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Average hourly pay has remained well below the roughly 3.5 percent annual pay gains typical of a healthy economy.

New Yorkers have certainly protested previous presidents, but former Mayor Ed Koch's press secretary says it's rare to see a president so unpopular in his own city.

Here are this year's contenders for Broadway's top awards.

A prominent Florida eye doctor accused of political corruption has been convicted of Medicare fraud, increasing the odds that he'll be pressured to testify against Sen. Bob Menendez.

More than half of the governor's $418,000 in income came from a bump in royalty payments from his 2014 memoir, "All Things Possible." The mayor revealed his joint earnings with his wife.

The Pentagon said U.S. forces in Afghanistan struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used by the U.S.

Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy and a comic performer known for his standout sketches on "Chappelle's Show," has died of leukemia.

Sheila Abdus-Salaam was the first African-American woman to serve on New York’s highest court.

Lawmakers in Albany approved a $153 billion state budget Sunday night after negotiations pushed its passage well beyond the April 1st due date.

Lawmakers must still approve the compromise.

Lawmakers can't find consensus on issues including education and affordable housing nearly a week after the annual budget was due.

Sunday's 3-hour-and-21-minute romp in Tampa Bay didn't end well for the Yankees. Luckily, New York has a full season ahead of it, plus an extra team out in Queens that's pretty good.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 elections and whether there were any campaign contacts with Russian government officials.

Shots were fired, but the incident appeared to be criminal in nature with "no nexus to terrorism," said Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki. No one was injured.

It was a stunning defeat for the new president.

James Harris Jackson, who has been charged with killing 66-year-old Timothy Caughman, told the NYPD he had planned to kill more black people in an attack in Times Square. 

Police say 28-year-old James Harris Jackson took a bus to New York to target black men when he encountered Timothy Caughman, who was collecting bottles from trash cans, and killed him.

Monday's hearing before the House Intelligence Committee revealed a major development in the controversy that continues to hover over the Trump administration.

In his opening remarks, Gorsuch emphasized "the importance of an independent judiciary."

The Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott, known for writing about his native Caribbean, was also a painter. In 2005, he discussed his first NYC gallery show with Leonard Lopate.