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President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns.

Epic Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff is seeking an early release from prison after a decade behind bars.

Waving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, hundreds of people took to the streets in New York City to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by a leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him and his advisers.

Police officials are searching for two men who they say made off with approximately $15,000 dollars in Louis Vuitton designer handbags and accessories on Long Island Tuesday afternoon.

NEW YORK (AP) _ With the flick of a pen, a New York judge has ruled that a sous chef can carry his folding knife because a state law judging gravity knives by a wrist-flick test was too vague. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty raised new doubts about the state's law governing gravity knives with his...

The retrial of a man charged with the murder of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano gets underway Monday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Democrat-controlled New York state Legislature has passed legislation that requires gun owners to keep firearms in a locked cabinet or equipped with a trigger-locking device if someone under 16 is in the home. The Assembly and Senate passed the legislation Monday, five weeks...

Manager Mickey Callaway begins his season with the Mets after a roller coaster of a season last year.

A Bronx police officer shot a driver while pinned between two cars, bringing an end to a violent crime spree that spread across three boroughs.