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A former Watergate prosecutor has urged the federal judge presiding over the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams to assign a special counsel to help decide how to handle the Justice Department's request to drop charges.
Federal prosecutors have charged a prominent Miami defense attorney with orchestrating a bribery conspiracy involving two former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors who leaked confidential information about drug investigations.
Twenty-two states are suing New York state, contending that a new law forcing energy companies to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional.
The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.
The front staircase of the Manhattan brownstone where Carrie Bradshaw lived in “Sex and the City” is getting a metal gate to keep away tourists who endlessly trespass and pose for pictures.
A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City in its first week of operation.
Lawyers for two election workers who are owed $148 million in damages from Rudy Giuliani say the evidence proves their clients are entitled to three World Series rings that the former New York City mayor says he gave to his son.
Rudy Giuliani insisted during three hours of testimony in a New York courtroom at a contempt hearing that he's not hiding assets from lawyers trying to recover a $148 million judgment for two Georgia election workers.
Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
A triptych of criminal charges paints a searing, sometimes disparate portrait of the man accused of ambushing and killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson.
The man charged with gunning down United Healthcare’s CEO outside a Manhattan hotel is now in a federal jail after being returned to New York City in dramatic fashion.
The man arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is being held without bail after a New York federal court appearance on charges including a death-eligible murder count.
A fourth person connected to a decade-long sex trafficking operation involving three wealthy brothers with ties to Miami Beach and New York’s luxury real estate surrendered to authorities in Miami-Dade on Wednesday.
New York City’s police commissioner says the gun found on the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO matches shell casings found at the crime scene.
The masked gunman who stalked and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel used ammunition emblazoned with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” a law enforcement official said Thursday.
The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges, admitting that he misled customers about the business.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has arrived in New York City, signaling the start of the holiday season in the Big Apple.
Questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, and changes to queries about race and ethnicity, are on track to be on the questionnaire for the most comprehensive survey of American life by 2027.
A man charged with fraud for claiming to own a storied Manhattan hotel where he had been living rent-free for years has been found unfit to stand trial.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran charged with manslaughter for placing a man in a deadly chokehold aboard a New York City subway train last year will soon have his day in court.
Struggling New York Community Bancorp said it's cutting 700 jobs at its Flagstar subsidiary as it tries to return to profitability after being rescued by investors earlier this year.
Prosecutors are asking a Manhattan judge to consolidate the two sex crime cases that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein faces in New York into a single trial.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is pushing back a date for a key ruling on presidential immunity until two days before Trump’s scheduled sentencing.
Asylum-seekers have gravitated to working food delivery in New York and other major cities, drawn by an abundance of customers and ease of getting started.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is defending her decision to block a plan to reduce New York City traffic and raise billions for its ailing subway system through a new toll on Manhattan drivers.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has halted a plan to charge motorists big tolls to enter the core of Manhattan.
Republicans who view Donald Trump's felony conviction by a Manhattan jury as politically motivated are calling on GOP prosecutors to start charging Democrats with crimes.
Donald Trump remained in Manhattan on Friday morning after the historic verdict that turned him into the first former president of the United States to have ever been convicted of a felony.
Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.
Manhattan prosecutors won’t be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial to start later than scheduled.
The New York state Senate has passed a bill to explicitly allow evidence of prior sexual offenses in sex crimes cases.
New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering Manhattan was the focus of a legal battle that played out in federal court.
Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, won’t be serving as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention after all.
Former President Donald Trump is campaigning for reelection, so he took a break from the hush money trial in New York to be at the Formula One Miami Grand Prix on Sunday in Miami-Dade County.
Harvey Weinstein's lawyer says the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction.
A state investigator in Michigan says he considers former President Donald Trump and some key allies to be uncharged co-conspirators in a scheme to claim that he had won Michigan in the 2020 election.
With cameras not allowed at former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, live news blogs are coming into their own as an important news tool.
A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump was on trial tested news organizations on how quickly they could respond to an incident and what to show viewers.
A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died.
Donald Trump has visited New York’s Harlem neighborhood after spending his second day in a lower Manhattan courtroom as a criminal defendant.
The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.
A cruise ship dancer from New York appeared in Fort Lauderdale federal court Monday after authorities accused him of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material.
