By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal ...
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lyudmyla Kichenok was supposed to get married this week to Jelena Ostapenko's coach. A run to the U.S. Open women's doubles championship forced a change of plans. Kichenok and Ostapenko won the title Friday for their first major as a ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and DANICA KIRKA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Spared from prosecution in Britain on Thursday, Harvey Weinstein now faces the prospect of a new indictment in New York, where prosecutors retrying the disgraced movie mogul's rape case are taking steps to potentially ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Three people who tested positive for Legionnaires' disease have died after an outbreak at an assisted living facility in upstate New York, officials said Thursday. Albany County health officials became aware of a cluster of cases at Peregrine Senior Living at Shaker in ...
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it got a complaint about an illegally owned snake in ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Laid off by the music streaming service Spotify last year, Joovay Arias figured he'd land another job as a software engineer fairly soon. His previous job search, in 2019, had been a breeze. "Back then," he said, "I had tons of ...
By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Aaron Judge hasn't homered in nine straight games for the first time this season, and the New York Yankees are under .500 over the equivalent of half a season. Never mind that Judge leads the major leagues with 51 home runs or the ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The questions wouldn't stop for Jessica Pegula: Why was she 0-6 in Grand Slam quarterfinals heading into her U.S. Open matchup against No. 1 Iga Swiatek? What could Pegula do to change that? Came up during her on-court interview after ...
By PHILIP MARCELO, ERIC TUCKER and DIDI TANG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A secret Chinese police station hiding in plain sight in New York City. Clandestine efforts by Communist Party operatives to spy on and bully Chinese expatriates. And now, charges that a former aide to two New ...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Columbia University resumes classes Tuesday, students and faculty are planning, and bracing, for a resumption of the pro-Palestinian protests that convulsed the Manhattan campus at the tail end of the spring semester and touched off ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Five people were shot Monday at New York City's West Indian American Day Parade, police said. It's the latest instance of violence marring one of the world's largest annual celebrations of Caribbean culture. A gunman targeting a specific group of people opened fire along the ...
By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — This is pretty much all anyone needs to know about defending champion Coco Gauff's 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 loss to Emma Navarro in the U.S. Open's fourth round on Sunday: Gauff wound up with more double-faults, 19, than winners, 14. It was the ...
By MATT CARLSON Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning and the New York Mets beat the skidding White Sox 5-3 on Saturday night, handing Chicago its 106th loss to tie a franchise record. The Mets (72-64) won their third ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's West Indian American Day Parade will kick off Monday with thousands of revelers dancing and marching through Brooklyn in one of the world's largest celebrations of Caribbean culture. The annual Labor Day event, now in its 57th year, turns the borough's Eastern ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — On a residential block in upstate New York, college students dig and sift backyard dirt as part of an archaeological project that could provide insights into the lives of African Americans buried there centuries ago. This spot of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York City police officer has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for shooting and wounding her ex-girlfriend and killing the ex-girlfriend's new love interest. Former officer Yvonne Wu, 34, was sentenced Wednesday in state court in Brooklyn after pleading guilty ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a state appeals court Wednesday to restore him to New York's presidential election ballot, even though he has suspended his campaign. A state judge knocked Kennedy off the state's ballot earlier ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police in the suburbs of New York City made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks, officials announced Tuesday. Nassau County Police say officers on Sunday night responded to reports of a suspicious person on a street ...
By ASHWINI BHATIA Associated Press DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, returned to the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India on Wednesday after undergoing a knee replacement surgery in New York. Hundreds of followers in ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press SYOSSET, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man distraught that he was being forced to move from his late mother's home shot and killed four of his family members before taking his own life, police said Monday. Joseph DeLucia, Jr. and his family had gathered shortly ...