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16:38, 24 May 2019

Following an annual experience-sharing conference at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on May 17, Falun Gong practitioners held numerous activities in New York City the next day to introduce the self-improvement system to ...

13:30, 24 May 2019

U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler was taken to a hospital for an evaluation Friday after he appeared to swoon during a news conference in New York City.The chairman of the House Judiciary committee had given remarks ...

16:49, 22 May 2019

A New York judge refused Wednesday to block congressional subpoenas seeking financial records from two banks that did business with President Donald Trump, making it clear it wasn't a close call. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos ...

20:13, 21 May 2019

Self-help guru Keith Raniere was a coward during his arrest last year in Mexico on a U.S. sex-trafficking charge and a bully when dealing with a follower who failed to adhere to his twisted code ...

19:43, 21 May 2019

Making, selling, transporting or possessing 3D-printed guns and other undetectable firearms would be banned in New York under legislation approved by the Democrat-controlled state Legislature.The Assembly passed the bill Monday, five days after the legislation ...

19:20, 21 May 2019

On a beautiful, sunny day, wearing either bright yellow, blue, red, black, or white outfits, over 5,000 people sat on a grassy field forming the emblem for the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa on New ...

15:28, 21 May 2019

One out of six Uber and Lyft drivers in the New York City and Seattle areas are driving vehicles with outstanding recalls, according to Consumer Reports.But taking a taxi or limousine isn't necessarily a safer ...

11:51, 19 May 2019

The Senate's top Democrat is calling on the federal government to step in and investigate whether a plan for new subway cars in New York City designed by a Chinese state-owned company could pose a ...

15:24, 18 May 2019

Firefighters have responded to the scene of digital billboard on fire in Times Square.Flames stated shooting out of the LED billboard just after 3 p.m. Saturday.The Fire Department says no injuries have been reported and ...

19:31, 17 May 2019

The U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that it would fly hundreds of migrant families from south Texas to San Diego for processing and that it was considering flights to Detroit, Miami and Buffalo, New York. The ...

16:14, 17 May 2019

With friends like these, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn't need enemies.New York Attorney General Letitia James expressed exasperation on the "Pod Save America" podcast late Thursday over her fellow Democrat's decision to run for president.She ...

02:53, 17 May 2019

The U.S. Coast Guard says a World War II-era shipwreck off Long Island is leaking oil through two pinpoint leaks. It is conducting an assessment of the remaining oil aboard the British tanker Coimbra, which ...

00:27, 17 May 2019

Ian Kinsler hit a go-ahead, three-run homer for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 Thursday night and set the major league record by going 8,020 games without a no-hitter since their ...

21:25, 16 May 2019

The New York Police Department used a photo of Woody Harrelson in its facial recognition program in an attempt to identify a beer thief who looked like the actor, according to a report published Thursday.Georgetown ...

15:16, 16 May 2019

Every year, around May 13, you will find thousands of Falun Dafa practitioners openly meditating in New York City’s Manhattan and neighboring boroughs—very happy to show anyone who wants to learn the five exercises known ...

15:01, 16 May 2019

A Hudson River educational sloop that was the brainchild of the late activist musician Pete Seeger and his friends is marking its 50th anniversary.Some of the Clearwater 's founders and crew members will gather with ...

11:00, 16 May 2019

Denying children a hot meal apparently isn't a popular way for schools to deal with unpaid lunch money.After a flood of angry Facebook comments and phone calls, a Rhode Island district last week abandoned its ...

06:30, 16 May 2019

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday, May 16, that he will seek the Democratic nomination for president, adding his name to an already long list of candidates itching for a chance to ...

14:36, 15 May 2019

The famous winged TWA terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport came out of its decades-long retirement Wednesday with a new life as a luxury hotel."How beautiful is this?" said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ...

11:37, 15 May 2019

Critics have generally not been kind to the new Hudson Yards complex.The new neighborhood, built atop a platform over train yards on the west side of Manhattan, features sleek glass towers with stratospherically expensive residential, ...

18:01, 25 May 2019

A 102-year-old woman facing eviction from her California home of nearly 30 years is getting help from Arnold Schwarzenegger.The Los Angeles Times reports Thelma Smith was given until June 30 to move out by landlords ...

