The U.S. saw a small increase in measles cases last week, an indicator that outbreaks are slowing down, though exposures at a busy airport in Colorado and a Shakira concert in New Jersey are ...

NATIONWIDE — Leaders across the U.S. congratulated Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to be elected as pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. President Donald Trump ...

Springtime means awards season for the New York Theatre community and that includes the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards, which celebrates the best of Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway.

Clayton Prisament's high school English class turned into "pope watch" on Thursday afternoon at Regis High School in Manhattan. “Instead of doing English class, we just put on the Sistine Chapel ...

Top New York lawmakers and advocates are sounding the alarm about the future of a federally funded program providing health care and support to more than 130,000 9/11 victims and first responders.

A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

New court filings by the Department of Justice say the Trump administration will not enforce, and may rescind, mental health parity. This requires Americans with private health insurance to have ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has had a bad run when it comes to lieutenant governors. Her first lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, resigned after he was indicted on bribery charges. His replacement ...

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio has agreed to pay a $329,794 fine to settle an ethics board’s complaint that he misspent public funds on his security detail during his brief, failed run for U.S ...

Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres introduced legislation Thursday aimed at lowering energy costs for residents of Puerto Rico and other noncontiguous parts of the United States. His bill, shared ...

Just one day after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she clinched a budget deal, the Democratic-controlled state Assembly spent hours debating — and then passing — a bill that would legalize what ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order aimed at expanding accessibility to in vitro fertilization, which is a medical procedure helps people facing infertility. The order asks ...