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At the Tokyo Olympics, Jessica Springsteen — daughter of rock legend Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band member Patti Scialfa — is a first-time Olympian making her own name in the equestrian discipline of jumping

The American women won an epic quarterfinal match against the Netherlands on Friday, avenging a shocking loss on penalty five years ago.

A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire Saturday, after the Biden administration extended the original date by a month

Lawmakers in a suburban New York county are set to vote Monday on a proposal that would allow police officers to sue protesters and collect financial damages

Here are all the must-watch events (and how to watch them all live) on Day 9 of the Tokyo Olympics.

Ian Kinsler, Danny Valencia, Ryan Lavarnway and Ty Kelly are immersing in their Jewish heritage and helping build baseball in Israel

Thousands of fake temporary license plates are being used by criminals to literally try to get away with murder and other crimes, according to NYPD officials, turning getaway vehicles into “ghost cars.”

Sam Mattis is making his Olympic debut in Tokyo this summer, but the 2021 discus throw bronze winner at trials has already made a name for himself on and off the track, though not all know the intensity of his journey to get to the Games. The 27-year-old New Jerseyan who graduated from East Brunswick High School and went on…

A man who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list is going to prison for 31 and a half years for killing his fiancée and her dog because he did not want her to know that he had lost his job. A judge in New Jersey on Thursday sentenced Lamont Stephenson, 46, without the possibility of parole. Stephenson pleaded…

A tanker ship allegedly used in an illegal scheme to smuggle oil to North Korea has a brand-new owner: the U.S. government

Here are all the must-watch events (and how to watch them all live) on Day 8 of the Tokyo Olympics.

Delta is now the most dominant COVID-19 strain in New York City — and it’s not even close.

The U.S. women’s national soccer team takes on the Netherlands (thanks to Australia) in a must-win quarterfinal Olympic matchup. And they need our help.

I woke up this morning and looked over to the table and saw my gold medal and I just smiled. As a young girl I watched and dreamed of being in the Olympics and winning a gold medal, but this is far beyond what I ever imagined. Starting with how much heavier the medal is than I thought it would…

The first hints that this was Italy’s year came when Italian band Maneskin won the popular Eurovision Song Contest in May

Here are five things to know about five Olympic athletes everyone is asking about, including New Jersey’s own world-record holder Sydney McLaughlin as track and field events get underway in Tokyo

The age-range of competitors in skateboarding’s Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games is remarkably broad and testifies to the sport’s inclusivity

The American silver medalist recently opened up about her struggles with bipolar disorder.

Forget boxing or rugby. The most hardcore sport at the Tokyo Games may just be artistic swimming.

In a bombshell interview with NBC New York, Rudy Giuliani blasted the months-long federal probe accusing him of illegal Ukraine dealings as “lawless,” saying he’s “more than willing to go to jail” — but those who put him there will “suffer the consequences in heaven.”

Severe weather returns to the tri-state Thursday as a warm front approaches the region, Storm Team 4 says.

About 30,000 people are spitting into tiny plastic vials every day at the Tokyo Olympics in a routine that’s grown crucial in going ahead with the pandemic-era Games

A New York City Council member has been expelled following his guilty plea to federal charges of evading $82,000 in taxes

The fragile nature of an Olympics during the pandemic came into sharp focus when the entire Australian track team spent time in a brief quarantine after American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks pulled out of the Tokyo Games because of a positive COVID-19 test

An upstate New York traffic stop led to a Bronx woman’s arrest on charges she hid more than a pound of cocaine in her baby’s diaper bag. New York State Police said they stopped Shante Pleasant, 33, on Tuesday on I-87 in Coxsackie for a traffic violation. She had two daughters with her in the car — a 13-year-old and…

Sarah Feinberg is leaving her role as interim president of NYC Transit, she said Thursday, with the subway boss’s promised future as chair of the MTA in limbo. Feinberg told the New York Post her last day would be Friday. She told the paper it was a good time to move on and spend more time with her family....

Wegmans, one of the most beloved grocery chains in America, will open its first Manhattan store in 2023, the company said Thursday. The store will be at 770 Broadway, the site of the recently shuttered Astor Place Kmart. It is expected to open in the second half of that year. The 30-year lease for the street and lower levels of…

They are world champions and some of the best of the best in their sport, but that doesn’t mean people know everything about them — especially those who edit their Wikipedia pages.

U.S. health officials say the highly contagious delta version of the coronavirus is behind changes to mask guidelines

The U.S. seeks to become the first country to win four consecutive rowing gold medals in the women’s eight

“Satanic Lives Matter,” “F—k The System,” “Broke BestFriends” and “Money Slut Mafia” were all businesses approved for PPP loans worth thousands of dollars — even though the latter three all filed for their state incorporations after the Paycheck Protection Program was launched

Vehicle traffic between New Jersey and New York City is approaching pre-pandemic levels while public transit ridership continues to lag, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that reflect a regional trend.

A former member of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s inner circle who was charged in his sex trafficking enterprise avoided prison at sentencing Wednesday after prosecutors cited her extraordinary cooperation

The cuneiform tablet, written in the ancient language of Akkadian and dating from around 1500 B.C., was illegally transported to the U.S. in 2003 and again in 2014, prosecutors said in a federal complaint.

A village in the Hamptons agreed to pay its outgoing police chief more than $774,000 The agreement calculates 686 unused days at $1,095 per day, plus almost $23,000 in retroactive per diem pay.

A 22-year-old man died when he jumped into the Erie Canal to save his family’s dog, police said.

Dutch archer Sjef van den Berg has been suffering from competition-related headaches for quite some time

Eric Adams’ outreach comes after years of battles between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York business community.

It comes as the delta variant-driven surge fuels months-high COVID numbers in certain parts of the country.

For decades, they were told to shake it off or toughen up — to set aside the doubt, or the demons, and focus on the task at hand: winning. Dominating. Getting it done. For years, Simone Biles was one of the very best at that. Suddenly — to some, shockingly — she decided she wasn’t in the right headspace. By…

The cab driver said he saw two cars that appeared to be racing one another on the highway before the shot went off.

After nearly five years away from the sport, Mary Cain is returning to the track — this time as the founder of a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the lives of professional female athletes and young girls through running

Breaking’s roots can be found in the Bronx, where street dancing emerged as a form of expression in the 1970s as a means of escape amid chaos for minority communities that felt mistreated — and leaders of that movement fear ceding control of the art form to a body such as the IOC could cloud breaking’s culture

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An appeals court has upheld the conviction and 40-year prison term given to a New Yorker convicted of providing material support to Hezbollah by seeking targets in New York City for terrorist attacks

An underground explosion engulfed a Queens sidewalk, sending flames shooting several feet into the air and injuring a man who happened to be standing on the grate at the precise wrong moment, surveillance video exclusively obtained by NBC New York showed.

A South Carolina man has been convicted of abducting and murdering the woman who mistook his car for her Uber ride in 2019.

When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and “couldn’t be happier,” his coming out was an act of courage that, with its rarity, also exposed how the top echelons of sports weren’t seen as a safe space by the vast majority of LGBTQ athletes. Back then, the number of gay Olympians who felt able...

One local hospital says they’re now treating at least a couple of young children every month for toxic exposure to edibles – and they’re warning parents to lock up their pot treats.

R. Kelly’s lawyers say they’ll fight prosecutors’ bid to tell jurors about allegations beyond the actual charges at his upcoming federal sex trafficking trial