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Israel began striking targets in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, its leaders said Monday, hours after Hamas announced it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal. Still, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would send negotiators to continue talks on the deal.

An NYPD officer accidentally discharged his gun inside a Columbia University administration building while clearing out protesters camped inside, the department disclosed late Thursday.

A New Jersey State Trooper has died while training to be a part of a TEAMS Unit, a full-time emergency response team, officials announced Sunday night.

The fine Monday marks the second sanction for Trump for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the trial last month.

A bridge that was damaged during a fiery crash on Interstate 95 in Norwalk last week has been demolished and now plans are being made to reconstruct and rebuild it. Gov. Ned Lamont gave an update about the Fairfield Avenue Bridge on Monday morning with Connecticut Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto and other state and local officials. Ov...

The New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump resumed with witness testimony from former Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams will be traveling to Italy on Thursday for several days of meetings, his office announced Monday. Adams will be attending the World Meeting on Human Fraternity, which is taking play May 10 and 11 in Rome and Vatican City. The conference is described as sharing ideas for a peaceful world. Adams’ office said he&#8...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday set a July primary and a September general election to fill the Newark-based U.S. House seat that opened after Rep. Donald Payne Jr.’s recent death. Murphy signed a writ of election, required under state law. The July 16 primary will be about a month after the state’s regularly scheduled June 4...

A 28-year-old man was arrested in connection to two kidnapping and armed robbery incidents in Paterson that took place late last month, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said. Diquan West was charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of armed robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon, two counts of unlawful possession of a handgun...

Authorities say a jewel thief who is wanted in connection with crimes committed from Florida to South Korea stole a diamond ring worth $255,000 from a Tiffany store in New York.

Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala, the magazine and the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed in February. And the dress code? “The Garden of Time,” whatever that means in the imaginations of the star-studded crowd that will ascend t...

A New Jersey man was found dead along a stretch of the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania over the weekend, according to officials.

Police arrested a 16-year-old driver Saturday night, accused of trying to flee the scene of a Long Island crash that killed a 73-year-old woman. The teen was behind the wheel of a stolen 2008 Land Rover, according to cops, when he rear-ended the woman on Middle Country Road in Centereach around 9 p.m. The woman and a 50-year-old male passenger&#823...