NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch vowed Wednesday that the NYPD will do everything in its power to make sure Jewish New Yorkers can celebrate Rosh Hashanah safely as the city faces an uptick in antisemitic hate crimes.

“I want to speak directly to our Jewish New Yorkers now,” Mamdani said at a press conference...Read more

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is calling for attacks on his client’s ex-husband to stop.

Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington is disappointed that a jury couldn’t agree on a verdict to find his client not guilty by reason of mental illness following a six-week trial where evidence argued the mother of three was experiencing a mental health crisis ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — To begin to understand how a "super" El Niño winter could punish the Southern California coast, the historic wooden boardwalk on the Long Beach Peninsula may just offer a glimpse at what's to come.

Days of intense waves fueled by Hurricane Marie far away in the Pacific left several sections of the boardwalk completely destroyed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Punishingly hot temperatures coupled with drastically high humidity will peak Wednesday, making temperatures feel even more intense than previously blistering days, with real relief not expected to arrive until Friday.

Public health officials warn that the unusually high temperatures and humidity raise the risk of heat-related ...Read more

The Trump administration Wednesday unveiled proposed new rules for the census that would order the national count to exclude undocumented immigrants and not ask about race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

The proposals, which would likely face fierce objections and legal challenges, aims to reshape the once-a-decade count of people living in ...Read more

Bystanders who were injured when police allowed an 11-year-old to operate a golf cart while they simulated drunken driving conditions have sued the city of Wildwood, New Jersey, and its Police Department.

The incident took place on Aug. 6, 2024, during National Night Out, with police Officer Jonathan Goraj in the passenger seat of the golf cart...Read more

WASHINGTON — Thousands of longtime immigrants from El Salvador and their loved ones are anxiously awaiting word from the Trump administration about whether they will face the possibility of deportation if their temporary legal protections expire as scheduled Wednesday.

The Department of Homeland Security has not yet announced whether it will ...Read more

Iran is ready for a more intense war and will escalate counterstrikes if the United States continues attacking its territory and infrastructure, according to a senior official from the Islamic Republic.

Tehran has no intention of backing down in the face of an American naval blockade and attacks on its oil tankers, said the official, who asked ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A former volunteer involved in the farmworker movement is alleging union leader Cesar Chavez raped her in the 1970s while she lived with her family on the Unifed Farms Workers compound, according to a new lawsuit.

The lawsuit filed Sept. 1 in Kern County Superior Court against the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the UFW ...Read more

MIAMI — The pilots of the Amazon Prime plane that crashed at Miami International Airport Sunday may have been trying to go airborne again as they struggled to regain control of the Boeing 767 jet before it overshot the runway and killed five people, federal investigators said.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators reviewed the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Prosecutors told a federal jury Wednesday a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent used his badge and his gun to burst into hotel rooms and rob and rape four Chinese sex workers in a series of brazen attacks in 2022 that turned his duty to serve and protect on its head.

But a lawyer for Luis Uribe said in his opening statement ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court wants Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to explain himself.

Chief Justice W. Brent Powell late Tuesday ordered Hoskins, a Republican, to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for ordering local election officials to use a gerrymandered congressional map that ...Read more

MIAMI — After a cargo plane overshot a runway and killed five people outside Miami International Airport, members of the county board overseeing that facility are considering whether to spend big on a potential safety upgrade.

Some airports employ collapsible surfaces to slow or stop a plane that overshoots a runway — though that’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The city of Malibu declared a local emergency and issued evacuation orders for 31 homes after a massive and expanding sinkhole opened up in the driveway of Nicolas Cage’s oceanfront residence.

The Los Angeles County Fire and Sheriff’s departments responded to the sinkhole at a home on the 31600 block of Sea Level Drive ...Read more

President Donald Trump gave $45,000 cash as Christmas gifts last year to his assistant Natalie Harp, as well as two other female aides, financial disclosure documents revealed.

The president doled out the large bonus to Harp, who has raised eyebrows for her ubiquitous presence by his side, and the same amount to communications adviser Margo ...Read more

Acting wasn’t always the goal for Rob Riggle while he was at Shawnee Mission South and then the University of Kansas.

Hoping to be a naval aviator, Riggle joined the Marines at age 19 while in Lawrence. But he later decided to take a leap into show business and started working two jobs. During the day, Riggle was on active duty with the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Astronaut Victor Glover, a Southern California native who piloted NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon this year, is stepping back from the space agency.

He began a full-time leadership position at his alma mater, Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, on Sept. 1, according to a news release from the university.

As the only pilot to...Read more