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Four private citizens orbiting Earth in a SpaceX capsule are set to perform the first private spacewalk on Thursday morning.

A tech billionaire performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts — until now. New Jersey-born entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s new spacesuits on his chartered flight. The daring spacewalk also saw SpaceX engineer Sarah...

A beloved New York City event, the annual Feast of San Gennaro kicks off Thursday in Little Italy. Music, food, drinks and other live events are all on the calendar for this year’s feast. There are even cannoli, zeppole and meatball eating contests on the itinerary for all those who love to witness (or partake) in eating competitions. These.....

Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who posted last year that 9/11 was an “inside job,” joined Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in New York and Pennsylvania on Wednesday as he commemorated the anniversary of the attacks.

During Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for video of the year at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the “Fortnight” singer sent love to boyfriend Travis Kelce.

A New York City police officer has reached a $175,000 settlement with the city in a lawsuit that illuminated the use of the “courtesy cards” that officers dole out to friends and relatives to get out of traffic stops and other minor infractions, according to an agreement filed in Manhattan federal court Monday. The deal brings an end to a...

It’s always a busy week, we get it. We know certain types of stories tend to dominate the headlines and your newsfeeds. In the New York Schmear, we highlight the bigger feature-y news stories of the week you may have missed. Did you hear the one about NYC selling apartments on the Upper West Side for under $175,000? Or the…

WalletHub ranked the 50 states across 30 key metrics ranging from income growth, unemployment, depression rate and more.

Justin Timberlake is due in court on Friday, where he is expected to plead guilty to a lesser charge related to his Hamptons intoxicated driving arrest from a few months ago, according to a Suffolk district attorney spokesperson.

Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the United States, some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U.S. elections. But that could be about to change. A federal judge in Washington has struck down a decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit a company from offering what amounts to bets on the o...

A New Jersey high school was briefly put on lockdown Wednesday due to a report of an unauthorized juvenile in the area, according to police. Officers cleared the area. They determined the person had left the vicinity. It wasn’t immediately clear who they were looking for. “All appropriate measures were taken to ensure the safety of the ...

Harris and Trump met for the first time in Philadelphia Tuesday night. They crossed paths with each other in Manhattan Wednesday morning at the city’s annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when al-Qaida hijackers crashed four jetliners into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in southwest Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001. Here is an outline of the primary events that transpired, starting with the first plane hitting the North Tower, according to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Five hijackers crash ...

Kristin Marino and Maya Peretz are two young women, bonded by a profound loss. Marino was just 3 years old when her father — Kenneth Joseph Marino, an FDNY firefighter for Rescue Company 1 in Hell’s Kitchen — was killed on Sept. 11, 2001. At least once a year, she goes to the World Trade Center reflecting pools to pay…