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Chinese billionaire pleads guilty to straw donor scheme in New York and Rhode Island

Mar. 18, 2024 21:55 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese billionaire pleaded guilty Monday to violating U.S. election laws by funneling illegal straw donations to a New York City official, a member of the U.S. House and a congressional candidate. Hui Qin, a Chinese film magnate with homes in Manhattan and Long...

Knicks forward OG Anunoby is out after elbow injury 'flared up'

Mar. 18, 2024 21:10 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby left the team on its Western road trip after his surgically repaired right elbow flared up. Coach Tom Thibodeau said Monday before New York played the Golden State Warriors that Anunoby flew home after playing 33 minutes in a...

'Access Hollywood' tape won't be played at Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial, judge rules

Mar. 18, 2024 20:13 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The infamous “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women sexually without asking permission will not be shown to jurors at the former president's hush-money criminal trial, a New York judge ruled Monday. Judge Juan M. Merchan said...

Supreme Court appears receptive to NRA free-speech lawsuit against a former New York state official

Mar. 18, 2024 16:55 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that a former New York state official violated its free-speech rights by pressuring banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. ...

Comtech: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot

Mar. 18, 2024 16:47 PM EDT

MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (CMTL) on Monday reported a loss of $10.6 million in its fiscal second quarter. The Melville, New York-based company said it had a loss of $1.07 per share. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs,...

Trump's lawyers say it is impossible for him to post bond covering $454 million civil fraud judgment

Mar. 18, 2024 16:34 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers told a New York appellate court Monday that it's impossible for him to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment while he appeals, suggesting the former president's legal losses have put him in a serious cash crunch. ...

Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner backs New York county's ban on transgender female athletes

Mar. 18, 2024 15:55 PM EDT

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner on Monday said she supported a local New York official’s order banning female sports teams with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities. The ban applies to over 100 athletic facilities in New York City's...

New York to probe sputtering legal marijuana program as storefronts lag, black market booms

Mar. 18, 2024 13:30 PM EDT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program after lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles severely hampered the legal market and allowed black-market sellers to flourish, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered Monday. The review will focus on ways...

State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs

Mar. 17, 2024 11:33 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her...

'There's no agenda here': A look at the judge who is overseeing Trump's hush money trial

Mar. 17, 2024 10:21 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Judge Juan M. Merchan looked across his high-ceilinged courtroom, facing the defendant in a complicated case. Not the one everyone knows about. Yes, Merchan could become the first judge ever to oversee a former U.S. president's criminal trial: Donald...