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Two men have been charged in the separate deaths of two children — a 3-year-old from Brooklyn and a 3-month-old in Manhattan — this week, the NYPD said Friday. In the most recent case, police say Jaylynn Evans, of Brooklyn, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Queens, where she had been brought unresponsive with no obvious signs of trau...

A screaming, unmasked heckler interrupted the start — and later additional parts — of a briefing by health officials in Brooklyn Friday as they provided an update on emerging COVID clusters there and in Queens that have become so severe they may prompt the first new shutdowns in New York City in months. The heckler identified himself as...

A Brooklyn bodega owner was stabbed in the neck several times by a man who police say has been to the store a handful of times before. Family members identify the owner of the corner store in Cypress Hills as Shadim Uddin, a man known as the kind of guy who would let people take a dollar off their items…

Three young people died early Friday morning in a single-vehicle crash on the Cross County Parkway, local authorities said. A 16-year-old girl and two men, ages 22 and 24, died after their vehicle crashed in the center lane of the Cross County Parkway around 2:30 a.m., Westchester County Police said in a statement. Officials believe all three victi...

Annabel Sen had it all: a degree from Brown University, a Manhattan finance job and an acceptance to Harvard to get her Master’s Degree. But then a stormy afternoon put everything on hold. Sen was crossing the street near Union Square on Jan. 25 when a lounge chair from a balcony got picked up by the wind and landed on…

The area has had the name for more than a century, but town council members considered a name change after a visitor from NYC said it was offensive and disrespectful to the memory of WWII veterans buried in graves in the nearby countryside

Health inspectors found safety shortcomings at 77 New York nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, including basic infection-control violations like failing to have staff wear masks or wash their hands

A federal appeals court didn’t immediately rule Friday after hearing arguments in President Donald Trump’s long-running fight to prevent a top New York prosecutor from getting his tax returns

U.S. health authorities warned Thursday that a salmonella outbreak across 10 states has been linked to imported mushrooms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says most of the 41 reported cases of salmonella were found in California but one case was reported in Connecticut and New York City, and two cases were reported in New Jersey. Off...

Authorities on Thursday arrested a 20-year-man in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed an 11-year-old boy in Troy earlier this month. Police in the upstate New York town identified the suspect as Jahquay Brown, and said he was facing a murder charge. He had an arraignment on Thursday afternoon and was in custody, but no information on an...

New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday passed a $32.7 billion budget, hiking taxes on millionaires and businesses and authorizing borrowing of up to $4.5 billion to avoid painful cuts stemming from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The budget passed the Democrat-led Senate and Assembly and heads next to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who’s expected t...

New Jersey lawmakers have passed legislation banning single-use plastic and paper bags, as well as Styrofoam containers.

New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson said Thursday he will not run to replace Bill de Blasio as mayor in 2021, revealing an ongoing battle with depression as part of a candid and transparent statement on his campaign. Johnson, a Democrat first elected to City Council as a representative for the 3rd District in 2013 who has held the…...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are calling for a Congressional oversights investigation into what they say is the Trump Administration’s politicization of government functions that impeded the country’s appropriate response to the ongoing pandemic. “Rather than turning to the advice and direction of ...

Donald Trump’s niece followed up her best-selling, tell-all book with a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the president and two of his siblings cheated her out of millions of dollars over several decades while squeezing her out of the family business. Mary L. Trump sought unspecified damages in the lawsuit, filed in a state court in New York City. “Fr...

With less than 40 days to go until the election, Pennsylvania is poised to emerge as the most crucial battleground on the map, one President Donald Trump may not be able to be win another term without

The NYPD said that a mother who disappeared from her Brooklyn home, along with her three young children, has been found safe. Crystal Johnson was reported missing on Friday, after being seen with her children at their home on Van Siclen Avenue in East New York, police said. Her children — two sons Devine, 6, and Sincere, 5, and their…

Being open since 1829, Neir’s Tavern in Queens has seen quite a lot. But now as it continues to weather the burden that COVID-19 has placed on restaurants and bars, it has a new fight to deal with

Parents often say they’d do anything for their children, even take a bullet. Few ever have to face such danger, but when bullets started flying inside a car dealership in the Bronx Monday night, one father did exactly that

The latest hot spot for the coronavirus in the United States is the heartland, where cases are rising in a worrying trend

New York’s attorney general is recommending the New York Police Department get out of the business of routine traffic enforcement

A former college entrance exam administrator pleaded guilty Friday to taking bribes to help wealthy parents rig their kids’ test scores as part of a college admissions bribery scheme. Lisa “Niki” Williams, 46, a former employee of the Houston Independent School District, is among about 40 people who have admitted to charges in the...

