New York

Demonstrators are demanding at least $1 billion in cuts from the department’s current $6 billion budget

Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old transgender woman who died in June 2019 while incarcerated at Rikers Island, was not housed in an area of the jail that was appropriately suited to her mental and physical...

Two Democratic candidates appear poised to become the first openly gay Black members of Congress. The final results of Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York aren’t all in yet, as a large number of New...

The NYPD has long banned chokeholds

The bronze statue depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man

Of the victims, one was a 17-year-old boy in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head