NEW YORK — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with directing $40 million in bribes to one or more Chinese officials to unfreeze assets relating to his cryptocurrency business in a newly rewritten indictment unsealed Tuesday. The charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery ...

ALBANY — Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation. New York City resident Anthony Rivera, 20, who sorts packages at a United ...

ALBANY — A new statewide snapshot of public opinion finds strong support for increasing discretion for judges in bail matters as well as for an income tax surcharge on New Yorkers with annual incomes of at least $5 million The survey results from Siena Research Institute come in the same ...

SARANAC LAKE — The head of the state’s college system visited North Country Community College on Friday to speak with administration, professors and students about low enrollment numbers, the upcoming state budget and the future of the State University of New York system. John King ...

ALBANY — Leaders of local government associations say counties, cities and towns are facing a hiring crisis. They are calling for reforms to a New York civil service system that they say has become antiquated and hinders their ability to make hiring decisions for jobs crucial to the ...

WASHINGTON — Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. At some point in the presentation — one of many lawmaker briefings ...