By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City high school senior was jailed Friday on a federal arson charge after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger. Hiram Carrero, 18, was not required to enter a plea during his ...

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump's effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los ...

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Two New York City police officers won't be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a mental health crisis last year as his mother and brother begged the officers not to open fire, state Attorney General Letitia James' office said ...

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald's, he told an officer he didn't want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO ...

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump's effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an icon of New York City's holiday season, was lit up Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan as crowds of people wearing Santa hats and Christmas light necklaces cheered. This year's towering evergreen is illuminated by more than 50,000 ...

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The New York Liberty have hired Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco as their head coach, the team announced Wednesday. DeMarco has been with the Warriors for 13 years in a variety of positions, including player development coach and assistant, ...

By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Video shown in court Tuesday documented how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald's — moments that underlie key questions about what evidence can and can't be used in the case surrounding the ...

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Prosecutors in western New York on Tuesday dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo — right as the new trial was set to begin. James Pugh, now 63, served 26 years in prison in ...

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The first major storm of the winter covered parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic with snow and ice Tuesday, making roads hazardous, disrupting travel and closing schools as some areas braced for several inches of heavy ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione is back in court on Tuesday for the second day of a hearing in his bid to bar New York prosecutors from using some key evidence they say links him to last year's killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Various law enforcement officers are taking the ...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the "2020 election was rigged." Schumer said in a statement that local law ...

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Two conservative political operatives were sentenced to probation Monday for a scheme to discourage Black Detroit voters from voting by mail in the 2020 presidential election, the last court hearing in a multistate effort to blast thousands of ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is poised to get its first Vegas-style casinos, including one next to the home stadium of baseball's New York Mets and another that could see a windfall for President Donald Trump. Three casino proposals were approved by a ...

CAIRO (AP) — Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison in absentia, even as he received new awards for his latest movie. The Tehran court also imposed a two-year ban on Panahi leaving Iran after convicting him on charges of "propaganda activities against the ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (AP) — The fear is palpable in this Palestinian village. It's clear in how farmers gather their harvests quickly, how they scan the valley for movement, how they dare not stray past certain roads. At any time, they say, armed Israeli ...

By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN Associated Press VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world's two largest ...

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARLON GONZÁLEZ Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Reyna Vega whips up simple breakfasts of eggs, fried bananas with cream and refried beans with corn tortillas at her simple two-table eatery in the center of the Honduran capital. The 52-year-old ...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the "2020 election was rigged." Schumer said in a statement that local ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is poised to get its first Vegas-style casinos, including one next to the home stadium of baseball's New York Mets and another that could see a windfall for President Donald Trump. They were among three casino proposals ...