The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it was probing the release by an upstate New York sheriff's office of an ...

Newsday plans to sue Bruce Blakeman, the executive of Nassau County, N.Y., after he made The New York Post the government’s official publication.

New York’s attorney general is in the van of opposition to the 47th president’s agenda — and he owes her office some $500 ...

Throngs of people eagerly waited on Thursday for more than 100 Palestinian prisoners who were released from Israel in ...

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In the years 1880 to 1920, we literally transformed the health environment,” says David Rosner, a professor of history and public health at Columbia University, and author of the book, Building the ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Years of organizing, educating and empowering people to defend themselves from racist ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng has reintroduced measures to make the Lunar New Year a federal holiday in conjunction with a resolution ...

A Mexican citizen was arrested by federal agents on a federal warrant on Wednesday after the justice department said he was ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter ...

Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.