Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration is putting $29.2 million into NYU's planned Quantum Fabrication Facility. In return, the city gets three board seats and 15% of NYU's proceeds from inventions made with city-funded tools.
A city investigation found a bus carrying six nonverbal autistic children, ages 6 to 8, wandered Brooklyn for more than four hours while parents tracked it with AirTags. One child arrived lying in urine.
Two NYPD officers from the 114th Precinct performed two-finger CPR on a 1-month-old boy who stopped breathing in Astoria, Queens, until he started breathing again. He has since gone home.
A Brooklyn federal judge ruled the Justice Department had no valid basis to sue over NYC laws limiting cooperation with ICE, a week after an ICE agent shot a man in Marble Hill.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI testified under oath to the New York City Council only after a subpoena, and couldn't explain how Speaker Julie Menin found a sexualized Grok image of herself in seconds.
One of only three known Nanotyrannus skeletons is on view at Sotheby's in Manhattan before an Oct. 27 auction, and paleontologists are furious it could end up in private hands.
A family of barn owls is raising young in a rooftop water tower on the Upper West Side. Birders say it's the first documented barn owl nest in Manhattan, and crowds gather nightly to watch.
Ron Wallace's 3,156-pound pumpkin outweighs the current Guinness record by nearly 300 pounds. Meanwhile, a Minnesota teacher won California's famous weigh-off for a fifth time.
A former OpenAI engineer is charged with secretly installing a recording device in an executive conference room in San Francisco. Prosecutors say he had booked a one-way flight to Saudi Arabia before his arrest.
Treasury regulators fined Bank of America more than $1.21 billion on Oct. 13, saying it willfully violated anti-money-laundering law and missed more than $5 billion in suspicious activity.
GlobalFoundries will build and run up to two new chip factories in Malta, N.Y., paid for with up to $21 billion from Japan under a U.S.-Japan trade deal, while the Commerce Department takes a roughly 4% stake.
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home on Oct. 12 under a DOJ-obtained warrant. Omar, who has not been charged, called it political targeting.
Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as U.S. ambassador to Greece on Oct. 13 after the White House said it asked her to go, following Wall Street Journal reports alleging improper conduct. She denies the allegations.
Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, held a roughly 15-minute debut briefing on Oct. 13 as questions mounted over whether she has ever been licensed to practice law in the U.S.
Medicare's annual enrollment window runs Oct. 15 through Dec. 7, 2026. Here's what's different for 2027, from Part D costs to insurer exits and lower prices on 15 drugs.
Social Security and SSI payments will rise 3.6% in 2027, adding about $75 a month to the average retirement check, the Social Security Administration announced Oct. 14.
Hassan Kariem, the educator killed in a Six Flags roller coaster fall, had survived cancer twice, his family says.
President Donald Trump promoted El Salvador’s CECOT prison, claiming deportations there helped reduce U.S. crime amid documented abuse allegations.
A 90-year-old grandfather reportedly ate paint mistaken for yogurt in a 2019 incident shared online by his granddaughter.
A cruise passenger rescued off Greece survived about 20 hours at sea after going overboard from Odyssey of the Seas.
Duane “Keffe D” Davis received 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder.
An Atlanta father and longtime school employee died after being ejected from Six Flags Over Georgia’s Goliath roller coaster.
An Atlanta father and longtime school employee died after being ejected from Six Flags Over Georgia’s Goliath roller coaster.
President Donald Trump announced major Greenland exploration plans, but local authorities say a proposed oil project still lacks drilling approval.
