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WASHINGTON — The State Department is bailing out on a decades-long tradition of putting up US diplomats at The Waldorf-Astoria only months after it was sold to a Chinese company.

Following the Supreme Court’s June 8 decision not to overturn gun storage requirements in San Francisco, Democrats in Albany, New York, are pushing to require residents there to lock up their guns, as well.

Officials in New York City are now aiming to be the first to force restaurant chains to add salt warning labels on menus.

New York State police are mounting a man hunt for two “dangerous” prisoners who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Center early on Saturday, authorities report.

Like something out of sci-fi classic Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman, today an unsuspecting New York woke up to find a giant Protein World ad towering above the city’s Times Square neighbourhood. The now infamous, “Are you beach body

Air France Flight 22 has landed at John F. Kennedy airport in New York after being accompanied overseas by U.S. fighter jets. A phoned-in “chemical weapons” threat has emergency personnel on edge, and the flight is currently being searched for explosives in the “hijack site” of the airport, assigned to planes suspected of carrying a weapon.

On Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had a sparsely attended summit to discuss the state government’s official email policy. The final outcome is an eyebrow-raiser, with the governor deciding that in many cases state employees can delete any official email at will.

(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo met senior Cuban officials in Havana on Monday as the head of a high-powered business delegation looking to take advantage of President Barack Obama’s easing of restrictions with the Communist-led island.

Six males arrested in a Sunday FBI anti-terrorism raid face charges of trying to leave the United States from Minneapolis, Minnesota and San Diego, California to join the Islamic fundamentalist terror group ISIS overseas. One member of the group intent on joining the terrorist organization defected and became an informant for the FBI, providing the necessary intelligence to make the arrests.

On Tuesday evening, thousands of demonstrators launched a series of anti-police protests in many of the country’s biggest cities, but dozens of protesters were arrested after some marchers turned violent.

A New York woman got married ten times as part of an immigration scam.

Oppressive government regulations and taxes beating down Upstate New Yorkers have assaulted the region for years, leaving cities like Binghamton on the path to Detroit-level devastation. However, all is not lost. The hope of prosperity is evidenced in the success of less regulated and prosperous Native American tribe businesses in the state.

New York State Senator Jeffrey Klein is putting the blame on a “junior communications staffer” for a tweet calling a female Republican strategist “hot.”

An argument at a New York City nightclub turned violent early Wednesday morning, leaving Chris Copeland, 31, of the Indiana Pacers with a knife wound in his abdomen, his wife slashed, and two members of the Atlanta Hawks arrested for impeding a police investigation.

Surprising many, the giant, lighted letters that once spelled out “YANKEE STADIUM” atop the old Bronx ballpark failed to sell at auction last week.

New York’s NBC affiliate perpetrated what is becoming the worst sin in media today by using a clickbait-style headline on Twitter. Worse, it was a clickbait headline to sell the story of a 10-year-old’s suicide. Clickbait headlines are fast becoming

As the runoff election to determine who will be the next mayor of Chicago grows near, New York Magazine has proclaimed that challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is the Windy City’s Bill de Blasio.

The failure of a hotplate was the cause of a tragic fire that took the lives of seven Brooklyn children, the worst such tragedy in New York City since 2007.

As recently as last night Eastern Time, reports circulated that the Colombia government had approved the extradition of major Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist Eduardo Cabrera (alias ‘The Priest’) to New York, where he awaits a 16-year prison term. Hours later, the government has rescinded its agreement with the United States.

A new ID card issued by the city of New York, called IDNYC, has drawn an unexpectedly huge response, as some New Yorkers who already have government-issued identification have joined enormous numbers of illegal immigrants, elderly residents, and even the homeless to clamor for such a card.

More details have emerged about Wednesday’s news of three Uzbekistani men arrested in New York City for allegedly plotting to join ISIS and possibly carry out terror attacks in New York: one of the men, 19-year-old Akhror Saidakhmetov, turned out to have dual citizenship in Kazakhstan, not Uzbekistan, and the senior member of the group, 30-year-old Abror Habibov, was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, not at his residence in Brooklyn.

The FBI conducted a series of terror raids in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, arresting three men from Uzbekistan who were planning to fly to Syria, join up with ISIS, and perhaps return to New York for a spot of domestic terrorism.

A man accused of being a terror mastermind behind a plan to detonate bombs in Manchester, Copenhagen and New York has gone on trial today in the US. Abid Naseer is accused of being the ringleader of the UK-based conspiracy,

A former U.S. Army sergeant accused of assembling an international team of military servicemembers with sniper training to provide surveillance and security, as well as carry out contract killings for a Colombian drug cartel pleaded guilty in New York federal court.

A new report finds that nearly 5,000 New York teachers are being paid six-figure pensions courtesy of tax payers.

Syracuse University has announced that it will self-impose a ban on postseason Orange basketball as punishment for “past mistakes.”

A potential explosion of measles could have been triggered by a college student infected with the disease who traveled by train from New York City to northern New York State last Sunday. The student, who attends Bard College, traveled on the 1:20 p.m. train from Penn station to Rhinecliff, N.Y. with a stop in Albany.

The former head of security for Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and for current President of the National Assembly Diosdado Cabello has defected to the United States and plans on filing a formal complaint against Cabello for leading a drug smuggling ring.

Breitbart News is providing live coverage of Winter Storm Juno, which has brought significant snowfall to much of the Northeast, impacting major cities including New York and Boston. 4:15 PM EST: The places where Winter Storm Juno did decide to settle in and make

Quoting lines from Field of Dreams, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday launched the city’s “IDNYC” municipal identification card program, which will be available to all New York residents–including illegal immigrants. De Blasio said New York residents were

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) plans to poll its riders about the practice of “manspreading” to see if the SFMTA should intervene and ban the practice. “Manspreading” occurs when men spread their legs wide while sitting on public transit, barring someone from sitting comfortably next to them.

Piers Morgan’s column in the Daily Mail defends New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for criticizing the police after the death of Eric Garner.

Both of the Chicago bids for the Barack Obama Presidential Library are falling flat. The foundation tasked with selecting the final site for the president’s library has New York as a leading contender instead of Obama’s hometown, a report says.

Lorenzo Delpani, the Italian-born CEO of United States-based cosmetics company Revlon, allegedly believes Americans are “dirty” and “small-minded,” that “Jews stick together,” and that he has the ability to “smell a black person” upon entering a room, according to a lawsuit.

Three Muslim groups joined forces to organize a Saturday protest in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania invoking Koran scripture and the words of Malcolm X in announcing the “Muslims Mobilized Against Police Brutality” protest. Muslim groups who coalesced to lead the protest charge

Only the sound of footsteps were audible as protesters marched down the streets of St. Louis past City Hall with duct tape on their mouths in silent protest over the police-involved shooting deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York . Activists got loud, however, as they ended up down at the landmark St Louis Arch, flooding the entrance to the Visitor’s Center chanting, “FTP, F**k the Police” and “Hands Up Don’t Shoot.”