NEW YORK — A family of tourists’ picturesque outing in a Central Park carriage turned into a nightmare Wednesday when an 18-year-old from India died after an out-of-control horse pulling the carriage he was riding in suddenly bolted, sending the carriage careening onto its side as onlookers watched in horror.

The precise circumstances of ...Read more

Massachusetts state officials released the final framework for statewide graduation requirements on Wednesday after voters overturned the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System standardized testing standard.

The grad requirements closely follow previous proposals, including MassCore curriculum and a controversial testing component.

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MIAMI — Doral real estate broker George Pino declined to testify Wednesday afternoon during his trial, where he is facing two felony charges over a Biscayne Bay boat crash that killed a 17-year-old girl.

“I do not wish to testify,” Pino told Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez.

Shortly after Pino turned down the chance ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an interim deal to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, speeding up the timeline for the agreement to go into effect despite blowback from Republicans who said it amounted to a victory for Tehran.

U.S. and Iranian officials signed an interim peace deal electronically on Wednesday evening, ...Read more

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced over $700 million in new funds for programs tackling substance abuse, mental health challenges and homelessness during an event in Clinton Township on Monday.

Kennedy visited the nonprofit Easterseals MORC's certified community behavioral health...Read more

WASHINGTON — Georgia Republicans pulled back on plans to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special legislative session that began Wednesday, the day after primary runoffs set up high-stakes fall races for Senate, governor and other statewide offices.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp last month called a special session to address the ...Read more

Former Rep. Michelle Steel was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday to serve as the country’s new ambassador to South Korea.

Steel, 70, was nominated by President Donald Trump for the post in April. The two-term House member was born in South Korea to parents who fled North Korea and was raised in Japan, immigrating to the U.S. when she ...Read more

Military officials have identified the eight crew members killed Monday when a B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Edwards Air Force Base during what officials said was a routine test mission.

The victims were identified as: Col. Gregory Watson, 53; Lt. Col. Gabriel Estrella, 40; Retired Lt. Col. Miles Middleton, 50; Maj. Alexander Davis, 34; Maj. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two men from Southern California's Inland Empire region have been arrested and charged in what federal officials described as a plot to kill government officials and others at the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House last weekend.

The two Californians are among five co-conspirators arrested across the country in the ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey and public safety leaders announced the statewide implementation of new technology on Massachusetts streets and highways in an effort to prevent wrong-way driving accidents following a flurry of recent crashes.

This new tech follows the wrong-way driving death of State Trooper Kevin Trainor, who died in May after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An empty Senate Intelligence Committee room summed up the mood Wednesday afternoon during what was supposed to be an easy step in Majority Leader John Thune’s plan to revive a lapsed surveillance authority.

Instead, the key spy powers tool, the committee room and senators themselves were left in the dark after President Donald ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney general filed three lawsuits against prediction market and gambling companies he said are operating unlicensed sports betting platforms illegally across the state.

Lawsuits filed June 17 in Franklin Circuit Court by Attorney General Russell Coleman against Kalshi, Polymarket and VGW allege the companies ...Read more

NEW YORK — An 18-year-old was in critical condition Wednesday after a horse-drawn carriage he was riding in overturned in Central Park.

The incident happened around 2:47 p.m. Wednesday near 71st Street and Center Drive.

A video making the rounds on social media shows a white carriage moving quickly. The carriage is seen from behind. Shortly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In yet another blow to the beleaguered offshore wind industry, the Trump administration said Wednesday it will pay developer Invenergy $765 million to walk away from four U.S. wind leases, including one off the coast of California, and invest instead in geothermal and fossil fuel projects.

Under the agreement, Chicago-based ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The 94-page indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors Tuesday that accuses 15 Twin Cities residents of conspiring to impede immigration enforcement efforts or injure federal officers is relentlessly detailed, with thorough descriptions of alleged ties to the leftist “antifa” movement, and reams of direct messages and social ...Read more

Nearly six months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is increasingly portraying the operation as one of the defining victories of his foreign policy, arguing it transformed Venezuela from a hostile adversary into a strategic partner.

Speaking to reporters during the G7 summit in France, Trump pointed to the U.S.-backed...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a press conference at the end of the G7 summit Wednesday in France to laud a war-ending pact with Iran, as senators back home criticized a lack of information about the deal and questioned his declaration the previous day that U.S. relations with Iran are “normalized.”

The administration’s ...Read more

DENVER — Denver Public Schools fired a teacher accused of making female students kiss each other in class and of exhibiting other inappropriate behavior, including sharing what a judge referred to as “sensitive and potentially traumatizing information” in class.

The district ended Jennifer Honka’s employment at Northeast Early College ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security did not follow the law when it ended temporary protected status for Haiti, according to internal government documents filed as part of a Supreme Court case that could determine the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the United States, many of them South Florida residents.

Under federal law, DHS ...Read more