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Police unions are livid and demanding New York City’s Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot resign or be fired after she reportedly gave an emphatic rejection when the NYPD sought more face masks for officers. Tracie Strahan with the story.

The former head of the NBA was at a Manhattan restaurant when he collapsed, and was rushed to the hospital where he underwent surgery for a “sudden brain hemorrhage.” NBC New York’s John Chandler reports.

Thousands of people took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators hurled bricks and smoke bombs, breaking a rare pause in violence that has persisted during the six-month-long movement. In the largest of three rallies, a key thoroughfare along the waterfront on the Kowloon side of Victoria...

Suspected EMT killer, Jose Gonzalez, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday for a mental health hearing before the start of his March trial. Gonzalez is accused of running down EMT Yadira Arroyo with her own ambulance. Tracie Strahan reports.

Opening statements got underway in the bombshell so-called rape table case involving U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers. Sarah Wallace reports.

A week after Colin Kaepernick’s NFL workout fell apart, disagreements and distrust about it remain on issues such as its timing, who was invited and who could film the quarterback. In conversations with The Associated Press, representatives from both sides blamed each other for what went wrong on Nov. 16. Kaepernick’s side said the NFL orchestrated a workout as a...

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph was fined $50,000 by the NFL for involvement in a helmet-swinging brawl in a game against the Cleveland Browns.

Myles Garrett looked composed and casual, a stark contrast to the last time he was seen in public. Stylishly dressed in a bright blue suit and black turtleneck, the Cleveland Browns’ star defensive end met Wednesday with an appeals officer in New York in hopes of getting a reduction to an indefinite NFL suspension that has temporarily ended Garrett’s season...

Myles Garrett will soon learn when he can play again. The Cleveland Browns star defensive end, who was suspended indefinitely after the NFL ruled he used a helmet “as a weapon” to strike Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head, will have his appeal heard by the league early this week, a person familiar with the timeline told The Associated...

A 19-year-old faces involuntary manslaughter and weapons charges in the shooting death of his 11-year-old brother in Philadelphia’s Overbrook neighborhood earlier this week.

A teenage girl has been charged with murder in the death of a 60-year-old Northeast Philadelphia man found beaten in his home.

Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Thursday announced plans to retire from his post as the city’s top cop after less than four years leading the department.

Florida lawmakers refused to vote on a request from their county’s library to pay for a subscription to The New York Times, siding with President Trump’s position on the paper and citing concerns over “fake news,” NBC News reported.

The Washington Nationals kept the World Series victory party going at the Washington Capitals’ hockey game Sunday night.

The Washington Nationals kept the World Series victory party going at the Washington Capitals’ hockey game Sunday night.

A Philadelphia judge revoked bail Friday morning for Francisco Ortiz, the 29-year-old man accused of shooting 11-month-old Yazeem Jenkins in North Philadelphia last month.

A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province on Thursday, killing 74 people, and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train’s brakes. Three carriages were consumed by flames from a fire caused by a cooking gas stove and dozens of people...

An administrative hearing to decide whether Missouri can revoke the license for the state’s only abortion clinic concluded Thursday with emotional testimony from a clinic official. The hearing in St. Louis before a commissioner with the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission was expected to last five days but wrapped up a day early. A ruling isn’t expected until February at the...

On the seventh anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey’s governor committed the state to a far-reaching plan to deal with climate change and protect itself from future storms.

MTA subway tunnels were badly damaged from the destructive storm, and it has taken the transit agency years just to come back from it — and their work still isn’t nearly done. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.