By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department's civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration's layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families ...
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary. "Threats against judges are threats against constitutional ...
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration's plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding that cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 2,000 New York prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job were barred Tuesday from being hired for other state jobs by Gov. Kathy Hochul as officials took steps to recover from a three-week wildcat strike ...
MONTVALE, N.J. (AP) — A school bus carrying 31 people overturned on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, sending more than a dozen people to hospitals, officials said. New Jersey State Police said 15 people, including the driver and 14 young adults, were treated for injuries from the ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state's correctional system, but said enough officers had come back on the job to declare the illegal ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple brush fires that burned across a wooded area of Long Island over the weekend were accidentally caused by a family's attempt to make s'mores, Suffolk County police said Monday. Commissioner Kevin Catalina said detectives traced the cause to a home in Manorville and a ...
By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer TAMPA. Fla. (AP) — "Extreme Makeover: Baseball Edition" is about to premiere. When Tampa Bay players leave Steinbrenner Field following the New York Yankees' spring training home finale on March 23, their staff will launch a 120-hour transformation of the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York corrections officials implored striking prison guards on Thursday to take a last-chance deal to return to work without repercussions, over the objections of their union leaders. Daniel Martuscello, commissioner of the state ...
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure "antisemitic theories" would not be taught. The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian ...
By PHILIP MARCELO and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — After years as one of U.S. authorities' most wanted men, Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero was brought into a New York courtroom Friday to answer charges that include orchestrating the 1985 killing of a ...
Associated Press undefined NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor ordered a state school to remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies teaching position this week, saying she wanted to ensure "antisemitic theories" would not be taught. The job posting at Hunter College had called for a ...
By HALLIE GOLDEN and JAIMIE DING Associated Press Rose Girone, believed to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor and a strong advocate for sharing survivors' stories, has died. She was 113. She died Monday in New York, according to the Claims Conference, a New York-based Conference on ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an agreement late Thursday to end a wildcat strike that has roiled the state's prison system for more than a week. Hochul said the state and the union for striking correctional workers agreed to binding terms after four days of mediation ...
ROME (AP) — An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi landed safely in Rome on Sunday afternoon after it was diverted due to a security concern, which later proved to be "non-credible," the airline said. American Airlines said Flight 292 "was inspected by law enforcement" after ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she told President Donald Trump in a private meeting at the White House that congestion pricing tolls in New York City are necessary and working, yet the Democrat predicted the courts will likely decide the matter. Last week Trump withdrew ...
By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made the case for Manhattan's congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump after federal officials ordered a halt to the program, a spokesperson for the Democratic governor said. Hochul and Trump met ...
By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of attempted murder for stabbing author Salman Rushdie multiple times on a New York lecture stage in 2022. Jurors delivered the verdict after deliberating for less than two hours, also finding ...
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) — Two more people have been charged with murder in the death of a transgender man who authorities say was tortured for more than a month before being killed in upstate New York. New York State Police said they arrested Kimberly Sochia, 29, of Canandaigua, and Thomas ...
By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is turning his controversial denim into some greens — for charity. The Norwegian chess grandmaster announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress ...