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NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to halt New York's first-in-the-nation congestion fee meant to reduce traffic and pump revenue into the region's aging transit system.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nude photos. The names and faces of sexual abuse victims. Bank account and Social Security numbers in full view.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nude photos. The names and faces of sexual abuse victims. Bank account and social security numbers in full view.
NEW YORK (AP) -- From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and British royalty, a who's who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released Friday by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Bruce Blakeman, a Republican county official in New York City's Long Island suburbs, is expected to launch a campaign for New York governor on Tuesday, according to a person with knowledge of his plans.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The vivid blue campaign signs with bold orange lettering were impossible to miss as Zohran Mamdani made his historic and improbable run for New York City mayor this summer.
NEW YORK (AP) -- When he announced his run for mayor last October, Zohran Mamdani was a state lawmaker unknown to most New York City residents.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Polling places open Saturday for the start of in-person voting for two of the year's most closely watched elections: The New York City mayor's race and the contest to pick New Jersey's next governor.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.
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.
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Curtis Sliwa -- his own party's New York City mayoral candidate -- as "not exactly prime time" and even disparaged his affinity for cats, as pressure mounts for Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani 's rivals to drop out of the race.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nearly a quarter century has passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but for many, the emotions of the day remain raw as ever.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans are marking 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump's administration said Friday that it is exploring whether the federal government can take control of the 9/11 memorial and museum in New York City.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos reported to a federal prison in New Jersey on Friday to begin serving a seven-year sentence for the fraud charges that got him ousted from Congress.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence on Friday for the fraud charges that got him ousted from Congress.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reaches its rainbow-laden crescendo as New York and other major cities around the world host major parades and marches on Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Zohran Mamdani was a state lawmaker unknown even to most New York City residents when he announced his run for mayor back in October.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City on Tuesday closed the arrival center for migrants it had established at the Roosevelt Hotel, a once-grand Manhattan hotel that had become an emblem of the city's fraught efforts to manage the flood of new migrants when it opened two years ago.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus has outlined the "irreparable harm" caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York education officials won't rescind the state's ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York education officials won't rescind the state's ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding.
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) -- New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing federal funding, President Donald Trump's top education official said Friday.
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) -- New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot, President Donald Trump's top education official said Friday.
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.
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.
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) -- As a high school hockey player, Adam Drexler wore his Massapequa Chiefs jersey with pride.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, faces sentencing in federal court on Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump's border czar joined New York City's mayor on Tuesday to tout new federal charges against 27 people accused of being Tren de Aragua gang members and associates.
NEW YORK (AP) -- George Santos is defending his recent social media tirade to a federal judge who will be sentencing the disgraced former New York congressman later this week on fraud charges.
NEW YORK (AP) -- George Santos is defending his recent social media tirade to a federal judge who will be sentencing the disgraced former New York congressman later this week on fraud charges.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Opponents of President Donald Trump's administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation's democratic ideals.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Opponents of President Donald Trump's administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the U.S. on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation's democratic ideals.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos "remains unrepentant" as he faces years in federal prison for fraud and identity theft, federal prosecutors say, citing a tirade of his social media posts in recent days.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former congressman George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges after prosecutors say he used earnings from his music career to fuel gang violence in Brooklyn.
NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel's war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school's campus, working on things like curing cancer and studying COVID-19's impact on children.
NEW YORK (AP) -- When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel's war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school's campus, working on things like curing cancer and studying COVID-19's impact on children.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Trump administration has pushed back a Friday deadline for New York officials to end its new $9 congestion toll on most drivers entering Manhattan.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- A former campaign fundraiser for ex- U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison for impersonating a high-ranking congressional aide while raising campaign cash for the disgraced New York Republican.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cartel leaders Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes are set to be arraigned in a U.S. federal court in New York City on Friday, following their surprise transfer from Mexico.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump's administration has given New York until next month to comply with its order to halt Manhattan's new congestion pricing system, but state officials on Wednesday vowed to continue the tolling program, which is meant to thin traffic and pump new revenue into the nation's busiest transit system.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former aide to two New York governors and her husband are facing additional charges in a case accusing her of acting as an agent of the Chinese government.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams was thrown a lifeline when the Trump administration moved to drop federal corruption charges against the embattled leader of America's largest city.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer residents, saying it amounts to an "illegal, taxpayer-funded civilian militia."
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's Democratic mayor, who faces federal bribery charges, is defending his private meeting with President-elect Donald Trump as the Republican prepares to retake the White House on Monday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built up in response to a surge from the southern border that has been steadily receding in recent months.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Disgraced former congressman George Santos, facing a federal prison sentence, has won a few months' freedom to come up with more than half a million dollars in court fines -- including revenue from his new podcast.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Disgraced former congressman George Santos has asked a New York judge to delay his sentencing on federal fraud charges until the summer so he can pay off more than half a million dollars in fines by making more episodes of his recently launched podcast "Pants on Fire."
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologize for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make "The View" co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Rudy Giuliani has relinquished dozens of watches and a Mercedes once owned by movie star Lauren Bacall to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment, according to his lawyer Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A representative for Rudy Giuliani says the former New York City mayor is relinquishing his cherished watches ahead of a Friday deadline to turn over his assets to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former New York City official who helped coordinate the city's response to the pandemic was fired from his private-sector job after a recording showed him talking about attending a sex party and other private gatherings when the city was urging people to practice social distancing.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Law enforcement officials on Long Island worked quickly on Wednesday to publicly knock down social media posts falsely reporting that explosives had been found in a car near former President Donald Trump's planned rally in New York.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty Monday to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with the federal fraud case that led to his expulsion from Congress.