A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September

Google’s parent company has reached a $310 million settlement in a shareholder lawsuit over its treatment of allegations of sexual misconduct by executives

A group of 25 residents from remote Easter Island has been stranded far from home for six months now due to the coronavirus

Joe Biden had no public events scheduled Thursday, as he concentrated on preparing for next week’s debate

The man portrayed as a hero in the movie “Hotel Rwanda” has admitted in court that he backed a rebel group, but denied that he supported any violence or killings

As the fisherman brought his line back in and it neared the surface, he discovered that it was no fish at the end of his line — but rather a body

The business leaders say their critique of homeless hotels is different from that of Upper West Side residents, partly because there are far more shelters clustered in Midtown West than other parts of the city

Even as New York City officials combat a significant uptick in COVID-19 cases in multiple neighborhoods, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday it was already time to start looking to and planning for the future. “I don’t want for a moment to forget what we experienced. It’s unforgettable, very sadly, March, April, one of the worst times in the......

Gov. Phil Murphy held Facebook Live chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Thursday morning, in which the doctor gave the state some welcome good news.

Longtime baseball executive Sandy Alderson will return to the New York Mets as team president if Steve Cohen’s purchase of the club is approved by Major League Baseball owners

A letter from the school states a student threw something out of the bus window that hit a car, the driver of which then followed the bus to the school — but what happened next is not exactly clear

Asian shares have advanced, cheered by a modest rally on Wall Street and rising hopes for fresh stimulus for the U.S. economy

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, University of California Regent Richard Blum, has been named by the state auditor’s office as one of the regents involved in an admissions scandal where UC wrongly admitted dozens of students as favors to well-connected people

At least three MTA employees secretly turned a storage room below one of the platforms at Grand Central Terminal into a private “man cave,” complete with a futon, TV, exercise equipment, a fridge and beds, the agency’s inspector general said Thursday. “Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime...

Many American workers applying for unemployment benefits after being thrown out of a job by the coronavirus face a new complication: States’ efforts to prevent fraud have delayed or disrupted their payments

Officials from six states and the District of Columbia have asked a federal judge to halt what they say are slowdowns at the U.S. Postal Service that threaten the upcoming presidential election

A 51-year-old Queens man has been indicted on murder as a hate crime and other charges for allegedly stabbing a 20-year-old Brooklyn man to death on Labor Day, prosecutors said Thursday. James Williams, of Far Rockaway, is accused of using a homophobic slur before plunging a knife into the victim’s chest. He and victim Massiah Berkley were sitting ...

Smoke from the West Coast wildfires has tainted grapes in some of the nation’s most celebrated wine regions

Protesters took to the streets throughout New York City Wednesday in the hours after the grand jury indictment in the Breonna Taylor case, in which none of the three officers were charged directly in her death. Small groups of demonstrators started marching along streets in Soho early in the evening, making their way down Broadway. Chanting “Say he...

Click here to jump to information specifically for your state:NEW YORK | NEW JERSEY | CONNECTICUT The 2020 general election will be Tuesday, Nov. 3, and it will be much different this year than any election in history, thanks to COVID-19. Every state has set itself up a little bit differently as far as voter registration, mail-in balloting and poll...

Children who had preschool cut short in the spring are now being held out of kindergarten at higher than normal rates as many school districts begin the year online.

The country’s largest police department is launching a new pilot, slated to go citywide by the end of the year, that focuses on one topic: how is the NYPD doing? The pilot program which is focused initially on East Harlem and Jamaica, Queens seeks to elicit feedback from the public when they visit NYPD precincts and interact with police....

The latest data paints a clearer picture as to how New Yorkers are doing since Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mask order went into effect –mandating MTA riders to mask up or pay up — and the good news is that the majority of people are adhering to the rule. According to the MTA data, nearly 3,800 interactions have taken place since…...

A 23-year-old Long Island woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in what prosecutors have described as the “barbaric” barbell murder of her own mother, authorities said Thursday. Francesca Kiel, of Lynbrook pleaded guilty in July to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 56-year-old Theresa Kiel who was rendered ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is ignoring criticism and forging ahead with events that have overtly political overtones ahead of the presidential election

As a man prepared to pop the question to his girlfriend on the Brooklyn Bridge, his photographer stepped out into bike traffic to get the perfect shot – and got plowed into by a bicyclist

A nurse in Brooklyn has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Amy O’Sullivan works at Wyckoff Hospital and she treated the first COVID-19 patient in New York City who also became the city’s first death back in March, according to Time magazine’s list of the most influential people of 2020. The 18-year nur...

