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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is at its “most combustible in years” against a backdrop of deadly accelerating surges of violence, “sky high” tensions, and a stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. “Our immediate priority must be to prevent further escalation, reduce…

R&B superstar R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have long been shadowed by allegations that he sexually abused women and children

Harvey Weinstein could get another long prison term at a Los Angeles court hearing

NEW YORK — The Knicks handled the absence of Mitchell Robinson pretty well. Better than expected, actually.

R. Kelly wouldn’t be eligible for release until 2066, a year shy of his 100th birthday, if a federal judge accepts prosecutors’ recommendations at his upcoming sentencing hearing

Kelly is already serving a 30-year sentence for a federal racketeering conviction in New York. So the crucial question Thursday will be whether U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber feels the need to punish Kelly further.

Derek Carr was waived by the Las Vegas Raiders and is now free to sign with another team before the new season officially begins on March 15 when players are allowed to sign elsewhere

Abbott told business leaders in Arlington on Wednesday that Texas is already suffering from the end of the tax-break program, recently losing a “massive” computer chip factory to New York.

A New York woman who admitted her role in an ex-convict’s decade-long plot to extort and sexually manipulate schoolmates of his daughter at Sarah Lawrence College has been sentenced to over four years in prison

NEW YORK — Jacque Vaughn says he never gave it much thought, but it’s been the elephant in the room regarding his coaching tenure in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK — Adam Silver, the great enabler of the player empowerment era, couldn’t admit it. He couldn’t bring himself to state the obvious, so we’ll say it for him: