NEW YORK — The suspect wanted for pushing his estranged girlfriend and her infant daughter off their 15th-floor Bronx balcony, killing the woman, has been arrested — after his brother alerted cops the suspect was hiding out in the brother’s home, police said Thursday.

Angel Carrasco, 31, is accused of killing 23-year-old Nathaly Ramirez, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Mutual Insurance Company, alleging the insurance giant created an illegal monopoly by conspiring to eliminate competition, driving up insurance premiums and causing health care providers to close or leave the state. ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing what he said were “productive discussions” with the Islamic Republic.

“We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd,” Trump said in a social media post ...Read more

The National Football League urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow state regulation of prediction markets in a stance putting it at odds with the Trump administration in a high-stakes clash.

In a court filing Thursday, the NFL told the justices that the “laissez-faire” approach federal regulators are taking toward prediction markets could ...Read more

A contractor who has appeared on HGTV died this week while hiking in Sequoia National Park, according to officials.

Kalem Peter Kazarian, 52, died Monday while hiking on Mt. Whitney at the park, the Tulare County Coroner's office confirmed to The Times. His cause of death hasn't been determined.

Kazarian appeared alongside hosts Koko and Nick ...Read more

Federal authorities said they made more than a dozen arrests Thursday in what they hailed as a sweeping operation targeting drug trafficking in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles.

First Asst. U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said in a post on X that federal authorities had executed 28 arrest warrants and 44 search warrants, part of what he dubbed “...Read more

Federal prosecutors in New York filed a new torture conspiracy charge Thursday against former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, accusing them of directing a campaign of brutal repression that included the torture of political opponents and American citizens held in Venezuelan prisons.

The new 30-page indictment ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Could Hurricane Isaias that strengthened in the Gulf Thursday deliver the destruction of 2024’s Hurricane Helene in the North Carolina mountains?

No, the Category 1 storm is not expected to be anywhere near the intensity of Category 4 Helene, National Weather Service forecasters said.

“Isaias is NOT expected to be ...Read more

The Trump administration is launching investigations into foreign exchange visa holders at nine top colleges including Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT, in its latest broadside against international students and scholars at elite schools.

The sweeping fraud probe is focused specifically on J-1 visa holders, who at universities ...Read more

The Trump administration said it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft Corp., alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system.

“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday during a briefing...Read more

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step into a lower court dispute over television advertising rates paid by political candidates and joint fundraising committees weeks before the midterm elections.

The application asked the justices to set aside a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th...Read more

NEW YORK -- As Mayor Zohran Mamdani launches universal childcare for 2-year-olds, with the ultimate goal of free care for all young children, what do New York City parents want for their toddlers and even infants?

The answer may not always be a formal daycare program, and seems to vary by geography, race and income, according to a new survey ...Read more

San Francisco Bay Area residents, living in the beating heart of the artificial intelligence boom, are just as conflicted about the technology as the rest of the country.

As OpenAI showed off its latest AI assistants in San Francisco last week, protesters outside — some dressed as killer robots —demanded it keep AI away from the military. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- This year's flu season started months early and in an unexpected part of the country, according to health officials.

The unusually early start to the season has prompted local health officials to urge people to get their flu shots as soon as possible.

In Los Angeles County, flu activity began rising in September, ahead of its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It didn’t look like much. Five red and yellow cloth sails, strung up between streetlights in Exposition Park, bridging the road between the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and the Coliseum. But it was 103 degrees outside, and thousands of people were on the move, headed for Saturday’s USC Homecoming game.

The sails created ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ prison release date has been pushed back by several weeks amid allegations he’d been living a pampered lifestyle behind bars.

The disgraced music mogul is now scheduled to be freed on March 2, 2028, according to Bureau of Prisons records cited by multiple media outlets.

Combs, who is currently behind ...Read more

In 2025, two scholars of religion decided to make a multiday pilgrimage along the Kumano Kodō trail – an ancient route in Japan connecting Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples – guided by an artificial intelligence assistant.

The two – Wayne E. Arnold and John A. Shultz – trained an AI companion on a smartphone to suit their ...Read more