NEW YORK — The man accused of screaming “Allahu Akbar” before stabbing two strangers in back-to-back assaults on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was slapped with hate crime charges for one of his victims, a Jewish man, but not the Asian man he attacked first, police said Friday.

Raul Morales, 51, was charged with attempted murder and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James on Friday warned Long Island’s Nassau County to scrap a cooperation agreement with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as a state law aimed at limiting help for President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign goes into effect.

The state’s newly created...Read more

BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins University has been cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for inadequate veterinary care and personnel qualifications after more than a dozen piglets at the facility died because of poor care since March.

Some died in the days following birth when researchers caring for them did not seek out veterinary help ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of photographs and text messages taken from D4vd’s cellphone suggest the singer impregnated a teenage girl and convinced her to have an abortion when she was just 13 — a year before he allegedly killed her and dismembered her body, according to evidence made public in court Friday afternoon.

Los Angeles police ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has increasingly flashed frustration with the war in Iran, as the conflict that his team once predicted would end in a matter of weeks stretches into its fifth month and fighting intensifies.

The war’s seemingly intractable new chapter has unleashed fresh economic turmoil and driven up energy prices, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expanding the scope of the largest U.S. outbreak of cyclospora.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak first tied to Taco Bell restaurants now includes ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu released a street safety plan that prioritizes cyclists while cracking down on drivers seen as putting them at risk in response to intense pressure from bike activists following a city worker’s traffic death.

The new plan unveiled on Friday follows the mayor’s vow last week to recommit to stalled street ...Read more

Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council has set the first round of presidential, legislative and municipal elections for Dec. 13, with final results expected on March 12, 2027, in what would be the country’s first general elections in more than a decade.

Whether that timetable is achievable remains an open question.

Before gang violence ...Read more

WINDSOR, Ontario — President Donald Trump ripped Canadian officials Friday for disinviting American officials to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, while a top Canadian official downplayed Trump's claim that he had leveraged a better deal for the United States.

Trump commented on the exclusion of American ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Honduran national who was in the country without proper documentation was sentenced Friday for an attempted murder-for-hire plot.

Frelin Hernandez-Guardado, 30, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and murder for hire, ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The Pocatello man accused of calling in a bomb threat to the state Capitol last fall reached a plea deal with prosecutors in another case from that same day that allowed him to avoid a felony charge, according to court documents.

Donald Hawkins, 58, was originally charged with one felony count of false reporting explosives ...Read more

NEW YORK — While the NYPD has yet to determine if an unprovoked stabbing spree on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that wounded two men, including a Jewish resident leaving a synagogue, was a hate crime, local elected officials and community leaders on Friday appeared to fear that bigotry fueled the daylight attacks.

Without directly saying that...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is once again calling for Gov. Greg Abbott to convene a legislative session to address the dangers of data centers.

In a statement released Friday, Miller said Abbott has heard “every one of those warnings and still not acted.”

He is asking Abbott to call a special legislative...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is slamming her disgraced ex-aide LaMar Cook and the defiant defense of his SNAP benefits — which partially funded his recent trip to Walt Disney World — and for saying he “earned” the $31,000 contract buyout mistakenly paid out by her office.

“Lamar Cook should never have been hired. His actions continue ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — At Vance Boelter’s sentencing on Thursday, Mark Hortman’s father told the court the ultimate justice would have been Boelter’s execution, calling the Justice Department’s acceptance of two life sentences for the murder of his son and daughter-in-law, “a sad day.”

J. Carroll Hortman, 86, described himself a few ways ...Read more

ARDEN HILLS, Minn. — Standing before a packed Ramsey County sheriff’s office station in Arden Hills, Nimo Abdullahi tearfully pleaded for a stop to the gang violence that took her son’s life.

“He was about to graduate college, and within five minutes after I talked to him over the phone, he was shot and killed,” she said of her son ...Read more

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is calling Mayor Zohran Mamdani a “thug” who should be jailed at Guantanamo Bay because he “hates this country.”

The staunch supporter of President Donald Trump predicted the popular mayor would cross some unspecified line that would lead authorities to arrest him and send him to the U.S. military base ...Read more

OROVILLE, Calif. — Deputy District Attorney Marc Noel said in court Friday that Ronnie Stout II made a series of bad decisions, intentional acts, two years ago that ignited the state’s fourth-largest wildfire in its history, a blaze that destroyed 427 homes in Northern California.

“It left thousands homeless,” Noel told the judge. “...Read more

Measles cases have hit a record in the United States not seen since 1991, nearly a decade before the viral disease was declared eliminated.

The grim milestone comes amid a generational setback in controlling the highly contagious disease, which prior to the vaccine era caused millions of infections a year, and annually left 400 to 500 people ...Read more