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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday. The company will also pay $3.4 million in civil penalties under the agreement with ...

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court Monday as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year and Mangione's arrest five days later at a ...

By The Associated Press undefined A lot of snow, rain and cold weather await travelers for the rest of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with winter storm warnings posted Friday across the northern part of the country and more snow falling over the Great Lakes region. Storm warnings and ...

By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press As the leadup to the 2026 midterm elections begins, social media users — among them billionaire X owner Elon Musk, who briefly served as a top advisor to President Donald Trump — are using false information to advocate for more voter ID laws in the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 70th and final conviction in a sweeping New York City corruption probe was secured on Tuesday, concluding a decade-long bribery scheme in which public housing employees steered work to contractors in exchange for bribes. The arrests in February 2024 were the largest ...

By ASSANA SAMBU and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace, three days after national elections. ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase faces a new trial in the death of a 11-year-old passenger after a jury acquitted him of murder but failed to reach a verdict Friday on manslaughter. Jurors ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body camera videos were each sentenced Friday to prison terms. The four had pleaded guilty in September, just two weeks before ...

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, JOSH BOAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press The two had called each other "fascist" and "communist," but when President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani faced reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, they were just two iconoclastic New York ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body-cam videos were each sentenced Friday to prison terms. The four had pleaded guilty in September, just two weeks before ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper accused of ramming his car into an SUV that crashed during a high-speed chase was acquitted of murder in the death of a 11-year-old passenger. A jury on Thursday found Christopher Baldner, 52, not guilty on seven of eight counts and ...

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A new play exploring the complex relationship between playwright and AIDS activist Larry Kramer and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime top U.S. infectious disease expert, will make its premiere early next year in New York under the ...