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FBI Director Kash Patel applauded Mexican authorities Tuesday for the arrest and handover of one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” suspects, an alleged gang leader from El Salvador. Francisco Javier Román Bardales is allegedly a senior leader of the Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 gang. He was arrested Monday in the mountains of the Gulf coast state o...

Here is a state-by-state breakdown of the 68 colleges in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.

We officially usher in the start of spring Thursday morning. And it doesn’t take long for the showers to follow. We’re looking ahead to a soggy Thursday evening followed by a dip in temperatures as we move through the first days of spring. A southeast wind keeps the start of Thursday gray. Low-hanging clouds will reduce visibility during the......

Authorities are investigating after a woman was found dead near some train tracks in Paterson. Officers responding to a call of shots fired near 27th Street and 19th Avenue around 3 a.m. Wednesday found the woman with a gunshot wound. She has not been identified. It wasn’t clear where she was shot. The woman was pronounced dead at the......

Tina Fey is no stranger to news and media connected with Rockefeller Center, whether playing writer Liz Lemon on “30 Rock” or co-hosting “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live,” where she also worked as the popular late night show’s head writer. It turns out, Fey is a fan of the news in real life too, and...

A Columbia University student activist who was detained by the U.S. government over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations has the right to challenge the legality of his detention, but the case should be heard in New Jersey, rather than in New York or Louisiana, a judge ruled Wednesday. Mahmoud Khalil, 30, a legal U.S. resident with no...

U.S. stocks are drifting higher Wednesday as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve will say in the afternoon about where interest rates may be heading. The S&P 500 was up 0.3% in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 129 points, or 0.3%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% high...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday. MetroCards have been around since 1994, but now seem destined to go the way of the subway token, which stopped bein...

As NBC Connecticut continues to dig into the case of a man who claims he was held captive by his stepmother inside a Waterbury home for 20 years, we’re hearing from former classmates of the victim who are sharing their memories of him. Louis Collette remembers asking about the man, then a young student at the now-closed Barnard Elementary School......

The dissident writer testified for more than two hours at the trial of two men charged with trying to kidnap and kill her in 2022. Prosecutors say the murder plot was orchestrated from Iran to stop her from speaking out about human rights abuses in her home country.

According to the company, they were first notified in February of a cat who contracted bird flu and recovered in Colorado after eating Savage Pet food. Testing by Colorado State University using PCR testing found results “non-negative” and were sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa for additional testing. Sav...

A New York City man was sentenced to life in prison after requesting nude photos from a New Jersey teen and having sex with her in a Jersey Shore hotel room.

Jury selection began Tuesday in the bribery trial of Nadine Menendez, whose husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was sentenced to 11 years in prison earlier this year for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold and cash. Nadine Menendez, 58, was originally scheduled to face trial last year with the 71-year-old Democrat, but a br...