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A lawyer allied with Donald Trump was expected to try to discredit Michael Cohen Monday before a New York grand jury, giving the former president an indirect opportunity to make a case that he shouldn’t face criminal charges over hush money paid during his 2016 campaign. Robert Costello was asked to appear by the Manhattan district attorney&#...

All eyes are on Manhattan this week for the possibility that Donald Trump could be indicted by a grand jury investigating hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. The NYPD was seen erecting barricades Monday outside Trump Tower and Manhattan Criminal Court following the former president’s weekend c...

A grand jury in Manhattan has been hearing testimony since January in the case of hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels allegedly authorized by Donald Trump in 2016. Prosecutors have been investigating since Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen admitted in 2018 that he paid Daniels $130,000 bef...

Amazon did not alert its New York City customers that they were being monitored by technology that tracks their bodies’ shapes and sizes as well as their palm prints, a lawsuit filed Thursday alleges. In a class-action suit, lawyers for Alfredo Perez said that the company failed to tell visitors to Amazon Go convenience stores that the technol...

A man is dead and others were recovering at hospitals Saturday after being stabbed during a fight overnight in Brooklyn, authorities said. The three people were stabbed in East Williamsburg around 3 a.m. near Knickerbocker Avenue, police said. A 24-year-old man was stabbed in the neck and a 26-year-old man in the torso. Each of the victims was take...

A bizarre foot chase miraculously ended without injury after a man brandishing two loaded firearms sent people panicking down New York City streets and had cops in hot pursuit. Federal authorities said the tense altercation unfolded after Jason Fleming, 39, walked into a crowded Chelsea bodega Thursday afternoon. He stood in the doorway waving arou...

The pilot behind Friday’s emergency beach landing on Long Island has been revealed. A New York state assemblyman was piloting the single-engine Beechcraft when his aircraft started experiencing engine failure. The pilot and a passenger on board both survived the unplanned touchdown on a beach in Shoreham. “This afternoon, I went out to ...

A five-hour-long standoff between police in Paterson, New Jersey, and a well-known anti-violence worker in the city — that ended with officers fatally shooting him in his brother’s apartment — began with sobbing pleas from the man’s mother to end the ordeal. Details released this week by the New Jersey attorney general’s office, including hours of ...

One family is angry after losing five members to a deadly house fire in Spring Valley, despite concerns that were raised about unsafe conditions. Sarah Wallace reports.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are among a chorus of state and federal elected officials who say first-term Assemblyman Juan Ardila of Queens in New York City should resign.

Besieged Republican Rep. George Santos is carrying on in Congress despite calls for him to resign after he admitted to fabricating many aspects of his life story.

A federal jury in New York began hearing testimony in the murder trial of a former New York police officer accused of masterminding the killing of four people — one strangled to death with a zip tie and three others shot execution-style — over money in a drug operation. All four men were found buried on the property of the…

Local, state, and federal law enforcement and security agencies are preparing for the possibility that former President Donald J. Trump could be indicted as early as next week, according to five senior officials familiar with the discussions. Law enforcement agencies are conducting preliminary security assessments, the officials say, and are discus...