15:43, 25 May 2019

Police pursuing a burglary suspect in a Southern California suburb found him living in an elaborate treehouse hidden on a hillside.The Pomona Police Department said a tipster reported Tuesday night that someone was living in ...

13:17, 25 May 2019

Facing a growing public outcry, San Francisco's police chief apologized on Friday, May 25, for raiding a freelance journalist's home and office to find out who leaked a police report in the unexpected death of ...

05:51, 25 May 2019

The Latest on U.S. judge blocking President Donald Trump from building sections of a border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency (all times local): 6:30 p.m. A federal judge in California has ...

19:49, 24 May 2019

San Francisco's police chief is apologizing for raiding a freelance journalist's home and office to find out who leaked a police report into the unexpected death of the city's former public defender.Chief William Scott told ...

19:19, 24 May 2019

A retrospective of Andy Warhol’s work on display in San Francisco captures his use of artwork to create public personas for his subjects the way people do now using social media. “Andy Warhol _ From ...

18:16, 24 May 2019

California lawmakers are headed toward a confrontation with Gov. Gavin Newsom over whether to keep a tax that can generate nearly $2 billion for low-income health benefits but means approval from the Trump administration amid ...

20:57, 23 May 2019

John Walker Lindh, the Californian who took up arms for the Taliban and was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, got out of prison Thursday after more than 17 years, released under tight ...

19:22, 23 May 2019

The California Assembly voted Thursday to cap the interest that lenders may charge on loans that can carry rates spiraling into the triple digits.Backed by civil rights groups, religious organizations and some trade associations, the ...

14:30, 23 May 2019

The California Maritime Academy's training ship Golden Bear is resuming a cruise after being damaged in an accident in the eastern Caribbean.The academy says the ship struck a shoreside gantry crane while arriving in Barbados ...

06:44, 23 May 2019

California wants to give more benefits to people living in the country illegally as lawmakers in the state Senate advanced a $214 billion spending proposal Wednesday that would expand health coverage and tax credits for ...

00:24, 23 May 2019

Media law experts pushed back against the San Francisco police chief, who said a freelance journalist allegedly conspired to steal a police report, saying that it is not a crime to disclose a public record.San ...

23:05, 22 May 2019

A Southern California synagogue where a gunman killed a woman and wounded three other people dedicated a new Torah scroll — the holiest object in Judaism — to the slain woman on Wednesday. The handwritten Biblical ...

20:43, 22 May 2019

The Trump administration will not immediately give $1 billion it revoked from California's high-speed rail project to another project, according to a legal agreement reached Wednesday between the two. The Federal Railroad Administration announced last week ...

20:16, 22 May 2019

California lawmakers have narrowly advanced a teacher-backed measure that would give local school districts more power to reject charter schools.The Assembly acted Wednesday as teachers rallied at the state Capitol. They're calling for more money ...

19:20, 22 May 2019

Two beloved, elderly lions have died at zoos in California.The San Francisco Zoo announced Wednesday that a 16-year-old male African lion named Jahari died Monday of old age. African lions live to about 14 in ...

18:21, 22 May 2019

A U.S. grand jury on Wednesday indicted an Army veteran in a plot to plant a bomb at a rally by white supremacists in California.The indictment charged 26-year-old Mark Domingo with providing material support to ...

15:54, 22 May 2019

California lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with tougher rules that limit parents from choosing whether to vaccinate their schoolchildren as a handful of opponents shouted "We will not comply" inside the Senate.Senators sent the measure to ...

12:20, 22 May 2019

Memorial Day may be the unofficial start of summer, but California is heading toward the holiday with rainy, windy and snowy weather.A winter weather advisory is in effect Wednesday for the mountains of San Bernardino ...

05:39, 22 May 2019

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan for government-funded health care for illegal immigrants is frugal compared to proposals by other Democratic leaders in his state. Newsom, the progressive first-term governor of California and ardent opponent of the ...

08:57, 26 May 2019

Housing sales in Texas would drop, gasoline prices would increase and the state would lose hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output if another major storm struck an unprotected coastline, according to a new ...

