CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina and their two children were among those who died Thursday when a jet crashed at Statesville Regional Airport, according to multiple sources.

The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office confirmed seven people were killed in the crash: Five adults and two children.

“I am ...Read more

Contrary to speculation swirling online, Nick Reiner was not kicked out of his parents’ house prior to the brutal murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, according to a new report.

The “When Harry Met Sally” director, 78, and photographer, 70, were found fatally stabbed at their Los Angeles home on Sunday afternoon. Nick, 32, was arrested ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center Board has voted to rename the performing arts facility as the Trump-Kennedy Center, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The move is yet another by the second Trump administration to blow past an existing norm or statute, including one that established the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump broke with past presidents with Wednesday night’s end-of-year address to the nation in which he raised his voice repeatedly and cast wide blame for a stubborn economy that has frustrated many Americans.

Former officials and analysts called the speech an unprecedented attempt to upend the State of the Union ...Read more

The Trump administration and House Republicans advanced measures this week to end gender-affirming care for transgender children and some young adults, drawing outrage and resistance from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, families with transgender kids, medical providers and some of California's liberal leaders.

The latest efforts — which seek ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A panel of federal appellate judges expressed skepticism Thursday about Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s effort to toss his contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to provide documents and testimony to the select House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

At oral arguments, three judges of the U.S. ...Read more

NEW YORK — Marathon pretrial proceedings came to a close Thursday that will determine whether jurors see the weapon Luigi Mangione is accused of using to murder UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown sidewalk and other pivotal evidence, with both sides resting after nine days of hearings.

Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's top doctor issued a recommendation Thursday, advising health care providers to follow vaccine schedules for children from the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Family Physicians, shifting away from guidance coming from President Donald Trump's administration.

The announcement from the ...Read more

Hospitals that offer gender-affirming care to minors will be forced to forgo federal insurance funding under a rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of an effort by the Trump administration to curtail the practice.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it will roll out a cross-agency plan to ...Read more

CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV made his most important U.S. appointment to date Thursday, naming a fellow south suburbanite as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown.

Joliet Bishop Ronald Hicks will replace the retiring Cardinal ...Read more

U.S. prosecutors have charged Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, the alleged leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, accusing him of masterminding a violent criminal enterprise responsible for murders, kidnappings, sex trafficking and the movement of massive cocaine shipments into the United States, according to a federal indictment ...Read more

BOSTON — Investigators are looking into a possible connection between the Brown University shooting and the murder of an MIT professor in Brookline.

That’s according to reporting from WPRI, a Providence-based news outlet that says “senior law enforcement officials” confirmed they are examining the possibility of the two crimes being ...Read more

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted to change the name of the world-famous complex to the Trump Kennedy Center.

"I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the state and several local jurisdictions to acknowledge their parts in the acts of racial terror committed during the 19th and 20th centuries — and calls for payments of up to $100,000 for every descendant of a known ...Read more

Calling the event a “wholly avoidable tragedy,” the U.S. government on Wednesday admitted liability in the fiery crash over the Potomac River that occurred early this year when a plane from Wichita, Kansas, to the nation’s capital collided with an Army helicopter.

The admission came in a document filed Wednesday in federal court in a ...Read more

SAN JOSE — After four years, dozens of criminal charges and a superseding indictment, a trial is fully underway for a Los Gatos woman notorious for allegations she hosted boozy and raucous teen parties for her son and his friends, and goaded them into performing inebriated and nonconsensual sex acts with girls who attended.

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NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Thursday named Sherif Soliman as his budget director, one of the most consequential roles at City Hall, as his administration seeks to follow through on its ambitious affordability agenda.

Soliman, a local government vet who previously served in the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, will ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Babblejit “Bubbly” Kaur and her husband, Amarjit Singh, celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary in Long Beach in late November. The pair cradled a mint-frosted cake in their hands and beamed as their daughter, Joti, snapped pictures.

The couple endured a lot in those years, more than 30 of which have been spent in the U.S....Read more