Mayor Eric Adams has appointed Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch the next leader of the NYPD. Tisch will become the second woman police commissioner in the NYPD’s 179-year history ...

Last week, President-elect Donald Trump named former Long Island congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. The move has raised major concerns ...

NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war. In a stark ...

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres is not ruling out a run for governor against fellow Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, telling Spectrum News NY1 “we have a leadership crisis in America, and nowhere is it ...

After being kicked out of their home at the Connelly Theater, a nonprofit theater organization that fights for gender equity, has found a new home at Classic Stage Company. The Connelly Theater ...

LOS ANGELES — Kendrick Lamar gave music listeners an early holiday present Friday with the surprise drop of a new album. The Grammy winner's 12-track "GNX" is the rapper's first release since ...

WASHINGTON — Matt Gaetz withdrew Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following continued scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation that cast doubt ...

Starting in mid-January, the MTA will suspend A train service to the Rockaways for a little over four months, disrupting commutes for thousands of riders who depend on the subway line. The MTA ...

VANG VIENG, Laos — A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok, her family said Friday, bringing the death toll ...

Police walked 25-year-old Joshua Zinberg out of the 20th Precinct Thursday. He’s accused of slashing a tourist across the face on the Upper West Side in a seemingly unprovoked attack. Overall ...

WASHINGTON — South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican, wants Congress to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill, as Delaware Rep.-elect Sarah McBride — the ...