17:01, 25 May 2019

Kevin Na settled for a 1-under 69 a day after going low at Colonial again, taking a two-shot lead Saturday over a group that included local favorite Jordan Spieth and 2003 U.S. Open champion Jim ...

18:38, 24 May 2019

Jonas Blixt holed out from 132 yards for eagle on the par-4 17th, highlighting a 6-under 64 that gave him the second-round lead at Colonial on Friday. Blixt was 9 under after his bogey-free round, one ...

13:57, 24 May 2019

United Airlines is canceling another month's worth of flights with Boeing 737 Max planes that were grounded after two deadly accidents.United said Friday it has removed the Max from its schedule through Aug. 3 and ...

10:55, 24 May 2019

A House GOP conservative complaining of Washington's free-spending and opaque ways blocked a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill on Friday, extending a tempest over hurricane and flood relief that has left the measure meandering ...

01:42, 24 May 2019

Tornadoes strafed the middle of the country Thursday, this time concentrated in sparsely populated panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. One particulary large funnel cloud was spotted in Lipscomb County, Texas, near the Oklahoma state line. 

23:33, 23 May 2019

Texas authorities are expected to face sharp questioning over why cellphone video Sandra Bland took during her confrontational 2015 traffic stop never publicly surfaced until now.A state House committee wants answers at a hearing Friday ...

19:28, 23 May 2019

After an all-day meeting with global aviation regulators, the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration sounded more upbeat than ever about prospects for clearing the troubled Boeing 737 Max to fly again.Aviation officials from more ...

16:06, 23 May 2019

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says $1.6 billion in teacher raises are coming in a deal driven by classroom unrest and Republicans who sharply changed course on public education ahead of 2020.The announcement Thursday would make ...

12:10, 23 May 2019

A Houston-area police officer who fatally shot a woman with mental illness is back on the job but not the streets.Baytown police say Officer Juan Delacruz returned to work Monday. He'll be on administrative duty ...

23:09, 22 May 2019

Texas moved a big step closer to arming more teachers and school personnel as a way to help prevent future campus shootings, under a bill sent to Gov. Greg Abbott. The measure approved Wednesday night by ...

17:20, 22 May 2019

Prosecutors who won a conviction against a Phoenix man for providing guns to two Islamic State followers killed in a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas say an undercover FBI ...

13:32, 22 May 2019

U.S. border agents temporarily closed their primary facility for processing migrants in South Texas one day after the death of a 16-year-old who was diagnosed with the flu at the facility.In a statement released late ...

12:33, 22 May 2019

Saudi Arabia's state owned oil company will begin buying liquid natural gas from a U.S. company under a 20 year agreement.Saudi Aramco said Wednesday it would buy 5 million tons of liquid natural gas per ...

12:34, 21 May 2019

American Airlines says it's cutting the cost of checking oversized sporting gear and musical instruments on flights.American said Tuesday that it eliminated the extra oversize charge for those items and instead will charge regular bag ...

06:44, 21 May 2019

Authorities say police visited the motel room of a Texas man suspected of kidnapping an 8-year-old girl but didn't see the child, who was eventually found safe about two hours later.Michael Webb is charged with ...

21:35, 20 May 2019

The Latest on a round of severe weather forecast for Southern Plains (all times local):9:30 p.m.The tornado threat is decreasing and the flash flooding threat is increasing across Oklahoma as what had been seen as ...

17:44, 20 May 2019

American Airlines is accusing its mechanics and their unions of conducting an illegal work slowdown to gain leverage in contract talks, and the airline is asking a federal judge to stop the activity.The airline says ...

17:37, 20 May 2019

Officials closed schools, evacuated military aircraft and issued high-water warnings Monday with another round of severe weather potentially including tornadoes forecast for the Southern Plains. School districts in Oklahoma City, nearby Norman and elsewhere canceled classes ...

11:53, 20 May 2019

The U.S. government says a 16-year-old Guatemalan died Monday at a Border Patrol station in South Texas, the fifth death of a migrant child apprehended by border agents since December. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said ...

