Ed Shanahan

The train, a northbound F, went off the tracks in Coney Island on Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were immediately reported.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said the most significant problems caused by the storm were likely to persist after it moved on.

George Santos is the first person to be expelled from the House without supporting the Confederacy or being convicted of a federal crime.

The scheme described by federal prosecutors could upset a key element of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda: bolstering ties with India.

New Jersey’s governor and other Democrats have urged Senator Robert Menendez to resign in the face of bribery charges. Not everyone is joining the call.

Prosecutors say Senator Robert Menendez had a cache of ill-gotten ingots and a sudden interest in the price of the precious metal.

City officials are not moving quickly to fix the troubled jail complex despite the growing prospect of losing authority over it, according to a new...

Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, N.Y., said he had married a woman after the Vatican declined his request to...

The heat index could climb as high as 110 degrees, increasing the potential for heat-related illnesses.

Eliyahu Weinstein, whose 24-year sentence President Donald J. Trump commuted, is now accused of bilking 150 million people out of more than $35 million.