Following trips from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US climate envoy John Kerry is the latest top official from the Biden administration to be dispatched to China. Kerry arrived in China on Sunday for "in-depth" climate change talks with his counterparts in the Chinese government,...

A midlevel New York court sided with Democrats in their crusade to allow themselves to redraw the state’s 26 congressional districts. Though Republicans are expected to appeal, this is already a consequential decision. The Appellate Division's Third Department issued a 3-2 decision on Thursday ordering the state’s Independent Redistricting Commission to...

Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump’s most recent financial disclosure form shows an unusual set of transactions: a super PAC linked to him made several payments totaling $155,000 payment to his wife, Melania Trump, in December 2021. The disclosure form listed the December 2nd, 2021 payment to Melania...

The MTA is trying something new at E. 125th Street and Lexington Ave. in Harlem: no standing zones. The station, which serves the 4, 5 and 6 lines, is the first to have such zones, painted on the platform where conductors’ cabs come to a stop. A subway staff memo...

An ongoing ageism lawsuit said in a new court filing that New York Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh ignored her staff’s calls for action against deadly e-bike batteries and refused to publicly support banning them from NYCHA housing out of fear of “political winds." Court papers say that last summer, shortly...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen signaled at a Sunday morning press conference in Beijing what many had been hoping to hear: her talks with Chinese officials this week made progress in defrosting the icy relationship between the US and China. Yellen is the second Biden administration official to visit the country...

An altercation between a CVS worker and a shoplifter from a Midtown branch of the chain turned deadly Thursday: the employee knifed the thief in the torso, cops and police sources said. Employee Scotty Enoe got into an argument with a man allegedly trying to swipe some goods near the...

NFL'er Travis Kelce stars in their latest ad

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The FDNY discovered what they called a “ticking time bomb” of over a hundred lithium-ion batteries in lower Manhattan this week. This comes as the department ramped up inspections on e-bike shops in the wake of last week’s deadly fire at one such store. The “proactive” checks on over 200 known...