NEW YORK — The transit union representing Central Park carriage-horse owners and drivers is suing the non-profit leading the charge to ban the industry, claiming a “pattern of malice” against its members.

The Transport Workers Union, which represents the roughly 200 owners and drivers who operate horse-drawn carriages in Central Park, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s idea of mailing $2,000 “dividend” payments from tariffs to U.S. citizens marks a throwback to the stimulus checks distributed during the COVID crisis, with similar economic risks.

After floating the idea of tariff dividend payouts for months, Trump on Sunday offered the specific amount of “at ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A judge declined to dismiss murder charges Monday against a driver accused of fatally hitting four Pepperdine University sorority sisters crossing Pacific Coast Highway with his car while speeding more than 100 mph two years ago.

Fraser Bohm, 24, is charged with four counts of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross ...Read more

Flight cancellations and delays in Tampa Bay and across the country ramped up over the weekend and are expected to increase again Tuesday as the federal shutdown enters its 41st day.

Dozens of flights were canceled or delayed at Tampa International Airport over the weekend, following an initial cut in flights on Friday by the Federal Aviation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump’s attempts to fire her in a legal filing Monday urging the Supreme Court to allow her to remain in office.

The filing on behalf of Shira Perlmutter argued that Trump cannot lawfully remove ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled late Sunday that the Trump administration can be forced to pay full food benefits in November, putting the onus on the Supreme Court to decide whether the administration can avoid paying benefits that feed more than 40 million people.

The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two people are dead after a small plane that was bound for Jamaica for Hurricane Melissa relief efforts crashed into a lake behind a home in a Coral Springs gated community on Monday morning, officials said.

The 1976 Beech B100 aircraft, an 11-seat, multi-engine plane, took off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport ...Read more

Health officials are warning parents to avoid an infant formula linked to a nationwide botulism outbreak.

As of Nov. 10, 13 babies across 10 states — including one in Los Angeles County — have been sickened by the bacterial spore after consuming ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula.

The cases were first identified by the California ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it will reverse two decades of precedent by removing “black box” warnings on hormone replacement therapy products for menopause, with the intent of increasing access to products to relieve common symptoms.

The warnings of negative long-term health effects from such therapy ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the Trump administration Monday for “doing everything to put America in reverse” and trying “to vandalize California’s leadership” on climate, warning that the country risks losing its competitive edge in the clean energy economy.

The remarks came during his trip to Brazil, where Newsom joined ...Read more

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be planning to ask the Trump administration to commute her 20-year prison sentence, according to a leaked email obtained by the House Judiciary Committee and viewed by the Miami Herald.

The email, written by Maxwell to one of her attorneys, came from a whistleblower at Camp Bryan, the women�...Read more

CHICAGO — The Trump administration on Monday asked an appeals court to immediately halt Judge Sara Ellis’ preliminary injunction restricting the use of force in “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying her order is “overbroad and unworkable” and usurps the executive branch’s power to enforce the nation’s laws.

In asking the 7th Circuit ...Read more

NEW YORK — A convicted New York City drug kingpin whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021 was hit with a new 27-month sentence Monday for a new wave of crimes — including sexually abusing his live-in nanny and menacing a hospital nurse.

Jonathan Braun, 42, of Long Island, who was sentenced in 2019 to 10 years for ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani unveiled his first two big City Hall hires Monday, tapping government expert Dean Fuleihan to be his top deputy and political confidant Elle Bisgaard-Church to serve as his chief of staff.

The appointments of Fuleihan, a 74-year-old alumni of the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 20 people who contributed to the push to overturn his loss in Michigan's 2020 election, providing a sign of support for allies who have faced investigations from state prosecutors.

Late Sunday night, Ed Martin, who is working as the Republican president's pardon attorney, posted a...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is rich with prehistoric artifacts and culture stemming from the Paleo-Indian people of the southwest United States.

Two years ago, four Denver musicians put that Indigenous history to use by recording a 12-piece album featuring lithophones, which are stones chiseled and ground down more than 6,000 years ago to create ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A young woman whose death on board the Carnival Horizon cruise ship is being investigated by the FBI was identified by her family as a Central Florida high school senior, according to a report from ABC News.

Anna Kepner, 18, who attended Titusville’s Temple Christian School in Brevard County, was due to graduate in May.

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DETROIT — Three Dearborn men accused of plotting a domestic terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State consented Monday to being detained in county jails while their federal criminal cases are pending.

Ayob Nasser, 19, his 20-year-old brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, 20, appeared Monday morning in federal court in Detroit for a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scrambling to develop a plan and message on still-high prices after the White House appeared caught off guard by how the affordability issue helped drive Republican losses last Tuesday.

Trump appeared defensive on the matter last week, blaming GOP candidates and lawmakers for talking too little about how...Read more