UPDATE: NYS Sees 114 Coronavirus-Related Deaths; Cuomo, de Blasio Call for Federal Govt. Help as NYC Cases Top 9,000 Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that 100 percent of non-essential work forces are now required to stay home, calling it “the most drastic measure we can take” as he said the entire state of New York was “on pause.” Two days…

Schools in New York City will close Monday and may not open again until April 20. After days of students and parents calling on the city to shut down schools to curb the spread of COVID-19, the mayor announced Sunday that schools will shut and remote learning for K-12 will begin one week later on Monday, March 23. For the…

Donald Trump a Florida man? Not so fast. Despite a stinging “good riddance” tweet from New York’s governor, the president’s home state may not let him go to Florida without a fight. Trump’s plan to shift his permanent residence to Palm Beach will likely be heavily scrutinized by New York state officials, who are notorious for auditing wealthy residents seeking...

A city commission voted Monday to erect a monument depicting three pioneers in the fight for women’s rights: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth

New York City lawmakers moved a step closer to closing Rikers Island, a massive jail complex notorious for violence and dysfunction that is increasingly seen as a relic.

Mayor de Blasio has ended his 2020 bid for president.

A commercial promoting D.C. statehood aired Sunday ahead of a congressional hearing on the issue, with a veteran featured in the commercial saying it’s time for Congress to “give us our star and give us our state.”

Washington, D.C.’s mayor had dozens of 51-star flags hung along Pennsylvania Avenue NW ahead of a hearing before Congress on D.C. statehood.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered American flags with 51 stars put on display ahead of next week’s statehood hearing. Mark Segraves reports.

NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill has fired the police officer accused of using a banned chokehold on Eric Garner in 2014, siding with the departmental trial judge who recommended termination earlier this month. O’Neill’s decision, revealed early Monday afternoon, is final, closing the years-long book on embattled NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, whom a local grand jury and federal prosecuters all declined...

A rash of suicides by police officers has shaken the New York Police Department, leading the commissioner to declare a mental health emergency and highlighting the problem of untreated depression among law enforcement officers nationwide.

It started out as a joke but a petition to rename the Fifth Avenue block by Trump Tower to “President Barack H. Obama Avenue” had more than 302,000 signatures by Thursday afternoon — and a new mission calling for 325,000 signatures after the previous goal was surpassed.

A Russian passenger jet made an emergency landing just after takeoff from an airport in Moscow. The plane collided with a flock of gulls, knocking out both engines. Dozens of people sought medical attention but only one person was hospitalized.

People walking in Times Square were sent into a widespread panic Tuesday night after what sounded like multiple gunshots rang out in the crowded tourist destination — only later to be ruled as motorcycle backfire, police said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that he believes the NYPD officer who is accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner should be fired.

In his typically boastful rally this past week, Donald Trump placed himself too high in the pantheon of presidents when it comes to getting his judicial picks on federal courts. He’s been having a good run on that front but he’s not where he said he is — ranking right under George Washington, no less. Much of the week was...

Democratic presidential candidates’ tussle over health care reform continued Saturday as they pitched themselves to Nevada union members, with former Vice President Joe Biden declaring he’s “against any Democrat who wants to get rid of Obamacare” and Sen. Kamala Harris saying no Democrat should be on the debate stage without a plan to cover everybody. They were among 19 candidates...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was targeted with hecklers shouting “Fire Pantaleo” at the second night of the Democratic presidential debates in Detroit. The disruption forced New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker to pause his opening statement Wednesday night. Video shows several people being escorted out of the city’s historic Fox Theatre as they continued to shout.

The ideological divisions gripping the Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as presidential candidates waged an acrimonious battle over health care, immigration and race that tested the strength of early front-runner Joe Biden’s candidacy. The former vice president was repeatedly forced to defend his decades-old political record against pointed attacks from his younger, diverse rivals, who charged that Biden’s eight-year relationship...

Democratic presidential contenders struck off notes on the science of global warming and the state of the economy in their Detroit debate Tuesday night. Some of the Democratic presidential contenders dug in their heels with unsupported rhetoric about immigration, the economy and more Wednesday night as they scrambled to stay in contention for the winnowed-down debates to come. Several persisted...