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Manhattan’s district attorney has obtained former president Donald Trump’s tax returns after a years-long legal battle. A spokesman for DA Cy Vance told NBC News Thursday morning that the long-fought subpoena for his records from Mazars USA was enforced Monday. Vance’s office was able to enforce the subpoena after the U.S. Supreme...

The acting head of the Capitol Police acknowledges the department had intelligence warning of a “significant likelihood for violence” on Jan. 6 but officers were not prepared for the massive armed insurrection that would follow.

Scientists used a data modeling framework to see the effectiveness of different COVID intervention and prevention policies, and found that travel restrictions only really work during the early stages of a pandemic

The CDC is warning people not to eat or sell any queso fresco sold under the El Abuelito brand name, after 10 people in four states were sickened with listeria. The new guidance expands on a recall announced last week for queso fresco products under the brand names El Abuelito, Rio Grande and Rio Lindo, manufactured by the Paterson, NJ-based…...

In a third round of arrests since June of last year, six more members and associates of the Bully Gang, including both a current and a former New York City correction officer, were arrested early Thursday by federal and city investigators, law enforcement sources say. The Bully Gang is a New York City-based street gang that traffics in cocaine...

Police are investigating the death of a 78-year-old woman who was found with a “severe” laceration to the head in a second-floor apartment in Queens Wednesday evening, authorities say. The woman, identified as Maria Diaz, was discovered by her daughter, who apparently hadn’t heard from her and was checking on her to make sure she ...

Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday vehemently denied sexual harassment allegations leveled by a former staffer, who claims the governor was both physically and verbally inappropriate with her.

While the brother of Daniel Prude said video recorded by Rochester police body cameras offered irrefutable proof of a crime and was in disbelief over the lack of charges, Prude’s son said the outcome wasn’t surprising given other findings in police deaths involving Black people

The tri-state continues to take major steps forward in the fight against the coronavirus — including opening up who is eligible for vaccination as well as setting up mass vaccination sites to keep the process moving quickly. Millions are already eligible for shots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut — with eligibility expanding on a...

A young child was struck and killed by a school bus driver in Brooklyn who fled the scene Wednesday, law enforcement sources with knowledge of the case said. According to the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad, at around 8:28 a.m. a full-size yellow school bus picked up a 9-year-old boy on South Fifth Street in Williamsburg, when a second 6...

A 29-year-old Brooklyn man has been charged in a 52-count indictment in seven separate attacks on women in East Williamsburg dating back to August, prosecutors said Wednesday. He allegedly targeted them both because they were women and because they were “light-skinned,” according to investigators. Khari Covington faces charges of assaul...

The government dropped drunken driving and reckless driving charges against Bruce Springsteen on Wednesday stemming from an incident in November, admitting that the rocker’s blood-alcohol level was so low that it didn’t warrant the charges

Police are looking for a person seen hitting a 2-year-old boy multiple times in the face on a subway in Harlem over the weekend, authorities say. The suspect and toddler were on a northbound C train entering the 116th Street station around 3 p.m. Saturday when witnesses saw the child being attacked. The toddler suffered redness to the face and&#823...