplemental budget.

A chunk of the investment will support repairing flood-damaged homes, he said.

The legislature will consider Ferguson’s proposal when it convenes ...Read more

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s redistricting advisory commission decided on Thursday to “recommend a congressional map to the Governor and the General Assembly,” after the group’s final meeting. The commission will make the submitted maps publicly available after Christmas and will hold two additional public meetings to gather feedback.

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WASHINGTON — With no hope of preventing Obamacare health insurance premium costs from soaring in two weeks, Democrats and a few Republicans turned to ways to stop the increases when Congress returns in January.

But getting any such action next month, or as long as Republicans control Congress, appears difficult.

The Republican-led House ...Read more