NEW YORK — The Blizzard of ’26 reached bomb cyclone status overnight Sunday into Monday, as tristate residents awoke to a foot of snow, with more coming down.

By 7 a.m. Monday, 15 inches had fallen in New York City’s Central Park and at both LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports. Islip, Long Island, had received 22.5 inches, and 18.3 ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office spent the weekend urging anti-abortion groups to protest the Republican lawmaker who accused him of crimes in the Hope Florida saga last year, according to multiple people and messages circulating in the faith community.

In an apparent bout of political payback, a spokesperson for...Read more

While Sarah Ferguson’s current whereabouts are officially unknown, she may have landed in the United Arab Emirates after reportedly spending the entire month of January luxuriating at a $17,000-a-night wellness clinic in Switzerland.

The Daily Mail reported that the former Duchess of York sought refuge at the Paracelsus Recovery Clinic in ...Read more

BOSTON — More than 289,000 Massachusetts residents were without power Monday, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency database.

Cape Cod has been hit the hardest, with adjacent Plymouth back as the coldest with 26,510 without power.

The MEMA outage database lists Barnstable and Falmouth next, with 20,000-plus in the dark ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Popular weight-loss drugs, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Trulicity and Mounjaro, produced by independent pharmacy labs, sickened some 8,000 or more Marylanders a year by 2024. The Food and Drug Administration announced this month that it will crack down on compounded versions of GLP-1 drugs, including the popular Hims and Hers brand. ...Read more

Jeffrey Epstein attempted to bring three women who were foreign nationals along with him for a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters in 2013, emails released by the U.S. Justice Department show, an effort that raised security concerns within the Elon Musk-run company.

The women, described in various emails as Epstein’s “assistants” or “girls,...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sought to quell fears Monday after mayhem erupted in 20 Mexican states over the killing of the world’s most wanted cartel kingpin: Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”

“The country is at peace,” Sheinbaum told reporters at her daily news conference in Mexico City...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is heading into the first State of the Union address of his second term fresh off his biggest second-term setback, and after a number of other stumbles that have some GOP allies beginning to push back.

The Supreme Court handed him a stinging defeat Friday when it knocked down most of his global tariffs, ...Read more

Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty Monday to murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, last year.

Deputy public defender Kimberly Greene entered the plea as Reiner, wearing a tan jumpsuit, stood behind glass in the custody area of the Los Angeles courtroom.

Reiner, 32, is charged with two counts of first-degree ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, during a brief hearing in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Monday morning.

Reiner is accused of fatally stabbing his 78-year-old father and 70-year-old mother sometime in the early morning hours of Dec. 14 at their Brentwood home, authorities have ...Read more

LONDON — United Kingdom police arrested Labour Party grandee Peter Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed they arrested a 72-year-old man in Camden on Monday who was then taken to a London police station for interview. “This follows search warrants at two addresses in the Wiltshire and ...Read more

The armed man who was shot dead at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort was focused on the Epstein files but also a Trump backer, according to reports.

Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old North Carolina man, had been reading the files released by the Justice Department on its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.

“I don’t know if ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is prohibited from releasing details about the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House in 2021, a federal judge ruled Monday.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida is another victory for Trump and a blow to ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sought to quell fears Monday after violence erupted in 20 Mexican states over the killing of the world’s most wanted cartel kingpin: Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.”

“The country is at peace,” Sheinbaum told reporters at her daily news conference in Mexico ...Read more

Long before he had a $15 million bounty on his head as the leader of Mexico's ruthless Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes was a scruffy-haired kid trying to eke out a living on the streets of San Francisco.

He crossed the border illegally sometime before he turned 20, making the migrant's journey north from the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner is scheduled to appear in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Monday morning to enter a plea in response to charges that he murdered his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.

Reiner is accused of fatally stabbing his 78-year-old father and 70-year-old mother sometime in the early morning hours of Dec. 14 at their Brentwood ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Border czar Tom Homan ended Operation Metro Surge without clear signs of the “significant” cooperation that he said was necessary to draw down thousands of federal agents.

There have been no widespread policy changes at the state or local level to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide on shielding energy producers from dozens of lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for costs of global climate change.

In the past decade, dozens of cities, counties and states, including California, have joined state-based lawsuits that seek billions of dollars in damages, and they have ...Read more

BOSTON — More than a quarter-million Massachusetts residents are without power this hour! That exact total is 275,202, according to the MEMA database.

Cape Cod is hit the hardest … and I’m hitting save as winds whip just outside my window.

The MEMA outage database now lists Falmouth as the worst in the state at 23,104 in the dark.

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BALTIMORE — An entire Eastern Shore town was without power Monday as widespread outages hit the region after a heavy snowstorm.

A Delmarva Power outage map showed nearly 1,000 outages Monday morning, affecting more than 6% of the utility’s 550,000 customers in Maryland and Delaware. Choptank Electric Cooperative reported nearly 27% of its ...Read more