![A look at 'El Mayo' Zambada, the kingpin of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel who is now in US custody](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has eluded the reach of U.S. enforcement for decades as the top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel.
![Jon Stewart pushes VA to cover troops sickened by uranium after 9/11. Again, they are told to wait](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium have ended a meeting at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that once again they have been told they will have to wait to see whether the VA will connect their illnesses to the toxic base where they were deployed shortly after 9/11.
![New York City turns to AI-powered scanners in push to keep guns out of the subway system](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
New York City is turning to AI-powered scanners in a new bid to keep guns out of its subway system.
![Vegas man charged with threats to officials including judge, prosecutor in Trump hush money trial](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A Las Vegas man has been charged with threatening to injure and kill government officials in three states and Washington, D.
![Gotham signs 13-year-old MaKenna 'Mak' Whitham through 2028, youngest to get an NWSL contract](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Gotham FC has signed 13-year-old McKenna “Mak” Whitham to a multi-year contract through 2028.
![Justin Timberlake’s lawyer says pop singer wasn't intoxicated, argues DUI charges should be dropped](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Justin Timberlake’s lawyer says the pop singer wasn’t intoxicated during a traffic stop last month.
![Volunteers and donations surge into Democratic campaigns with Harris atop the ticket](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Congressional Democrats in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and beyond are seeing an outpouring of volunteers to help Vice President Kamala Harris and counter Republican Donald Trump.
![Bills co-owner Kim Pegula breaks team huddle in latest sign of her recovery from cardiac arrest](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Buffalo Bills co-owner Kim Pegula showed significant signs in her recovery from a debilitating cardiac arrest by being escorted to the field by her husband to break the post-practice team huddle.
![Powerful cartel leader 'El Mayo’ Zambada was lured onto airplane before arrest in US, AP source says](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A U.S. law enforcement official says a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the U.S., where he was arrested in Texas alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
![Rebuilding Rome, the upstate New York city that is looking forward after a destructive tornado](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A tornado that touched down in the small, upstate New York city of Rome ripped roofs from houses, reduced brick buildings to rubble and toppled steeples from two historic churches.
![Harvey Weinstein hospitalized with COVID-19 and pneumonia](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Harvey Weinstein's representatives say the former film mogul has been transferred from a New York City jail to a hospital to undergo treatment for a variety of health problems.
![‘El Mayo’ Zambada, historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and son of 'El Chapo' arrested in US](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
The U.S. Justice Department says Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, have been arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas.
![Judge in Trump's civil fraud case says he won't recuse himself over 'nothingburger' encounter](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump's civil fraud trial says he won’t step aside from the case, vehemently denying a claim that another lawyer had advised him ahead of the verdict.
![Manhattan diamond dealer charged in scheme to swap real diamonds for fakes](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A Manhattan diamond dealer with a history of gemstone fraud has been indicted in what officials described as a scheme to swindle his fellow merchants out of nearly half a million dollars.
![Prosecutors urge judge not to toss out Trump’s hush money conviction, pushing back on immunity claim](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Prosecutors are urging a judge to uphold Donald Trump’s historic hush money conviction.
![Prosecutors urge judge not to toss out Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, pushing back on his immunity claim](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Prosecutors urge judge not to toss out Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, pushing back on his immunity claim.
![Judge turns down MLB players' union request to confirm arbitrator decision against Bad Bunny firm](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
The Major League Baseball Players Association lost in its attempt to get a federal judge to confirm an arbitration decision denying an attempt by an agent at Bad Bunny’s Rimas Sports firm to block his decertification by the union.
![Transit and environmental advocates sue NY governor over decision to halt Manhattan congestion toll](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Transit and environmental advocacy groups in New York have filed lawsuits challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to block a plan for a new $15 congestion toll on Manhattan drivers.
![A woman is killed and a man is injured when their upstate New York house explodes](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Authorities say a woman was killed and a man was injured when their upstate New York house exploded.
![NYC bus crashes into Burger King after driver apparently suffers a medical episode](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A New York City bus driver suffered an apparent medical episode and crashed his bus into a closed fast food restaurant.
![FBI searches home of former aide to New York Gov Kathy Hochul](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
The FBI has searched the Long Island home of a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
![Cartoonist Roz Chast to be honored at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which runs from Sept. 22-30](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Lorrie Moore, Attica Locke and Edwidge Danticat will be among hundreds of writers attending this September’s Brooklyn Book Festival, for years one of the literary world’s most anticipated gatherings.
![NYPD: Possibly real pipe bomb found in car after a family dispute between the men inside](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
New York City police say that a man who approached officers to say that his cousin had assaulted him then led them to an a possibly real pipe bomb.
![Administrative judge says discipline case against high-ranking NYPD official should be dropped](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A New York Police Department administrative trial judge has recommended that a disciplinary case against the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer be dropped, arguing that the police watchdog agency that investigated the case lacked jurisdiction.
![Tennessee woman gets over 3 years in prison for blocking clinic access during protest](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A Tennessee woman has been sentenced to over three years in prison for using threats and violence to interfere with the operation of a New York City reproductive health center in the early days of the pandemic in 2020.
![Taylor Swift's museum era is on full display at London's V&A](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Taylor Swift fans who missed her world tour or those who can’t get enough of her can catch her at the museum this summer.
![Cause of crash that killed NY couple at Niagara Falls border crossing still a mystery 8 months later](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A police investigation into the crash and explosion that killed two people in a high-powered luxury car at a Niagara Falls border crossing last year has concluded with the crash’s cause still a mystery.
![Fake protest set for TV shoot on NYC campus sparks real demonstration by pro-Palestinian activists](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
A fake protest encampment set up for a TV shoot on a New York City college campus sparked a real reaction from pro-Palestinian activists who organized their own demonstration against the filming at a New York City college.
![Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie charged with supporting terrorist group](https://WICU.images.worldnow.com/images/21716717_G.png?auto=webp&disable=upscale)
The New Jersey man charged with attempted murder in connection with a knife attack that severely wounded author Salman Rushdie now faces an additional federal charge.