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George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” is about to make theater history.

The New Jersey man convicted of stabbing author Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022 has been sentenced to serve 25 years in prison.

R&B singer Cassie delved into text messages with her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs as she resumed testifying in his sex trafficking trial Friday.

The first NJ Transit rail strike in more than 40 years is now underway, with engineers walking off the job just after the stroke of midnight as they argue for higher wages. Follow live updates below.

No post-season cast departures have been announced, so no emotional farewells were necessary, but Scarlett Johansson and the cast joked in the song that Sarah Sherman would be gone.

The FBI is issuing a new warning about hackers sending text messages and voice mails using AI in order to trick targets into handing over their personal information.

The New York Knicks, for the first time in 25 years, are headed to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Early indications were that the strike hadn’t resulted in major traffic jams or epic lines to get onto buses. Friday’s rail commute into New York from New Jersey is typically the lightest of the week. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace and Andrew Siff report. 

Deemitri Figueroa used to love school. Now, he dreads it. The 12-year-old from New Jersey said he been relentlessly bullied by a particular group of kids so much, he’s scared to go to school every day. “I cry myself to sleep, I don’t feel safe at all going to school,” Deemitri said. He and the boys he said have...

The Marvel and “Jurassic World” actor is back again to host “Saturday Night Live” for her seventh time. Johansson returns for the final episode of season 50. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein talks to the star. 

Every year the SSA releases their list of the most popular baby names. Here’s the top five for the Empire State.