NEW YORK — A NYPD civilian supervisor illegally used her access to private police databases to supply attorneys with names of car accident victims in exchange for thousands in cash and gifts, federal officials said Friday.

Authorities said Pamela Dillard, 48, a department communication technician, made ambulance chasing easy for the lawyers ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Virginia voters are poised to weigh in on a proposed congressional map that would give Democrats an advantage in 10 of the commonwealth’s 11 House seats after Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Friday signed a bill setting up a spring referendum.

Democratic leaders in the Virginia General Assembly unveiled their proposed map Thursday ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump’s call to nationalize election processes on Monday prompted a bipartisan response from Nevada political leaders this week.

Trump called for Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in multiple states during a podcast interview — a contradiction to the U.S. Constitution, which gives ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang was charged with damaging a $6,000 ice sculpture a veterans organization displayed on the front steps of the State Capitol.

Lang, 31, of Lake Worth, Florida, recorded social media videos of him on Thursday kicking down the ice sculpture that spelled out “prosecute ICE” to instead read “pro ICE.�...Read more

President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer he would consider restoring funding for the Hudson River Tunnel project if lawmakers backed renaming at least two transit hubs after him, three sources confirmed to the New York Daily News.

In the course of negotiations over the project in recent weeks, sources told the Daily News...Read more

President Donald Trump’s calls this week to “nationalize” elections capped a year of efforts by his administration to exercise authority over state-run elections. The demands now have some state and local election officials fearing — and preparing for — a tumultuous year ahead.

“I don’t think we can put anything past this ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is reporting nearly four dozen new cases of the measles virus, public health officials said Friday.

This brings the state’s total reported cases close to topping 1,000.

There have been 44 new cases of the measles, the South Carolina Department of Public Health announced Friday. That brings the total number ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Friday sped up the schedule in Luigi Mangione’s state case, setting trial for June 8 after criticizing the feds for backtracking on their promise to let local prosecutors try him first for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“It appears that the federal government has reneged on their ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield, the Emmy-winning actor known for “The West Wing” and “Thritysomething,” for child sex abuse.

On Friday, prosecutors charged Busfield with four counts of criminal sexual contact of a child, the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Times. A ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Since the pandemic began, Florida lawmakers and health officials have become fascinated with ivermectin for more than its approved human uses.

Now, Florida’s Republican legislators want to make it easier to get ivermectin, the controversial anti-parasitic drug used to treat livestock and embraced by Florida’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday deleted from his social media account a video clip depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, following fierce backlash from Democrats and some Republicans who called it racist and urged the president to take it down.

The White House initially defended ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The LAPD has opened an internal investigation into a San Fernando Valley gang unit officer who used a photo of Rafael Perez — the face of the Rampart police scandal of the late 1990s — as the lock screen on his cellphone, according to four sources familiar with the case.

Perez went to prison in 2000 after confessing that he ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure that would block foreign contributions to Michigan ballot campaigns and election administration.

The bills, which passed the Republican-led House 97-6 and 99-4 on Thursday, aim to close a loophole in the overlap of state and federal laws, which already ...Read more

A ransom note demanding money in exchange for the return of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother was “carefully crafted” and included details not previously released to the public, according to people who have read it.

The note has taken center stage as authorities are still frantically trying to find Nancy Guthrie, 84, five ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — One of the lasting images of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign will be the masks worn by federal immigration agents.

The widespread use of facial coverings by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is among the suite of tactics — agents dressed in plainclothes, wearing little identification, ...Read more

Anyone who has lived long in Kansas City — a city proud of its fountains, parks, first-rate sports teams and barbecue — could not help but see that it has also become a city with a burgeoning population of people experiencing homelessness.

Huddling downtown against the cold and heat. Raising sprawling, and, in some cases, dangerous ...Read more

Iran said it agreed with the U.S. to continue indirect talks to de-escalate tensions and avert a military confrontation, with Tehran describing the first day as positive.

Negotiations, mediated by Oman in its capital Muscat, had a “good start,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told state TV after the talks concluded for the day. He ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Jeep Cherokee left the Henry Bishop Whipple Building near Fort Snelling on a January afternoon. As it drove away, protesters quickly captured its Minnesota license plate to share with others tracking immigration agents.

But the plates didn’t belong to the Cherokee. They were last registered in 2014 to a Porsche 911 Turbo.

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