Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand kicked off her presidential campaign Sunday, mere feet from the Trump International Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, calling President Donald Trump a coward.
Read moreA few years after he defended the burgeoning Trump real estate empire against claims of housing discrimination, the future president’s oft-described mentor Roy Cohn fought to overturn the convictions of two Mafia clients.
Read moreRamping up their criminal case against the Trump Foundation, New York prosecutors said new evidence shows President Donald Trump used foundation money during his 2016 presidential run — a violation of the bar against charities getting involved in political campaigns.
Read moreThat Paul Manafort committed crimes within Manhattan borders is by now indisputable. What divides experts, however, is whether the new state charges unveiled against the former Trump campaign chair can withstand a double-jeopardy challenge.
Read moreShining a light on the consensual affair between a pair of government prosecutors, a federal judge ruled that their privacy rights are outweighed by the interest in public accountability.
Read moreAttorneys for Rudy Giuliani and his third wife sparred about their client’s homes in the Hamptons and in Florida during acrimonious divorce proceedings Wednesday morning. They traded gossip about their interactions at clubs, and they squabbled about jewelry, bank accounts and payments to the former mayor’s mother-in-law.
Read moreNew York’s top prosecutor indicted Paul Manafort on Wednesday afternoon, less than an hour after a federal judge lengthened the prison sentence awaiting the former Trump campaign chair.
Read moreIn the U.S. education system, civil rights battles tend to focus on removing barriers to quality schools. Not so in New York, where new regulations guaranteeing a “substantially equivalent” education have inspired a pair of legal actions.
Read moreReviving claims that a landlord had the power to stop one racist tenant from targeting another, the Second Circuit ruled Monday that the landlord may be liable for failure to correct a hostile housing environment.
Read moreIn another test of the #MeToo movement’s strength in court, a federal judge in Brooklyn heard arguments Friday over defamation claims brought by a male author against a woman who created a leaked spreadsheet accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Read moreComing together on an issue that has long divided the two politicos, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that congestion pricing and a weed tax will be the key to solving New York City’s subway crisis.
Read moreSiding with a prison that provided prosecutors with an incriminating inmate recording, New York’s highest court ruled 5-2 Thursday that there is no right to privacy when it comes to nonprivileged phone calls.
Read moreSued this week in New Hampshire, a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is the focus of a globe-spanning intrigue where the founder of BoraJet says his now-defunct Turkish airline was taken over through a campaign of violence, extortion and financial crime.
Read moreNews that an upstate New York brewer planned to recreate ale from a bottle salvaged from a 133-year-old shipwreck took the wind out of the sails of a scuba-diving Long Island brewer who has already done it.
Read moreHighlighting the nominee’s work against affirmative action policies at Harvard, Senate Democrats demanded assurances Wednesday that lawyer Michael Park would make an impartial judge.
Read moreContesting New York’s nearly century-long failure to protect farmworkers from wage theft and other labor abuses, an attorney urged a New York appeals court Monday to bring state law out of the Jim Crow era.
Read moreAs iconic for his films as for his taste in younger women, Woody Allen brought a $68 million federal complaint Thursday over a deal with Amazon Studios that became roadkill in the #MeToo movement.
Read moreWith the goal of creating a statewide moose-management plan, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation said Wednesday it observed 83 moose or groups of moose, all healthy, during a multiyear survey of Adirondack Park, conducted via helicopter.
Read moreTwo legal rights groups filed a federal class action Wednesday claiming some New York inmates with mental disabilities who served their time are illegally kept behind bars because there are no beds for them at community mental health centers.
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