By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press SOMERS, N.Y. (AP) — Voters in U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler's suburban New York swing district heaped criticism on the Republican during a raucous town hall Sunday night, peppering him with questions around President Donald Trump's aggressive agenda before ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as "Rent," "Avenue Q" and "Hamilton," didn't initially write a memoir for us. He wrote it for himself. "I really felt a personal existential need to write my story. I ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2025-- Today, After-School All-Stars New York (ASASNY), a subsidiary of the national After-School All-Stars network, announces an event to commemorate 30 years of transforming the lives of local youth. The milestone event will be held at the iconic Edison ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope as the mourning of Pope Francis continues and just days before the conclave to elect his successor is set to begin. ...
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hip-hop impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs once presided like a prince over his White Parties in the Hamptons, attracting A-list celebrities, gossip columnists and photographers. But at a trial starting Monday, prosecutors will cast the ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump'senergy dominance agenda. The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The New York Rangers have hired Mike Sullivan as coach, days after he and the Pittsburgh Penguins agreed to part ways. General manager Chris Drury announced the move Friday, bringing in the organization's top candidate who was out of work for less than a ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione's lawyers urged a judge Thursday to throw out his state murder charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that the New York case and a parallel federal death penalty prosecution amount to double ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — As a high school hockey player, Adam Drexler wore his Massapequa Chiefs jersey with pride. But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school's mascot — a stereotypical ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn't identify too closely with its human handlers. King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An Iraqi man living in upstate New York has been charged with illegally voting in the 2020 election, according to U.S. prosecutors, who said Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency assisted in the investigation. Akeel Abdul Jamiel, 45, was living in South Glens ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is expected to create a new criminal charge to levy against people who wear a mask while committing another crime. The proposal is set to be included in a sweeping state budget bill that will be taken up by lawmakers in ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state would ban cellphones in public schools "bell to bell" beginning with the next school year under an agreement announced late Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. "We've protected our kids before from cigarettes, alcohol, and drunk driving, and now we're protecting ...
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has decided that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is not immune from being sued, reversing the U.S. government's position that the organization was protected from civil liability. The Justice Department ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former career Justice Department prosecutor is challenging his firing by the White House, saying it was for "unprecedented partisan and political reasons" and undermines a "bedrock principle" of the justice system after he was ...
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has decided that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is not immune from being sued, reversing the U.S. government's longstanding position that the organization was protected from civil liability. The Justice ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he learned his punishment for the crimes that led to his expulsion from Congress. Santos, who pleaded guilty last summer to ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A man was stabbed to death during the morning rush hour in the New York City subway system Friday after a dispute with another rider who had stepped on the man's shoes, police said. Police and medical personnel responded to the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall subway station in ...
By JILL COLVIN Associated Press PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — Alleged gang members without criminal records wrongly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. International students detained by masked federal agents for writing opinion columns or attending campus demonstrations. American ...
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man told federal agents, "I know I'm finished," when he was arrested Thursday on charges that he concealed his leadership role in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 in his applications for a green card and U.S. citizenship, prosecutors said. Faustin ...