Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is crisscrossing the country as he lays the groundwork for an increasingly likely 2028 presidential campaign, refining his pitch and working to move past his bruising 2024 defeat by President Trump.
Beijing flipped the switch on a cross-border payment system for the digital yuan, accelerating a long-running plan to push the RMB into more of the global plumbing.
A senior central-bank official telegraphed that the long-awaited digital-currency rulebook is finally close, with a public draft expected next month.
A New York City Council member is moving to ban the NYPD from ever strapping weapons onto its four-legged robotic dogs, citing safety risks and chilling civil-liberties precedents.
A US special-forces operator stands accused of cashing in on a prediction market by trading on classified details about a mission to capture former Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
A neighborhood bodega in the Bronx was robbed at gunpoint overnight, with two masked suspects emptying the register before vanishing into the surrounding streets.
More than two decades after hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay was gunned down in his Queens studio, one of the men charged in the killing has formally entered a guilty plea.
Republican leaders missed another procedural window to push through a renewal of the federal foreign-surveillance law, with hardliners demanding warrant requirements and other privacy guardrails.
A signature snag has knocked Republican governor hopeful Bruce Blakeman out of New York's public matching-funds pool, and his party is now pushing legislation that would give candidates a short window to fix paperwork errors.
A South Korean court sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years on multiple charges, capping one of the most dramatic political falls in the country's modern history.
