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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are calling for a Congressional oversights investigation into what they say is the Trump Administration’s politicization of government functions that impeded the country’s appropriate response to the ongoing pandemic. “Rather than turning to the advice and direction of public health experts and career public servants, President Trump instead put the health...

Protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the verdict in the grand jury case against Louisville police officers, who shot and killed Breonna Taylor in March.

Widow speaks out on the men who killed her husband and blame new parole laws for releasing one of the killers on parole, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Family members of incarcerated New Yorkers and corrections officers are calling on the state’s lawmakers and governor to ensure prisons and jails won’t again face a staffing shortage, barriers to social distancing and dangerous rationing of protective gear ahead of the next COVID-19 surge or pandemic. Testing of people with symptoms at the state’s prisons and New York City...

Inmates struggled to socially distance, wash their hands, access hand sanitizer and get masks and other face coverings in the early days of the pandemic, according to some who were locked up at the time

A New York woman was found dead in a boat, and a man, who is a police officer, is seriously ill in what authorities suspect in carbon monoxide poisoning. Friends of Blair M. Dodge, 34, went looking for her on Monday when she did not come into work, and found her and William R. LaShomb unresponsive in a boat tied…

The U.S. Postal Service must live up to its responsibilities to timely process election mail by treating it as a priority, a New York judge ordered on Monday, adding that the agency’s workers should be permitted to make extra deliveries and work overtime near the November presidential election.

Two volunteer EMTs were killed in a fiery crash in Suffern while returning home from a weekend spent observing Rosh Hashanah. Rana Novini reports.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday he is extending the state’s moratorium on COVID-related commercial evictions and foreclosures an additional month. The extension will be in place until Oct. 20, according to the state. The moratorium extends protections that are already in place for commercial tenants and mortgagors related to the financial toll seen by business owners as a result of…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed guidance posted to its websites on Friday, which said coronavirus could be spread through the air via aerosols, saying “A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website.”

New York State Attorney General Letitia James says police footage related to investigations conducted by her office will be released to the public as soon as possible without the delay or authorization previously left up to local law enforcement involved.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is being celebrated in her native New York City with plans for a statue, landmarks lit in blue and impromptu memorials at her childhood home in Brooklyn and the high school she attended. Ginsburg died Friday of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. A legal trailblazer and champion of women’s...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is promising to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police misconduct that her office investigates.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is being celebrated in her native New York City with plans for a statue, landmarks lit in blue and impromptu memorials at her childhood home in Brooklyn and the high school she attended. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

New York is changing its policy on police body camera video in the wake of Daniel Prude’s death in Rochester.

NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The city of Rochester, New York, is dealing with more trauma after a shooting at a backyard party killed two teenagers and injured 14 others

Gunfire at a backyard party killed two people and wounded 14 others early Saturday in Rochester, New York, a city that has been roiled in recent weeks by outrage over the suffocation death of Daniel Prude.

A 68-year-old Long Island woman was arrested and charged Wednesday with five counts of animal cruelty after four dogs were found dead and various other pets were found living in squalor inside her residence, according to the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. According to Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA, Donna Hulse, of…

Some of the 75 donated cars sank into the nearby Hempstead Reef, while others are headed to the state’s other 11 artificial reefs in hopes of stimulating fisheries