Some banks and banking trade groups are suing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a finalized rule that limits overdraft fees banks can charge.

Law enforcement officials say they have broken up a shoplifting ring that stole nearly $2 million in merchandise from well-known stores and resold the items in New York City as well as in the Dominican Republic.

A tiny South American deer that will weigh just 15 to 20 pounds when fully grown is making its debut at the Queens Zoo in New York City.

As areas across the U.S. continue to experience extreme heat, employers have taken steps to protect workers from high temperatures.

An off-duty New York Police Department officer who was among four killed when a drunk driver plowed into a nail salon on Long Island last month has been laid to rest.

Harrison Bader hit an early two-run homer, Starling Marte and Francisco Lindor also went deep, and the New York Mets took advantage of shoddy defense by the last-place Miami Marlins in a 10-4 victory Wednesday night.

New York City police say a man set a cup of liquid on fire on the subway and threw it at a fellow rider.

Heat pumps that fit in an apartment window could make a big impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi will return to Congress to replace scandal-plagued Republican George Santos.

Federally funded community health centers serve 1 in 11 Americans.

A cargo plane headed from New York to Belgium had to return after a horse escaped its stall and got loose in the hold.

A man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other people in a series of apparently random shootings while riding a scooter in New York City has been arraigned on charges including murder and attempted murder.

New York City police say a Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old and injuring three other men in a series of shootings while riding a scooter in New York City is charged with murder and attempted murder.

New York City police say a man on a scooter fired a handgun in a string of random shootings that killed an 87-year-old and wounded three others.

Banks are paying up for savers’ deposits in a much bigger way than they have in a long time.

Walgreens extended its push into more comprehensive health care with its VillageMD unit acquiring another urgent and primary care chain, Summit Health-CityMD, in a deal worth close to $9 billion.

New York Attorney General Letitia James says the state will receive up to $524 million from drugmaker Teva to settle claims that the company contributed to the U.S. opioid epidemic.

Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a handful of people in Britain have been detained by police for expressing anti-monarchy views.

The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Gray’s Queens coming-of-age drama “Armageddon Time” and Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about artist Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, officers with the New York Police Department took 28-year-old Sakiyna Thompson into custody Wednesday in Springfield Gardens, Queens.

Before looking ahead to next year and America’s 247th birthday in 2023, here are some photos of fireworks displays in New York City, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas and Los Angeles on Monday night.

Winning pitcher Sandy Alcantara allowed six hits in eight innings to earn his seventh win on the season.

Airlines are canceling more than 1,500 flights across the U.S. in one of the worst days yet in the summer travel season.

Prosecutors say a man charged in the slaying of Jam Master Jay once filmed a brazen rap video in front of a street mural commemorating the beloved Run-DMC member.

About 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate that took effect Monday and thousands of city firefighters have called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement.

A federal appeals court says a pause on evictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus can remain in place for now.

It’s great that summer is here, but that means another major season has arrived, too: Hurricane season.

After a year lost to the coronavirus, New York City’s most well-known Fourth of July traditions were back.

This week's blunder by the New York City Board of Elections is only the latest in a long history of mistakes by the government agency.

The Democratic primary race for New York City mayor is nearing the finish line with a surge in shootings pushing public safety to the top of some voters' concerns.

Brian Walter says he took all precautions to protect his parents from the coronavirus.

The pandemic is making an increasing number of unauthorized immigrants fall through the cracks, some advocates and nonprofits say.

One year ago, no treatments had proved safe and effective for COVID-19, but that's not the case today.

The game began at 1:10 p.m. and was halted by plate umpire D.J. Reyburn after seven minutes.

Trevor Rogers fanned 10 batters in six innings and outpitched Jacob deGrom for the second time in nine major league starts.

By day's end, Cuomo acquiesced to demands that Attorney General Letitia James control the inquiry. Calls for an investigation mounted after a second former employee of Cuomo's administration went public Saturday with harassment claims. AdHer accusation came days after another former aide, Lindsey Boylan, a former economic development adviser, elaborated on harassment allegations she first made in December. New York’s two U.S. senators, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both said an independent investigation was essential. AdJames fueled some of that criticism by issuing a report saying the Cuomo administration had undercounted deaths.

Cuomo subjected her to an unwanted kiss during years of sexual harassment have spurred calls for an investigation and questions about who might meaningfully conduct one. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)NEW YORK – A second former aide said she was sexually harassed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who responded with a statement Saturday saying he never made advances toward her and never intended to be inappropriate. “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared,” Bennett told the Times. Bennett told the newspaper she decided not to push for any further action by the administration.

Researchers have flagged another mutated version of the coronavirus spreading in New York but experts say its too soon to know if the variant will be problematic. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)NEW YORK – Another mutated version of the coronavirus has popped up in New York City, and experts reacted to the the news with a mixture of caution and concern. Two research groups — at Caltech and Columbia University in New York — released papers this week describing their findings about the new variant. Both groups noted that the new variant has a mutation that could potentially weaken the effectiveness of vaccines — a mutation seen in other worrisome variants. New variants have been showing up throughout the pandemic, but three are considered the most worrisome — they've been designated “variants of concern."

