By The Associated Press undefined A weekend storm sent temperatures plunging well below zero in the Midwest and dumped heavy snow on parts of the Northeast on Sunday, creating many airport delays and slick roads as the Pacific Northwest braced for more rain after days of flooding and ...
By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Haruki Murakami was in town last week to hear his words set to music and his praises literally sung. The 76-year-old Tokyo resident and perennial Nobel Prize candidate received a pair of honors in Manhattan for his long career as a ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver's licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday, and he ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A grand jury declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday in another major blow to the Justice Department's efforts to prosecute the president's ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Brad Lander, the chief fiscal officer of New York City, announced Wednesday that he is challenging U.S. Rep Dan Goldman in a Democratic primary for a liberal district covering lower Manhattan and parts of brownstone Brooklyn. A longtime fixture of the ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Bronx man has been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of New York Jets' player Kris Boyd, police announced Tuesday. The New York Police Department said Frederick Green, 20, was charged late Monday night. Police had revealed Monday that a "person of interest" was ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Brad Lander, the outgoing comptroller of New York City, announced Wednesday that he is running for Congress, challenging U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman in a Democratic primary for a liberal district in lower Manhattan and northwest Brooklyn. Lander, a ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press Bruce Blakeman, a Republican county official in New York's City's suburbs, announced Tuesday that he's running for governor, setting up a primary clash with fellow Trump ally U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik. Blakeman, who has cast himself ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Archdiocese of New York on Monday announced it will set up a $300 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse who have sued the church. In a statement, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the archdiocese would pay for the fund by reducing its budget and selling off assets, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants' right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan. In the video, ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City high school senior was jailed Friday on a federal arson charge after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger. Hiram Carrero, 18, was not required to enter a plea during his ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump's effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Two New York City police officers won't be charged in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man during a mental health crisis last year as his mother and brother begged the officers not to open fire, state Attorney General Letitia James' office said ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald's, he told an officer he didn't want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump's effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an icon of New York City's holiday season, was lit up Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan as crowds of people wearing Santa hats and Christmas light necklaces cheered. This year's towering evergreen is illuminated by more than 50,000 ...
By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The New York Liberty have hired Golden State Warriors assistant Chris DeMarco as their head coach, the team announced Wednesday. DeMarco has been with the Warriors for 13 years in a variety of positions, including player development coach and assistant, ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Video shown in court Tuesday documented how police approached, arrested and searched Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald's — moments that underlie key questions about what evidence can and can't be used in the case surrounding the ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press Prosecutors in western New York on Tuesday dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo — right as the new trial was set to begin. James Pugh, now 63, served 26 years in prison in ...