By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's quest to erase his criminal conviction heads to a federal appeals court Wednesday. It's one way he's trying to get last year's hush money verdict overturned.
A three-judge panel is set to hear arguments in ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in Harvey Weinstein'ssex crimes retrial appeared to be focusing on one of his three accusers as deliberations stretched into a fourth day Tuesday, with no further sign of interpersonal tensions that flared earlier.
The jury had ...
Lincoln Mitchell Columbia University
(THE CONVERSATION) Donald Trump's plan for a military parade on June 14, 2025, officially to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army as well as coinciding with the president's 79th birthday, is yet another indication of his affinity for ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Terminally ill New Yorkers would have the legal ability to end their own lives with pharmaceutical drugs under a bill passed Monday in the state Legislature.
The proposal, which now moves to the governor's office, would allow a person with an incurable illness to be ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The jury foreperson in Harvey Weinstein 's sex crimes retrial complained Monday that some jurors were prodding others to change their minds, talking about the former studio boss' past and going beyond the charges as ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service announced late Wednesday that agents arrested a man in the Dominican Republic sought in the killing of four people in New York last year, including two children.
Luis Francisco Soriano, also known as Jefry Yevo, had been working at a ...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department has cut back on the inflation data it collects because of the Trump administration's government hiring freeze, raising concerns among economists about the quality of the inflation figures just as they are ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press
A group of four men broke into a historic New York lighthouse along the Hudson River, set a fire and vandalized the interior, destroying valuable antiques, furniture and other items.
The Tarrytown Lighthouse in Sleepy Hollow, built in 1883 and now on the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing federal funding, President Donald Trump's top ...
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Once again, President Donald Trump's biggest policy plans were stopped in their tracks.
On Wednesday, an obscure but powerful court in New York rejected the legal foundation of Trump's most sweeping tariffs, finding that Trump could not use ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a New York public high school teacher who shows how theater skills can apply to a career in the arts — and also far away from it.
"My platform is career focused," says Gary ...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer
A collaboration with JetBlue will mark the return of United Airlines to JFK International Airport in two years.
JetBlue will give United access to slots at JFK for up to seven daily round-trip flights beginning in 2027. JetBlue runs approximately 180 ...
By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press
Louisiana rap artist NBA YoungBoy, who was sentenced to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges, was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
The rapper is among a number of high-profile people Trump pardoned this week, including a ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — George Santos ' former campaign treasurer was sentenced Wednesday to three years' probation for her role in fabricating campaign finance reports for the disgraced ex-congressman from New York.
Nancy Marks, addressing a federal ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction.
The pardon was disclosed Wednesday by a White House official who requested anonymity ...
NORTH ELBA, N.Y. (AP) — Two hikers in New York's Adirondack Mountains called 911 to report a third member of their party had died, but it turned out they had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and were mistaken, officials said Wednesday.
A state forest ranger responded to a call Saturday about a ...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dressed in a pink pullover, the 17-year-old girl rested her head in her hands, weighing her bleak options from the empty room of an shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York.
During a video call into an immigration courtroom ...
By ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business writer
The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York has temporarily prevented President Donald Trump from retaliating against the state over its Manhattan congestion toll.
Judge Lewis Liman on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the federal ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press
WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before crashing into the water.
All 11 ...