Top Stories

PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Committee on Saturday officially dethroned Iowa and New Hampshire from the status they have enjoyed for decades leading off the presidential primary, ratifying president Joe Biden’s recommendation for the 2024 calendar. South Carolina will now kick things off for Democrats, with Michigan — and potentially …

A powerful arctic blast will bring “dangerously cold wind chill temperatures” to the Northeast through Saturday evening along with blizzard conditions through northern Maine, forecasters have warned.  “Temperatures will be 10 to 30 degrees below average over parts of the Northeast into the coastal mid-Atlantic,” the National Weather Service said …

A series of alleged crimes that has shaken the Dallas Zoo in recent weeks has left the industry baffled as well. “I don’t know of a zoo that has been subjected to this kind of weirdness,” said Michael Renner, a professor of biology and psychology at Drake University in Iowa …

The Pentagon said Friday it does not plan to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon floating 60,000 feet above the U.S. because “any potential debris field would be significant” and could cause “civilian injuries or deaths or significant property damage” — but did not provide a plan to respond to …

Police arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the disappearance of two emperor tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo, authorities said Friday. Pictures of a man, believed to be of suspect Davion Irvin, had been circulated throughout North Texas and an employee at The Dallas World Aquarium recognized him on …

But if Russian forces are defeated, or continue to suffer humiliating defeats, Putin’s position will be more precarious back home, Andrei Fedorov, former deputy foreign minister of Russia, told NBC News last week.  “Things might be [a] little different if Russia will not be successful. The absence of a victory …

Warming centers were being opened across Maine on Thursday as the state braced for bitterly cold temperatures that could bring wind chills of minus 60 degrees, officials said. Wind chills of minus 35 degrees could be felt along the coasts of Maine and minus 45 in the foothills, the governor’s office …

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A New York man has pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, federal prosecutors announced. Joseph Morelli, 51, admitted to threatening to harm Greene in several March 2022 calls to her Washington, D.C., office, the U.S. attorney’s office in …

The former principal at the Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old student shot his first-grade teacher last month was not warned that the child may have had a gun on campus that day, her lawyer said Thursday. Briana Foster Newton, the former principal at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, …

WASHINGTON — The House, paralyzed for days, struggled to elect a speaker. The Senate is holding symbolic votes just to pass the time. America’s most powerful lawmakers have been twiddling their thumbs, unable to hold hearings because committees aren’t set up. Welcome to the Seinfeld Congress. It’s a show about …