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The NYPD says it is increasing security in the city out of an “abundance of caution” after a series of deadly shootings in Jerusalem. While the department said there is no specific threat, the response has become standard after any significant synagogue attack around the world. It follows a shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem Friday night that l...

A body charred beyond recognition was discovered in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in Queens after firefighters were called overnight to douse the flames, authorities say. Cops responding to a 911 call about a fire near Mott Avenue and Bay 25 Street in Far Rockaway around 2:40 a.m. Saturday says FDNY firefighters saw the body once they exting...

It was Jan. 7, 2023. Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old father and FedEx worker, was on his way home from a park where he went to take sunset photos. Memphis police pulled him over for alleged reckless driving. Three days later, Nichols was dead. He was Black — so were the five fired officers now accused of second-degree murder and other…...

Of the six million Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, there are many whose names are still unknown. But one survivor living in New York City was able to help fill in some of the blanks — thanks to a stranger who works for Google.

Julian Khater, a New Jersey man who joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced Friday to more than six years in prison for using pepper spray to assault police officers — including Brian Sicknick, who died a day after the siege

New York state should pay former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal bills as he defends himself against a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a state trooper, a judge ruled Friday.

(Clips from the footage of Nichols’ arrest can be seen in the video above, which has been edited for time and profanities. Click here to see the full video released by police — Warning: It shows graphic violence that could be disturbing.) Law enforcement and public officials, including those with the Memphis police department, who have seen t...

A proposed settlement between New Jersey and the current owner of a notoriously polluted industrial site is drawing fire from residents of Toms River, where memories of children getting cancer at elevated rates are still a fresh source of pain.

Patrick Clancy is speaking out for the first time, one day after it was announced his baby had succumbed to his injuries, and several days after his other two children died, allegedly at the hands of their mother in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home.

Law enforcement in New York, New Jersey and across the country are expecting a second day of large-scale public action Saturday as protests over 29-year-old Tyre Nichols’ death continue in the wake of the bodycam video release. New York City protests after the Memphis police footage went public Friday night disrupted traffic in the Grand Cent...

Warning: Video contains graphic violence that could be disturbing. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford, Adams Harding and Chris Jose have team coverage.

A timeline of events in the Tyre Nichols case, which sparked state and federal investigations into police brutality and led to murder and other charges against the five officers involved in his arrest this month

The Memphis Police Department released the video Friday. It includes police body cam footage and footage from a surveillance camera on a pole.