CHICAGO — With his city budget pitch for next year looming, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday again argued large corporations must pay more taxes to help Chicago balance its books.

Johnson remained tight-lipped on his specific budget plans during a City Hall news conference, but hinted he may also propose higher taxes on cloud computing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has given the green light for the Navy to build a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer this fiscal year at a shipyard in Maine, an announcement that could provide a boon to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in the final weeks of her exceedingly tight race for reelection.

In a news release Monday, the Pentagon said it has ...Read more

BOSTON — Women’s rights activists want transgender prisoners kicked out of Massachusetts’ only state-run prison for women in Framingham, a facility they say houses convicted male murderers and rapists.

The state Department of Correction has refused to confirm to the Herald how many biological male inmates are housed at MCI Framingham ...Read more

CHICAGO — An off-campus fraternity near the University of Chicago said it is “deeply disturbed” and condemned sexual violence on social media Monday after a woman reported that she was sexually assaulted over the weekend during a party at the home.

The victim, who is not a university student, reported the assault at 2:10 a.m. on Sunday ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Eric Lewis, the man charged with killing a Philadelphia police officer and seriously wounding another during the weekend, was charged with the murder of a 32-year-old man in West Philadelphia six years ago.

But the case against Lewis in the fatal shooting of Christopher Williams fell apart at a trial in 2023 after a series of ...Read more

In 2004, Kimberly Guilfoyle told Harper’s Bazaar, in a piece that ran with a now infamous photo of her and then-husband Gov. Gavin Newsom on a carpet in the Getty family mansion, that Newsom worried “his political career is over any minute.”

But, she also told the magazine, she could “absolutely” see the then-San Francisco mayor one ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday rejected calls from his political base on the left to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch over the presence of ICE agents in New York.

“Tisch is the police commissioner. I have no plans to change that,” Mamdani said in Queens on Tuesday morning, his first media availability since Thursday night....Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced Tuesday that she and Mayor Zohran Mamdani have agreed to a deal to abolish the embattled Central Park horse carriage industry starting in 2028, bringing an end to a longstanding city tradition that has come under increasing criticism in recent years.

“Horse-drawn carriages have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, stepped down Tuesday shortly after President Donald Trump asked her to resign her post.

Guilfoyle’s ouster came on the heels of recent press reports that she had engaged in potentially improper or illegal behavior.

Those actions reportedly included accepting improper gifts and...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The man who organized and set in motion the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur learned his fate Tuesday, 30 years after the deadly shooting near the Las Vegas Strip.

Duane Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the 1996 murder of Shakur.

Shakur was shot Sept. 7, 1996, at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane...Read more

WASHINGTON — Long before Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin climbed the ranks of Democratic leadership, he took an interest in the politics of baseball.

Back in 1989, when Durbin was representing a Springfield-based district in the House, he lamented changes that were being proposed to the professional ranks of America’s national pastime, ...Read more

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff announced plans to strengthen campus safety, including suspending fraternity parties, after sexual assault allegations from a former student roiled the Ivy League school and attracted national attention.

“It is clear that women on our campus continue to question whether they are safe,” ...Read more

Fear of federal interference in the 2026 midterms, from intimidation stoked by armed officials at the polls to seizure of ballots, has been growing in the United States. That’s led state and local voting officials across the country to draw up plans for scenarios requiring them to summon law enforcement or prepare legal filings so they can ...Read more

Six Flags is closing several rides across the U.S. and Canada after a man fell to his death from a roller coaster at one of its parks in Georgia.

Park officials said Tuesday that the closures were out of an abundance of caution and were temporary.

On Monday afternoon, Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, of Atlanta, was ejected from a roller coaster ...Read more

BOSTON — A Massachusetts State Police trooper was fired from the agency after he made offensive remarks to young people, according to an MSP spokesperson.

Former Trooper Jack B. Cesarz, who was still in his probationary period, was dishonorably discharged effective Oct. 8.

When asked about whether Cesarz was discharged because he allegedly ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The U.S. Secret Service in December took down a drone using electronic jamming equipment at the Army-Navy game in Baltimore, where President Donald Trump, Gov. Wes Moore and other federal and state leaders were present, according to CBS News.

Federal law prohibits drones in designated airspace around certain major sporting events,...Read more

MIAMI — A man from Cuba was found almost 20 miles from shore off Miami-Dade County on Monday floating on a homemade foam raft that was no bigger than a small bed mattress, federal agents say.

A boater saw the man about 16 miles out in the ocean off Key Biscayne and called VHF Channel 16, the preferred method for calling in a maritime ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For more than four decades, the 1736 Family Crisis Center has offered care for victims of domestic violence, running shelters and crisis hotlines in L.A. and Orange counties on what today is a $15-million budget.

But the primary residence of the nonprofit's chief executive has been in Hawaii for at least the last 10 years. And ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Santiago Cruz, a junior at Bert Corona Charter High School in Pacoima, hopes to graduate alongside the classmates he grew up with, but worries that some of them may be derailed by nitrous oxide, the odorless gas that is being inhaled by young people and others as an illicit way to get high.

He was among several students, ...Read more

DENVER -- When staff at Denver’s Fairmount Cemetery stumbled across splatters of fake blood staining a family’s private mausoleum last week, they suspected an unsanctioned photo shoot was behind the imitation gore.

The fake blood stained the property and is difficult to remove, Fairmount Cemetery events manager Karna O’Neill said. While ...Read more