NEW YORK — Starting this off season, a portion of New York City’s ferry fleet will be temporarily reinvented as science classrooms on the waterways.

On Monday, NYC Ferry, the Economic Development Corporation, and an educational oyster-reef restoration nonprofit plan to announce the launch of the “Floating Classroom,” a 90-minute, twice ...Read more

CHICAGO — A top Justice Department official told a federal judge in Chicago on Monday that communications with local prosecutors about the controversial “Broadview Six” case are privileged and off-limits to her ongoing inquiry into alleged misconduct.

U.S. District Judge April Perry had set a deadline of 2 p.m. Monday for the U.S. ...Read more

Meghan Markle authorized “a source close to her” to let a British paper know she wants to help the FBI and other international authorities investigate her father, Thomas Markle, who was arrested in Florida ON Friday and charged with possession of child sexual abuse images he kept in two Los Angeles-area storage lockers.

This source ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered full-throated support for Pete Hegseth, signaling that the embattled defense secretary’s job was safe for now amid a congressional effort to impeach him for his conduct of the Iran war.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie introduced a measure on Monday to impeach Hegseth, roughly one week ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Bronze statues representing American veterans who fought for the United States throughout its 250-year history are ready to be seen in a different light.

While the 18 towering figures and their mammoth granite-wall backdrop have existed for over a decade, their new home in far northwest Las Vegas has not.

Workers on Monday ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take on a civil rights case filed by residents of Poppleton in West Baltimore who challenged the city’s eminent domain taking of homes under a 20-year-old, failed agreement with a developer.

The Poppleton Now Community Association and six residents filed the lawsuit in August 2024, alleging Baltimore�...Read more

After initially congratulating Democrats on their midterm wins, which he said he was "absolutely willing to accept," President Donald Trump posted a baseless missive to social media about not trusting early ballot totals or voting machines.

"Does anybody really believe that this 'Election' was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???" he ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu pitched zoning changes that she said will jump-start housing production by making it less costly for developers to build, but held firm on the core affordability requirements that critics have blamed for the slow-down.

Wu on Monday proposed four changes to the city’s inclusionary zoning policy that requires...Read more

WASHINGTON — The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee signaled three major banks with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein would be top investigative targets for the panel when his party takes control next year.

“We’ve got three Wall Street banks who if they had done nothing, nothing except follow the law ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy has sent the company’s stock plunging, become a focus of internal and government investigations, and is now threatening to reverberate across the AI industry.

Nvidia shares slid 4.3% on Monday, erasing nearly $200 billion in market valuation, after Huang...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A multiagency operation in Fort Worth that lasted more than two months led to the arrests of 141 people, the seizure of more than 60 kilograms of drugs and the recovery of 38 guns, officials said.

The charges faced by the suspects arrested during this operation include possession of a machine gun, escape from detention, ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A week after a Learjet 60 plummeted out of the sky and exploded in flames on a main road in Palm Beach County killing all nine people aboard, federal and local authorities have finished their on-site investigation, which included recovering pieces of the aircraft.

Shortly before 1 p.m. Nov. 1, the private business jet ...Read more

Fresh off becoming the first Democratic candidate to win a U.S. Senate seat from Kansas in nearly a century, Adam Hamilton is calling for his party to focus on improving the lives of Americans rather than further dividing the country with political games.

Otherwise, he fears Democrats will suffer a “one and done” blue wave.

Hamilton said ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state lawmaker is drafting a bill to potentially block New York’s participation in President Donald Trump’s Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program — seemingly against the wishes of Gov. Kathy Hochul.

State Sen. John Liu, D-Queens, chair of the New York City education committee, on Monday said he plans to introduce ...Read more

As President Donald Trump reflected on his second term this weekend, believing that his approach to immigration “both helped and hurt” the Republicans in the midterm elections, a University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor spent his 110th day in federal immigration custody.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested ...Read more

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a measure to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, roughly one week after the unpopular Iran war the Pentagon chief championed fueled a midterm defeat for President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

Massie launched his new bid to oust Hegseth as the House of Representatives resumed work ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal over a lawsuit brought by the mother of Ricky Cobb against the Minnesota state troopers involved in his shooting death more than three years ago on Interstate 94.

The decision brings finality to the extensive criminal and civil legal maneuvers against troopers Ryan Londregan and Brett ...Read more

BOSTON — Mass State Police has agreed to pay Karen Read $100,000 to settle her lawsuit against the state’s embattled agency.

Read — who was acquitted of killing her Boston cop boyfriend John O’Keefe — had sued Massachusetts State Police for negligent hiring, training and supervision of “biased and corrupt” police officers.

She ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man facing federal charges in what authorities have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history has agreed to plead guilty for his role in the crime.

Carlos Victor Mestanza Cercado was one of seven men charged with breaking into a Brinks big rig at a Grapevine truck stop and stealing around $100 million worth of gold, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A cruise ship employee was rescued off Santa Catalina Island early Saturday after spending more than nine hours in the water, authorities said.

A fishing vessel found the man, a crew member from Royal Caribbean Cruises' Ovation of the Seas, about nine nautical miles off Avalon Harbor, said Lt. Santiago Tamburini of the U.S. ...Read more