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New Yorkers are getting to vote early for the first time in a general presidential election, an attractive option for anyone worried about socially distancing on Election Day or concerned about voting by mail. In-person voting starts Saturday at 280 voting locations statewide and will last through Nov. 1. Poll workers then get a one-day reprieve be...

When discussing the COVID-19 pandemic and the response to it, the president said that New York City is “a ghost town,” criticizing how restaurants and other businesses have had to close amid the pandemic

President Donald Trump says Sudan will start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so in the run-up to Election Day

NYU Langone Medical Center will remove the family name Sackler from its biomedical institute after the Sackler’s company, Purdue Pharma, agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for marketing the addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic. “In view of yesterday’s U.S. Department of Justice ann...

A gas station in Stamford is now asking customers to briefly take off their masks before entering their store, but it’s not for any political reasons — it’s for the store’s safety

The U.S. set a single-day record for new coronavirus cases on Thursday with 77,640 reported infections nationwide, topping the previous record of 75,723 set on July 29, NBC News reports.

A man who was arrested in North Carolina on child pornography charges this year had a van full of guns and drove within 4 miles of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s home with a checklist to “execute” him, authorities alleged.

A teenage thrill-seeker triggered an hours-long traffic nightmare and a massive police response Thursday evening after scaling to the top of the Queensboro Bridge — and livestreamed the whole stunt.

Ghouls and goblins and great pumpkins — oh my! The New York Botanical Garden has been celebrating autumn with the Great Pumpkin Path, which kicked off earlier this month. However, on Saturday, gigantic pumpkins, some of which are the largest in the world, will arrive at NYBG where they will be on display through Nov. 1. These humongous pumpki...

A backstretch worker at New York’s Belmont Park caused the death of a $200,000 racehorse by releasing the filly onto blacktop in retaliation for being fired, where she fell and broke her leg, prosecutors said Thursday

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has realigned cluster zone maps in Brooklyn and Queens, intensifying restrictions in one red zone area while easing them in others. He did not alter the maps for Rockland, Orange or Broome counties Wednesday, citing the need for more progress even while acknowledging some has been made. The governor also added two new micro-cluste...

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Commuters were shocked to see a BMW sedan fly through chainlink fence and fall about 20 feet, crashing next to the tracks of the Metro-North line. No trains were running through the Pleasantville station when the vehicle crashed just feet from the tracks, suspending service between North White Plains and Mount Kisco for almost 30 minutes, transit o...