NEW YORK — A number of homeowners are suing NYC over the Mamdani administration’s rollout of the pied-à-terre tax on expensive second homes, arguing the city “has arbitrarily and capriciously foisted” on city dwellers the responsibility of proving they’re full-time residents who shouldn’t be hit with the surcharge.

The lawsuit, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, data released Friday showed.

Only about half of all students in grades three through eight scored as proficient in English Language Arts — a drop from about 56% scoring proficient the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Dozens of people who were charged or convicted in connection with the violent riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars from the U.S. government after the Trump administration walked back the sprawling prosecution effort.

The latest case, filed on Friday in Washington, was brought...Read more

BALTIMORE — The family of a man struck and killed by a Metro train in Pikesville is suing the Maryland Transit Administration, hoping to learn more about what led to his death and compensate his two children for their loss.

According to the lawsuit, which was transferred Tuesday to Baltimore County Circuit Court, Kaseem Malik Ray went to the ...Read more

Haverford College and a Jewish group suing the school over its handling of antisemitism allegations have reached a settlement, according to federal court documents.

The documents in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania did not include details of the settlement, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs says Haverford President...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — More than two weeks after a Cary woman went missing while on vacation in the Caribbean, her husband says the “most likely scenario” is that she drowned but that some details don’t add up.

Elizabeth “Liz” Waddell, 44, was last seen July 22 on Grand Anse Beach in Grenada, after security footage showed her swimming by a...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Calaveras County mourns the first death linked to the Gann fire, Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in the county as crews battle the wildfire that has blackened more than 10,000 acres since Monday.

Firefighters are steadily gaining ground on the blaze, now at 10,347 acres, and 40% contained, Friday ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado mountain town is wielding its zoning codes in an attempt to stop federal immigration agents from locking people up in a strip-mall holding cell.

The City Council in Glenwood Springs, the Roaring Fork Valley destination known for its historic hot springs, voted Thursday night to sue the landlord who leases the property used...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Northwest school district has filed a lawsuit against a Denton County shooting range after two stray bullets were found at the site of a new middle school that is set to open Wednesday, Aug. 12, officials said.

Barksdale Middle School at 6901 Mulkey Lane in Northlake, is about one mile south of the Quail Creek Shooting...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Austrian deputy consul general, in the Twin Cities from his posting in New York, lifted the top off a cardboard box and pulled out a tiny piece of art.

The handful of people gathered Wednesday afternoon in a dining room at Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins leaned closer and squinted.

The 1847 watercolor miniature, just 3 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Friday he intended to vote to confirm Todd Blanche to be attorney general, ending a weekslong back-and-forth with the White House to win over GOP holdouts.

All eyes were on Cassidy’s Friday morning floor speech after his fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of ...Read more

MIAMI — A former federal prosecutor who was fired because he had made critical blog posts about Donald Trump during his first term as president has sued the top U.S. law enforcement officials in the nation and South Florida, saying in a lawsuit filed Friday they violated his free-speech rights when he was summarily terminated last year.

Will ...Read more

In a new finding, a coroner’s report released Thursday showed nine backcountry skiers killed by an avalanche in February near Lake Tahoe died of asphyxiation, not from traumatic injuries from getting hit by hurtling slabs of snow and swept away.

The heavily redacted reports leave questions unanswered, including whether any of the three ski-...Read more

CHICAGO — Authorities on Friday began the grim task of removing remains from a South Deering funeral home on the city’s Southeast Side, as police continued to investigate after the decomposing bodies of more than 50 people were found Thursday.

Personnel on scene rolled out one body at a time, wrapped in white bags, as city and state ...Read more

NEW YORK — An Interpol “red notice” led to the arrest in Honduras of a Queens fugitive wanted in the New Year’s Day hit and run that killed one man and badly injured another, the Daily News has learned.

Jonathan Barbecho, 31, was returned back to the city this week and was ordered held without bail at his Thursday arraignment after ...Read more

President Donald Trump Friday called House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries “a nice guy” and said he would “probably get along with him very well” in a new interview in which he also suggested Republicans could lose the House of Representatives in the midterms because voters are angry at the GOP.

Downplaying the past insults the ...Read more

For months, the Trump administration has sought to open the California coast to a radically industrialized future: large-scale desalination plants, floating nuclear reactors, more rocket launches and expanded offshore oil drilling along the state’s most iconic beaches.

Holding the line against all this is a little-known but longstanding ...Read more