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LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California called off an appearance from director Jon M. Chu and other commencement honorees in the wake of growing controversy over its decision to cancel valedictorian Asna ...Read more

NEW YORK — Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. says an illegal form of short selling might be behind the battering of its stock and it’s asking regulators at Nasdaq Inc. to step in.

The company backing former ...Read more

NEW YORK — State lawmakers late Friday were poised to hand a victory to Mayor Eric Adams as they agreed to extend his control of the New York City public schools by two years, with some adjustments to how the nation’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California called off an appearance from director Jon. M Chu and other honorees at commencement in the wake of the university’s decision to cancel valedictorian Asna Tabassum’...Read more

NEW YORK — The action-packed first week of Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial ended Friday with 12 seated jurors and six alternates locked in — and a fourth failed bid by the former president to sabotage it, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Defiant students at Columbia University continued Friday to protest the war in Gaza as some Jewish students, citing ongoing tension on campus, requested permission to study remotely.

The Jewish students said ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Florida man set himself on fire in a city park across from Manhattan Criminal Court where former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial was being held Friday to draw attention to an array of conspiracy ...Read more

New York City will no longer be home to the tallest building in North America if a plan freshly approved by Oklahoma City officials stays on course.

However, some residents near the site of the proposed Legends Tower have...Read more

DENVER — Twenty-five years ago, Michelle DiManna sat in the math office at Columbine High School grading papers and talking to a colleague when she heard students screaming in terror.

Two heavily armed shooters had ...Read more

A Proud Boys leader from Millersville, Maryland, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison Friday for his role in the attacks on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The punishment was the largest rendered against a ...Read more

Rudolph Giuliani’s creditors expanded their probe into the former New York mayor’s finances, filing more than a dozen subpoenas in his bankruptcy case on Friday.

The formal requests, filed Friday in the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — Rapper Kodak Black will face nothing more than a parking ticket in one case after a Broward judge dismissed the second and last criminal charge against him Wednesday in a case stemming from police finding a ...Read more

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey this week accused Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas of offering an “open invitation for illegal aliens to come to Missouri.”

The Republican attorney general ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Protests over the Gaza war that snarled San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland for hours Monday inflamed tempers, led to dozens of arrests and drew a finger-wagging from Gov...Read more

The man who set himself on fire Friday outside the New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial was described by police as a “conspiracy theorist.”

Maxwell Azzarello, 37, of St. Augustine, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some senators are pushing to make changes to a House-passed bill that would extend a powerful surveillance authority for two years as differences persist over what privacy protections should be included to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Rules Committee approved a rule late Thursday for consideration of a $95.3 billion foreign aid package in a rare bipartisan vote that signaled solid support for the measure despite considerable GOP...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department responded to three separate alarms at GardaWorld’s Sylmar cash storage facility on the day that thieves stole as much $30 million from its vault during the biggest heist ...Read more

Budget cuts and financial woes forced San Francisco to cancel its annual 420 celebration at Golden Gate Park this year, but a self-described psychedelic church says it will step in to help support the thousands of people ...Read more