NEW YORK — Rama Duwaji, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, will be heading to Syria and Lebanon without an NYPD detail next month as she visits family, city officials said.

“There was a miscommunication,” Mamdani said on PIX11 when asked about reports his wife would be bringing a detail with her. “She has not taken that trip. When she takes...Read more

If you’re a U.S. citizen and thinking about traveling to Haiti, the Trump administration would rather you not go. But should you decide to make the trip anyway, it has a new and unusually grim request:

“Leave DNA samples with your medical provider and dental records with your family in case it is necessary for your family to access them to ...Read more

CHICAGO — When Marc Ayers attended the Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin last year, he was on a mission to stop one attraction from returning to the state: the Banana Derby.

Ayers, the Illinois state director for Humane World for Animals, said the welfare group has been tracking the show for years. When he went to see it firsthand, he ...Read more

If you’re worried about flying on an airplane, you’ve probably heard this statistic before: Flying in a plane is safer than driving in a car.

But you may not have heard these: The risk of fatal injury during a commercial flight in the U.S. is significantly lower than the risk associated with scuba diving, running a marathon or even drowning...Read more