By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press The suburban reservoirs that supply 10% of New York City's vaunted drinking water are getting saltier due to decades of road salt being spread near the system — and they will eventually have to be abandoned if nothing is done to reverse the trend, city ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two purported mobsters were convicted Thursday of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was financed by Iran's government. The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered Columbia University and Barnard College to refrain from complying with a Republican-led House committee's demand for student disciplinary records, at least until he holds a hearing next week on a request by Mahmoud Khalil and other students ...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has named a new acting director for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, one of seven independent government agencies cited in a recent executive order calling for their dismantling "to the maximum extent ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has pushed back a Friday deadline for New York to end its new $9 congestion toll on most drivers entering Manhattan. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday said he was giving the state an ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state's top court put an end Thursday to New York City's effort to empower noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. In a 6-1 ruling, the high court said "the New York constitution as it stands today draws a firm line ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Columbia University student activist who was detained by the U.S. government over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations has the right to challenge the legality of his detention, but the case should be heard in New Jersey, rather than in New York or Louisiana, a ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A lawsuit against New York alleging sexual abuse decades ago was tossed out by the state's top court Tuesday because it lacked specific information, drawing criticism from advocates concerned about setting unrealistically high standards ...
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has struck a deal to buy cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in what would be the tech giant's biggest-ever acquisition at the same time it's facing a potential breakup of its internet ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Calling the groups in charge of professional tennis "a cartel," the players' association co-founded by Novak Djokovic filed an antitrust lawsuit against the women's and men's tours, the International Tennis Federation and the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, was marked by parades throughout the United States on Monday, from a procession through Manhattan to a rolling spectacle through Savannah's historic ...
NEW YORK (AP) — St. Patrick's Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, is being marked in cities across the country on Monday with boisterous parades and celebrations. New York City hosts one of the largest and oldest parades in the United States. The rolling celebration, now in its ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87. Lowey's family, in a statement shared by the Westchester County Democratic ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Sean 'Diddy' Combs returned to federal court in New York City on Friday, pleading not guilty to the latest version of an indictment charging him with two decades of sex trafficking crimes. The 55-year-old Combs, his beard noticeably ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed "illegal aliens" on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department's civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration's layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary. "Threats against judges are threats against constitutional ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration's plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding that cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 2,000 New York prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job were barred Tuesday from being hired for other state jobs by Gov. Kathy Hochul as officials took steps to recover from a three-week wildcat strike ...