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NEW YORK — The 100th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be a mix of new and old, including a huge hippopotamus balloon last seen 95 years ago.

NBC personality Al Roker is hosting the festivities for the 31st ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. is leaving his role as an adviser to Kalshi Inc., ending a role that has created political headaches for the prediction market platform.

The departure comes as Democrats take power in Congress with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled Vice President JD Vance away from negotiations with Iran, suggesting that the United States no longer needs to pursue a deal to end the Middle East conflict and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city Building Department conducted a sweeping inspection campaign of roughly 100 construction sites Thursday as it launched an investigation into what caused the deadly building collapse in Brooklyn gets ...Read more

The U.S. Postal Service is moving to raise and make permanent its fuel surcharge, which the agency introduced for the first time earlier this year.

The fuel surcharge will increase to 11% from 8% starting in January, the...Read more

CHAROTTE, N.C. — A far-right influencer pardoned by President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, filmed himself in Charlotte Douglas International Airport this week ranting against Muslim prayer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran and instructed Vice President JD Vance to focus on domestic issues rather than negotiations with Tehran.

The directive, posted on social...Read more

DENVER — A former Mesa County sheriff’s deputy who resigned last year after he was accused of illegally collaborating with federal immigration agents was later hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new human resources chief was accused during her time in the city’s procurement department of threatening staffers and interfering with attempts to correct employees who fell short ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis pardoned 27 people Thursday for relatively minor crimes as he nears the end of his time as Colorado’s governor.

Among those pardoned was Vanessa Peoples, who was featured in a 2021 Denver ...Read more

A virus linked to the deaths of about 220 fish at a Nevada County lake was detected in California for the first time, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

“This is a sobering discovery given how widely ...Read more

MIAMI — Dozens, and possibly hundreds, of inmates could now join a federal lawsuit alleging that extreme temperatures at Dade Correctional Institution, a state prison in South Miami-Dade, are putting them at “...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday agreed to delay by two weeks a potentially explosive hearing into prosecutorial misconduct in the now-defunct “Broadview Six” case.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and several ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mourners at a funeral for slain jogger Katie Suarez were encouraged Thursday to remember the Brooklyn bank teller for the upbeat and positive way she lived instead of the cruel and heartless way she died.

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NEW YORK — The City Council on Thursday passed a bill that would ban surveillance pricing in New York City, a tactic under which companies assess how much an individual consumer might pay.

Under surveillance pricing, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No one disputes that a Cypress High School teacher last year told a Muslim student of Palestinian descent: “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

School officials called it a mere joke, nothing ...Read more

DENVER — A combination of extreme fire behavior and human error contributed to the deaths of four firefighters who were overtaken by a wildfire on Colorado’s Western Slope this summer, according to the results of a ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, the preeminent face of the AI infrastructure boom, was ousted from his post after reports of three affairs, including one with a woman suspected of spying for China.

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The Ellison Medical Institute — a cancer research center funded by tech mogul Larry Ellison — will cut a chunk of its staff in a couple of months.

The Los Angeles-based research center, led by its founding chief ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Department of Food and Agriculture will conduct research on cyclospora following the national foodborne illness outbreak this summer.

The agency said it is using $250,000 of unused ...Read more