Another federal prison is closing: FCI Terminal Island. apnews.com/article/bure...

Bureau of Prisons says crumbling infrastructure is forcing it to close a California lockup that was once home to Al Capone & Charles Manson. Issues include falling concrete that threatens to knock out the facility’s heating system, per memo obtained by @apnews.com apnews.com/article/bure...

Justice Department renews bid to unseal Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials apnews.com/article/just...

Federal prosecutors say Bondi’s comments shouldn’t affect Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case apnews.com/article/mang...

What to know about the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein files apnews.com/article/jeff...

Home Depot says earnings didn’t meet expectations because more people’s homes weren’t destroyed or damaged by violent weather apnews.com/article/home...

The week — Baseball bets: apnews.com/article/mlb-... Clemency violator: apnews.com/article/brau... Trump/Carroll/SCOTUS: apnews.com/article/trum... Linda Sun: apnews.com/article/new-...

Months after a judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop in jail to review evidence, lawyers for the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson say the device has yet to be delivered.

On Aug. 4, a judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop in jail to view evidence. 100+ days later, he still hasn’t gotten it. apnews.com/article/luig...

A judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop to view evidence in jail. He still hasn’t gotten it apnews.com/article/luig...

Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email that Donald Trump “knew about the girls,” per newly released documents. But what he knew — and whether it pertained to Epstein’s crimes — is unclear. The White House accused Democrats of leaking emails to smear Trump. apnews.com/article/epst...

Per the indictment, the highly paid hurlers took several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two unnamed gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 on in-game prop bets on the speed and outcome of certain pitches. apnews.com/article/mlb-...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City firefighter died Saturday after suffering a medical episode while battling a five-alarm fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said. apnews.com/article/new-...

Appeals court gives Trump another shot at erasing his hush money conviction apnews.com/article/trum...

Jaime Arroyo will be Lancaster's next mayor -- the city's first Latino mayor -- after earning 84% of the vote Tuesday night. Democrats also secured seats on City Council, maintaining the party's total control of city government lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

George Banks killed 13 people in the Wilkes-Barre, Pa. area in 1982, including 5 of his kids. He died in prison Sunday at 83. Here's a story I wrote at The Citizens' Voice in 2012 about the killings & decades long battle over his competence to be executed. michaelsisak.com/2025/11/03/o...

Two decades after resigning as NJ governor & declaring “I am a gay American," Jim McGreevey is back on the campaign trail. He’s running for mayor of Jersey City, the state’s 2nd-largest city. We spoke recently at a diner (where else?!). Here’s my story👇 apnews.com/article/jim-...

What was Luigi Mangione doing in the months before prosecutors say he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson? Hurubie Meko and her @nytimes.com team found out. Be sure time to read their magnificent, deeply reported (she went to Japan!) investigation! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Judge Lewis Kaplan said the Republican administration’s decision, based on the Big Apple’s “sanctuary city” protections for immigrants in the United States illegally, was “arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.” apnews.com/article/kris...

Beating Oregon and the First Amendment all in the same week!

US has seized $14+ billion in bitcoin & charged founder of a Cambodian conglomerate in a massive crypto scam. He's accused of exploiting forced labor to dupe "investors" and using proceeds to purchase yachts, jets and a Picasso painting (w/ AP's Jack Brook) apnews.com/article/cryp...

Who is Letitia James? New York’s attorney general has battled Trump, big tech and the NRA apnews.com/article/leti...

Crazy to think the best baseball play by player of his generation works for ESPN/ABC — and doesn’t call baseball games regularly anymore

Two jurors claim they were bullied into convicting Harvey Weinstein and regret it, his lawyers say apnews.com/article/harv...

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in a mortgage fraud case that President Donald Trump urged his Justice Department to bring after vowing retribution against some of his biggest political enemies. apnews.com/article/leti...

A key to acting is authenticity. AI ain't it.

Rory McIlroy won the Ryder Cup. Then he called out the hostile New York crowd for “unacceptable and abusive behavior.” My latest (and last) dispatch from Bethpage ⬇️ apnews.com/article/ryde...

On a raucous Saturday crowd at Bethpage Black that tried to will the US back into the #RyderCup, got into it with Rory McIlroy and fled to the exits when Europe made it a rout: apnews.com/article/ryde...

Saturday at Bethpage: Rory McIlroy gives as good as he gets at Ryder Cup, telling fans to shut up, then sending them to exits apnews.com/article/ryde...

Trump swings by the Ryder Cup, soaking up fans’ love after vowing revenge on more of his enemies apnews.com/article/dona...

“We will absolutely fight this tooth and nail!” union president Brandy Moore-White said. apnews.com/article/fede...

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protections for federal employees. apnews.com/article/fede...

My latest: President Donald Trump heads to the Ryder Cup, embraced by a golf world that once shunned him apnews.com/article/trum...

And now for something completely different: Me, writing about golf. My first contribution to @apnews.com’s Ryder Cup coverage! ‘You deserve to be on this team': Veteran US players get rookies like J.J. Spaun ready for Ryder Cup apnews.com/article/ryde...

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

NEW: Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urge judge to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. apnews.com/article/unit...

No guns for Elmo, Spider-Man or anyone else in New York’s Times Square — and don’t try sneaking them into the subway, either. That’s the decision from a federal appeals court effectively upholding a New York law that bars firearms in “sensitive” locations. apnews.com/article/new-...

More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees. apnews.com/article/nyc-...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City high school student was arrested Thursday after bringing a loaded gun to class and writing on social media that he wanted to “shoot the school up,” authorities said. apnews.com/article/new-...

It’s another blow to Rudy Giuliani’s withered wallet: A judge has ordered the former New York City mayor to pay $1.36 million in legal fees he racked up during investigations into his efforts to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. apnews.com/article/rudy...

A New York judge on Tuesday threw out terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, rejecting the Manhattan DA’s theory in a state murder case that the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “intended to evoke terror.” apnews.com/article/unit...

A New York City couple in their 70s was killed in what the police commissioner said was a “horrific double homicide, robbery and arson" — the man tied to a pole and stabbed, the woman’s body severely burned as their home went up in flames. (w/Jake Offenhartz) apnews.com/article/new-...

Nepal premier does resign www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

New York Attorney General Letitia James moved Thursday to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty, appealing a lower-court decision that slashed the potential half-billion-dollar fine to $0. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump plans to ask Supreme Court to toss E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million abuse and defamation verdict apnews.com/article/trum...

X/Grok/Twitter summary says Trump’s Oval Office address re: Space Command relocation has already happened. It’s not until 2 pm EDT. If this is the future of news, it needs an editor.

Bad news: North Carolina is down 20-7. Good news: Belichick’s one half of coaching so far is longer than his entire Jets tenure.

Army football player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash near West Point apnews.com/article/army...

Needed Verne in the booth to drop a “What are they doing?!” on that last Notre Dame play

Long-elusive Mexican drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada pleads guilty in US apnews.com/article/mexi...