A federal judge has given the Justice Department permission to release transcripts of a grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage girls in Florida.

U.S. fans kept chanting and cheering the home team at the Ryder Cup until the result basically seemed lost.

A House committee has released a collection of birthday messages sent to Jeffrey Epstein, featuring entries from two U.S. presidents, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.

The revelation that Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump that his name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files has focused fresh attention on the president’s relationship with the wealthy financier and the Justice Department’s announcement this month that it would not be releasing any additional documents from the case.

Interest in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation has exploded over the past month even as President Donald Trump urged the public and media to move on from a saga he sees as “pretty boring.”.

Hazel Dukes, the president of the New York State chapter of the NAACP and lifelong civil rights advocate, has died.

A wildcat strike by guards at New York’s prisons, now in its second week, is fueling fears over deteriorating conditions behind bars.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is telling hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments.

A team of forest rangers in New York state have rescued a moose who became trapped in an icy lake.

Fire crews on both coasts of the U.S. are battling wildfires, including one in New York and New Jersey that killed a parks employee.

A New York judge has suspended Justin Timberlake’s driver’s license over his DWI arrest in June.

Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot as fast as a machine gun.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved a Democrat-drawn congressional map that gives the party a modest boost in a few battleground districts.

The final documents released among thousands of newly unsealed pages pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of teenage girls contained transcripts of key depositions that were already largely public.

Amid great hype, previously secret court documents are being unsealed related to Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

New York cannabis regulators have approved a deal to settle lawsuits that have blocked recreational marijuana shops from opening.

A neighbor who witnessed 9-year-old Charlotte Sena being rescued in upstate New York is describing the scene as right out of a movie.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to picking fights with powerful targets.

JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands to settle claims that the bank enabled the sex trafficking acts committed by financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Another horse has died after racing at Belmont Park, a day after the Belmont Stakes.

New York would create a commission to consider reparations to address the lingering, negative effects of slavery under a bill passed by the state Legislature.

The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York is ringing up its first sales, opening up what is expected to be one of the country’s biggest and most lucrative markets for cannabis.

New York's attorney general has appealed a federal judge's ruling that halted key provisions of the state's new rules on guns.

U.S. governors and other state officials responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year with public calls to divest state pension, university and other funds from Russian assets.

Montana authorities say a man drove his pickup truck into a family as they walked in a tourist village bordering Glacier National Park and opened fire at them with a shotgun.

Kathy Hochul has won the Democratic nomination for New York governor, setting her on an expected path to win the governor’s office in November.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, a major expansion of gun rights.

An appeals court in New York has dismissed New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Amazon.

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is preparing to lift requirements that children under age 5 wear face masks in school.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has fortified her frontrunner status in the governor’s race, as she formally received the endorsement of the state’s Democratic party.

A judge has ordered charges dropped against two Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted falsifying records after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail.

More than a decade ago, Matthew Viragh was a Texan with a dream.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was ordered by New York’s ethics commission Tuesday to give up the millions he was paid to write a book about his response to the pandemic.

Facing a cold-weather surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has formally announced that she is running for governor.

New York’s two-year “look-back window” closes this week.

As New York’s lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul has spent years on the road as the friendly face of the administration.

A fund set up to provide money to victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein is finishing its work after announcing it has paid nearly $125 million to over 135 individuals.

Essential Quality wore down pacesetter Hot Rod Charlie in the stretch and crossed the finish line first in the Belmont Stakes.

Demolition has begun on a South Florida mansion that once belonged to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Big techs outsized influence over society has become one of the biggest battlefronts in state legislatures this year. Gianaris, a Democrat, is pushing a landmark antitrust bill in the New York Legislature. Tech companies aren't content to play defense. Supporters say the law seeks to modernize the state’s tax system and make thriving tech companies pay their fair share. “With that has come rising backlash against the tech companies in terms of the power they have and ways in which they exercise it," he said.

FILE - This Monday, March 8, 2021, file photo shows New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo confronted a stunning series of defections Friday amid allegations of sexual harassment that left the high-profile Democrat fighting for his political survival, angry and alone. “Governor Cuomo should resign.”AdThe escalating political crisis has spawned an impeachment inquiry in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, and threatens to cast a cloud over President Joe Biden’s early days in office. Biden, a longtime ally of Cuomo and his father, former New York Gov. “The victims of sexual assault concern me more than politics or other narrow considerations, and I believe Governor Cuomo must step aside," Maloney said.