16:08, 25 May 2019

Hundreds of mourners, some carrying flowers and balloons, have gathered for the funeral of a Chicago woman who authorities say was strangled and her baby cut from her womb.Nineteen-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was remembered as a ...

15:38, 24 May 2019

A 76-year-old man has been convicted in the 1992 strangulation death of an Illinois teenager.Robert Serritella, of Park Ridge, was found guilty Thursday on two counts of first degree murder in the killing of 15-year-old ...

23:15, 19 May 2019

Lori Lightfoot will have a powerful ally after she's sworn in Monday as Chicago mayor in seeking to fulfill a campaign promise to overhaul the Police Department in the nation's third-largest city: a judge with ...

09:24, 19 May 2019

A wildlife biologist has taken prairie chickens from Kansas, which has a more robust population, and released them in Illinois in an effort to boost the population of the endangered birds.The birds once numbered in ...

15:46, 18 May 2019

Police and Illinois' child welfare agency say staff at a Chicago-area hospital didn't alert them after determining that a bloodied woman who arrived with a gravely ill newborn had not just given birth to the ...

14:24, 17 May 2019

A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said ...

16:05, 16 May 2019

The grisly act is rare, yet it's common enough to have a name: fetal abduction. The latest case out of Chicago — in which 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby cut from her womb ...

15:06, 16 May 2019

A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from her womb, police and family members said. The newborn ...

09:26, 15 May 2019

Authorities in Peoria say a 4-year-old boy died when gunfire intended for someone else struck him three times in the back and arm.Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Tuesday that Jeremiah L. Ward died from ...

17:32, 10 May 2019

More than 100 people gathered Friday along a chain-link fence outside a badly damaged Illinois silicone factory to remember four men who died in an explosion at the facility. The mourners at AB Specialty Silicones factory ...

11:05, 09 May 2019

The FBI has added a man to its Ten Most Wanted list who's accused of killing his wife just hours after their 2012 wedding.The FBI says 37-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez of Chicago may have fled to ...

16:17, 08 May 2019

Rain swamping the nation's midsection forced people from their homes in Kansas, stranded dozens of Texas children at school overnight and strained levees along the surging Mississippi River in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere Wednesday prompting ...

17:13, 05 May 2019

Search and rescue personnel found the body of another worker Sunday in the rubble of a northern Illinois silicone plant that exploded and burst into flames two days ago, bringing the death toll to three ...

16:47, 05 May 2019

The Latest on the explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone plant (all times local):4:30 p.m.Search and rescue personnel have located and are recovering the body of a third employee killed in the explosion and ...

20:08, 04 May 2019

The Latest on an explosion at and Illinois (all times local):8 p.m.A second person has died as a result of injuries suffered from an explosion at an Illinois factory.Initially, one body was found at the ...

15:16, 04 May 2019

An explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone factory was believed to have killed three people, authorities said Saturday, as they recovered the body of one victim while suspending the search for the other two. Crews ...

10:19, 04 May 2019

A 90-year-old great-grandfather is about make history by becoming the oldest student to earn a bachelor's degree from Northeastern Illinois University since the school started keeping records in 1962.Bob Dwyer, a great-grandfather, Army veteran and ...

17:57, 03 May 2019

Hundreds of people have converged on a northern Illinois funeral home to pay respects to a 5-year-old boy whose parents have been charged with his murder. The opportunity to file past the body of AJ Freunds' ...

09:18, 02 May 2019

Court records show that video police recovered from an Illinois woman's cellphone showing her bruised 5-year-old son prompted the boy's father to lead investigators to the child's body.JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr. of Crystal ...

11:50, 30 Apr 2019

Chicago's top prosecutor is fighting a push to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her office's handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett. Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx says she'd welcome an independent probe ...

08:14, 25 May 2019

A faith that is shaken, but not lost. Deep disappointment, but hope for the future. An overwhelming feeling that there is a lesson to be learned and a stronger church if it is taken to ...

09:36, 24 May 2019

Pennsylvania's treasury department is accusing about a dozen large financial firms of working together to illegally inflate the price of bonds issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over seven years.A federal court filing by ...

