By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out.
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ATF rules not updated to allow migrants ...
BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — A girl walking to school Thursday morning on Long Island found a severed arm on the side of the road. Police searching the area then discovered another arm and a disembodied leg nearby, authorities in New York said.
Suffolk County Police said the girl spotted the severed ...
PHOENIX (AP) — A suspect in the killing of a woman at a New York City hotel was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Arizona's most populous county in the subsequent stabbing attacks of two women in the Phoenix area.
The Maricopa County Attorney's office announced Raad Almansoori, 26, was ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City furniture store that had been illegally converted into sleeping quarters for more than 40 migrants has been shut down by city officials.
The city Department of Buildings ordered Sarr's Wholesale Furniture in Queens vacated due to "severe overcrowding and ...
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Outgoing New York Philharmonic music director Jaap van Zweden will assume the same role with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France starting with the 2026-27 season.
The French orchestra said Tuesday that van Zweden will work with the orchestra for four ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams called Tuesday for expanded cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities, attacking the current city policies limiting such communication as detrimental to public safety.
The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former finance director at New York University has pleaded guilty to a more than $3 million fraud scheme that authorities say helped fund renovations to her home in Connecticut.
Cindy Tappe, 57, of Westport, Connecticut, used her position at the Manhattan school to divert ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City medical school will be tuition-free for all students from now on thanks to a $1 billion donation from a former professor, the widow of a Wall Street investor.
Ruth Gottesman announced the gift and its purpose to students and faculty at Albert Einstein College ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in the New York Legislature on Monday rejected a congressional map drawn by the state's bipartisan redistricting commission, setting the stage for the party to craft lines that help Democrats in battleground House races ...
By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer
A judge last week ruled that a Black high school student's monthslong punishment by his Texas school district for refusing to change his hairstyle does not violate a new state law prohibiting race-based hair discrimination. The decision is refueling ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer
A review of 14 horse deaths at Saratoga Race Course last summer found no definitive cause of why they happened, saying rainfall "could not be overlooked" as a factor.
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, in a report released Monday, said a ...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's celebrity owl Flaco died from a traumatic impact, zoologists confirmed a day after he reportedly flew into a building, with further testing planned to determine if the Eurasian eagle-owl may have been sick.
What happened ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A 45-year-old man was killed in a New York City subway car early Friday morning, police said.
The New York Police Department said the man was killed around 5 a.m. as he was riding a southbound D Train that was pulling into the 182-183 Streets station in the Bronx.
Michael ...
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An estimated 10 million American adults each winter suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a widespread yet often misunderstood condition.
As winter tightens its grip, Jessica Allen finds herself caught in a challenging battle against time, ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump could be at risk of losing some of his prized properties if he can't pay his staggering New York civil fraud penalty. With interest, he owes the state nearly $454 million — and the amount is going up $87,502 each day until ...
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — The Republican prosecutor of Arizona's most populous county took a thinly veiled swipe at a Democratic counterpart in the East on Wednesday, saying she would not agree to extradition of a suspect in the death of a woman who was fatally ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A foot-tapping FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried made a brief appearance in a New York courtroom Wednesday to switch lawyers before his sentencing next month.
His stint in Manhattan federal court came before Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who will ...
By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A suspect charged in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist has been extradited from the Czech Republic to face charges, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Polad Omarov was arrested by Czech officials in January ...
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday that the government intends to provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.
The announcement is the third award of direct ...
By BRIAN P. D. HANNON Associated Press
The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism.
The Roman ...