WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) – Want to know what your school’s cell phone policy will be this fall for students? The state has a website you can check. Governor Hochul implemented a bell-to-bell smartphone ban for students when classes start up next month. Schools had to develop a policy telling Albany how phones would be…
Federal judges in several states have rejected President Trump’s controversial picks for top prosecutor posts in a rare standoff between the courts and the White House, but those acting U.S. attorneys will nonetheless remain in place because of actions taken by the president and the Justice Department. File: Alina Habba, acting US attorney for New…
Three people, including an innocent 65-year-old man, were hospitalized early Saturday after a teen triggerman blasted away at a rival in Times Square, officials said. NYPD officers monitoring the Crossroads of the World who heard the shots raced over and apprehended the suspected shooter, a 17-year-old boy, following the 1:20 a.m. shooting at the corner…
A group of middle-aged Chinese women have taken square dancing onto a completely new track by doing it on trains. On July 27, a passenger on a train to Changchun, in northeastern China’s Jilin province, complained that a group of so-called aunties were dancing in the sleeping carriage next to his, disturbing his rest. He…
Three shot in Times Square shooting as emergency crews rush to the scene (Picture: Twitter/ViralNewsNYC) Three people have been shot in New York’s Times Square with bodies seen strewn on the ground. One woman, 18, and two men, 19 and 65, have been injured at the tourist hotspot in the heart of the US city….
The Justice Department subpoenaed New York Attorney General Letitia James in an investigation of whether she violated President Trump’s civil rights, the Associated Press reports, citing sources familiar with the matter. The subpoenas mark an escalation of the Trump administration’s continuing efforts to scrutinize perceived political adversaries of the president. James investigated Mr. Trump before…
New York — At the Museum of Illusions in New York City, around every corner is a wonder for the eyes. There’s a vase that’s a face, art that moves with you, and a room that seems to go on forever. It’s a funhouse for our perceptions, built for the TikTok age. But the visual…
A bull moose whose lingering presence around an Adirondack mountain hiking trail this summer forced its closure was euthanized after showing signs of severely deteriorating health, New York environmental officials said Thursday. The Goodman Mountain trail in the Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest had been temporarily closed since June 6 after the moose began exhibiting “unusual…
Washington — The fight for control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections is underway — long before a single ballot is cast next year. Texas is fighting to enact a GOP-led redistricting effort that would give Republicans five more seats in the state and help them hold their narrow majority in the U.S….
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 19: Padma Lakshmi at Hay Day Farmers Farmers Market at Union Square Greenmarket on July 19, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Simon/Getty Images for Hay Day ) Getty Images for Hay Day In the chaos of New York City, where silence is a rare commodity, author,…