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

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

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Iran may have halted their conflict for now, but the messaging war has only just begun.

Both countries have cast the memorandum of understanding — signed by the two countries’ leaders on June 17 — as a victory for their side. Analysts suggest that Iran came out on top by securing new sanctions relief and funds ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The latest shelter-in-place order for residents around a burning cold-storage facility in Boyle Heights has been lifted, the Los Angeles Fire Department announced Friday.

The fire at the massive cold-storage facility at 1400 S. Los Palos St. broke out Wednesday afternoon. The fire is mostly in the solar-panel-covered roof area. ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday unveiled the Boeing Co. 747-8 that will serve as the new U.S. presidential jet, proclaiming the gifted plane from the Qatari government “virtually double the size” of the previous model.

“With the extraordinary devotion of many of you here today, this plane was transformed into a flying White House at a ...Read more

Iran delayed the start of negotiations over a permanent peace deal with the U.S. after fighting intensified in southern Lebanon, a potential setback to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war and curb Tehran’s nuclear program.

The talks, which were meant to take place in Switzerland on Friday, were pushed off because of those ...Read more

CHICAGO — The lines were many, the smiles countless and the pride after stepping foot on the campus of the Obama Presidential Center was priceless.

The word magnificent was uttered more than once.

Walkers and wheelchairs mingled with strollers and wagons where youth were carted around.

The feeling of community, brotherhood, and sisterhood ...Read more

Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki stripped his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the country’s highest state honor amid a row about commemorating fighters responsible for a World War II massacre.

The dispute started when Kyiv named a military unit after the Ukrainian nationalist fighters who killed an estimated 100,000 Poles, ...Read more

Iran delayed the start of negotiations over a permanent peace deal with the U.S. after fighting intensified in southern Lebanon, a potential setback to Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war and curb Tehran’s nuclear program.

The talks, which were meant to take place in Switzerland on Friday, were pushed off because of those clashes between ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday displayed the Boeing Co. 747-8 that will serve as the new U.S. presidential jet, proclaiming the gifted plane from the Qatari government “virtually double the size” of the previous model.

“This is considered the world’s most luxurious plane,” Trump said in front of the aircraft, inside a hangar at ...Read more

The most serious political crisis to hit Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González’s young administration escalated this week, with two senior officials trading allegations of corruption and undue influence.

The turmoil dates back to last month, when Puerto Rico’s head of economic development resigned and accused the governor’s top aide of ...Read more

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