An N train moves through the Long Island City neighborhood Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. – The railroad industry has installed an automatic braking system on nearly 58,000 miles of track where it is required ahead of a yearend deadline, federal regulators said Tuesday. Federal Railroad Administration chief Ronald Batory said railroads worked together over the past 12 years to develop and install the long-awaited technology known as positive train control, or PTC. That agency had recommended positive train control for years before Congress mandated it after that crash. Then Congress extended the original 2015 deadline twice and gave railroads until the end of this year to complete the system.

The city had recorded 447 killings as of Tuesday, a 41% increase over last year and the largest number since 2011. Still, 2020 marked the third consecutive year of rising homicides after New York City recorded a modern-era low of 292 killings in 2017. “We're definitely coming out of that dark period,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at police headquarters Tuesday. Still, New York remains far safer than in the early 1990s, when there were more than 2,000 killings per year. The nation’s largest city, with about 8.3 million residents, New York City has a homicide rate of about 5.2 per 100,000.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – At 10:32 a.m. Tuesday, American Airlines flew a Boeing 737 Max plane with passengers from Miami International Airport to New York’s LaGuardia Airport for the first time in nearly two years. The Boeing 737 Max was grounded worldwide in March 2019 after its involvement in two fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed 346 people. The airline ran a short practice flight out of Miami International Airport earlier this month, but Tuesday marked the first flight with passengers since the grounding. A spokeswoman for the airline says about 100 passengers were booked to fly on Tuesday’s flight, which seats 172. Last month, U.S. safety officials approved changes Boeing has made to a flight-control system on the plane.

“If you do not have to be on the roads, please don't travel,” said New York Gov. “This is the fastest rate of snowfall I've ever encountered,” he said. Boston had more than 9 inches (23 centimeters) of snow early Thursday morning, breaking the previous record for the date of 6.4 inches (16.3 centimeters) in 2013. Parts of northern New England saw as much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) of snow per hour, said Margaret Curtis, meteorologist for the National Weather Service. Snow totals topped 3 feet across a wide swath of New Hampshire, and Maine's southernmost county saw 1 to 2 feet.

“Relieved,” proclaimed critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay after becoming one of the first to be inoculated at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. “I feel like healing is coming.”With a countdown of “3-2-1,” workers at Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center gave initial injections to applause. It just represents a moral failing,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins. Getting vaccinated is “a privilege,” said Dr. Leonardo Seoane, chief academic officer at Ochsner Health in suburban New Orleans, after getting his dose. And later this week, the FDA will decide whether to green-light the world’s second rigorously studied COVID-19 vaccine, made by Moderna Inc.

With some Americans now paying the price for what they did over Thanksgiving, health officials are warning people begging them, even not to make the same mistake during the Christmas and New Year's season. Zana Cooper, a 60-year-old cancer survivor in Murrieta, California, tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a Thanksgiving dinner with her son’s girlfriend’s family. Cooper learned the following Sunday that he tested positive. Her family started developing symptoms, and seven members tested positive, said Dr. Thomas Farley, Philadelphia's health commissioner. Harry and Ashley Neidig, of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, tested positive for COVID-19 last week.

Cordova-Rojas was assisted by a couple with a car who agreed to drive the swan and Cordova-Rojas to a nearby subway station. She ended up rescuing a swan with lead poisoning, taking it to a wildlife clinic by foot, car and subway with the help of both friends and strangers. Then a couple with a car agreed to drive the swan and Cordova-Rojas to a nearby subway station. (The couple persuaded yet another friend with a car to help get Cardova-Rojas, her bike and the swan to a subway station.) It could take three weeks or up to two months before Bae returns to the refuge, Cordova-Rojas said.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK – Monday’s return to New York City schools wasn't the one anyone planned for. Mayor Bill de Blasio greeted pre-K students at a school in Queens and praised the “air of energy and spirit” among teachers and pupils. High school students return Oct. 1. The majority of the more than 1 million public school students will be in the classroom one to three days a week and learning remotely the rest of the time. Still, New York City has seen a slight tick up in hospitalizations and infections this month.

A pedestrian passes a mural of rap pioneer Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC by artist Art1Airbrush, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. Charges against two individuals in the hip hop artist's almost 18-year-old murder case were announced the previous day. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait in line for food donations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in the Corona neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK Damiana Reyes is back at work at a busy Manhattan hair salon, making highlights, blowouts and extensions. The pandemic has changed Reyes' life and those of many in Corona, a Latino neighborhood in Queens that was among the hardest hit places in the world. The calls we have gotten over the last month, requesting food, come from Corona," he said. But it's no coincidence that the virus picked Corona and other neighborhoods like it in the city to reap victims.

