On Friday, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani repeated plans for a new agency that would respond to mental health crises in the wake of two fatal shootings by the police.

Police blocked off an area near where the victims of the shooting were found in Portland, Ore., on Thursday afternoon.

“No New Yorker should have to live with drug dealers at their doorstep,” said Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney.

Police officers in Manchester, England, on Thursday. The attack on the synagogue came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, and has added to growing fears about a rising wave of antisemitism.

Rochdale, England, was among the first British towns to be revealed as a hub of activity by sexual grooming gangs.

Errol Musk, who has at least nine children and stepchildren, at his home in South Africa in 2022.

Mayor Eric Adams and officials of his administration said New York City has become safer under his leadership.

Young men carried Albert Ojwang’s coffin at his funeral in Kakoth village, Kenya, on Friday.

Officers responded to Starlight Park, where they found Darrell Harris, 17, mortally wounded with gunshot wounds to the head and arm.

Matthew Hunter, who was an officer with the Des Moines Police Department for more than two decades, suffers from PTSD after the suicide of his former partner Joe Morgan.

Members of the new Syrian government set up security checkpoints in Homs in February. Many Syrians are demanding more such controls.

The Supreme Court building in Washington. At Wednesday’s argument in the case, most of the justices seemed inclined to allow court to consider more than the seconds before the shooting.

Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced five new Police Department appointments on Thursday, including the replacement of a communications official who had sparred with the news media.

Camera footage led the police to the physical evidence at the core of their investigation, including the backpack that officers found in Central Park Friday evening.

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Members of Senior Airman Roger Fortson’s family holding a photo of him this month. The family and their lawyers insist that the sheriff’s deputy went to the wrong apartment.

Students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall in April 1972.

Randy Roedema was convicted in October of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault.