Northeast Forecast
A look at weather conditions in the Northeast, updated twice each day.
A look at weather conditions in the Northeast, updated twice each day.
Relatives of two inmates who died in an aging maximum security prison in Wisconsin say they're stunned prosecutors haven't filed charges in those cases after bringing multiple counts against the warden and other prison employees in connection with two other prisoners' deaths. Four inmates have died at Waupun Correctional Institution over the last year. Authorities on Wednesday announced misconduct and abuse charges against Warden Randall Hepp and eight of his staff members in the deaths of two prisoners, Cameron Williams and Donald Maier.
Presidential elections in Ukraine were supposed to take place this spring, following Zelenskiy's five-year term of office. The constitution says the president serves until a newly elected one takes office.
The New York state Legislature on Friday passed a bill that would allow parents to block their kids from getting social media posts suggested by a platform's algorithm — a regulation that tries to curtail feeds that critics argue are addicting to children. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is expected to sign it into law. The move comes amid heightened concern about social media use among children and an ever-unfolding push to regulate tech platforms in different ways at the state and federal levels.
The U.N. secretary-general will list Israel and Hamas as violating the rights and protection of children in armed conflict in an upcoming annual report to the Security Council. The head of Secretary-General António Guterres' office, Courtenay Rattray, called Israel's U.N. Ambassador, Gilad Erdan, on Friday to inform him that Israel would be listed on the next report when it is sent to the council within a few weeks, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump presented himself as a champion for cryptocurrency and slammed Democrats' attempts to regulate the sector during a San Francisco fundraiser on Thursday, three sources present told Reuters. "He said he would be the crypto president," Trevor Traina, a San Francisco-based tech executive and former Trump ambassador to Austria, told Reuters.
Every parent knows how to find a piece of LEGO -- walk around barefoot.Detectives in Los Angeles said they began tracking LEGO thefts in December.
NEW YORK — Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, went into former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial besieged by death threats from extremists, reproval from political commentators for creating a national distraction (“Save the mug shots for Georgia, the handcuffs for Jan. 6,” wrote Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal) and criticism from legal analysts who saw the case as structurally unsound, too quixotic to proceed. The result nevertheless was a guilty verdict on all 34 coun
If Biden had his way, he might wave a wand and rapidly cool the hot labor market — because it would bring inflation down faster.
Local New York officials are taking issue with Bark Air, a carrier catering to canines. Here's why.
Beyonce ticket, a trip to Bali with billionaire Harlan Crow and big book advances were among the Supreme Court justices' financial disclosures released Friday.
Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged Friday additional luxury travel he had accepted from a conservative billionaire, amending a previous financial disclosure to reflect trips he had taken to an Indonesian island and a secretive all-male club in the Northern California redwoods. The trips, taken in 2019, were earlier revealed by ProPublica, but it is the first time Thomas has included them on his financial disclosures. Other Supreme Court justices chronicled their gifts, travel and money earned
New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average about 38 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2031 in real-world driving, up from about 29 mpg this year, under new federal rules unveiled Friday by the Biden administration. The final rule will increase fuel economy by 2% per year for model years 2027 to 2031 for passenger cars, while SUVs and other light trucks will increase by 2% per year for model years 2029 to 2031, according to requirements released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Administration officials said the less strict requirements will allow the auto industry flexibility to focus on electric vehicles, adding that higher gas-mileage requirements would have imposed significant costs on consumers without sufficient fuel savings to offset them.
Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Shellie Smith, who set an Oct. 31 trial date.
A temporary U.S. pier has been reattached to a beach in Gaza Friday, almost two weeks after high seas damaged it and forced suspension of aid deliveries.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute wants to arm the anti-abortion movement with science, but critics say its research is flawed.
Mosley was last seen on Wednesday afternoon when he went to take a solo walk on the Greek island of Symi.
Pollution from California wildfires killed more than 52,000 people in a decade, a new study claimed Friday, as the western United States girds for a hot summer that could bring more blazes.A study led by Rachel Connolly of the University of California Los Angeles found these tiny airborne pollutants -- known as PM2.5 because they are 2.5 micrometers or less -- are killing large numbers of people.
Four people were hospitalized after a small plane crashed in the front yard of a suburban Denver home on Friday, authorities said. It was not immediately known whether the injured people were passengers on the plane or bystanders in the neighborhood in Arvada, about 12 miles northwest of Denver, Arvada Fire operations chief Matt Osier said.
A jury convicted five Minnesota residents but acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million that was supposed to feed children during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel dismissed that juror before deliberations began, as well as another juror who was told about the bribe attempt. An FBI investigation of the attempted bribe continues, with no arrests announced.
Three American suspects in what the Congolese army called an attempted coup in Kinshasa last month committed acts "punishable by death", a court heard on Friday as their trial opened."These acts are punishable by death," the presiding judge of the Kinshasa-Gombe military court, Freddy Ehume, told the three in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital.