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Judge delays Trump’s hush money sentencing until at least September after high court immunity ruling

Jul. 02, 2024 16:51 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case was postponed until at least September as the judge agreed Tuesday to weigh the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The delay is a major reprieve for Trump, who had been scheduled...

Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump's 2020 election loss

Jul. 02, 2024 15:24 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump's 2020 election loss. The Manhattan appeals court ruled...

Man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie rejects plea deal involving terrorism charge

Jul. 02, 2024 12:52 PM EDT

The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie rejected a plea deal Tuesday that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge, the suspect's lawyer said. Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in...

Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly made false statements about Trump's 2020 election loss

Jul. 02, 2024 11:28 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly made false statements about Trump's 2020 election loss.

Trump seeks to set aside his New York hush money guilty verdict after Supreme Court immunity ruling

Jul. 02, 2024 08:12 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week. The letter to Judge Juan M. Merchan cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling...

What we know about the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy in upstate New York

Jul. 02, 2024 06:19 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Police in upstate New York tackled and then shot a 13-year-old boy to death after he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at officers during a foot chase. Utica officials released body camera footage of Friday night's shooting on Saturday and held a contentious...

5 members of Georgia family killed when small plane crashes in New York

Jul. 01, 2024 17:15 PM EDT

MASONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Five members of a family from Georgia who were visiting Cooperstown, New York, for a baseball tournament died when their small plane crashed in a rural, wooded area, authorities said Monday. The single-engine Piper PA-46 crashed around 2 p.m. Sunday after...

Five members of a Georgia family killed in crash of a small plane in New York, authorities say

Jul. 01, 2024 12:23 PM EDT
MASONVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Five members of a Georgia family killed in crash of a small plane in New York, authorities say.

After 32 years as a progressive voice for LGBTQ Jews, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum heads into retirement

Jul. 01, 2024 10:52 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — For more than three decades, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has led the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue through the myriad ups and downs of the modern gay-rights movement — through the AIDS crisis, the murder of Matthew Shepard, the historic civil-rights advances that included...

Documenting the history of American Express as an in-house historian

Jul. 01, 2024 09:50 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Galtman is part of a small community of corporate archivists. They are historians, cataloguers and documentarians for large companies. They keep track of how companies change their products over time, while also looking for ways for the company to harken back to its history. ...