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New York City’s carriage horse industry is shutting down Friday in response to the death of an 18-year-old tourist, killed after a driverless horse bolted in Central Park, a rep for the union representing the industry ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore’s four controversial Confederate monuments, which were removed in the dead of night nearly nine years ago by former Mayor Catherine Pugh, have reentered Charm City as quietly as they left.

But no...Read more

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the United States will kick off a six-month review of its military presence in Europe as leaders in the region brace for a plan for deep cuts to American support for the continent.

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MIAMI — Adam Arenas’ Doral neighborhood was calm and quiet just a few days go. All it took was one flash of lightning to change that.

Suddenly, Miami seemed to be on fire.

One brush fire from the summer storm then ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration sued Philadelphia and some of its top officials Thursday over a new ordinance that bars law enforcement officers from concealing their identities and effectively ...Read more

The Trump administration is dropping near-term plans to dismantle a $386 million federal ocean-observing system after encountering resistance from scientists and Congress.

The National Science Foundation said Thursday it...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge on Thursday cleared a path for residents to access medication abortion, a key decision more than 18 months after voters legalized abortion access.

The 20-page ruling from Jackson ...Read more

BOSTON — Off-sides!

Gov. Maura Healey has apologized for the confusion she sparked when she signed an executive order making haggis legal in Massachusetts, which she said was entirely a “joke.”

Haggis has been ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione on Thursday withdrew a notice regarding an affirmative psychiatric defense in his state homicide case, a day after a Manhattan judge ordered them to share his mental health records ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security is backing away from a controversial plan to turn empty warehouses into immigration detention centers and will keep relying largely on existing jails run by private contractors and state...Read more

U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., are urging U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to provide emergency funding to the state to combat the threat of the glassy-winged sharpshooter. The ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As Duke Life Flight crews worked to save lives this April, someone on the ground below worked to distract them.

Just before 10 p.m. April 14, the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office got a call from the ...Read more

Actor Timothy Busfield’s defense team is asking a New Mexico court to throw out the indictment against its client that was handed down in February.

The Emmy Award winner is charged with four counts of criminal sexual ...Read more

DENVER — A Canada-bound flight aborted takeoff at Denver International Airport on Thursday afternoon after the flight crew declared an emergency following an “incident” and evacuated passengers onto the runway, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Yolo County judge on Thursday denied bail to one defendant charged in the deadly Esparto fireworks explosion and ruled one of his seven co-defendants must hire his own attorney after determining he...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is investigating the Central Park carriage horse crash that killed an 18-year-old tourist, officials confirmed Thursday.

Cops from the Central Park Precinct are looking into the crash and have ...Read more

Florida could soon ban undocumented students from enrolling in state universities and colleges, moves that would make it the fourth state and by far the largest to shut these immigrants out of at least some publicly ...Read more

The largest wind energy project in U.S. history is now online, delivering power from a massive array in New Mexico to Arizona and California — and signaling a new era for sending clean electricity across the West.

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