NEW YORK — They weren’t stopped, they weren’t questioned and they weren’t frisked.

But for some New Yorkers living in NYCHA developments, their encounters with the NYPD felt just as intrusive, with cops shining flashlights at them in a way that made them feel like criminals even though they were only socializing outside their homes.

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Nearly every country in the world has acknowledged that climate change is a serious problem. It’s hard to ignore, as billions of people suffer through increasingly destructive storms and extreme heat.

In response, most governments have promised repeatedly to cut greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global temperatures higher. ...Read more

Nvidia Corp.’s investigation into Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy raises a series of once-unthinkable questions, including whether the man at the center of the AI boom is at risk of losing his job.

Nvidia shares slid about 5% in premarket trading after Huang disclosed the romantic relationship in a ...Read more

Former Israeli general Gadi Eisenkot faces a daunting test as he tries to cobble together a ruling coalition from a divided opposition while potentially luring allies away from Benjamin Netanyahu, a master political tactician and veteran of national power struggles.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog tasked Eisenkot with forming the country’s ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a more conciliatory tone about Iran over the weekend, saying it’s “highly unlikely” he will order extensive strikes on the Islamic Republic.

Still, that depends on Iran signing “a very strong agreement,” he told CNN on Sunday, underscoring that tensions remain high. His comments came shortly before ...Read more

Marielle Smith never thought she would have to sell her car.

The 42-year old Tariffville resident made the tough decision this year as she and her husband struggled to make ends meet with increased gas and food prices.

“I sold the car because I can’t be this stressed every month,” Smith said.

Both work full time. She works at an Amazon ...Read more

Turkey will host climate negotiators from nearly 200 countries for annual talks, just weeks after the United Nations warned the world is all but certain to blitz past a target of limiting planetary warming to 1.5 Celsius.

Yet as tens of thousands of delegates prepare for two weeks of debate from Monday at the U.N.’s 31st Conference of the ...Read more

Amy Klobuchar is set to leave the U.S. Senate and become Minnesota’s next governor in just two months, and transition preparations are already underway.

Speaking with reporters Wednesday after winning the Nov. 3 election, Klobuchar said she will focus on “transforming state government” after a series of major fraud scandals.

“We’re ...Read more

In the wake of Florida voters approving the sweeping property tax cuts in Amendment 3, Central Florida communities are bracing for shakeups to their municipal budgets.

A new Orlando Sentinel analysis quantifies the possible pain.

Tiny Howey-in-the-Hills, for example — nestled in mostly rural central Lake County and with a police department ...Read more

The mother of the public school substitute aide and former NYPD cop arrested for killing Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez is defending her son — even as new details emerge on how police tied him to the slaying.

Suspect Sayed Mohassib made paranoid statements to investigators that “people were going to kill his family,” court filings reveal.

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When the seventh period bell sounds, teacher Tim Broderick slides into a desk outside the fourth-floor boys restroom at Allderdice High School, ready for bathroom duty.

Throughout the period, Broderick uses a scan gun to capture a barcode on student IDs, logging their bathroom visits and uploading the data into a spreadsheet. At times he steps ...Read more

Climate negotiators from almost 200 countries will spend the next two weeks at an annual United Nations summit under a dark cloud of waning ambition to tackle rapidly rising global temperatures.

The negotiating agenda at COP31, starting Monday in the resort city of Antalya, Turkey, is narrower than at any other major climate conference in the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A highly unusual combination of warm water and king tides is damaging animal habitats in Mission Bay and providing a stark preview of how the bay might look if sea levels rise as much as predicted in coming decades.

Four factors came together last month to create record water levels in Mission Bay: the king tide phenomenon that ...Read more

Israeli election challenger Gadi Eisenkot got the first attempt at forming a new government, putting him a step closer to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s record tenure.

Eisenkot was formally handed the mandate on Sunday by President Isaac Herzog, who noted the “immense” challenges facing the country. Eisenkot will have up to ...Read more

Republicans’ midterm defeat is crushing any remaining hopes that Congress would approve President Donald Trump’s unprecedented $1.5 trillion defense budget request amid an unpopular war in the Middle East.

Democrats, who won solid majorities of both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, were already largely opposed to the 44% increase from the ...Read more

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries backed impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, saying he’s a “hard yes” on a measure that may be introduced as soon as this week.

“The so-called Secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said any effort by Democratic lawmakers to investigate Donald Trump and his family is likely to fail, taking a defiant stance as the president’s political foes threaten a range of probes once they take control of Congress in January.

Blanche, who previously served as Trump’s personal defense lawyer, ...Read more