President Donald Trump touched down Friday on Long Island to highlight his record on crime and try to boost Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman’s campaign for governor.

With Blakeman by his side, Trump released FBI statistics showing decreases in violent crime after touring the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump downplayed concerns over conditions for sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, amid an uproar from service members’ families as its deployment to the Middle East approaches nine months.

Numerous relatives of the roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier have voiced outrage at reports ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is readying unprecedented economic measures against Iran, as President Donald Trump seeks to intensify efforts to force Tehran to capitulate after almost six months of war.

The president said in a brief interview with Fox News that the U.S. is planning to hit Iran’s economy hard, and that he didn’t care if the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It may be too soon to tell, but Big Bear bald eagle Shadow — the former mate of the recently deceased Jackie — may have a new partner.

Friends of Big Bear Valley, the group that runs the 24/7 livestream of the eagles, reported Thursday via social media that Shadow has been seen in the nest with a young adult eagle believed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers and military families are pressing the Pentagon for answers after reports emerged that thousands of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have endured food shortages, plumbing failures and severe fatigue during deployment that has stretched more than 260 days.

The roughly 5,000-person crew, which left San ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors this week unveiled a new indictment against the man accused of igniting last year’s deadly fire in the Palisades, nixing one of the three original charges and revising the other two after a mistrial in federal court earlier this summer.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 33, remains in federal custody on charges he ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear believes he’s done everything possible to demand more transparency surrounding Sen. Mitch McConnell’s absence.

In a Friday interview on MS Now’s State of Play, host Peter Alexander asked Beshear if he has “done everything in your power to sort of move the ball forward on this, to try to ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he’ll definitely be flying in a new air show announced Friday coming to Kennedy Space Center this fall.

But he’s most excited about the astronauts that are expected to take part in the Max Power event set to welcome guests to the former shuttle landing facility on Nov. 7 and 8....Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom Friday to fatally stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a dramatic turning point in the high-profile prosecution over the executive’s predawn murder outside a Midtown hotel in December 2024.

In a stunning courtroom admission before Thompson’s tearful widow, Paulette...Read more

A nuclear safety watchdog group says it has obtained formerly hidden information that bolsters arguments against building atomic weapons plants in New Mexico and South Carolina — but a key federal agency doesn’t see it that way.

The federal government has released sections of a report, sought by environmental groups opposed to spending ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday continued to track two tropical waves in the Atlantic with a chance to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, the leading wave, Invest 92, was about 350 miles east of the Caribbean’s Windward Islands with gusty winds and ...Read more

Nigel Farage is returning to Parliament after comfortably defeating a satirical candidate dressed as a trash can, in an election victory that allowed an ethics probe to resume into the Reform UK leader’s personal finances.

Farage got 62.8% of the vote in the constituency centered on the English resort town of Clacton-on-Sea to retain his seat...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge for the District of Idaho has ruled that part of Idaho’s abortion restrictions violate the U.S. Constitution, according to a decision issued Thursday in a case brought by a Boise maternal-fetal medicine specialist.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill wrote in his decision that the 14th Amendment’s due ...Read more

DEARBORN, Mich. — Self-described anti-Islamic activist Jake Lang said he expects trouble when he and his supporters come to Dearborn next week for a planned rally and pig roast — a dig at Muslims, whose religion eschews eating pork.

"Does the sun rise in the east?" Lang said during a telephone interview with The Detroit News when asked if ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom Friday to fatally stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a dramatic turning point in the high-profile prosecution over the executive’s predawn murder outside a Midtown hotel in December 2024.

In a stunning courtroom admission before Thompson’s tearful widow, Paulette...Read more

The family of murdered UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson called Friday’s guilty plea by Luigi Mangione an “important step toward justice for Brian and our family.”

“While nothing will ease the pain of losing him, we are grateful that the federal justice system has held the person responsible for this heinous act ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom Friday to fatally stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a dramatic turning point in the high-profile prosecution over the executive’s predawn murder outside a Midtown hotel in December 2024.

In a stunning courtroom admission before members of Thompson’s grieving ...Read more

A longtime ally of Sen. Mitch McConnell said Kentucky’s senior senator is aware of and seems frustrated by the intense public scrutiny about his health condition.

Scott Jennings, a former McConnell adviser and conservative political commentator on CNN, said he spoke with McConnell on Tuesday about political races and the attention he’s ...Read more

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Just days after the Trump administration launched proceedings that could limit California’s ability to protect its iconic shoreline, the state’s top coastal officials reasserted their authority by voting unanimously against an oil company’s controversial bid to restart underwater fracking operations.

This is the ...Read more

A University of California, Santa Cruz student died after the vehicle she was in veered off a road near the university, dropped off a seaside cliff and plunged into the Pacific, according to officials.

A second occupant of the vehicle was able to escape from the submerged vehicle, but the woman who died became trapped, according to the Santa ...Read more