The changes include: No large wheeled carts, like shopping carts; No waiting in a paid fare zone for more than an hour; And solidifying the rule that forbids defecating on subway trains, stations or buses

The upcoming New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “a virtually enhanced celebration,” the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.

President Donald Trump and his Senate allies are misrepresenting the facts about Supreme Court nominations as he pushes ahead with a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In renderings, the proposed building looks as if it’s a cruise ship is docked off the island, but instead would actually be a massive new living and working complex that extends 160 floors into the sky

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that “urgent action” is needed to try to contain a significant uptick in COVID-19 cases, which he says is affecting “multiple neighborhoods simultaneously” and could spiral to others. Six neighborhoods are experiencing COVID case increases, though four have accounted for one in five new on...

Two Republican-led Senate committees have issued a politically charged report alleging that the work Joe Biden’s son did in Ukraine constituted a conflict of interest for the Obama administration at a time when Biden was engaged in Ukraine policy as vice president

A Massachusetts man charged with killing an Appalachian Trail hiker and attacking another with a hunting knife in Virginia plans to use an insanity defense at his trial

A former member of a Black radical group who was convicted in the 1971 killings of two NYPD officers has been granted parole after more than four decades behind bars. Following a hearing earlier this month, the state Board of Parole approved the release of Anthony Bottom from prison on or before Oct. 20, officials said Wednesday. His parole follows...

A judge ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump has until Oct. 7 to speak with New York investigators probing the family’s businesses

Fall has arrived as New Jersey continues to deal with the spread of the novel coronavirus with hundreds of new cases reported Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Opera will skip an entire season for the first time in its nearly 140-year history and intends to return from the pandemic layoff next September with the company’s first presentation of a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” This season was to have started this week, but the company announced June 1 it......

An 8-year-old girl was shot in the abdomen inside an apartment in the South Bronx Wednesday morning, according to the NYPD. The girl’s mother allegedly told officers a man broke into their apartment, fired a shot and ran. The incident took place roughly around 9:30 a.m. inside the Patterson Houses. The girl is expected to recover, police say....

In an area the city’s Health Department is calling the ‘Ocean Parkway Cluster,’ the positivity rate has climbed to nearly 5 percent — and when combined with three other neighborhoods, the area is responsible for 1 in 5 COVID cases citywide

Police are looking for a man they say attacked a good Samaritan who awoke a sleeping subway rider when she noticed a theft attempt on the train over the weekend, authorities say. The woman was riding a southbound ‘D’ train from Columbus Circle around 5:30 a.m. Sunday when she saw the man try to take a backpack from a snoozing…...

Family members of incarcerated New Yorkers and corrections officers are calling on the state’s lawmakers and governor to ensure prisons and jails won’t again face a staffing shortage, barriers to social distancing and dangerous rationing of protective gear ahead of the next COVID-19 surge or pandemic. Testing of people with symptoms at the state’s ...

The clear, plastic bubble has a tent-like enclosure with sides that can zip open, and it has become very popular with customers as restaurants hope the outdoor dining deadline will be extended

People inside are sent fleeing for safety, while the startled father grabs his children and pulls them to the ground in an instinctive move, covering them with his body to put himself between them and the danger

Colorful birdhouses installed on the trees along a New York City street were intended to be a charming addition amid the pandemic, but it has sparked outrage from at least one neighbor who says they’re an eyesore and that they’re “choking the life” out of the trees. A couple of weeks ago, a woman was seen on video tearing......

A New York University student raised alarm on social media after a professor for her online course on propaganda “spent an entire class period telling students that wearing masks don’t prevent the spread of COVID-19.” In several tweets, Julia Jackson on Sunday said NYU communications professor Mark Crispin Miller is using his posi...

A fiery car crash on railroad tracks in Rockland County Sunday afternoon killed two people, including a high school student, injured another and suspended the NJ Transit rail service into Monday morning.

One man said his parents were targeted repeatedly, having the sign knocked down, trash thrown on their lawn and verbally harassed as people drive by; another woman said that she was verbally accosted by an angry man about the sign on her yard

Shares are mostly lower in Asia as investors keep a wary eye on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the economic outlook

The body of a child has been found in the Harlem River near Randall’s Island, where a 5-year-old boy went missing after falling from a tree over the weekend, the NYPD said Tuesday. Police said later that the body was that of 5-year-old Brendan Mitchell. Authorities had been searching for the boy since he fell into the water Saturday...

