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The NYC Rent Guidelines Board approved a rent freeze for the city’s one million rent stabilized units on Thursday — in a major win for Mayor Mamdani.

The freeze marks the first complete fulfillment of one of Mamdani�...Read more

CHICAGO — Amid a projected deficit of over $700 million, Chicago Public Schools officials said they aim to have the district’s budget for the upcoming school year approved by the end of July, a month earlier than last ...Read more

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of an upcoming powerful artificial intelligence model, according to a person familiar with the matter, nearly two weeks after rival Anthropic PBC suspended ...Read more

BOSTON — Paying the bills is not a party, a new report reveals.

The Pioneer Institute says the Bay State is not as progressive as its political leadership makes it out to be when it comes to taxing lower-and middle-...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday after the first new-age nuclear reactor to switch on in more than 40 years did so at INL earlier this month.

In an ...Read more

Authorities have intercepted six watercraft that illegally attempted to launch on Lake Tahoe amid a campaign to keep golden mussels and other invasive species out of the iconic Sierra lake.

The boaters stopped this summer...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, local leaders and Haitian immigrants condemned a Supreme Court decision on Thursday allowing the Trump administration to end deportation protections under Temporary Protected ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is poised to nominate Adam Candeub, the general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, to take over as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, according to people familiar with...Read more

The Supreme Court’s decision to end temporary legal protections for Haitians and Syrians hit the state hard, with an outcry of “you cannot turn your back on us,” but was hailed by some for capping asylum seekers.

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Haitians across New York City are bracing for the possibility of mass deportations in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to remove thousands of longtime New Yorkers from the country. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES —The fire may be out, but Boyle Heights is now dealing with massive amounts of rotting meat and a foul smell as the cleanup phase from a weeklong fire at a massive cold-storage warehouse begins.

Outside the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A West Philadelphia man who was convicted last year of seeking to build bombs in support of Islamic extremist groups was sentenced Thursday to 20 to 40 months in prison and six years of probation.

Muhyyee...Read more

The largest verdict issued by a Philadelphia jury in recent years came out of a trial in which a man accused against agricultural giant Monsanto’s weedkiller, Roundup, of causing his blood cancer.

The jury awarded John ...Read more

Social media company Snap is being sued by the parents of a girl who was raped when she was 12 years old by a man she met on disappearing messaging app Snapchat.

The 111-page lawsuit, filed this week in a Missouri Circuit...Read more

More than half of the population struggles every day to find food. Nearly 1.5 million have been displaced by terrorizing gangs and hundreds have taken to the sea, just in the first six months of this year, only to be ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors moved to dismiss their rape case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after Jessica Mann — among the first women to come forward against the once-powerful Hollywood producer — said ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — Rescue workers and civilians scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble Thursday as Venezuela struggled to recover from a pair of earthquakes that toppled scores of buildings, leaving at least 188 ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A proposed 5% tax on billionaires will appear on Californians’ ballots this November after negotiations to sideline the measure failed.

That outcome is likely to drive hundreds of millions of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Days before Twin Cities Pride weekend, the Minneapolis City Council voted to repeal the city’s 38-year ban on gay bathhouses Thursday. But that doesn’t mean they can open tomorrow.

The issue now goes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California's two Democratic senators on Thursday criticized the Trump administration after it requested $87.6 billion from Congress to address some of the nation's most "urgent needs" but omitted funding for...Read more