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Delegates to the Democratic National Convention are dressing for the lady they want — whether that's Vice President Kamala Harris or, say, Taylor Swift.

Sometimes both!

For some attendees at Chicago’s United Center, their outfits scream their identity....

The suspect sought for strangling and bludgeoning a woman found dead in a SoHo hotel has been nabbed in Arizona after stabbing two women there, police source said Tuesday. NYPD detectives want to question Raad Almansoori for the Feb. 8 murder of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, who wasfound strangled and struck in the head with an iron inside the SoHo 54 hotel on Watts St. near Sixth Ave, cops said. Almansoori, 26, is facing charges for two separate stabbings of women in Arizona, according to local news outlet Arizona’s Family. Both women survived. Police sources say Almansoori lives in Arizona and wa......

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is going to win, or at least beat expectations against former President Donald Trump in the Feb. 24 First in the South presidential primary, she’ll need independents to show up and possibly Democratic voters to cross over. And with less than a week to go before the South Carolina GOP primary, groups are stepping up efforts to turnout non-Republicans to the state’s open primary that allows anyone who didn’t vote in the Democratic contest to vote in the Republican nominating contest. Only 131,000 participated in South Carolina’s First in......

ABOARD THE SOUNDGUARDIAN, Lake Washington — The region's cold, watery heart is nestled between Seattle and the Eastside. It uniquely supports two major roadways atop floating bridges, has offered beachgoers a summertime respite for decades and is central to the identity of the Seattle area's culture. But Lake Washington is changing — by over half a degree Fahrenheit each recent decade. In fact, since 1963, the lake's surface from June to September has warmed about 4.3 degrees, according to data collected and analyzed by King County and the University of Washington. While some of the lake's war......

E-bike safety checks and enforcement would be a key role of the new city agency Mayor Eric Adams is contemplating to regulate New York’s growing food and package delivery industry. Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi — who is leading Adams’ push to design and establish what some informally call the Department of Sustainable Delivery — told the New York Daily News the agency “will regulate new forms of delivery transit and ensure their safety.” “The equipment that you’re going to use to do that delivery has to be inspected,” said Joshi. “There has to be some oversight to ensure that it’s safe.” Joshi, who......

MIAMI -- Pamela Rauseo is stuck in gridlock on the Dolphin Expressway, a crying baby in the backseat. She’s on the phone with her husband and also listening to the radio about the crisis in Venezuela. The baby’s wails are deafening. And then, suddenly, silence from the backseat. Rauseo pulls the car partially onto the shoulder and jumps into the backseat. Her 5-month old nephew Sebastian is still, his face blue. She tries calling 911, but her fingers won’t move. So Rauseo rushes into the bumper-to-bumper traffic, cradling her nephew, shouting for help. — “I felt like I got hit in the gut with ......