President Donald Trump called for an investigation into financial ties between China and the family of former Vice President J0e Biden, the current front-runner in a crowded Democratic 2020 field, and the candidate Trump’s advisers believe could pose the biggest potential threat to his re-election.
Two days after GOP Rep. Justin Amash claimed that Trump committed impeachable offenses, a Michigan state representative has stepped forward to challenge him in the primary election.
Trump is preparing to instruct his former White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to defy a congressional subpoena and skip a hearing scheduled for tomorrow, denying Democrats testimony from one of the most important eyewitnesses to the president’s attempts to obstruct the Russia investigation.
The U.S. government says a 16-year-old Guatemalan died today at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child apprehended by border agents since December.
Trump has grown increasingly willing in recent months to use profanity, saying in public what most of his predecessors tried to keep behind closed doors.
Keith Raniere kicked, whipped and planned to jail women in a “dungeon” for what he viewed as their indiscretions as part of his secret “master/slave” club, former NXIVM official Lauren Salzman testified.
Membership in the “sex cult” NXIVM required a vow of secrecy about all things related to its leader — including the location of his 15-year-old mistress, Salzman said.
A witness who reported that a man was walking with a rifle this morning on Route 146 – a sighting that prompted Shenendehowa to lock-in students – may have mistaken an umbrella for a weapon, Saratoga County sheriff’s investigators said.
Cuomo declared a state of emergency for eight counties affected by rising water levels on Lake Ontario, including Jefferson, Oswego and St. Lawrence that runs through Sept. 1.
Queens Democrats are hosting the mayor Wednesday for a “fireside chat” about his 2020 White House bid — South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, that is.
Buttigieg has been spending almost 50 percent of his time away from South Bend, since February after he announced his exploratory committee for president in January.
A meatpacking company owned by a pair of shady Brazilian brothers already under scrutiny for receiving $62 million in federal bailouts was given another turn at the government trough, receiving $2 million more from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The scores of New York’s nursing homes dipped to an average of 3.19 out of 5 stars in the federal government’s latest Nursing Home Compare report card, down from 3.33 in January. But the state average remains better than the national average.
Subway trains are running the best they have in a half decade, with trains arriving on schedule about 80 percent of the time on weekdays in April – though not yet to the standard of New York City Transit President Andy Byford.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has turned to Facebook in an 11th hour scramble to meet the 65,000 donor threshold that would help him secure a coveted spot in the first Democratic presidential candidates’ debate next month.
EJ McMahon: “New York’s Common Retirement Fund (CRF) fell nearly two percentage points short of its investment earnings target last year – and the state’s other major public pension funds are on the same sub-par track.” (He’s not surprised).
Although puzzled by how long it’s taking, all three state legislators representing Seneca County are confident that Cuomo will sign the Finger Lakes Community Preservation Act of 2019.
Live Nation says Cardi B has postponed her upcoming concert at St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview due to “circumstances beyond her control.”
Many of the properties likely to face fines under New York City’s recently adopted “Green New Deal” are older brick apartment buildings across the city, and the prospect has residents fretting about the costs and consequences.
An upstate New York doctor is fighting a $50 fine on principle — and so far it’s cost her $60,000.
Fifty years ago, Catholic priests who sexually abused children in the Buffalo Diocese would have no worries about getting arrested. But they had to worry about something else: Monsignor Franklin M. Kelliher, a stocky, tough-as-nails former boxing champion who also fought as a professional wrestler known as “The Masked Marvel.”
Needing cash, facing declining membership, and reeling from a Department of Justice investigation that could land its former director in prison next month, the legendary Friars Club is hoping for a return to its former glory with some modern touches.