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Justice Juan M. Merchan has tried to treat Donald J. Trump like the hundreds of other defendants whose fates he has decided. But his decision could alter American history. As […]

From the vice president's looks to the ''angel'' judge at his trial, the former president can't help commenting on the appearance of others -- especially in relation to himself. Of [...]

Brian Scott Lorenz was convicted of killing a young mother near Buffalo in 1993. The district attorney is fighting a judge's decision last year to throw out the case. After [...]

The ruling was a blow to Mr. Kennedy's independent campaign for president. The judge said that he had used a ''sham'' address to claim residency in New York. Robert F. [...]

The ruling was a blow to Mr. Kennedy's independent campaign for president. The judge said that he had used a ''sham'' address to claim residency in New York. Robert F. [...]

The presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified in Albany in an attempt to stay on New York's ballot. If he is kicked off, other states could follow. Battling a [...]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s disclosure that he had left a cub's carcass in Central Park overshadowed his court battle to remain on New York State's ballot this fall. Lucas Altman [...]

The Manhattan district attorney's office argued that a recent Supreme Court ruling did not apply to the type of evidence it had deployed against the former president. Manhattan prosecutors are […]

Lawyers for Donald J. Trump challenged the judgment handed down by Justice Arthur F. Engoron, who found that Mr. Trump had conspired to manipulate his net worth to receive favorable […]

Sue Mi Terry, a North Korea expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, was charged with acting as an agent for Seoul after leaving the intelligence agency. Sue Mi Terry, […]

The Trump adviser was sentenced to four months for refusing to honor a subpoena from a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He rallied supporters in his last minutes [...]

Donald J. Trump will live the life of a New York convict until he is sentenced on July 11. He faces as long as four years in prison. It was [...]

Rising cocaine use and a drug supply tainted by fentanyl have become a deadly combination in Erie County, which includes Buffalo. The first 911 call came at 8:18 a.m. from [...]

Mr. Bowman's win in 2020 seemed to herald an ascendant progressive movement. In 2024, the center is regaining power. Representative Jamaal Bowman's upset win in a 2020 Democratic primary in [...]

Donald J. Trump claims the order has unfairly restricted his free speech rights ahead of his sentencing on 34 felony counts. He has nonetheless attacked the judge, prosecutor and justice [...]

It is unclear if Senator Robert Menendez's comportment will affect the verdict in his case, but Donald Trump's surly attitude certainly didn't seem to help. One politician grumbled in the [...]

Governor Hochul is more of an outsider to New York City than most of her predecessors. Critics say that put her at a disadvantage in dealing with congestion pricing. In [...]

Donald J. Trump was for decades a creature of New York. But in recent years, the city that helped make him seems more eager to break him. New York City [...]

A Manhattan jury found that he had falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House. Donald J. Trump was [...]

The machinery of celebrity is being laid bare in a Manhattan courtroom amid the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president. Of every question asked during the trial of [...]

Donald Trump's search is still in its early stages, but he is said to be leaning toward more experienced options who can help the ticket without seizing his precious spotlight. [...]

Ahead of Michael D. Cohen's testimony Monday, the judge told prosecutors to keep him quiet about Donald J. Trump's criminal case. In a startling precursor to what could be the [...]

The tape, played at the former president's criminal trial, captured Michael Cohen telling Donald Trump about a payment to a former Playboy model. Two voices reverberated in the courtroom. The [...]

David Pecker, who was the keeper of Donald J. Trump's secrets, insisted he had testified truthfully about his dealings with the former president. Lawyers for Donald J. Trump on Friday [...]

Just after the last selections of alternate jurors were made, a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse, horrifying onlookers. But the case was not delayed. The final jurors [...]

Justice Juan M. Merchan warned against identifying the people who might judge Donald J. Trump, who regularly attacks the justice system. At 4:34 p.m. on Thursday, a jury of 12 [...]

Strict security measures -- and plenty of headaches -- are expected as the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president gets underway in Manhattan. Manhattan's Criminal Courts Building, at [...]

Prosecutors in Donald J. Trump's Manhattan trial may prefer jurors who watch MSNBC and are highly educated. Defense lawyers may favor police officers and sanitation workers. On April 15, several [...]

Donald Trump had in recent days targeted the daughter of Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing his criminal trial in Manhattan, in blistering social media posts. The New York judge overseeing [...]

Donald Trump is poised to become the first ex-president to go on trial on criminal charges, in a case related to hush money paid to a porn star. Donald J. [...]

A week after agreeing to a brief delay, Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, said his office's criminal prosecution of Donald J. Trump should begin April 15 as scheduled. The [...]

Prevailing over former President Donald J. Trump and the National Rifle Association makes an elected Democrat a lightning rod. Foes call her vindictive. Allies say she's just doing her job. [...]

Allen H. Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization finance chief, has already spent time at the Rikers Island jail complex. The perjury plea will send him back. Allen H. Weisselberg, former [...]

A Buffalo lawyer yelled at a police officer and received a noise citation. He argues he was punished for what he said, not how loudly he said it. Tony Rupp [...]

A Manhattan jury found that the National Rifle Association's former leader, Wayne LaPierre, had used the group's funds to pay for lavish personal expenses, including vacations and luxury flights. In [...]

Tom Suozzi's victory last week in a special House election stopped a Republican winning streak on Long Island and suggests its House races may be competitive. Within hours of Tom [...]

Remington is leaving Ilion, N.Y., after two centuries, abandoning upstate for a gleaming new factory in Georgia. With it goes the village's identity. Eliphalet Remington built his first rifle barrel [...]

The case, brought by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, accused leaders of the National Rifle Association of corruption and misspending. Lawyers for New York State concluded their case [...]

Manhattan's federal prosecutor said the number of bribery charges, 70 in all, amounted to a single-day record for the Justice Department. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed bribery and extortion charges [...]

Kevin Monahan, 66, fatally shot a 20-year-old woman when the car she was riding in came up his driveway at night. A man from upstate New York was found guilty [...]

Many attempted murder plots, whether instigated by amateurs or professionals, are marred by ineptitude, experts say, despite what happens in ''Goodfellas'' and ''The Sopranos.'' It's a scene as old as [...]

A lawyer for the National Rifle Association said that Wayne LaPierre's actions did not embody the organization. Mr. LaPierre announced his resignation as the group's leader last week. A defense [...]

Charles F. McGonigal had pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions and laundering payments from a Russian oligarch. A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced a former top F.B.I. agent [...]

After customers' belongings were on the trucks, the shape-shifting Brooklyn company would demand more money to unload them, prosecutors said. Any New Yorker who has ever hired movers has experienced [...]

A U.S. indictment says an Indian government official tried to have a hit man kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has no question about who [...]

A Manhattan indictment says the agent orchestrated an unsuccessful plot against a Sikh separatist, a plan linked to a killing in Canada. It was described as a New York hit [...]

The 2022 Flying Spur could reach 60 miles per hour in four seconds. The couple who died inside were business owners from a town near Niagara Falls, N.Y. The car [...]

The explosion at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls sparked fears of terror. The car's occupants were local residents, and the authorities said there was no threat. Police investigators in [...]

Brooklyn prosecutors said that the pistol the council member, Inna Vernikov, had in her waistband was inoperable. She had come to the pro-Palestinian demonstration to livestream her opposition. A Brooklyn [...]

''Harmony,'' about a singing group undone by Nazism, has been a decades-in-the-making labor of love for the singer and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman. Barry Manilow is superstitious. Such a [...]