By FATIMA HUSSEIN, JOEY CAPPELLETTI, JESSE BEDAYN and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are ...
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway is a tense place these days after two major labor unions authorized strike action amid ongoing contract negotiations with producers. Actors' Equity Association — which represents over 51,000 members, including singers, ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James struck a defiant tone Monday during her first public appearance since being indicted on federal fraud charges related to her purchase of a home in Virginia. The Democrat took the stage to thunderous ...
By MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The coalition of New York NAACP chapters had just begun its annual state convention when Letitia James, a longtime member and the state's attorney general, canceled her appearance. James had just been indicted by the Justice Department for ...
BY PHILIP MARCELO and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James, a longtime political foe of President Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on mortgage fraud charges. It's a case she says is bogus, cooked up by the ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press GEDDES, N.Y. (AP) — Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake, before the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, before the pristine waters became one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The day she was elected New York's attorney general, Letitia James blasted President Donald Trump as a "con man" and "carnival barker" and pledged to scrutinize his public policies and personal business dealings. As ...
By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The consequences of a government shutdown setting in, senators labored Thursday to find a way forward but found themselves struggling to overcome a fundamental lack of trust between the two ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system. The city is legally required to shutter its jails on Rikers and ...
Associated Press undefined NORTHPORT, N.Y. (AP) — More than 200 animals were found at the home of a wildlife rehabilitator in New York where authorities also discovered a 95-year-old woman who they say was essentially trapped in her room due to clutter in the residence. Cats, dogs, ...
By SUSAN HAIGH and GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press President Donald Trump said Friday he has personally reversed $187 million in funding cuts made by his administration for New York's law enforcement and counterterrorism operations, following bipartisan outcry from New York ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police found two girls dead early Saturday morning in what apparently was a game of "subway surfing" that turned out to be fatal, authorities said. Police said they responded to a 911 call at the Marcy Avenue stop in Brooklyn just after 3 a.m. to find two ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein. On the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed ...
By TIFFANY STANLEY, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and MARIAM FAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Zohran Mamdani's rise in New York City's mayoral race has brought him national prominence and a surge of anti-Muslim vitriol, including from elected officials and prominent conservatives. A win in ...
By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided at the intersection of two taxiways at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant, damaging a cockpit and tearing off part of a wing, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a man they say played a role in a gang-related shooting that broke out in a crowded Brooklyn bar this summer, leaving three dead and 10 others injured. For the first time Wednesday, prosecutors also ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo has apologized to New York City's Jewish community for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he was governor, a rare retreat on a signature campaign issue as he runs for mayor. In a video that ...
By JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it was putting a hold on roughly $18 billion to fund a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey and the city's expanded Second Avenue subway project because of the ...
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy got so fed up with one American at the Ryder Cup that he asked security to throw out the spectator. The noise was so loud and relentless that McIlroy talked about taking medicine for a headache. This was 2016 at ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims. The two sides said in a filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday that they have agreed to permanently ...