NEW YORK — New York City is developing a new digital management system to fix payment delays for childcare providers, after some programs nearly struggled to open their doors on the first day of school.

In her first interview as Chancellor Kamar Samuels’ top deputy for early childhood education, Erica Phillips told the Daily News that her ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The balance is tipping more in favor of shutting down automated license plate readers in San Diego.

During a budget committee meeting Wednesday, several San Diego council members backed a proposal to rescind city approval of the use of the controversial technology and end the city’s contract to use ALPR cameras provided by Flock...Read more

By now, most Northern Californians know that there are historically strong El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean which are increasing the chances for a rough and very wet winter.

But some places have more risk than others. Low-lying coastal and bayfront areas — including the beaches at Santa Cruz, the eastern approach to the Bay Bridge, ...Read more

BOSTON — City councilors and parents blasted Boston Public Schools for concealing thousands of sexual assault, misconduct, and bullying cases that involved abuse committed against students by their classmates, and at least one BPS staffer.

The student sex accounts were a hot topic at a City Council Education committee hearing on Tuesday, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California assembly members began their discussions on the efforts by the state’s major utilities to reduce wildfire risks and the liability those companies face when their equipment starts a blaze. Tuesday’s meeting was the first in what is anticipated to be a series of hearings.

The meetings follow contentious ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down an appeal from President Trump and rejected his order to end hormone treatments and other gender-affirming care for transgender inmates in federal prisons.

The justices denied Trump’s appeal without comment, over dissents by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.

The order ...Read more

The seven-minute video, sent in early May 2021, offered a step-by-step guide for carrying out modern warfare in a country where everything seemed to be unraveling.

The blueprint included the recruitment of mercenaries and exploiting the grievances of disaffected citizens, from religious fanatics and extremists to soccer fans.

“It does not ...Read more

Oil spills pose a multifaceted threat in the Great Lakes, where oil transit pathways overlap and concentrate in major waterways such as the Straits of Mackinac and St. Clair River, a group of researchers found in a new study led by Lake Superior State University.

Although major oil spills such as the Enbridge Line 6b rupture into a Kalamazoo ...Read more

NEW YORK — The union representing the roughly 200 owners and drivers in the city’s embattled Central Park carriage horse industry threatened Wednesday to sue should the City Council vote to end the industry, as is expected, on Thursday.

The legislation — which would immediately end the issuance of carriage horse licenses and outlaw ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More people are contracting mosquito-borne West Nile virus and dying in Los Angeles and Orange counties than anywhere else in California, pushing state levels to a five-year high.

The two counties combined account for at least 63% of the 378 human infections reported this year by the California Department of Public Health, ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Republican Party of Florida on Wednesday withdrew its lawsuit asking a court to ban TV stations from running an ad by the Florida Democratic Party that targets Attorney General James Uthmeier and his involvement in the Hope Florida scandal.

The lawsuit filed late Friday in a court in rural Highlands County court said ...Read more

DENVER — Two midair near-collisions and dozens of safety incidents on Centennial Airport’s parallel runways in the last two years raised red flags, prompting federal officials to restrict certain flights, a new safety report shows.

Federal Aviation Administration investigators reviewed more than 35,500 “parallel departures” at ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department is asking to disqualify two federal judges in Minnesota from presiding over a pair of cases regarding citizenship and illegal voting, challenging their impartiality in the matters.

In the filings, associate attorney general Stanley Woodward Jr. demanded that U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz and U.S. ...Read more

South Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Wednesday announced a congressional subpoena of New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s administration, demanding it produce records he requested three months ago that may explain how 6,600 noncitizens were added to the voter rolls in violation of federal law.

Sherrill, a first-term Democrat, revealed in...Read more

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump has officially created the United States’ 64th national park.

Chiricahua, in southeastern Arizona, was established as a national monument in April 1924 to protect its towering rhyolite hoodoos – tall spires of rock – and diversity of wildlife. The mountainous landscape is commonly ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday continued to keep an eye on a system off the U.S. East Coast with the potential to develop into a more dangerous storm as well as beginning to track a second Atlantic system.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, a storm-force, nontropical area of low pressure, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest embrace of Russian leader Vladimir Putin is deepening alarm in Washington and among America’s allies that the White House pressure campaign could leave Ukraine vulnerable as Moscow advances.

Trump’s push to end the war, which has raged since 2022, comes on the cusp of a midterm election that...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal judge is preparing to rule on the May lawsuit filed by 17 Maryland sheriffs after the state banned law enforcement from formally cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in most cases, thus eliminating local 287(g) agreements.

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Maddox heard arguments Wednesday from the ...Read more