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Zohran Mamdani spoke at a rally in Harlem on Saturday as he sought to build on momentum from New York City's Democratic primary, telling the crowd that people struggling to pay for housing, groceries and bus fare are hungry for change.
New York environmental workers who came with a warrant looking for Peanut the squirrel found the scampering social media star on a bathtub. His housemate, Fred the raccoon, was in a suitcase in a bedroom closet.
ALBANY, N,Y. (AP) -- New York's top court was asked Tuesday to reverse a ruling against a law that would allow noncitizens to vote in New York City municipal elections by lawyers who argued city officials acted within their legal powers.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York election officials are being urged to investigate whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed voter fraud by casting his November ballot from a discredited address, as the former independent presidential candidate seeks Senate confirmation for a top public health role in the Trump administration.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York election officials are being urged to investigate whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed voter fraud by casting his November ballot from a discredited address, as the former independent presidential candidate seeks Senate confirmation for a top public health role in the Trump administration.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- When state officials created New York's new ethics commission in 2022, they billed it as an independent watchdog to replace an old ethics panel roundly criticized for doing too little to reign in public corruption and self-dealing.
A judge has struck down a state law that made it easier for New Yorkers to sue over electoral divisions and voting rules that weakened the political voice of minority groups, saying its special protections based on race and ethnicity are unconstitutional.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A semiconductor research facility in upstate New York was selected as one of three national technology centers and will receive up to $825 million in funding as part of a broader federal effort to boost the United States' competitiveness in the industry.
A law moving many town and county elections in New York to even-numbered years to align them with state and federal races was struck down by a state judge, providing a win to Republicans who claimed it was a partisan effort by Democrats to gain an electoral edge.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo began testifying Tuesday in a combative congressional subcommittee hearing centered on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus began to spread through the state's nursing homes in 2020.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to testify publicly Tuesday before a congressional subcommittee critical of his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as it began to spread through the state's nursing homes in 2020.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a state appeals court Wednesday to restore him to New York's presidential election ballot, even though he has suspended his campaign.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York law allowing any registered voter to cast a ballot by mail was upheld Tuesday by the state's highest court, which rejected a Republican challenge to the legislation.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York law allowing any registered voter to cast a ballot by mail was upheld Tuesday by the state's highest court, which rejected a Republican challenge to the legislation.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A judge is expected to decide soon whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed to live in New York as the independent presidential candidate fights to get on the state ballot in November.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- It wasn't just the dead bear.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he plans to return to live in New York, as the independent presidential candidate was grilled for a second day Wednesday about his actual residency and whether he should be kept off the Empire State's ballot in November.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he plans to return to live in New York, as the independent presidential candidate was grilled for a second day Wednesday about his actual residency and whether he should be kept off the Empire State's ballot in November.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived at a New York court Monday to fight a lawsuit alleging he falsely claimed to live in New York as he sought to get on the ballot in the state.