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NEW YORK — State lawmakers late Friday were poised to hand a victory to Mayor Eric Adams as they agreed to extend his control of the New York City public schools by two years, with some adjustments to how the nation’s ...Read more

Writers Guild of America members employed by Sesame Workshop have struck a tentative contract deal with management, averting a strike after negotiations stalled over compensation and union representation for the nonprofit ...Read more

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The U.S.-China rivalry has a new flashpoint in the battle for technology supremacy: electric cars.

So far, the U.S. is losing.

Last year, China became the world's foremost auto exporter, according to ...Read more

Electric vehicle maker Rivian said it is working to secure and maintain the site of its planned Georgia factory, as well as preparing the land for vertical construction as soon as it can move forward with the $5 billion ...Read more

The New York Post is cutting newsroom staffers as part of what the company is calling a restructuring, Post reps confirmed Friday.

“Unfortunately, today’s changes means some of our colleagues will be leaving us,” ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California called off an appearance from director Jon. M Chu and other honorees at commencement in the wake of the university’s decision to cancel valedictorian Asna Tabassum’...Read more

NEW YORK — The action-packed first week of Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial ended Friday with 12 seated jurors and six alternates locked in — and a fourth failed bid by the former president to sabotage it, ...Read more

For the second month in a row, California posted the highest unemployment rate in the country, according to new data for March. And it was one of only two states, the other being Nevada, with a March jobless rate above 5%,...Read more

NEW YORK — Defiant students at Columbia University continued Friday to protest the war in Gaza as some Jewish students, citing ongoing tension on campus, requested permission to study remotely.

The Jewish students said ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Florida man set himself on fire in a city park across from Manhattan Criminal Court where former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial was being held Friday to draw attention to an array of conspiracy ...Read more

New York City will no longer be home to the tallest building in North America if a plan freshly approved by Oklahoma City officials stays on course.

However, some residents near the site of the proposed Legends Tower have...Read more

DENVER — Twenty-five years ago, Michelle DiManna sat in the math office at Columbine High School grading papers and talking to a colleague when she heard students screaming in terror.

Two heavily armed shooters had ...Read more

A Proud Boys leader from Millersville, Maryland, was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison Friday for his role in the attacks on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The punishment was the largest rendered against a ...Read more

Born in South Florida in 2011, Chewy upended the pet food business by providing online ordering, fast delivery, and personal touches like birthday cards adorned with actual paintings of pet customers.

Now among the nation...Read more

Rudolph Giuliani’s creditors expanded their probe into the former New York mayor’s finances, filing more than a dozen subpoenas in his bankruptcy case on Friday.

The formal requests, filed Friday in the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — Rapper Kodak Black will face nothing more than a parking ticket in one case after a Broward judge dismissed the second and last criminal charge against him Wednesday in a case stemming from police finding a ...Read more

Rapper NBA YoungBoy and several of his associates orchestrated a "large scale prescription fraud ring" to illegally obtain prescription drugs from multiple Utah-area pharmacies, police allege.

An affidavit filed Thursday ...Read more

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey this week accused Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas of offering an “open invitation for illegal aliens to come to Missouri.”

The Republican attorney general ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Protests over the Gaza war that snarled San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland for hours Monday inflamed tempers, led to dozens of arrests and drew a finger-wagging from Gov...Read more

The man who set himself on fire Friday outside the New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial was described by police as a “conspiracy theorist.”

Maxwell Azzarello, 37, of St. Augustine, ...Read more