By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Once again, President Donald Trump's biggest policy plans were stopped in their tracks. On Wednesday, an obscure but powerful court in New York rejected the legal foundation of Trump's most sweeping tariffs, finding that Trump could not use ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a New York public high school teacher who shows how theater skills can apply to a career in the arts — and also far away from it. "My platform is career focused," says Gary ...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer A collaboration with JetBlue will mark the return of United Airlines to JFK International Airport in two years. JetBlue will give United access to slots at JFK for up to seven daily round-trip flights beginning in 2027. JetBlue runs approximately 180 ...
By HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press Louisiana rap artist NBA YoungBoy, who was sentenced to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges, was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The rapper is among a number of high-profile people Trump pardoned this week, including a ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — George Santos ' former campaign treasurer was sentenced Wednesday to three years' probation for her role in fabricating campaign finance reports for the disgraced ex-congressman from New York. Nancy Marks, addressing a federal ...
By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction. The pardon was disclosed Wednesday by a White House official who requested anonymity ...
NORTH ELBA, N.Y. (AP) — Two hikers in New York's Adirondack Mountains called 911 to report a third member of their party had died, but it turned out they had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and were mistaken, officials said Wednesday. A state forest ranger responded to a call Saturday about a ...
By CEDAR ATTANASIO and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dressed in a pink pullover, the 17-year-old girl rested her head in her hands, weighing her bleak options from the empty room of an shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York. During a video call into an immigration courtroom ...
By ALAN SUDERMAN AP Business writer The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York has temporarily prevented President Donald Trump from retaliating against the state over its Manhattan congestion toll. Judge Lewis Liman on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the federal ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before crashing into the water. All 11 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A dual U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, officials said Sunday. Federal prosecutors in New York said the man, Joseph Neumeyer, walked up to the embassy ...
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — American Magic has put its participation in the next America's Cup in serious doubt after it cited "transparency" concerns related to Team New Zealand's decision to hold the 2027 regatta in Naples, Italy. The team that represented ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a woman who sneaked onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass by slipping past security and airline gate agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport last year. The short trial of Svetlana Dali concluded with a guilty finding ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state trooper pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he shot himself then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway, prompting a regionwide search. Thomas Mascia agreed to serve ...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after congressional Republicans recommended that he be charged with lying over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered the pretrial detention of a man charged with stealing a purse from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant under the protection of Secret Service ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kid Cudi took the witness stand Thursday at the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs and was expected to testify about his brief relationship 14 years ago with Combs' ex-girlfriend, the R&B ...
By KEVIN FREKING, LISA MASCARO and LEAH ASKARINAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans narrowly advanced President Donald Trump's big tax cuts package out of a key committee during a rare Sunday night vote, but just barely, as conservative holdouts are demanding quicker ...
By RUTH BROWN and KYLE MARIAN VITERBO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Mexican navy sailing ship on a global goodwill tour struck the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday, snapping its three masts, killing two crew members and leaving some sailors dangling from harnesses high in the ...