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 ...

MONTVALE, N.J. (AP) — A school bus carrying 31 people overturned on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, sending more than a dozen people to hospitals, officials said. New Jersey State Police said 15 people, including the driver and 14 young adults, were treated for injuries from the ...

By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state's correctional system, but said enough officers had come back on the job to declare the illegal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were accidentally caused by a family's attempt to make s'mores, Suffolk County police said Monday. Commissioner Kevin Catalina said detectives traced the cause to a home in Manorville and a ...

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer TAMPA. Fla. (AP) — "Extreme Makeover: Baseball Edition" is about to premiere. When Tampa Bay players leave Steinbrenner Field following the New York Yankees' spring training home finale on March 23, their staff will launch a 120-hour transformation of the ...

By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York corrections officials implored striking prison guards on Thursday to take a last-chance deal to return to work without repercussions, over the objections of their union leaders. Daniel Martuscello, commissioner of the state ...

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure "antisemitic theories" would not be taught. The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian ...

By PHILIP MARCELO and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After years as one of U.S. authorities' most wanted men, Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero was brought into a New York courtroom Friday to answer charges that include orchestrating the 1985 killing of a ...