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Victims Compensation Program said Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, it has temporarily run out of funds. AdThe Justice Department’s inspector general has not completed an investigation into lapses that allowed Epstein to end his life. AdHis suicide cast a spotlight on the federal prison agency, which has been plagued for years by a staffing shortage and violence, and on safety lapses inside one of the most secure jails in America. N’Diaye is being placed at a prison where more than 61% of the inmates have tested positive for the virus.

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. A fund set up to provide money to victims of financier Epstein has abruptly suspended payouts. The Epstein Victims Compensation Program said Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, it has temporarily run out of funds. The announcement by the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program came through a release that attributed the suspension to uncertainty about the liquidity of estate assets needed to finance payouts. Ad“My office’s worst fears have been realized as we learned the Epstein Estate will not make its currently owed payment to the fund it claimed to have set up to compensate sexual abuse survivors and victims of Jeffrey Epstein," George said.

The Erie County Health Department said it scratched vaccinations for over 8,000 people in the past few days because of inadequate supply. Less than half of the 36 million doses distributed to the states by the federal government have been administered so far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He urged health care facilities not to schedule appointments to dispense vaccine they haven’t been allocated yet. The county health department received 12,000 doses last week but fewer than 2,000 this week. In New York State, Barbara Carr, a 72-year-old retiree in Buffalo, was distraught when her vaccine appointment for Thursday was canceled.

A senior is vaccinated against COVID-19 at a New York State vaccination site in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in New York. New York state expanded COVID-19 vaccine distribution Tuesday to people 65 and over, increasing access to an already short supply of doses being distributed. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)More Americans are now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine but they may still face a wait for their first shot even as supplies increase. States ultimately determine the order in which people qualify for the vaccine, although the federal government is offering guidance. T he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’s website offers links to state health departments and their vaccination plans.

82-year-old Brian Pinker receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, England, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. The second round of shots began in various locations around the country as the U.S. death toll surpassed 352,000. Britain, meanwhile, became the first nation to start using the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, ramping up its nationwide inoculation campaign amid soaring infection rates blamed on the new variant. Elsewhere around the world, France and other parts of Europe have come under fire over slow vaccine rollouts and delays. The European Union likewise faced growing criticism about the slow rollout of COVID-19 shots across the 27-nation bloc of 450 million inhabitants.

Polling workers inspect and count absentee ballots, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in New York. Some county election boards chose to give absentee vote tallies to the candidates, but not the public. “The process lacks for transparency.”The slowness of some New York counties in releasing absentee vote tallies has been less of an issue in past years because, historically, the state hasn't had a very big mail-in vote. But news of that dwindling lead came mostly from the candidates themselves, not the county election boards tallying the vote. “This race is quickly becoming a poster child for the need for a fundamental overhaul of the way we conduct elections in New York State,” he said.

Shares were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia after a worldwide rally spurred by hopes that a COVID-19 vaccine will help the global economy return to normal. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)Stocks fell back across Asia on Thursday after gains for big technology shares pushed most Wall Street benchmarks higher. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.4% to 25,459.13 despite a report that machinery orders fell in September, suggesting weakness in corporate investment. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 0.1% to 26,206.78 and the Shanghai Composite index declined 0.3% to 3,332.24. Strategists along Wall Street are raising their forecasts for stock prices on expectations that political control of Washington will remain split between the parties.

National Transportation Safety Board members unanimously voted to accept a final report that found widespread fault in the 2018 crash in upstate New York. NTSB Chairperson Robert Sumwalt also criticized the local prosecutor and state police for what he said was a lack of cooperation with the agency's crash investigation. The crash killed 17 family members and friends, including four sisters and three of their husbands, along with the driver and two bystanders outside a country store. The vehicle’s brakes failed on a downhill stretch of a state route in Schoharie, 30 miles west of Albany. As part of the report, the NTSB issued limousine safety recommendations to federal and state officials and to the National Limousine Association.

NEW YORK New York Gov. Crown announced Tuesday that Cuomo's American Crisis will be released Oct. 13, three weeks before Election Day, when Trump is expected to face presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. New York State has one of the lowest infection rates in the U.S., a welcome contrast to the spring, when it had one of the highest. His style has differed notably from the more erratic approach of President Trump, a Republican with whom he has clashed often. Cuomo has received some of his strongest criticism for the thousands of virus-related deaths at New York nursing homes.