15:10, 22 May 2019

Gov. Tom Wolf says preliminary statistics are pointing to a decrease in overdose deaths in Pennsylvania last year, as his administration suggests the opioid crisis might be starting to wane in some parts of the ...

21:57, 21 May 2019

Republican Fred Keller, a conservative state lawmaker, won the special election for Congress on Tuesday in a heavily Republican district that sprawls across areas of central and northern Pennsylvania that are a stronghold for President ...

18:31, 21 May 2019

The Latest on a second fatal Alaska floatplane crash in a week (all times local):3:20 p.m.The police chief of Metlakatla has identified the pilot of Monday's deadly commuter plane crash in that Alaska community.This Monday, ...

16:27, 21 May 2019

One of Pennsylvania's most beloved and scenic hiking trails will remain closed to the public unless lawmakers pass Gov. Tom Wolf's $4.5 billion infrastructure plan, officials said Tuesday.The Democratic governor hiked to the base of ...

07:52, 18 May 2019

Ask Vivian Loh a simple question, like her age, and you may not get a simple answer."4,687 days," the Squirrel Hill resident answers softly and without hesitation, sitting in an office at the Winchester Thurston ...

10:39, 17 May 2019

Authorities say one person has been killed and another is missing after an explosion destroyed a home in northeastern Pennsylvania. Officials say emergency responders found 20-year-old Nathan Hedgepeth injured but alive just before 2 a.m. Friday ...

09:59, 15 May 2019

A civil suit says a Pennsylvania pediatric practice knew that one of its physicians was a threat to molest young patients but covered it up. The suit says Laurel Pediatric Associates in Johnstown knew at least ...

16:48, 14 May 2019

The Pennsylvania judge who presided over Bill Cosby's sex-assault case says he let five other accusers testify at Cosby's retrial because they showed his actions were "so distinctive" they became "a signature."A jury last year ...

13:44, 14 May 2019

Pennsylvania's state attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the company that makes OxyContin of fueling the opioid epidemic, making it at least the 39th state to make such a claim against Purdue Pharma.Attorney General ...

09:14, 12 May 2019

Pennsylvania's primary election will decide nominees or officeholders for several high-profile offices, including mayor of the nation's sixth largest city and one of the state's 18 members of the U.S. House. Pennsylvania's primary election is May ...

13:56, 10 May 2019

Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed at Swarthmore College.School President Valerie Smith made the announcement Friday.It comes after the only two fraternities at the private liberal arts college in suburban Philadelphia decided to ...

13:49, 07 May 2019

Nearly a dozen lucky ducks have been rescued by eastern Pennsylvania firefighters after falling through a sewer grate and out of sight of their distressed mother.Emergency workers were called Tuesday morning to a street in ...

16:14, 06 May 2019

Demonstrators chanted "stop taking bribes" and threw dollar bills from a balcony in Pennsylvania's House chamber Monday as part of a protest over state law that does not limit the value of gifts that lawmakers ...

16:12, 06 May 2019

Gun rights advocates packed the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Capitol on Monday for an annual Second Amendment rally, pushing their legislative priorities and cheering a call for the Pittsburgh mayor's impeachment.Gun owners roared when the ...

15:29, 06 May 2019

Police from around Pennsylvania are honoring four members of law enforcement who were killed or died last year from injuries sustained while on duty.Monday's ceremony in the Forum auditorium adjacent to the state Capitol was ...

10:41, 02 May 2019

U.S. Steel will invest more than $1 billion on state-of-the-art facilities in western Pennsylvania that it says will improve its steelmaking efficiency and reduce emissions at its Mon Valley Works operations.The company says new casting ...

15:56, 01 May 2019

The Latest on a judge's decision to throw out the conviction of former Penn State President Graham Spanier (all times local):4:55 p.m.Lawyers for former Penn State President Graham Spanier say they're stunned by the comments ...

15:50, 01 May 2019

Hundreds of nuclear power plant workers rallied at Pennsylvania's Capitol amid hearings on legislation to charge ratepayers more to subsidize nuclear power.Workers from Pennsylvania's five plants repeated warnings Wednesday that their jobs and future are ...