Billionaire Leon Black filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which has spearheaded a Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Black has been the target of subpoenas from the Republican-led committee, which unanimously voted in September to hold him in contempt over his refusal to comply with those subpoenas. Black, a former Wall Street private equity investor who had a business relationship with Eps

What to KnowThe predicted blue wave materialized in midterm elections from coast to coast Tuesday, with Democrats winning control of Congress in a widespread repudiation of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats in ruby-red states and battlegrounds alike: Kansas, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator in nearly a century, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. They held on to battleground seats in Georgi

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that President Donald Trump has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a teenage immigrant from Ghana who was...

New York City mayor says US president 'has agreed to grant her visa immediately'.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday in a social media post that after talking to President Donald Trump, he has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to death earlier this week. The White House did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press confirming the administration would be issuing the visa. The teen, Javits Frimpong, was on his way to school in a Bronx neighborhood shortly before 9:30 a.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday in a social media post that after talking to President Donald Trump, he has ...

Javits Frimpong, Bronx shooting victim, was killed near Crotona Park. Thomas Frimpong believes bullying was a factor in the NYC shooting as police search for suspects.

A child was killed in a lithium-ion battery fire overnight at NYCHA's Patterson Houses in the Mott Haven section, the FDNY said.

The Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s office announced Friday the arrest of three people, including a woman, for allegedly operating a clandestine fentanyl lab inside an apartment in the Bronx. This follows an investigation involving agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, New York City Police Department and other agencies. At the time of the arrest, the woman’s two-year-old son was inside the apartment. Authorities believe that a total of five children under th

Lawyers for a man wounded by an immigration officer while driving with his young son in New York City said in a court filing Wednesday that the agent who shot him never identified himself before he ran up to the car, smashed one of its windows, then fired several shots into the vehicle. The account by lawyers for Oscar Belgal contrasted sharply with the version of events outlined by Department of Homeland Security officials. They have said officers opened fire only after Belgal smas