Joseph Dutan comforts his niece, Valerie Dutan, at the funeral of his father, Manuel Dutan, at St. John's Cemetery in the Queens borough of New York. Within one month, Dutan experienced the loss of his father and a fellow cleric, whom he considered a mentor. “Father Joseph was one of the first people that we called. Days later, Dutan’s 56-year-old father, Manuel, was rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. His heart is slowly, slowly stopping.”On May 5, Manuel Dutan died.

Fabian Arias, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a Lutheran pastor at Saint Peters Church in Manhattan, and has performed funeral services 14 times in the last two months. Saturdays service for Lpez was the first hes been able to perform in a private residence. Were trying to get him to our town, for his mom, his dad, who are still alive in Mexico. Everybody is afraid, not only for ourselves, but for our community and especially Father Fabian and all the services hes doing.Its very dangerous for him. He is an ordained Lutheran pastor, not a Roman Catholic priest and hes a pastor at Saint Peters Church not Iglesia de Sion.

Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images(CNN) - Almost 800,000 customers are without power Friday from Virginia to Maine after storms swept through Thursday evening. Five states combined for almost 600,000 of the customers without power: New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Connecticut and Virginia, according to PowerOutage.US. The others were Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, the power site reported. More than 75 million Americans are under wind advisories or warnings Friday morning from the Great Lakes into the Northeast, CNN meteorologists said. More than 20 low-temperature records were set Thursday from the Midwest to the East Coast, CNN meteorologists said.

An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, on a flight from Miami to New York City, comes in for landing at LaGuardia Airport on March 11, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York City. Boeing's stock dropped more than 12 percent at the open on(CNN) - United Airlines passengers fearful of boarding a Boeing 737 Max will be able to rebook flights for free once United starts flying the planes again. Nocella said it's probably too soon to tell what passenger reaction will be once the 737 Max returns to service. A spokesperson said that if a passenger does not want to fly the 737 Max, "we will offer them full flexibility." It's unclear when the 737 Max will return to the skies.

Daniil Medvedev of Russia argues with the chair umpire during his Men's Singles third round match against Feliciano Lopez of Spain on day five of the 2019 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Aug. 30, in Queens(CNN) - Daniil Medvedev has become this year's US Open villain. When learning of the violation that chair umpire Damien Dumusois had given him, Medvedev threw his racquet. After he won, surrounded by boos, Medvedev raised up his arms, motioning to the crowd to keep going. "Thank you all, guys, because your energy tonight gave me the win," Medvedev said in an interview on court. In 2017 at Wimbledon, he was fined $14,500 for several infractions, including tossing coins in the direction of chair umpire Mariana Alves after a five-set loss.

ISIS(CNN) - Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old man who they say texted undercover agents that he planned to conduct a terror attack in the name of ISIS in Queens, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The 19-year-old is a Queens resident who was born in Pakistan, the official said. Authorities allege he was inspired by ISIS and planned to conduct a stabbing or bombing attack in Queens. According to the official, the man was under constant surveillance by law enforcement authorities and did not pose a danger to the public. "An individual was arrested in New York today as part of a national security investigation.

A woman is charged in the death of a prominent New York City chef after the discovery of his body in a hostel in Queens. Prosecutors say she's a prostitute linked to two other recent deaths.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(CNN) - A Hindu priest was attacked in a Queens, New York, neighborhood this week, and a suspect was arrested in the case, a congresswoman said Saturday. "I commend the NYPD for making a swift arrest in this case and I'm confident that justice will be served. I stand with the Hindu community and wish the victim a full recovery," Rep. Grace Meng, D-New York, said in a statement. An NYPD spokesperson said the victim was taken to a hospital after being punched and hit with an object believed to be an umbrella. Investigators do not believe there is a hate crime component connected at this point, the second NYPD spokesperson said.

An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8, on a flight from Miami to New York City, comes in for landing at LaGuardia Airport on March 11, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York City. CEO Dennis Muilenburg has publicly said he regrets the deaths and the company set aside $100 million of assistance for victims' families. "I think the families are in agreement that Boeing's apologies to cameras have not been apologies to the families," Stumo testified. Boeing spokesman Peter Pedraza did not dispute the lack of communication with the victims' families. Regulators grounded the 737 Max worldwide in March following the second crash.

The Queens of The Queen of The Ride hold the world's longest feather boa during the Guinness World Record with Madame Tussauds and Ripley's Believe It or Not! (CNN) - The Danish family behind Lego has partnered with Blackstone to take the owner of Madame Tussauds private. The deal values Merlin Entertainments at 4.7 billion ($6 billion). In addition to the wax museum Madame Tussauds, the company owns LegoLand theme parks and other attractions in 25 countries, including The London Eye. Yet in going private, Merlin Entertainments is returning to its roots.

2002: Rapper and musician Jam Master Jay, the DJ of the legendary rap trio Run-DMC, is shot and killed in a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The shooting of the 37-year-old rap star, whose real name was Jason Mizell, remains unsolved more than a decade later. Hide Caption

1954: Weatherman, actor and author Al Roker, best known for being the weather anchor on NBC's "Today" show, is born in Queens, New York.