By MIKE BALSAMO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could ...
By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa met Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York, expanding relations with the West and further easing his country's isolation as he becomes Syria's first leader to take part in a U.N. ...
By THALIA BEATY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Even as it ponders a diminished future facing cutbacks and questions of relevance, the United Nations will still draw foundations and nonprofits to New York starting Sept. 22 for a packed schedule of conferences, meetings, happy hours and ...
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — Four prison guards pleaded guilty Monday in the death of a Black inmate whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison was captured on bodycam videos. The pleas came two weeks before the start of trial for a group of guards accused in the death of Robert Brooks, who ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in New York on Sunday to take part in the U.N. General Assembly, the first president of Syria to do so in nearly six decades. The last time a Syrian head of state attended the General Assembly was in 1967. That was before the ...
By MELINA WALLING Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires' Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to "Make Billionaires Pay," calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges resigned Friday under pressure from the Trump ...
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A 30-day window to stop the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran is closing, likely meaning Tehran will face new pressure on its ailing economy as tensions remain high in the wider Mideast over the Israel-Hamas ...
By YUKI IWAMURA and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a protester who said he was dragged off a Manhattan street by Egyptian government officials, beaten and whipped with a metal chain and then wrongly arrested by New York City police. Yasin ...
By LISEBERTH GUILLAUME Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's iconic St. Patrick's Cathedral is unveiling a massive new mural that honors the city's immigrants. Spanning the sides to the Manhattan landmark's entryway, the 25-foot-tall (7.6-meter-tall) artwork of everyday immigrants ...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Receiving an award from one of Manhattan's oldest cultural institutions, The New York Historical, had Robert Caro thinking about childhood. "It (New York Historical) has been a very integral element of my life since I was a little boy," ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who has filed several lawsuits that were deemed frivolous has been indicted on charges he threatened to kill two judges who had presided over some of his cases. A federal grand jury issued the indictment against Anthony Salvatore Perri this week in the Eastern District ...
By ED WHITE Associated Press From Utah to New York, political violence has rocked the U.S. multiple times over the past several months, culminating with the open-air killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week while talking to college students. The ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and DAVE COLLINS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Tuesday threw out terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione, rejecting the Manhattan district attorney's theory in a state murder case that the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione is due in court Tuesday as his lawyers push to have his state murder charges thrown out in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. They argue that the New York case and a parallel federal death penalty ...
By STEVE PEOPLES and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen stood before Iowa Democrats over the weekend and blasted his party's leadership as "spineless" for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A potential strike that could have shut down the nation's largest commuter rail system this week has been averted. Unionized workers for the Long Island Railroad announced they voted overwhelmingly Monday to authorize their labor leaders ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former federal prosecutor Maurene Comey sued the U.S. government Monday to get her job back, saying her firing was for political reasons and was unconstitutional. Her lawsuit in Manhattan federal court blamed the firing on the fact that ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Sunday urged New Yorkers to vote Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City, giving the Democratic nominee one of his most significant endorsements to date in the contest to lead the nation's biggest city. Writing in the New York Times' opinion section, ...