The New York Court of Appeals on Thursday overturned the sex crimes conviction against Harvey Weinstein, the powerful Hollywood producer whose downfall stood as a symbol of the #MeToo movement. The court, by a 4-3 vote, ordered a new trial. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes because that testimony served no material non-propensity purpose,” the ruling,...
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claimed that Donald Trump appeared to "doze off" during his hush money criminal trial.
New York Attorney General Letitia James. They paid some $11M into an investment fund, but officials said it was all a fraud. [ more › ]
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his hush money trial, as the criminal case resumed on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court weighed whet
The $175 million bond former President Trump posted to appeal the $364
Former President Donald Trump trails President Biden in deep-blue New York by just ten percentage points, according to a new poll.
Telecommuting, a pandemic-era novelty that has become a permanent alternative for many people, has some Connecticut and New Jersey employees of New York-based companies questioning why they still have to pay personal income tax to the Empire State. Their home states are wondering as well. Fed up with losing out on hundreds of millions of […]
New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next
New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue New York in court for taxing their wages
Donald Trump on Saturday asked Judge Cannon to delay certain deadlines in his classified documents case, citing the criminal hush money trial he is facing.Trump has received numerous delays in the classified documents case, in which the former president stands accused of stashing away documents from the White House at his Mar-a-Lago golf club. In this instance, he's using his upcoming criminal case in New York to seek a delay on disclosure deadlines to reveal information to Special Counsel Jack...
WNYC / Gothamist Albany reporter Jon Campbell talks about what's in and what's out of the just-approved New York State budget, including housing incentives, zoning changes, limited tenant protections, mayoral control of the schools, and more.
The Rangers and Islanders concluded their regular-season series Saturday and produced a worthy preview of a possible postseason series.