Delays and cancellations continued to plague LaGuardia Airport Wednesday, nearly three days after the fatal crash between an Air Canada jet and a rescue truck.

More than 300 flights into and out of the airport were canceled on Wednesday and more than 250 flights were delayed, according to information compiled by website FlightAware.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended his about-face on New York City’s costly rental voucher program on Wednesday, arguing the city’s dire financial situation makes it impossible to expand the program as he’d planned.

The mayor’s administration late Tuesday moved to prolong a legal fight over the taxpayer-funded program, CityFHEPS, appealing a...Read more

The number of noncitizens who were transferred from San Diego County jails into the custody of federal immigration agents last year nearly tripled, largely because federal authorities ramped up their use of judicial warrants in the face of the state’s stringent laws limiting cooperation on immigration enforcement.

Last year, 83 people were ...Read more

The U.S. Postal Service plans to raise prices to offset rising transportation expenses including the cost of fuel, a sign that the beleaguered mail carrier is feeling the strain of higher oil prices as the war in Iran continues.

The USPS will increase prices by 8% on some packages until mid-January of next year, the USPS said in a statement ...Read more

A Venezuelan man who vanished into the U.S. immigration system last year only to reemerge in one of Central America’s most notorious prisons has turned to the courts, accusing the U.S. government of deliberately abusing its power and violating his rights.

On Tuesday, Neiyerver Adrián León Rengel, a 28‑year‑old Venezuelan who spent four ...Read more

Citing a rash of wildfires in recent years, New Jersey officials on Wednesday opened the state's first fire tower in 78 years.

The increase in fires, they say, is attributed at least in part to climate change.

The new structure in Ocean County, known as Veterans Tower, becomes part of a statewide network of 21 fire towers.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has offered Iran a 15-point ceasefire plan aimed at temporarily halting the war in the Middle East, as the Pentagon simultaneously orders thousands of Marines, paratroopers and a warship to the region.

The plan presented to Iranian leadership Tuesday broadly included a 30-day ceasefire and sanctions ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are examining what a potential spike in oil prices as high as $200 a barrel would mean for the economy, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign senior officials are studying the possible fallout from extreme scenarios for the Iran war.

Modeling of how damaging a bigger jump in oil ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House insisted that peace talks with Iran are ongoing, even as Tehran publicly rejected U.S. overtures and issued fresh conditions of its own to end the conflict that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

President Donald Trump insisted Iran was desperate to make a deal to end the nearly month-...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer for ICE provided false information to federal prosecutors to justify seizing thousands of people seeking asylum and lawful immigration status in the United States at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan and other immigration courts, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

The extraordinary revelation was included in filings...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The AI data center rush already has reached the nation’s driest state in a major way, but lawmakers are just now catching up on considering statewide regulations.

Nevada’s interim committees on natural resources and growth and infrastructure held a wide-reaching meeting Wednesday, when industry representatives, utility heads, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to miss a deadline to name a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leaving the public health agency without a leader and adding to its leadership turmoil.

The administration will not nominate a director Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House insisted that peace talks with Iran are ongoing, even as Tehran publicly rejected U.S. overtures and issued fresh conditions of its own to end the conflict that has wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

“The United States has been engaged over the last three days in productive conversations,�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will hold their highly anticipated summit in Beijing on May 14-15, following a delay that brought fresh uncertainty to relations between the world’s largest economies.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the rescheduled dates on Wednesday and said that Xi ...Read more

Sen. Cory Booker writes in his new book "Stand" that he experimented with caffeine pills a couple of days prior to his 25-hour record-breaking Senate floor speech before deciding to rely on his adrenaline instead.

The New Jersey Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, an avid coffee drinker, decided to forgo all beverages before and...Read more

WASHINGTON — The EPA announced Wednesday it will issue an emergency waiver allowing the nationwide sale of gasoline containing a higher percentage of ethanol as legislation that would allow the same remains stalled in Congress.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin issued the waiver that will allow sales of gasoline containing up to 15 percent ethanol...Read more

A Kentucky bill to criminalize harassing or obstructing the work of a first responder, including police, EMTs, federal immigration agents and firefighters, took another step toward becoming law Wednesday.

Senate Bill 104, known as the Halo Act, passed the state House of Representatives 79-16 March 25, with three Democrats joining Republicans in...Read more

For the first time in its history, the Minnesota Senate will allow senators and staff to bring their children on the floor following calls from women on both sides of the aisle to make the chamber more welcoming to parents.

Senators voted 41-25 on Wednesday to make the change after Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten, DFL-St. Paul, was escorted off the ...Read more

The Maryland House Government, Labor and Elections Committee quietly, and unanimously, approved an amendment adding redistricting language to a Senate elections bill — a move Republicans warned could provoke pushback on the House floor and also drew concern from voting rights advocates.

The amendment, introduced by Frederick County Del. Kris ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it harder for music and movie makers to sue for online piracy, ruling that internet providers are usually not liable for copyright infringement even if they know their users are downloading copyrighted works.

In a 9-0 decision, the justices threw out Sony's lawsuit and a $1-billion jury verdict...Read more