Iran said nuclear talks with the United States have progressed “very intensely and very seriously” as the two sides continued negotiations over a deal into the early evening in Switzerland.

With days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two countries started their third round of Omani-mediated ...Read more

CHICAGO — By Wednesday afternoon, the day before the first public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, long rows of barricades stretched throughout the parkway in the middle of Drexel Boulevard, where thousands are expected to gather Thursday and Friday to honor one of America’s most enduring civil rights leaders.

More than a week of ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis – U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New...Read more

NEW YORK — A pair of social media trolls — including one who sports a “Make America Great Again” red hat — have been arrested for trying to light a Black woman’s boots on fire during a clash on a Manhattan street filled with racist insults, police said Thursday.

The duo, known online as “ScrubsNYC,” were nabbed late Wednesday, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal Department of Homeland Security agents made“misrepresentations” to enter a Columbia University residence early Thursday morning and detained a student, Acting President Claire Shipman said.

“This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential...Read more

Nalin Haley, the son of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, on Wednesday announced the launch of a new Republican organization aimed at engaging young conservatives across three South Carolina counties.

In a post on X, Haley said he is serving as founder and chair of the Tri-County Young Republicans, a group organized in York, Lancaster and...Read more

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is slated to meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon in the White House with housing reportedly on the agenda, sources confirmed to the Daily News.

The mayor traveled to Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning. The D.C. meeting, and the mayor’s travel, was not advised and did not appear on his public...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton was set to give closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state will give a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in ...Read more

At least two of the men involved in a recent shootout with the Cuban coast guard off the country’s coast are on Cuba’s wanted list for terrorism.

Amijail Sánchez González, 47, and Leordan Enrique Cruz Gómez, 47, were two of the people on board a Florida-registered speedboat involved in a deadly clash with Cuba’s coast guard off the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman who was mauled by a dog at a Los Angeles city animal shelter has been awarded $5.4 million by a jury.

Genice Horta, 51, said that neither the shelter nor the rescue group she worked for told her the dog, a Belgian Malinois named Maximus, had bitten a teenager and a shelter employee, sending both to the hospital.

After ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the wake of Winter Storm Fern, some Central Kentucky residents say they’re seeing high utility bills they either can’t afford or which caught them off guard.

Among them is Emma Moore, a Kentucky Utilities customer. When Moore recently opened her bill, mailed Feb. 10, she was astonished by what she was being charged for...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Faculty at Florida’s colleges and universities may soon be able to carry guns on campus as part of state lawmakers’ planned expansion of the school guardian program.

Lawmakers first created the program after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in which a gunman killed 17 people, including ...Read more

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called an early election for March 24, betting a popularity boost from a standoff with Donald Trump over Greenland will help secure her another term in office.

The move comes after the U.S. president revived claims over the Arctic territory in early January, causing a diplomatic rift with Europe. The...Read more

NEW YOKR — A suspect has been arrested for the giant snowball fight in Washington Square Park that left two cops hurt — an incident Mayor Zohran Mamdani said should not result in criminal charges, angering NYPD officials.

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was nabbed by police early Thursday after he was identified as one of four men shown in social ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran started a third round of nuclear talks on Thursday with days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline for a deal.

The two parties have been locked in a tense, months-long standoff over the Islamic Republic’s atomic activities and are negotiating through mediator Oman at its embassy in Geneva, the semi-official Iranian...Read more

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb. 24, 2026, doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. He asserted that “the cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant.”

These pronouncements follow the January 2026 FBI seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, ...Read more

I’ve been living in Minneapolis and working on my doctoral dissertation about local religious communities since 2019.

It’s given me a chance to personally witness how the COVID-19 pandemic, the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by police officers, and the surge in federal law enforcement presence have fostered grassroots ...Read more

Of Jesus’ 12 disciples, Saint Peter is one of the most important. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus declares that Peter is the “rock” on which “I will build my church,” and Catholic tradition considers him the first pope. Martyred in Rome in the first century, Peter asked to be crucified upside down so that he would not die in the same ...Read more

In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen.

Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through geological reactions that occur normally within the Earth’s crust, meaning it costs nothing to make – though it costs some amount ...Read more