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  • FILE – Members of the New York City Police Department listen to a news conference, Jan. 4, 2017, in New York. New York City’s watchdog agency has launched an investigation into allegations that the city’s police department improperly used its official social media accounts to target public officials and private citizens. The city Department of Investigation confirmed the probe in a statement Wednesday, May 8, 2024, saying it was prompted by recent requests from City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and the Legal Aid Society asking it to look into the NYPD’s social media policies and practices. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Tech

    New York City’s watchdog investigates whether NYPD used official social media accounts to target public officials and private citizens

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Young male athlete drinking water in the health club.Retail

    New York outlaws sales of diet pills and muscle-mass builders to children

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Kathy HochulLifestyle

    Lawmakers advance measure to bring booze to theaters—’Someone should be able to enjoy a cocktail while they watch a movie,’ NY senator says

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Shaun AbreuPolitics

    NYC’s rat problem is so out of control a lawmaker wants to give birth control to millions of rodents

    By Maysoon Khan, Cedar Attanasio, and others
  • Kathy HochulPolitics

    Kathy Hochul unveils huge $500 million housing plan to fix New York state crisis, but she’s avoiding the suburbs

    By Maysoon Khan, Anthony Izaguirre, and others
  • Kathy HochulPolitics

    Prosecutors get Christmas wish as Kathy Hochul vetoes bill that would have made conviction challenges much easier

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Kathy HochulPolitics

    Blow to labor as New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoes bill to ban noncompete agreements, citing search for ‘right balance’

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • FILE -People line up to order fast food from a Chick-fil-A restaurant at the Iroquois Travel Plaza rest stop on the New York State Thruway in Little Falls, New York, on Friday, June 30, 2023. New York lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require restaurants in state highway system rest areas to operate seven days a week, a measure apparently aimed at interfering with a policy at the fast food chain Chick-fil-A of staying closed on Sundays. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)Retail

    New York bill could force Chick-fil-A to break its long-standing policy to close Sundays

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Kathy HochulPolitics

    New York state to study reparations, saying slavery was not just ‘a product of the South, the Confederacy’

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • CORRECTS CITY TO NEW YORK – This image from video provided by the Office of The Governor shows New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signing a bill in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, to create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state. She is joined by, standing from left: Dr. Yohuru Williams, Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas; Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Majority Leader of the NY State Senate; Michaelle Solages, NY State Assembly Woman; Rev. Al Sharpton; Carl Heastie, Speaker of the NY State Assembly; James Sanders, NY State Senator. (Office of the Governor via AP)Politics

    New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs bill creating commission to consider reparations for the persistent effects of slavery

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York CityLifestyle

    New York’s Met Museum to return 16 looted artifacts, tied to art dealer accused of running a trafficking network, to Cambodia and Thailand

    By Maysoon Khan, Sopheng Cheang, and others
  • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Chuck Schumer hold a silicon wafer and pose for a photo with lawmakers and leaders from the semiconductor industry during an event at University at Albany in Albany, New York, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. New York will spend $1 billion to expand research into chip technology in Albany, the state’s capital, with the goal of turning the region into a global center of semiconductor research and manufacturing, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday. (AP Photo/Maysoon Khan)Tech

    New York state will spend $1bn to expand chip tech research: ‘There’s a race for global domination. That’s why we’re here’

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • Pepsi soft drinks in plastic bottles are on sale at a grocery storeEnvironment

    Pepsi is misleading the public about microplastics and is the Buffalo River’s biggest polluter, Letitia James claims in new lawsuit

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • FILE – New York Governor Kathy Hochul addresses the media during a press conference Monday, March. 13, 2023, in New York. About 1 in 5 American workers, including retail and construction workers, are bound by noncompete agreements, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Hochul hasn’t said whether she intends to sign state legislation passed last June that would ban noncompete agreements. The legislation has come under a fierce attack by business groups. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File )Success

    New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press
  • FILE — A help-wanted sign is posted in a storefront, Nov. 1, 2022, in Bedford, N.Y. Help-wanted advertisements in New York will have to disclose how much the jobs pay as a statewide salary transparency law goes into effect, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, part of growing state and city efforts to give women and people of color a tool to advocate for equal pay for equal work. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)Finance

    A New York state law requiring job ads to disclose salary ranges just went into effect. It matters to remote workers in other states, too

    By Maysoon Khan and The Associated Press