GOP bill: Counties see mandate relief

Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a blistering attack Tuesday on a federal plan to take the cost of Medicaid off the backs of New York's county governments. GOP Medicaid bill: Counties see mandate relief ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a blistering attack Tuesday on a federal plan to take the cost of Medicaid off the backs of New York's county governments.

GOP Obamacare repeal saves rural New Yorkers cash at city expense

House Republicans cut a backroom deal Tuesday night leaving New York City in the lurch by cutting Upstate contributions to the state Medicaid program. The House speaker, scrambling for votes to pass his much-maligned Obamacare repeal plan, tacked on a last-minute provision from Rep. Chris Collins aimed at winning over skittish Upstate New York Republicans ahead of Thursday's House vote.

Jasmine Yarbrough’s sister flaunts ‘daddy’ phone case

EXCLUSIVE: Heartwarming moment Good Samaritan steps in and buys $749 plane ticket for desperate father whose daughter, two, is told she's too old to fly for free Woman, 25, loses an arm and a leg after FAINTING on a New York subway platform into the path of an oncoming train Trump's revised travel ban already facing legal trouble as Democratic attorneys general team up to block the new order The seven simple money-saving hacks that could save you THOUSANDS a year Police blast protesters with water cannons in Rotterdam after Turkish ministers are refused entry to Holland, prompting Erdogan to label the Dutch 'Nazi fascists' Never-before-seen Michael Brown footage sheds new light on case and suggests he did NOT rob the store before being shot dead by Ferguson police but was involved in a drug deal with the clerks How incendiary new Michael Brown film threatens to reignite fury around his ... (more)

Bharara, Wall Street’s Cop, Among Prosecutors Asked to Quit

Wall Street enforcer Preet Bharara may be forced out as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan despite assurances he said he had received from the incoming Trump administration that he would remain in the job. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday abruptly asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, all those remaining who had served under former President Barack Obama.

Bharara, Wall Street’s Enforcer, Among Prosecutors Asked to Quit

Wall Street enforcer Preet Bharara may be forced out as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan despite assurances he said he had received from the incoming Trump administration that he would remain in the job. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday abruptly asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, all those remaining who had served under former President Barack Obama.

Democratic AGs mount fight against Trump travel ban

In stepping up legal challenges to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, Democratic attorneys general are trying to use the court system to thwart the executive branch in the same way their GOP counterparts did under President Barack Obama . Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday he was asking a federal judge to find that his order last month halting the old travel ban applies to the new one, too.

Will plain packaging on ALCOHOL make us any healthier?

Mr Manhattan! Barack and Malia catch a star-studded play on Broadway as the former President is cheered by crowds at every turn during trip to New York Two 'assassins' reveal all: Women arrested over nerve gas killing of Kim Jong-nam tell police they were 'good time girls hired in Malaysian massage parlors for $90 and told to carry out baby oil prank' The secret of happiness? Live life in the slow lane, says Buddhist monk. Savor supermarket lines, take three days to make decisions and listen more than you talk 'I have locked her at home, chased her around, grabbed her off the streets.

#NotMyPresident Protest: Angry Anti-Trump Voters March On President’s Day – Pics

Hear that shouting outside your window? That's the sound of people protesting President's Day, not celebrating it. Thousands of livid voters refuse to honor Donald Trump on this national holiday, and have hit the streets to march! We've got the pics! If Donald Trump , 70, can rename "Black History Month," then we're changing President's Day to NOT My President's Day.

Gender advisor says Yassmin Abdel-Magied attack is sexist

Construction worker with a 'white power' chest tattoo and his fiancA e are victims of double murder that was so grisly police needed an X-ray machine to find all their body parts Milo Yiannopoulos LOSES his $250k book deal amid outrage at pedophilia comments as Breitbart workers threaten to quit if he isn't sacked EXCLUSIVE: Making a Murderer's Steven Avery BEGGED lead prosecutor Ken Kratz to represent him in an appeal - and bragged that they could 'get money together' from the case Why the fasting diet DOES work: Limiting your calories for 5 days a month could 'cut your risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes' Tattooed gangster ambushes and murders one LA cop and wounds another after the officers arrived at car wreck he was involved in How nine in ten diets fail... But you should still keep trying as yo-yo slimming is healthier than staying fat Will we all die THIS YEAR? ... (more)

Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wears no. 46 jersey in apparent nod to Trump feud

Fighter jets were scrambled in Florida Friday night to intercept an unresponsive plane that violated restricted airspace over President Trump's Mar-a-Lago re... -- Mike Pence affirmed the United States' support for NATO and urged Russia to deescalate violence in eastern Ukraine while speaking Saturday at the Munich Secu... This week U.S. Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency Topeka Regional Office expanded the area for producers looking to request a limited irrigation yield by written... OGALLALA - It wasn't easy, but the Gothenburg Boy's closed out their regular season with a 85-57 win over Ogallala on Friday night.

Thoughtful, not forceful, approach needed in Chicago

So far, the native New Yorker had been treating Chicago like the weather; he can't stop talking about it, but is there really much he can do about it? He's been talking about Chicago's violence epidemic since a June 29, 2015, meeting with the Chicago Tribune editorial board, which he addressed as if he was bringing news of which Chicagoans already were not painfully aware: "Crime in Chicago is out of control, and I will tell you, outside of Chicago, it's a huge negative and a huge talking point, a huge negative for Chicago," he said. "You've got to stop it.

Study: American stress on the rise

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Victoria Demos was working as a therapist in Greenwich Village, N.Y. And even during that fraught and terrifying time, she said, the patients she saw were not experiencing as much anxiety as the ones she's seeing now.

Two new polls find wildly different Trump approval ratings

Demonstrators participate in a protest by the Yemeni community against U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban in the Brooklyn borough of New York U.S President Donald Trump has been in office for less than a month, but according to a new poll he's already America's worst president in modern history. Trump is also dividing Americans across party lines more than any recent president, as nearly all Republicans support him and nearly all Democrats oppose him.

Marc Jacobs goes silent to close out New York Fashion Week

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs, right, walks runway after showing his collection during Fashion Week, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in New York. Fashion designer Marc Jacobs, right, walks runway after showing his collection during Fashion Week, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, in New York.