NEW YORK — Three men were seen early Wednesday emerging from a Park Avenue manhole near the Upper East Side hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be staying during the United Nations General Assembly, police said.

Surveillance video captured the black-clad trio exiting the manhole at Park Avenue and East 61st Street ...Read more

BOSTON — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder case is indefinitely impounding more jury information.

Judge William Sullivan issued orders Tuesday extending impoundment orders for the jury confidential questionnaires and the jury pool list.

Last week, Sullivan indefinitely impounded the list of 12 deliberating jurors and six ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The pilot of a military training jet was rescued by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday evening after the aircraft plunged into the Pacific Ocean about six miles northwest of Morro Bay.

“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have lost thrust in my engine,” the pilot of the single-seat Mk.58 Hawker Hunter fighter jet communicated to an air traffic ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A dead man whose identity long remained a mystery in Boise might be responsible for the infamous Chicago Tylenol killings — widely considered one of the greatest unsolved cases in U.S. history.

One of Boise’s most mysterious cold cases surrounded an unidentified man who died by suicide after taking a fatal dose of cyanide ...Read more

U.S. diesel futures slumped as speculation swirled that the White House is considering an export ban, with key refinery infrastructure around the globe still offline.

President Donald Trump joined a chorus of Republican lawmakers this week calling for a ban on American exports of the workhorse fuel, essential to everything from transport to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A major swell from Hurricane Polo might combine with large high tides in northern San Diego County on Monday and Tuesday, causing flooding in an area that has already suffered severe beach erosion, according to the National Weather Service.

The hurricane, one of the largest ever recorded in the eastern Pacific, also might push ...Read more

DETROIT — A new report commissioned by the Great Lakes Water Authority says that Michigan needs to invest as much as $85 billion in water and wastewater infrastructure over the next 20 years and calls on the state to create a funding strategy for those investments.

It's unclear how much of that total comes from the service area of the Great ...Read more

CHICAGO — A third person has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly pushing a 29-year-old man to his death off a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train earlier this month, police said.

Christian McBounds, 18, was arrested Monday in Morgan Park and is charged in the death of Kyle Bickham on Sept. 7, according to Chicago police. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration can’t demand that Philadelphia officials assist his deportation agenda and enforce federal immigration law, the city told a judge Tuesday.

Attorneys for the city and local officials asked U.S. District Judge Chad F. Kenney to toss out the Department of Justice’s challenge to an ...Read more

A short-lived tropical depression could develop this week from a tropical wave off the coast of Africa and the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Fay could redevelop, according to the National Hurricane Center.

In its 2 p.m. EDT tropical advisory Wednesday, the NHC said chances had grown for development for an area of low pressure ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at deprioritizing commercial logging in a unique state forest system, arguing the measure would jeopardize the ability to test best management practices.

At issue are the state’s 14 demonstration forests — managed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire �...Read more

After issuing an executive order last week to speed the establishment of guardrails on artificial intelligence, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he had tapped four experts to advise the state on AI oversight.

Rob Reich, Jason Goldman, Gillian Hadfield and Alondra Nelson will advise the Government Operations Agency and Governor’s Office of ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A whistleblower alleged that Department of Homeland Security agents may have illegally accessed Virginia voter records.

On Sep. 8, a whistleblower made a protected disclosure to the Senate alleging that agents working on the Unlawful Voter Initiative — the department’s name for its investigation — had used Virginia’s ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two men were charged with hate crimes for allegedly shouting anti-gay slurs while attacking a San Jose State University student on campus last week, prosecutors said.

Josue Medina Flores, a 19-year-old resident of Sunnyvale, and Christian Gabriel Nunez Petty, a 20-year-old resident of Fremont, were each charged with felony ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a data center moratorium ordinance Wednesday aimed at blocking the controversial developments from popping up in Chicago for one year.

He described the ordinance, now in aldermen’s hands, as a temporary pause that would give the city time to develop long-term policies regulating concerns around ...Read more

DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International detailed how six colleges and universities violated the rights of "pro-Palestinian" student protesters and allowed campus and local law enforcement to arrest and use "unlawful and unnecessary" force against them in a report released Wednesday.

The University of Michigan, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is moving forward with plans to link its signature climate program, cap-and-invest, to that of Washington state, a major step officials say will cut more pollution and increase revenue for key state programs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the move at Climate Week in New York City, where he is meeting with international ...Read more