Governor

Two candidates who both served as replacement governors in the wake of a Puerto Rican political crisis are competing against each other for a chance to win the job in their own right as the disaster-struck U.S. territory holds primary elections

Cyntoia Brown, who was given a life sentence for killing a man who picked her up for sex at 16, was released from prison Wednesday after several celebrities pushed for her release.

Cyntoia Brown, championed by celebrities as a symbol of unfair sentencing, was released early Wednesday from the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a man who had picked her up for sex at 16. Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg and LeBron James had lobbied for Brown’s release, calling her a sex...

Frontline workers in New York who underwent COVID-19 antibody testing tested positive at a lower rate than the state’s general population, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday. “We’ve been doing testing of the essential workers to see if we have a problem anywhere. And, good news has been the frontline workers are testing [positive] at lower rates than the general...

New York City will launch free COVID-19 antibody testing next week, with an eventual plan to let up to 140,000 people get tested to see if they’ve had the virus.

Preliminary data compiled from over 100 New York hospitals over a three-day period suggest most new COVID-19 patients are older people of color who have been in their homes, according to data released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his Wednesday coronavirus briefing. The preliminary data was compiled after 113 hospitals provided information of over 1,268 new COVID-19 hospitalizations. The data…

Gov. Cuomo gives updates on Coronavirus in New York.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday morning during his daily coronavirus briefing that New York State and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are collaborating to develop a blueprint to reimagine education in the new normal that is life during the pandemic. “Let’s learn from this experience,” Cuomo said. “We did a lot of remote learning. Frankly we weren’t prepared...

Gov. Cuomo announced that schools will remain closed for the rest of the academic school year, and a decision about summer school will be made in late May.

Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It has not been in my plans to run for president, but...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled a $40.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2021 on Tuesday, proposing boosting overall spending by more than 5% compared with the plan he put forward last year and once again raising marginal income tax rates on the wealthy. This is Murphy’s third state budget since he was sworn in in 2018. It calls for…

A dog that was ordered to be euthanized despite a pardon issued by Maine’s governor could get a second chance at life as a sled dog.

Imprisoned ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s sentence has been commuted. After months of speculation, President Donald Trump announced the decision as he prepared to board Air Force One Tuesday. “Yes, we commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump said. “He served eight years in jail, a long time. He seems like a very nice person – don’t know him.”  Trump...

In response to a deadly crash, New Jersey has a new law requiring shoulder belts as well as lap belts on school buses. Wale Aliyu reports.

Gov. Phil Murphy has authorized a second group of New Jersey State Troopers to be deployed to Puerto Rico to assist with on-going recovery efforts in the aftermath of numerous earthquakes that have devastated the island. Murphy made the announcement Monday. “Just over a week ago, a group of New Jersey State Police troopers was deployed to assist with emergency…

New York lawmakers are pushing for big changes in limo safety. Erica Byfield reports.

Political leaders in New York have reached an agreement to pass new limousine safety bills inspired by deadly crashes in 2015 and 2018, officials said Tuesday. The proposals target unsafe limos and lax regulations, said Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, all Democrats. The legislation also includes immobilization of defective limousines, GPS and…

Powerful earthquakes and aftershocks in southern Puerto Rico have left several buildings in ruins. NBC 6’s Sheli Muniz reports from Guanica.

As he was traveling on the BQE Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo came across an accident — and the governor sprung into action! Video taken at the scene and posted on social media shows Cuomo helping a passenger get out of what appears to be a box truck turned over on its side. Cuomo is seen on the median barrier, along…

As he was traveling on the BQE Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo came across an accident — and the governor sprung into action!