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Three New York City police detectives were charged on Monday in the theft of nearly $3,000 worth of Champagne from a V.I.P. area at a popular electronic dance music festival where they had been assigned to stop drug-related activity.Two of the three, Jonathan Gonzalez and Wojciech Czech, are accused of stealing pricey bottles of Ace of Spades Champagne at the Electric Zoo festival on Randall's Island last fall, according to court documents.

Most frequent riders of the New York City subway have seen people acting erratically on trains.Usually, they ignore them, move away from them or switch to another car.On Monday, one rider went up to a 30-year-old man who had been screaming that he was hungry and ready to die and then wrapped his arms around his neck and head.

The news of the indictment of former President Trump immediately took over cable news channels and the country's main broadcast networks on Thursday.On Fox News, the host Sandra Smith interrupted the network's roundtable show The Five around 5:30 p.m. with the breaking news, eliciting gasps from her fellow co-hosts: We have just gotten word: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York.

Kathryn Marie Gallagher, a fashion designer whose pieces were worn by Lady Gaga, the actress Laverne Cox and dancers of the New York City Ballet, was working on her 27th collection last summer.A few weeks before her sudden death, she posted photos of translucent garments that reflected her Gothic aesthetic and her fondness for somber colors.

In an overnight social media post, former President Donald J. Trump predicted that potential death and destruction may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star made during the 2016 campaign.The comments from Mr. Trump, made between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on his social media site, Truth Social, were a stark escalation in his rhetorical attacks on the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, ahead of a likely indictment on charges that Mr. Trump said would be unfounded.

A Manhattan judge ruled on Thursday that jurors hearing a trial next month involving a rape allegation against former President Donald J. Trump will be kept anonymous because of concern they could become victims of harassment or worse by Mr. Trump's supporters.The judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court, issued his ruling in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who has accused Mr. Trump of raping her in a dressing room at the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.

Even the greeting was tense.Good morning, Ms. Carroll, Joseph Tacopina, the lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, said to E. Jean Carroll on Thursday as he prepared to cross-examine her.Ms. Carroll simply stared at him.He repeated himself.Good morning, Ms. Carroll finally replied.There you go, Mr. Tacopina responded.

American officials met with representatives of the Palestinian Authority in Bethlehem on Thursday and handed back a 2,700-year-old looted item in what officials said was the first time the United States had repatriated a stolen relic to the Palestinian government.The object, described as a cosmetic spoon, was a tool carved from ivory and dating to between 800 and 700 B.C.

Defense lawyers and prosecutors delivered closing arguments in the trial of Donald J. Trump's family business on Thursday, agreeing that its employees had engaged in a lucrative tax fraud scheme for more than a decade but drawing diametrically opposed conclusions about whether their actions implicated the Trump Organization itself.

He will be fingerprinted.He will be photographed.He may even be handcuffed.In the days ahead, Donald J. Trump is expected to walk through the routine steps of felony arrest processing in New York, now that a grand jury has voted to indict him in connection with his role in a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Donald J. Trump responded to the news that he had been indicted in a statement, calling the Manhattan grand jury vote political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.Mr. Trump's statement echoed what has been an extraordinary and blistering effort to try to prevent the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, from indicting him.

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to be arrested in connection with the investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney next week and called for protests as a result.In a social media post on Saturday, Trump, referring to himself, said the leading Republican candidate and former president of the United States will be arrested on Tuesday of next week.

A director of finance and research at New York University diverted millions in funds intended for minority- and woman-owned businesses, putting them in shell companies and using some of the money to renovate her Connecticut home and build a swimming pool, the Manhattan district attorney's office said Monday.

(NEW YORK)  Donald Trump's company was convicted of tax fraud on Tuesday in a case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, a significant repudiation of financial practices at the former president's business.The guilty verdict came on the second day of deliberations following a trial in which the Trump Organization was accused of being complicit in a scheme by top executives to avoid paying personal income taxes on job perks such as rent-free apartments and luxury cars.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Donald J. Trump's family business.The verdict, which was reached about 3:40 on Tuesday afternoon, will be read aloud in the Manhattan courtroom shortly.Jurors have decided whether the Trump Organization was guilty of a scheme in which its top executives were compensated in lavish off-the-books perks that allowed them to evade taxes.

Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly acknowledged there are risks involved in the potential indictment of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan district attorney while reiterating that nobody in our nation is or should be above the law.I would hope that if they brought charges that they have a strong case, because this is, as you said, it's unprecedented.

Donald J. Trump approved a key aspect of a tax fraud scheme orchestrated by several top executives at his family business, prosecutors said on Friday in their closing arguments at the company's trial, an explosive claim as the jury prepares to deliberate next week.Prosecutors have not charged Mr. Trump with participating in the scheme, through which, they say, the executives were compensated in off-the-books perks so that they could evade taxes.

The Manhattan district attorney's office will halt the prosecution of Tracy McCarter, a woman charged with murder in 2020 after her estranged husband died in a confrontation with her, according to a letter sent to the judge presiding over the case.Ms. McCarter's lawyers have maintained that she did not stab her husband, James Murray, but that minutes after he choked her, she held a knife in a defensive posture and he charged.

The tax-fraud trial of Donald J. Trump's family business is scheduled to resume in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday after not having met since Nov. 1 because of an outbreak of Covid-19.The Manhattan district attorney's office last year accused two Trump Organization entities  the Trump Corporation and the Trump Payroll Corp.  of a scheme that began in 2005 that involved doling out tax-free perks to top executives, including rent-free apartments and leased luxury vehicles.