A suspect has been arrested and charged with planting twin pipe bombs outside the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the two major parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, officials said Thursday.

The arrest marks a stunning breakthrough in the puzzling, long-unsolved case that occurred alongside the violent riot by thousands...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s brother called Zohran Mamdani an “enemy” of the Jewish people during a private charity dinner Wednesday night — a slam that comes on the heels of the incoming mayor’s decision to retain Tisch as the city’s top cop, two sources with direct knowledge of the comment told the Daily News.

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A judge on Wednesday denied a pair of motions filed by a former Eastern Kentucky sheriff accused of killing a district judge last year.

Special Judge Christopher T. Cohron declined to dismiss a murder indictment against Shawn Stines, 44, who was captured on video shooting and killing Judge Kevin Mullins on Sept. 19, 2024, inside the judge’s ...Read more

ATLANTA — Catching hepatitis B is wildly more dangerous for babies than adults.

Most adults quickly recover and become immune. But about 90% of newborns with hepatitis B develop a long-haul version of the disease, then are at higher risk of liver cancer or cirrhosis.

Eventually, it kills about one in four people who were infected as newborns...Read more

NEW YORK —The city government’s corruption watchdog is still investigating Mayor Eric Adams over potential violations of local law in connection with his federal indictment — and has secured permission to obtain evidence that the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office used to bring the since-dismissed charges against him.

The ongoing probe by...Read more

The Johnston County district attorney told a judge Thursday he will seek the death penalty for a Zebulon man accused of killing four of his children.

Wellington Dickens III, 29, was arrested at his Springtooth Drive home Oct. 27 after he called 911 and told dispatchers he’d killed four of his children.

Officers found the bodies of 6-year-old...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the economy emerges as a likely defining issue in next year's midterm elections, President Donald Trump has wrestled with Americans' rising cost of living, declaring himself the "affordability president," then soon dismissing the issue as something that "does not mean anything to anybody."

At two White House events this week, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor in Carson City, Nev., that did not actually happen.

The ShakeAlert blared on both the MyShake app and the Wireless Emergency Alert system — similar to an Amber ...Read more

The Trump administration’s threat to withhold money that Democratic-run states use to administer the SNAP food aid program unless officials release personal information about individual recipients puts 2 million people in Pennsylvania and more than 800,000 in New Jersey at risk of food insecurity.

On Wednesday, New Jersey Attorney General ...Read more

A Georgia supplier of law-enforcement uniforms was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday after he was found guilty in Miami federal court of conspiring with a former South Florida banker to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to the ex-head of a Honduran government agency to secure a $10 million contract.

Carl Alan Zaglin, 70...Read more

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is expressing “deep concern” over a wave of U.S. air and naval strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific that have killed more than 80 people since early September, as the first formal complaint tied to one of those attacks lands before the organization.

Earlier this week, the family of a...Read more

ATLANTA – A federal judge on Wednesday considered whether to dismiss a lawsuit challenging provisions of a 2024 state elections law that changed where homeless voters could receive election mail and strengthened the ability of activists to challenge the eligibility of voters.

The consolidated suit seeks to overturn that voter eligibility ...Read more

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — During next year’s legislative session, the Kentucky Republican supermajority will craft a budget aimed at incentivizing housing and supporting public education. Policy will closely follow recommendations from experts who testified in Frankfort during the summer months on health, artificial intelligence, aviation and more, ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi for his first state visit to India since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, showcasing warming ties that have angered the U.S. and led to hefty trade tariffs.

Putin was welcomed at the airport by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who embraced the Russian leader after he disembarked from his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Local officials are warning that more than 14,500 L.A. County formerly homeless households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced back onto the streets or into shelters over the next year, mostly because of a loss of federal funding.

The predicted displacement would wipe away the slight reduction in the local homeless ...Read more