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A Republican backlash to the speaker’s plan to temporarily fund the government has sparked new talk of ousting him, and highlighted the challenges he will face if he manages to keep his job.

Commissioner Jessica Tisch is replacing the Police Department’s head of communications, who had clashed with reporters, and sending many officers back to patrol.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who resigned as the mayor’s chief adviser, was charged in a bribery scheme involving $100,000 for a new Porsche for her son.

The panel overruled the trial judge, who had allowed Fani T. Willis to keep the case despite a romantic relationship that defendants said created a conflict of interest.

The ban runs through Jan. 17 and precludes most drone flights in airspace near 22 communities, including the cities of Camden, Elizabeth and Jersey City.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s denunciation of a bipartisan spending bill all but buried that deal while leaving unclear what form a new agreement could take.

Luigi Mangione, who is currently jailed in Pennsylvania, was charged in New York this week with first-degree murder in what prosecutors said was part of an “act of terrorism.”

President-elect Donald J. Trump has never been shy about his desire to see his enemies punished. But he often shows a measure of caution about taking credit for potential prosecutions himself.

Nima Momeni, 40, was convicted by a San Francisco jury in the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, a well-known tech executive.

The nature of the potential charges against Luigi Mangione was unclear, but they could allow federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

Mandates in the annual appropriations act, passed on Wednesday, call for the Pentagon to track and mitigate risks to troops’ brains from firing their own weapons.

At least 10 candidates are vying for attention, including two members of Congress, two mayors, a far-right radio host and a former state senator known as “Ed the Trucker.”

Still stinging from the election, President Biden is pushing for his final priorities but has absented himself from the national conversation about Donald Trump after warning repeatedly that he was a threat to American democracy.

But mass shootings remain a rare occurrence. Only a small fraction of the nation’s nearly 130,000 schools report gun incidents each year.

A businessman in the Bronx falsified information on thousands of returns, committing one of the largest tax frauds in Department of Justice history, prosecutors said.

Officials in Wisconsin gave little new information on Tuesday about a shooting that left a student and a teacher dead and six others injured.

The president-elect’s latest attempt to overturn his Manhattan conviction was rebuffed by the judge overseeing the case, who called it “mere hearsay and conjecture.”

Undocumented immigrants whose children or spouses are U.S. citizens are feeling particularly vulnerable to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threats to push them out.

The man whom authorities call a serial killer was charged with second-degree murder in the case of Valerie Mack, who disappeared in 2000.

The Commerce Department is banning the few remaining operations of China Telecom in the United States, a move that appears unlikely to deter Beijing from conducting sophisticated cyberoperations.

The police in Wisconsin are working to establish a motive for the attack, which left a student and teacher dead and six others injured.

The defendant, Rex Heuermann, is due in court Tuesday. Investigators have been trying to tie him to other unsolved killings on Long Island.

Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue. Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board voted to withhold as much as $4.3 million in matching funds from Mayor Eric Adams, hampering his re-election bid.

He built Mississippi’s Republican Party into a conservative powerhouse, making himself a regional power broker in the process.

Unable to find effective treatments at home, veterans with brain-injury symptoms are going abroad for plant-based psychedelics like ibogaine that are illegal in the U.S.

The conviction is considered one of the first of its kind since Congress required the military to change how its legal system addresses sexual assault and harassment.

After criticism from Jewish groups over speeches at a conference, the president of the National Association of Independent Schools said future addresses would be vetted.

Prosecutors in the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, have been presenting evidence at least in part focused on the aide, Ingrid Lewis-Martin.

Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado has begun to carve out his own political path, potentially putting him on a collision course with his boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul.

A combative loyalist and the president-elect’s former ambassador to Germany, Mr. Grenell had hoped to be secretary of state.

Mr. Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor aboard the U.S.S. Curtiss when Japanese forces attacked. He had recently canceled a trip to Hawaii for the 83rd anniversary of the bombing.

President-elect Donald J. Trump made a public show of support for his choice to lead the Defense Department.

Less than two weeks after a tsunami warning, residents were jolted awake before 6 a.m. to consider a new potential disaster scenario.

In the Garden State, where the rash of sightings started a month ago, residents are looking to the skies, wondering why they still don’t have definitive answers from officials.

We want to hear how you imagine the next four years will unfold for you and your loved ones.

Even though Kamala Harris easily won the state, voters ousted more than two dozen Democratic legislators, who they felt had not addressed an affordability crisis.

In Rochester, N.Y., every year in early December thousands of crows descend on the city, which tries to shoo them away with loud noises and bright lights.

At his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, the president-elect has been hosting diplomatic dinners, announcing cabinet picks and firing off texts to his aides — all after the sun goes down.

The lawsuit appeared to be among the first attempts to stop doctors from mailing the medication to states that ban abortions.

Donald J. Trump’s pick to be the next F.B.I. director has both exaggerated his importance in the government’s criminal inquiry into the 2012 attack and misleadingly distorted its conduct and results.

Weeks ago, Jessica Tisch was in charge of street sweeping and trash pickup. On Monday, she found herself overseeing a ferocious manhunt as the head of the Police Department.

Some leaders have begun to put a sunnier spin on the November outcome by pointing to down-ballot victories — a possible sign that Democrats may not tear down their party after all.

Border officials explored using floating barriers from Texas to California in 2022. The effort could help pave the way for their deployment under President-elect Donald J. Trump.

The curbs on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s impulses are mostly gone, but the old standbys are still in effect, people close to him say.

Among those whose sentences were commuted was Rebecca Parrett, an Arizona woman who now hopes to travel to meet her great-grandchildren for the first time.

As ride-hailing companies and labor unions each push New York City to amend its rules, drivers hurt by widespread app lockouts are struggling to make ends meet.

The review acknowledged that several informants were in Washington on Jan. 6, but said that only a handful were collecting information for the F.B.I. that day, contrary to conspiracy theories.

The neighborhood reaction to the sudden, mysterious closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”

Employees at UnitedHealthcare and other companies described being anxious after an outpouring of online vitriol.