New York City is officially celebrating its 400th birthday in 2025, marking the anniversary of Dutch settlers, in 1625, moving their castle to Indigenous Lenape land in lower Manhattan from what is today’s Governors Island. At least "1625” is what the city’s official seal says.

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The historic SS United States is set to be turned into an artificial reef, but people who sailed on the majestic ship remember her heyday.

New Year's Eve revelers, especially those in New York City, can expect to get wet as rain and above-average temperatures are forecast throughout the United States on Tuesday as the world rings in 2025.

There’s a chance solar storms may bring northern lights to several northern U.S states just in time for the new year. The sun expelled a burst of plasma Sunday that’s hurtling toward Earth and is expected to arrive sometime Monday,

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) harshly criticized Gov. Kathy Hochul‘s (D-NY) inaction on addressing crime in New York, calling on her and other lawmakers to “do their job” in protecting residents.

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Nevada’s Democratic House delegation backed federal legislation that allows undocumented immigrants to be detained for nonviolent offenses like shoplifting, and at least one of Nevada Democratic senators says she’ll vote for the bill when it is heard in that chamber.

Officials say the two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area this week have burned at least 10,000 homes and other structures as the overall death toll climbed to 10.

Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida in October, caused about $25 billion in insured losses, the largest amount of insured losses from any natural disaster in 2024, according to an analysis by Munich RE, an international insurance and reinsurance company. Overall losses from Milton totaled about $38 billion, as not all losses were insured.