The man who killed John Lennon in 1980 says he was seeking glory and deserved the death penalty for a “despicable” act.

It has been nearly three months since tri-state governors Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy and Ned Lamont implemented a travel restriction in an effort to protect their states’ hard-earned progress against COVID-19 as cases surged elsewhere across the country. Thirty-five U.S. “hotspots” are on the list as of Tuesday, with Cuomo adding A...

Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided U.S. House have voted to take a government shutdown off the table this fall, giving a big, bipartisan vote to a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night

The art dealers and suspected fraudsters allegedly used the identities of deceased collectors to create the fake histories for antiquities they sold

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is joining the ranks of city cultural institutions welcoming the return of visitors. The museum, a former aircraft carrier on Manhattan’s west side, will re-open to the general public on Friday, with coronavirus restrictions. Visitors will have to buy tickets in advance, and the museum will be open Wednesday...

Inmates struggled to socially distance, wash their hands, access hand sanitizer and get masks and other face coverings in the early days of the pandemic, according to some who were locked up at the time

A spokesman for the government of the People’s Republic of China dismissed allegations that an NYPD officer allegedly acting as its agent as “pure fabrication” in a statement issued Tuesday, a day after the cop’s arrest. “The indictment is full of hedging terms such as ‘seems’ and ‘possibly,’ in...

A federal lawsuit accuses New York City and thousands of other school districts of defrauding special needs students by depriving them of hands-on therapies during the pandemic. According to the lawsuit, school districts across the nation have been improperly collecting federal education subsidies meant to fund things like physical therapy, occupat...

Carolina is accused of assaulting, battering, threatening and defaming three people while at Smith Point Beach, while Cardi B and Diaz were also named in the lawsuit for defamation and civil rights violations

A New York woman was found dead in a boat, and a man, who is a police officer, is seriously ill in what authorities suspect in carbon monoxide poisoning. Friends of Blair M. Dodge, 34, went looking for her on Monday when she did not come into work, and found her and William R. LaShomb unresponsive in a boat tied…

President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will face off on the Supreme Court, the coronavirus pandemic and race and violence in the nation’s cities next week when they meet for their first presidential debate

The suspect, who was charged with two hate crimes, was seen on video walking along a street when she allegedly hurled racial slurs at a Black female jogger before throwing a glass bottle at her

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city will celebrate the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by naming a building after her in Brooklyn, the borough of her birth

A 22-year-old Bronx man has been indicted on murder and other charges in the June stray bullet death of a 17-year-old high school basketball star and academic standout who ended up with a deadly wound to the back at a barbecue. Nahjim Luke was arraigned Tuesday in the June 28 shooting death of Brandon Hendricks, who was killed just days…...

The year 2020 was supposed to be a big one for the Pilgrims. Dozens of events — from art exhibits and festivals to lectures and a maritime regatta featuring the Mayflower II, a full-scale replica refitted over the past three years at a cost of more than $11 million — were planned to mark the 400th anniversary of the religious…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed cautious optimism that the U.S. economy is rebounding from the pandemic-induced recession with federal support but that more help from the government is likely needed

A giant clock in New York City used to tell the time, but now it will tell you how much time the world has left to stop the devastating damage of climate change. In honor of Climate Week, a coalition of scientists and activists reset the digital clock with red numbers seen on the side of a building in Union…

Police are looking for a man they say accosted another man using a bathroom in a Bronx Burlington Coat Factory last week, putting him in a chokehold before stealing $40 from his pocket and running off, authorities say. The 63-year-old victim was in the restroom of the store on Exterior Street in the middle of the afternoon Friday when the…...

The pair have altered subway signs to honor Aretha Franklin, David Bowie and Prince after their recent deaths, and the initial tribute to the Brooklyn-born Supreme Court Justice was taken down within 24 hours

Applications are now open for the new COVID-19 child care tuition assistance program the Murphy Administration has created to help New Jersey families with child care costs as schools open remotely. The $150 million program will provide child care tuition assistance to New Jersey families with incomes up to $75,000 that are in need o...

Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday singled out two New Jersey counties home to growing coronavirus cases as the state’s total surpasses 200,000. For over a week, the largest increases in the state were in Ocean and neighboring Monmouth counties. Masks are still mandated indoors in New Jersey, but its activity elsewhere has state and local officials w...