New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie took a birthday trip to Rio de Janeiro with influential Albany lobbyist Patrick Jenkins, and neither man will say who paid for it, raising questions under the state’s strict $15 gift limit.
The defending champion Knicks open preseason play Monday at Philadelphia, a near pick’em game that bettors see tilting toward the 76ers because of their deeper bench experience.
A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Nathaniel Moran and Sens. Tim Scott and Adam Schiff would offer federal subsidies to film and TV productions that shoot in the U.S., with added incentives for rural and disaster-recovery areas.
A new state audit found Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s office overpaid employees without seeking repayment, split purchases to dodge a $5,000 card limit, and lacked proper documentation for nearly all vendor payments tested, with most issues from a 2022 audit still unresolved.
The Justice Department charged 16 lawful permanent residents with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes, officials announced.
North Korea’s Oct. 3 intermediate-range missile test puts Guam, parts of Alaska and Japan within reach, an analyst says, even as President Trump continues touting his personal rapport with Kim Jong Un.
A Port St. Lucie TikTok creator known online as a “Grey Hat Hacker” is back in jail on a felony computer-access charge after two women accused him of exposing their private data and location in his videos.
Americans are paying up to $20,000 to travel to clinics in Playa del Carmen and Cancún for ibogaine, a psychedelic unavailable in the U.S. that carries serious cardiac risks and drew scrutiny after the death of Presley Gerber.
A new Gallup poll finds only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college degree “very important,” the lowest share recorded since the firm began asking in 1978, with declines seen across every demographic group.
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Kim Kardashian says she keeps five nannies on hand to help care for her four children with Kanye West, while still handling school runs and nightly family dinners herself.
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Tamaira Angell Smith, accused of killing Loganville mother Eyanna Moore with an illegal silicone injection in 2009, was caught 17 years later after trying to renew a driver’s license obtained under a stolen identity.
