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National Guard patrol the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Trump administration halts all asylum decisions and pauses issuing visas for people with Afghan passports

By Cedar Attanasio, Collin Binkley, and others

Subway New York

Social media trend turns tragic in NYC as ‘subway surfing’ claims lives

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press

Gray wolves

Cattle ranchers talk to wolves by blasting AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ or dialogue from movies: ‘I am not putting up with this anymore!’

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press

Heat wave

It’s so hot in the western U.S. that some people are ‘wobbling’ and collapsing to the ground as they walk outside

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press

Kraken shoot

Kraken and troll meet bear: Pro hockey player, mascot surprised during promotional video shoot in Alaska

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press

FILE – In this June 16, 2016 file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rangel retires after more than four decades in office. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Former Rep. Charles Rangel, who represented Harlem in Congress for 47 years, dies at 94

By Deepti Hajela, Cedar Attanasio, and others

Renee Colon, co-owner of Fuego Coffee Roasters, makes a cup of coffee, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Rochester, N.Y. (Max Conway via AP)

Trump’s tariffs will increase already skyrocketing coffee prices, and businesses are scrambling to rethink their supply chains

By Max Conway of Rochester Institute of Technology, Cedar Attanasio, and others

FILE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain someone during an enforcement operation, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Colombian immigrant couple planning their wedding showed up for a routine ICE check-in and one was deported

By Valerie Gonzalez, Cedar Attanasio, and others

Sebastian Zapeta, the man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a NYC subway, sits in court wearing a white outfit

Sebastian Zapeta, the man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train, reportedly used a shirt to fan the flames

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press

Valedictorian Luigi Mangione gives a farewell speech to the Class of 2016 during commencement at Gilman School.

New York prosecutors charge Luigi Mangione, 26, with UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder

By Michael R. Sisak, Mark Scolforo, and others

Maribel Hidalgo, 23, of Caracas, Venezuela, stands for a portrait with her son, Daniel, 2, outside a shelter for immigrants in New York, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

1 million migrants in U.S. rely on temporary protective status that Trump could target

By Anita Snow, Cedar Attanasio, and others

The Vessel is seen with its honeycomb-like structure.

People kept dying at a popular NYC tourist spot. So it just reopened with new safety measures

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press

FILE — A notice from the Office of Cannabis Management is posted in the window of a closed shop, on New York’s Upper West Side, June 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NYC is finally shutting down hundreds of unlicensed weed stores that opened after state legalized marijuana in 2021

By Cedar Attanasio, Jennifer Peltz, and others

A food delivery worker stands with his bike

Food-delivery workers are so fed up with bike theft they’re forming vigilante self-defense groups to ward off robberies

By Rommel H. Ojeda, Ambar Reyes, and others

Joey Chestnut holding in his 34th hot dog

Hot dog champ Joey Chestnut’s endorsement of a vegan sausage just cost him the Nathan’s eating contest

By Cedar Attanasio and The Associated Press