A New York appeals court judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he fights to move the case out of Manhattan.
Jonathan Majors has been ordered to complete a yearlong counseling program but avoided jail time for assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district.
U.S. consumer confidence held steady this month even as Americans are still concerned about high prices and feeling less optimistic about the short-term future.
Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive and “get this over with,” warning about international support fading.
A judge has delayed ex-President Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial in New York until mid-April after his lawyers said they needed more time to sift through new evidence.
Prosecutors say they’re open to delaying the start of Donald Trump’s New York hush-money criminal trial to give the former president’s lawyers time to review evidence that was only recently turned over.
A federal judge has approved the $92 million bond put up by former President Donald Trump to ensure that writer E.
Donald Trump’s lawyers are warning that a gag order sought by New York prosecutors ahead of his March 25 hush-money criminal trial would amount to unconstitutional and unlawful prior restraint on the former president’s free speech rights.
Between bridge and tunnel tolls and parking fees, it can already cost a mint to drive a car into Manhattan.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer says a recommended sentence of 100 years in prison for the FTX founder is “grotesque” and “barbaric” for cryptocurrency crimes.
Lawyers involved in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial told the judge they had no information to share regarding a key witness reportedly negotiating to plead guilty to perjury in connection with his testimony in the case.
Kansas State has its best ranking in 21 years after the Wildcats moved up to fourth in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.
Arthur Kaluma converted a four-point play to give Kansas State the lead with 20 seconds left in overtime, and Tylor Perry added a pair of free throws with 6.9 seconds to go, helping the Wildcats beat No. 9 Baylor 68-64 on Tuesday night.
In his first interview since his assault and harassment conviction last month, actor Jonathan Majors says he was shocked by the New York jury’s verdict.
An appeals court says Michael Cohen can't hold ex-president Donald Trump, his former boss, liable for allegedly jailing him in retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan department store.
Thousands of people dressed as jolly Old St. Nick have descended on New York City for the annual SantaCon charity pub crawl.
Most drivers would pay $15 to enter Manhattan’s central business district under a plan released by New York officials.
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students from Parkland made Florida proud during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Donald Trump has given up on his monthslong fight to move his New York hush-money criminal case to federal court.
Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and former president Donald Trump’s oldest sister, has died at age 86 at her home in New York.
Trading in shares of WeWork has been halted as rumors swirl that the office sharing company, once valued as high as $47 billion, will seek bankruptcy protection.
In a closing argument, a prosecutor told a New York jury to follow overwhelming evidence and the “pyramid of deceit” that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried constructed to conclude he's guilty of fraud charges.
A prosecutor has attacked the credibility of Sam Bankman-Fried's testimony at his fraud trial, confronting him over whether he was truthful during his public appearances after FTX filed for bankruptcy last year.
The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly” exhibit is the massive scale of the art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art has sued New York City authorities over their seizure of a headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of their first collection of new original songs in 18 years with a club gig in Manhattan Thursday before a few hundred invited guests.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer did little to dent the credibility of the government’s key witness in the former crypto mogul’s fraud trial Thursday, meandering through a cross-examination of Caroline Ellison that at times left even the judge puzzled and impatient.
Sam Bankman-Fried's trial on charges that he defrauded thousands of customers and investors in his FTX digital coin exchange began with a full day of jury selection.
Four months after a jury found Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E.
Two spinoffs of “The Walking Dead” and the next season of “Interview With the Vampire” will be resuming production despite the Hollywood strikes after reaching a deal with the actors' union.
A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius has been ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
A retired political science professor who traveled in Washington’s elite social circles has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry from his wealthy acquaintances.
There was chaos around Kai Cenat, a Twitch live streamer and YouTuber, during his Playstation 5 giveaway event on Friday at New York City’s Union Square.
New Jersey has filed a federal lawsuit aimed at stopping New York’s plan to charge big tolls to drive into the most visited parts of Manhattan.
The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has been arrested on federal fraud charges alleging that he schemed to defraud customers by misleading them about key aspects of the business.
A federal judge says a columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation jury award against Donald Trump can update a similar lawsuit in a bid for over $10 million more in damages from the ex-president.
