A US appeals court has put on hold a judge's overturning of California's decades-old assault weapons ban, which leaves intact for now the law as gun violence surges in America. A ruling earlier this month by federal Judge Roger T. Benitez, who likened...

The Brooklyn borough president paid tribute to his late mother, Dorothy Mae Adams, as he cast his ballot just after dawn at P.S. 81 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Donald Trump has “zero desire” to be speaker of the House of Representatives, a spokesman said, after the former president discussed the outlandish idea. Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is the current House speaker. Republicans under the minority leader,...

More than 750 employees in Austin, Texas, Moscow, London, Barcelona, Sydney and Mumbai are getting some time to recharge, a Bumble spokesperson said.

New Yorkers emerging from more than a year of pandemic misery will cast ballots Tuesday for a new mayor who will determine the city’s path to recovery. Voters will choose from a wide-ranging field that includes an ex-cop, a failed presidential candidate,...