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Giuliani becomes final defendant served indictment among 18 accused in Arizona fake electors case

May. 19, 2024 18:26 PM EDT

Arizona's attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state's fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona...

Preakness winner Seize the Grey is likely running in the 1st Belmont at Saratoga

May. 19, 2024 15:38 PM EDT

BALTIMORE (AP) — Even without a Triple Crown on the line, the upcoming Belmont Stakes is one of the most anticipated horse races in the sport's history. That's because it's being run at Saratoga Race Course for the first time, part of a two-year hiatus in upstate New York while the...

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

May. 19, 2024 13:07 PM EDT

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in their times, products of an ideal that holds universities as sacrosanct spaces for debate,...

NYC firefighter who collapsed in burning home likely saved by smoke inhalation drug

May. 17, 2024 20:52 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials credited a smoke inhalation drug for likely saving the life of a New York City firefighter who fell unconscious and stopped breathing while battling a house blaze Friday. The firefighter was one of three injured during the response in the Bronx. All are...

New Jersey overall gambling revenue up 10.4% in April, but in-person casino winnings were down

May. 16, 2024 15:36 PM EDT

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's casinos, horse tracks that accept sports bets and their online partners won more than half a billion dollars from gamblers in April, an increase of 10.4% from a year earlier, state gambling regulators said Thursday. But that was due in large...

A cricket World Cup is coming to NYC’s suburbs, where the sport thrives among immigrant communities

May. 16, 2024 14:19 PM EDT

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — A towering stadium boasting 34,000 seats and a precisely trimmed field of soft Kentucky bluegrass is rising in a suburban New York park that will host one of the world's top cricket tournaments next month. But on a recent Saturday morning, on the other side...

Drones smuggled drugs across Niagara River from Canada, 3 suspects caught in NY

May. 16, 2024 13:22 PM EDT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A smuggling operation used drones to fly drugs across the Niagara River from Canada into upstate New York, using a newly purchased $630,000 house along the river as a drop point, according to a criminal complaint unsealed this week. One person has pleaded...

NYC's Rikers Island jail gets a kid-friendly visitation room ahead of Mother's Day

May. 15, 2024 13:24 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — It's probably the last place a mom wants to spend Mother's Day with her kids. But a family visiting space at New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail complex is a little more kid-friendly after a colorful redesign by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. The...

MLS suspends multiple players for melee that followed New York City FC's match against Toronto FC

May. 15, 2024 11:42 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Soccer has suspended multiple players for their involvement in an incident following New York City FC’s 3-2 win over Toronto FC last weekend, the league announced Wednesday. Toronto head coach John Herdman, defender Richie Laryea and goalkeeper Sean...

Giuliani bankruptcy judge frustrated with case, rebuffs attempt to challenge $148 million judgment

May. 14, 2024 19:06 PM EDT

The judge overseeing Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy case said he was “disturbed” so little progress has been made in sorting out his finances, and refused Tuesday to lift a legal barrier that has kept the former New York City mayor from appealing a $148 million defamation judgment. ...