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New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo left radio listeners stunned after he dropped the n-word during an on-air conversation that started with Medicaid and shifted to discrimination against Italian-Americans.

New York’s Democratic governor is facing calls for action as prescription drug costs rise.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Wednesday to make it easier to prosecute some sex crimes by extending the statute of limitations for second and third-degree rape

He was forced to watch after being thrown to the floor, with a gun held to his neck at one point , as robbers ransacked his store and stole Percocet, Oxyxotin and cash before taking off. NBC 4 New York’s Rana Novini reports.

New York has banned the manufacture, sale or possession of 3D-printed guns and other types of undetectable firearms under a measure signed into law by the state’s Democratic governor.

People in the Long Island community of Long Beach are being advised to boil their water after the bacteria E. coli was detected in the water supply.

People in the Long Island community of Long Beach are being advised to boil their water after the bacteria E. coli was detected in the water supply.

California public health officials would have oversight of doctors and schools with high numbers of medical exemptions for vaccinations under a legislative compromise announced Tuesday.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law requiring most of the state’s hotels to provide their workers with wearable panic buttons they can press to quickly summon help in an emergency.

Andy Cohen has joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in pushing to legalize paid gestational surrogacy, in which a woman is compensated for carrying a baby for its parents. The “Watch What Happens Live” host and the Democratic governor held a news conference Monday in New York City to call on state lawmakers to pass the bill before they adjourn...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation, saying last week’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach calls for “votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers.”

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation, saying last week’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach calls for “votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that ends the legal ban on so-called gravity knives

Gov. Cuomo did complete turnaround on gravity knives, more commonly known as pocket knives, signing a bill making them legal in the state for the first time since the 1950s. NBC 4 New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

The Louisiana House of Representatives passed an abortion ban on a 79-23 vote Wednesday that would prohibit women from terminating a pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat has been detected, NBC News reports. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has indicated that he would break with his party and sign the ban if it crosses his desk. The Senate already approved the...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has rejected a measure that would have required certain independent expenditure committees to disclose their donors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed the current president of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as the state agency’s new chairman.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded wary Tuesday of allowing federal judges to determine when electoral maps are too partisan, despite strong evidence that the political parties drew districts to guarantee congressional election outcomes. The decisions in two cases the justices heard Tuesday, from Maryland and North Carolina, could help shape the makeup of Congress and state legislatures for the...

Gov. Cuomo is urging the Federal Aviation Administration to ground the new Boeing planes involved in two fatal crashes in less than five months.