As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal authorities gang intelligence that could fuel the deportation machine.
The New York State ...
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he learned his punishment for the crimes that led to his expulsion from Congress.
Santos, who pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated ...
Thousands of New Yorkers around the state are sitting on waitlists for two state-funded mental health treatment and support programs, according to data obtained by the Legal Aid Society and reviewed by New York Focus.
Some applicants wait years for voluntary long-term mental health support, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities denied Mahmoud Khalil’s request for a temporary release from detention to attend the birth of his first child, who was born Monday in New York, according to emails shared with The Associated Press.
Khalil, a Columbia University activist ...
NEW YORK — The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year and notes that 58% of the 9,354 incidents related to Israel, notably chants, speeches and signs at rallies protesting Israeli policies.
In a report released ...
ALBANY — Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state’s discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday.
Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum News Capitol Tonight reporter Kate Lisa “discovery’s done” in the halls of the Capitol on ...