New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo hoped to persuade President Donald Trump to reverse a decision to boot New Yorkers from programs that allow travelers to avoid long lines at U.S. at the border. The Democratic governor and Republican president met Thursday to discuss their dispute over New York’s new “Green Light” law, which lets unauthorized immigrants obtain state driver’s...

The president and governor met to discuss the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to ban New York from enrolling in the Trusted Traveler programs like Global Entry, a move the administration says was done because the state refuses to hand over information from its DMV database. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday to discuss the impasse over New Yorkers’ access to the Global Entry program for travelers, and indicated New York will give federal officials access to a key database to restore access to the program. Katherine Creag reports.

Even by the standards of modern presidential politics, President Donald Trump and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg set a new mark for public nastiness on Thursday.

A lawsuit seeking to return federal protection to the real bears that inspired teddy bears has been thrown out by a federal judge. The people and environmental groups who sued in 2018 didn’t provide any evidence to back up their claims that they would be hurt by the decision to remove Louisiana black bears from the “threatened” list, wrote District Judge John Bate...

The “Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” unveiled their ‘Doomsday Clock’, revealing how close they believe the world is to a destruction of mankind. For the first time, the hands of the clock are only 100 seconds away from midnight.

The 12-year-old girl who died Tuesday of suicide at her boarding school in Washington, D.C. had been bullied, her devastated mother says.

President Donald Trump took the stage in the ballroom of his luxury hotel in Washington on Saturday night, just days before an impeachment vote, to rail against his political rivals as a crowd of high-dollar Republican donors and party activists cheered. In the weeks leading up to the invitation-only event, advertised rates for a standard room at the Trump International…

A Connecticut school official says she doesn’t believe race was a factor when a white student spat on a black visitor at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.

Rip Taylor, the madcap mustached comedian with a fondness for confetti-throwing who became a television game show mainstay in the 1970s, has died. He was 84.

Ricky Martin’s family keeps getting bigger. The 47-year-old “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer announced onstage while accepting an award at the 23rd annual Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday that he and husband Jwan Yosef are expecting another addition via surrogate. Martin attended the event with him and two of their three children, twin sons Valentino...

New York City began enforcing its ban on Styrofoam Monday after the end of a six-month grace period.

He spent over three decades reimagining classic children’s tales like L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz,” Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” Grimm fairytales and Aesop’s fables.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday evening that systems around the country were being restored after an earlier outage prevented U.S. immigration officials from processing thousands of arriving passengers during a busy summer travel day.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol confirmed a computer issue was causing delays at airports across the U.S. on Friday.

Startling new numbers in a report from the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety say millions of Americans are getting behind the wheel after using marijuana.

Startling new numbers in a report from the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety say millions of Americans are getting behind the wheel after using marijuana.

The New York man who built a high-powered bomb in his basement and planned to blow himself up in Washington, D.C., on Election Day last year to protest the country’s direction is expected to be sentenced Friday.