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 ...
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press The federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan accidentally filed an internal memo that poked holes in the Trump administration's strategy to kill New York's toll on driving in Manhattan — arguing the government should change tactics if it wants to block ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday urged the Justice Department to refuse a Trump administration official's request to prosecute the Democrat for mortgage fraud, calling it "improper political ...
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press Cornell University has canceled a performance by R&B star Kehlani after complaints to the Ivy League school's president that she expressed antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments. Kehlani was scheduled to perform next month as the headliner at an annual ...
By NATASHA KAISER of Rochester Institute of Technology and MAKIYA SEMINERA of The Associated Press undefined PENN YAN, N.Y. (AP) — A decade ago, Scott Osborn would have eagerly told prospective vineyard owners looking to join the wine industry to "jump into it." Now, his message is ...
By PHILIP MARCELO and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A woman and toddler whose remains were discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from the victims of Long Island's infamous Gilgo Beach killings were identified Wednesday as a U.S. Army veteran from ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who was able to sneak onto a New York-to-Paris flight without a boarding pass late last year was able to get on the plane by glomming onto a group of ticketed passengers as they passed gate agents, new surveillance video shows. The video, provided by the Port ...
By The Associated Press undefined For years, women had been disappearing on Long Island. Then in 2010, investigators searching for a missing woman began finding 10 sets of human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway, not far from the sands of New York's remote Gilgo Beach. ...
By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter's Basilica, where the faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects to history's first Latin American pontiff. The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities denied Mahmoud Khalil's request for a temporary release from detention to attend the birth of his first child, who was born Monday in New York, according to emails shared with The Associated Press. Khalil, a Columbia University activist who has ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A jury of seven women and five men has been picked for Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo rape retrial, a more female panel than the five women and seven men who convicted the onetime Hollywood honcho at his first trial five ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Twice this year, the Trump administration has given New York an ultimatum to end a toll on most drivers entering the busiest part of Manhattan -- and twice the state has ignored it. On Monday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy gave ...
By ANDRES KUDACKI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers wearing decorated hats and costumes participated in the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in New York City on Sunday. This gallery, curated by Associated Press photo editors, highlights images from the holiday event in front ...