LOS ANGELES — The number of people living on the street — both in the city of Los Angeles and across much of Los Angeles County — is up compared to the previous year, dealing a fresh blow to Mayor Karen Bass as she runs for reelection.

Homelessness went up by 3.4% across the city compared to the previous year, according to two people ...Read more

NEW YORK — A driver in a fit of road rage used a meat cleaver to hack away at a man after the pair got into a fender-bender in Queens early Thursday, cops said.

The attacker got into a crazed argument with the 47-year-old victim after their collision at 26th Avenue and 127th Street in College Point about 5:35 a.m., police said.

As the ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system made its first landfall Wednesday at 3 p.m. EDT with 45 mph sustained winds in St. Bernard Parish near the Biloxi Wildlife Management ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dramatic new footage of a U.S. Army veteran’s full attack on 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan shows several passersby running for cover as he points what looks like a rifle at them.

Andrew Arrabaca, described as “quite clearly ill” by a federal judge, is being held without bail on an arson charge for starting a towering ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House’s growing frustration with Senate Majority Leader John Thune seeped into public again on Thursday, the second consecutive day team Trump has vented at the chamber’s Republican leader.

“His patience is running out,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referring to President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set for its next Starship and Super Heavy test mission from Texas now set for Friday because of poor weather Thursday from Tropical Storm Bertha. It’s the next step on Elon Musk’s company’s path to operational launches from Florida.

Now pushed by one day, it’s targeting what would be the 13th suborbital ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill revealed Thursday that her administration was already trying to get rid of the vendor that she blames for thousands of illegal voter registrations in the state before she discovered the misstep.

Sherrill, a first-term Democrat, announced Tuesday that she learned almost a week prior that about 6,600 noncitizens had...Read more

MIAMI — As underwater temperatures continue to soar in South Florida, the coral shuffle has begun.

Scientists are eyeing any coral that isn’t tied down and making plans to move them somewhere safe: to deeper waters, to a shaded spot or even to land-based aquariums. They hope to avoid the disaster of 2023, when waters got so hot that a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — New details have been released in the death of a Grammy-nominated gospel singer who was allegedly killed by his son inside his Santa Monica home in December.

According to details in the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's autopsy report, Jubilant Sykes was brutally attacked on Dec. 8, 2025, suffering 68 stab wounds and several...Read more

HUDSON, Colo. — A group of immigration advocates on Thursday announced a new lawsuit aimed at preventing the Trump administration from opening a planned immigration detention facility in their community.

Together Colorado, a nonprofit collection of faith leaders fighting for humane immigration policies, and a Weld County resident sued the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Along Union Pacific Avenue in Boyle Heights, rat traps sit about every 10 feet along the sidewalk, with the aim of catching hungry rodents drawn to the burned-out warehouse holding millions of pounds of rotting meat.

But Lisett Navarrete, a 34-year-old resident, has little faith that they'll do the job.

"It's not like little ...Read more

U.S. auto safety regulators will start developing new requirements to ensure drivers and passengers can safely exit their vehicles, a significant move to address issues exposed by sometimes deadly incidents in which people have become trapped inside cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it would begin the ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade has resumed control of the former Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention camp, returning to the county a remote airfield previously used as a small airport for training landings and take-offs, the county’s Aviation Department confirmed on Thursday.

The news comes roughly a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis seized the Dade-...Read more

NEW YORK — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was coy last year when asked if the feds would be seeking to rename Penn Station as part of their takeover of the project — but now the demand is explicit.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees — a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News — Duffy lists �...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and became a glaring example of failures in the justice system, under a new law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Thursday.

“Every policy that advances justice passed, every bill signed, every monument built, is ...Read more

BOSTON — The Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party was arrested earlier this summer for alleged drunken driving, according to police records out of Southborough.

According to a Southborough Police log dated June 13, MassDems Chair Steve Kerrigan, 54, was arrested for OUI liquor, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and a marked ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will visit Michigan on Monday and deliver remarks about the economy, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Trump's visit comes on the same day that the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a new and vital economic passage between the United States and Canada, will open to traffic.

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Tropical Storm Bertha continued to skirt Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on Thursday expected to keep its strength until making what would be its second landfall moving into Texas later in the day, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system made its first landfall Wednesday at 3 p.m. EDT with 45 mph sustained winds in St. Bernard Parish ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vance Boelter sat like a statue as his victims exposed the raw wounds with which he left them after he carried out the most shocking act of political violence in the history of Minnesota.

In a federal courtroom, before Boelter was sentenced to two consecutive life prison sentences plus 40 years for killing Rep. Melissa and Mark ...Read more