The Latest Breaking News from New York

As of March 5, Ballotpedia has tracked 128 election-related bills in the New York State Assembly since the beginning of the year. Of the 128, Ballotpedia tracked six from Feb. 27 to March 5. Democrats sponsored five, while Republicans sponsored one. The six bills are:

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams refused to explain on Friday why NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell wasn’t looped into the controversial decision to invite Cardi B to a police event — and instead praised the NYPD’s former Chief of Training Juanita Holmes for making the move.

A federal judge on Friday said the Justice Department can sue Alphabet Inc.’s Google in Virginia, batting down efforts by the tech giant to change the venue of the litigation to New York.

NEW YORK — A New York City judge on Friday said lawyers for E. Jean Carroll may call two women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct as witnesses at his upcoming civil rape trial, and play the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape for the jury.

E Jean Carroll can use tape of former president boasting of touching women’s genitals without consent in New York trial

The death toll from a chaotic stampede after a concert in Rochester, New York, rose to three as the final hospitalized victim died from her injuries, police said Thursday.

In 2021, trend forecaster Mandy Lee predicted the return of “indie sleaze”, referring to the hedonistic and unfiltered UK and US indie music scene which stretched from 2006 to 2012. As of March 2023, the Instagram account “@indiesleaze”, which shares images of “the decadence of the mid-late aughts and the…

Trump has been invited to testify before a Manhattan grand jury, typically the last step before a criminal indictment. Trump could become the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted.

Mayor Eric Adams frets that COVID-19 masks are making it too easy for shoplifters to evade facial recognition.