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U.S. stocks are drifting higher Wednesday as Wall Street waits to hear what the Federal Reserve will say in the afternoon about where interest rates may be heading. The S&P 500 was up 0.3% in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 129 points, or 0.3%, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.5% high...

The Metropolitan Transit Authority will stop selling and refilling those formerly-ubiquitous MetroCards by the end of the year in favor of the OMNY system, MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber told Crain’s New York Business Wednesday. MetroCards have been around since 1994, but now seem destined to go the way of the subway token, which stopped bein...

As NBC Connecticut continues to dig into the case of a man who claims he was held captive by his stepmother inside a Waterbury home for 20 years, we’re hearing from former classmates of the victim who are sharing their memories of him. Louis Collette remembers asking about the man, then a young student at the now-closed Barnard Elementary School......

The dissident writer testified for more than two hours at the trial of two men charged with trying to kidnap and kill her in 2022. Prosecutors say the murder plot was orchestrated from Iran to stop her from speaking out about human rights abuses in her home country.

According to the company, they were first notified in February of a cat who contracted bird flu and recovered in Colorado after eating Savage Pet food. Testing by Colorado State University using PCR testing found results “non-negative” and were sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa for additional testing. Sav...

A New York City man was sentenced to life in prison after requesting nude photos from a New Jersey teen and having sex with her in a Jersey Shore hotel room.

Jury selection began Tuesday in the bribery trial of Nadine Menendez, whose husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was sentenced to 11 years in prison earlier this year for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold and cash. Nadine Menendez, 58, was originally scheduled to face trial last year with the 71-year-old Democrat, but a br...

The 2025 MLB season is underway with the Tokyo Series, but when is Opening Day? Here’s all the info about the start of the regular season.

Authorities had to rescue a man in his 30s or 40s who somehow ended up sandwiched in between two buildings in Brooklyn, officials said Tuesday. Firefighters responding to a call shortly before 4 a.m. about a person pinned against a building found the man wedged between the structures on Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick. The size of the gap wasn&#82...

A woman was found shot to death near some train tracks in Paterson. Adam Harding reports.

The Atlantic City Airshow has been canceled for 2025, officials announced.

Chris Jose with the latest details from Staten Island for NBC New York. 

Governor Murphy met with juniors and seniors in high school in Newark, NJ to encourage them to vote in the upcoming election. Charles Watson reports.