Now that the Archdiocese of Detroit has targeted as many as 90 parishes for the possible stoppage of weekend Masses, church officials are seeking to get feedback from parishioners before making final decisions on where the Masses will be halted.

The Rev. Mario Amore, executive director of parish renewal for the Archdiocese of Detroit, has ...Read more

A federal judge in Washington denied former President Joe Biden’s request to block the Justice Department from turning over tapes and transcripts of interviews he privately recorded almost a decade ago to a conservative advocacy group.

The Justice Department is poised to produce the materials to the Heritage Foundation. U.S. District Judge ...Read more

NEW YORK — Carriage horse rides in Central Park will be suspended until at least Tuesday following the death of an 18-year-old passenger earlier this week, the union representing carriage drivers announced Friday.

During that time, the roughly 200 carriage horse owners and drivers will undergo “refresher training” on safety rules and ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD cop was shot in the leg inside a Brooklyn apartment building following a heated standoff with an emotionally disturbed gunman who was killed in the exchange of gunfire Friday, police said.

The shooting occurred inside the gunman’s home Kosciuszko St. near Marcy Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant as an elderly couple cowered in an...Read more

The trial of Doral real estate broker George Pino, who was piloting the boat that slammed into a channel marker in Biscayne Bay, killing a 17-year-old girl, has been marked by eight days of difficult-to-listen testimony, emotional outbursts and more than one tense moment between Pino and the prosecutor.

Prosecutors and Pino’s defense ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A teen from West Park has been charged as an adult in a shooting in Hollywood that killed one person.

Gentle Edwards, 15, was charged by indictment this week and transferred from the Juvenile Detention Center to the Paul Rein Detention Facility, where he remained as of Friday.

Hollywood Police officers found a person ...Read more

The Justice Department rebuffed a U.S. judge’s invitation for top officials to submit a signed statement under oath that a $1.8 billion fund for what the administration described as victims of political “weaponization” will not happen.

In a filing on Friday, the Justice Department said that such declarations were “unnecessary” and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A person infected with measles flew on a transpacific flight and passed through Los Angeles International Airport last week, potentially exposing other passengers to the highly contagious disease.

This latest case comes as travelers surge into Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area for the FIFA World Cup, and as measles is ...Read more

They can’t say they weren’t warned.

Jewish groups are giving a heads-up to Somerville, Massachusetts officials that they will certainly be sued if the city’s proposed “Israel boycott” law passes.

The Anti-Defamation League and Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on Thursday urged city officials to reject the ...Read more

A high-ranking Italian official has canceled his plans to attend a Miami conference promoting business between Italy and the United States, citing “serious and offensive” statements from President Donald Trump about the country’s prime minister.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani was scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of State ...Read more

Iran sought to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz by saying that ships need its permission and mandatory insurance in order to cross, even as the U.S. said that 20 ships had quietly sailed through overnight via a route along Oman’s coast.

The conflicting signals come as the shipping industry tries to assess whether it’s safe to ...Read more

A clear majority of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet believe it’s now inevitable Andy Burnham’s will take over as prime minister, according to people familiar with the thinking of more than 15 Cabinet ministers, who spoke to Bloomberg on condition of anonymity on Friday.

However, as of late in the afternoon, most remained unwilling to do anything ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Mexican citizen handed over to the U.S. to face cartel-related charges died in federal custody three months later, after he was found hanging in his cell at the notorious MDC Brooklyn jail, the Daily News has learned — raising questions about how a man with a cellmate was hanging in his cell with nobody seeming to notice until ...Read more

Colombia’s presidential campaigns are both flagging the risk of fraud in Sunday’s election, and taking steps to prevent it.

Conservative frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella is working with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Her movement built a sophisticated election-monitoring organization, battle-hardened by decades of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Fences installed to prevent homeless encampments along a busy Minneapolis highway underpass have reignited frustrations from some residents who say the barriers are blocking pedestrian access ― sparking debate over whether the move to improve public safety is actually a hindrance to livability.

This spring, the Minnesota ...Read more

CHICAGO — The first detected presence of West Nile virus has been reported in Wilmette this year, after a mosquito sample pool tested positive on June 16, officials say.

West Nile positive mosquitos were also discovered in two sample pools collected from nearby Evanston and Northbrook.

The samples are the first to test positive of the 217 ...Read more

MIAMI — This spring, a company helping run Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention camp was the top donor to incumbents in Miami-Dade County government, according to a Miami Herald analysis.

CDR, a Miami company that specializes in emergency management and has won Miami-Dade contracts in the past, gave a combined $105,000 to four ...Read more

Soon after Philadelphia hosted America’s bicentennial celebrations in late July 1976, more than 200 attendees of the American Legion Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia fell ill with pneumonia symptoms, including fever, cough and trouble breathing.

Thirty-four of them died.

One of us was a newly minted...Read more