Even as the selection of a career agent, Christopher G. Raia, leaves an unusual three-person leadership structure in place, it returns a career agent to the No. 2 post.
Christopher G. Raia was a Coast Guard officer before he joined the F.B.I. As an agent, he spent much of his career in Texas, rising through the ranks from investigating violent crime to managing counterterrorism work.
Family members awaiting the release of prisoners outside El Helicoide, a notorious prison in the center of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, on Thursday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not call the shootings justified, but said New York Police officers were placed in “incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances.”
On Friday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani repeated plans for a new agency that would respond to mental health crises in the wake of two fatal shootings by the police.
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
The president continued to advance an imperialist vision of American foreign policy, where the U.S. can dominate neighboring countries “whether they like it or not.”
Summit Properties USA won an auction on Friday to buy more than 5,000 apartments out of bankruptcy from the Pinnacle Group despite City Hall’s efforts to intervene.
The Union of Pinnacle Tenants protested Summit Properties USA’s effort to buy Pinnacle Group properties on Thursday. Both companies appear to have many reported housing violations.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators hurled threats at each other outside an event promoting real estate sales in Jerusalem. The mayor said those actions had “no place in our city.”
The protesters squared off on Thursday night across police barricades in front of a synagogue in Kew Gardens Hills, a neighborhood with a sizable population of Orthodox Jews.
Protests have rocked Iran in recent weeks, and the country’s supreme leader has threatened to escalate a crackdown on demonstrators. Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, discusses what’s fueling the protests with our senior writer Katrin Bennhold.
Investigators recovered what was believed to be more than “100 full or partial sets of human and skeletal remains” from the man’s home and storage unit in Lancaster County, the district attorney said.
As economists pointed to some of the president’s policies to explain the latest Labor Department data, White House aides sought to make the case for optimism in the new year.
The vote to open a war powers debate, a pair of attempted veto overrides and a split on health care suggested a greater appetite among Republicans to challenge the president.
A nuclear-capable missile fired into Ukraine near Poland sent a message to Europe days after its leaders agreed to postwar security guarantees, Russian analysts said.
The social media platform says it was pressured into licensing agreements for songs “at inflated rates.” In 2023, publishers sued the company for copyright violations.
Starting in 2021, Twitter, now known as X, had been exploring licensing deals with the major music conglomerates, but those talks stalled once Elon Musk took the platform over.
A delegation from the Southern Transitional Council in Riyadh announced its dissolution, but members abroad rejected the news amid fears it was not voluntary.
Soldiers on Thursday in Aden, Yemen, outside the headquarters of the Southern Transitional Council, a separatist group that has sought to create an independent state in Yemen’s south.
New federal guidelines, which emphasize protein, meat and milk, were informed by a panel of experts with several ties to the meat and dairy industries.
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