Ailsa Chang

A federal judge is blocking the city from hiring new firefighters, based on a 2007 hiring test, which he says was unfair to black and Hispanic applicants. The New York City Fire Department says it needs to hire 300 new members before the end of August. But Judge Nicholas Garaufis says the city can only do this if it can prove its hiring needs are so urgent that they justify using a test that Garuafis describes as "invalid."

A federal judge is blocking the city from hiring new firefighters, based on a 2007 hiring test, which he says was unfair to black and Hispanic applicants. The New York City Fire Department says it needs to hire 300 new members before the end of August. But Judge Nicholas Garaufis says the city can only do this if it can prove its hiring needs are so urgent that they justify using a test that Garuafis describes as "invalid."

Domestic violence prevention advocates say the recent inquiry into Gov. David Paterson's handling of a domestic violence dispute involving his aide David Johnson highlights common mistakes New York City police officers make when investigating domestic violence cases. 

A federal judge in Brooklyn will soon decide whether a 2007 entrance exam for firefighters discriminated against blacks and Hispanics. The city wants to use the 2007 test results because it says it needs to quickly hire 300 new firefighters before the end of summer. No other entrance exam has been administered since 2007.

A federal judge in Brooklyn will soon decide whether a 2007 entrance exam for firefighters discriminated against blacks and Hispanics.

New York City says needs it needs to hire 300 firefighters by the end of summer, and it wants to use a 2007 entrance exam to pick its new members. But a federal judge in Brooklyn is now deciding whether that test was racially discriminatory.

As New York City wilts under its second brutal heat wave this month, New York City firefighters are on pace to have their busiest year in history. July has been an especially busy month. While the city saw record-breaking temperatures, the fire department has responded to a record number of emergencies in the last couple of weeks. Scorching heat waves present special firefighting challenges.

As the city wilts under its second brutal heat wave this month, New York City firefighters are on pace to have their busiest year in history. July has been an especially busy month. While the city saw record-breaking temperatures, the fire department has responded to a record number of emergencies in the last couple of weeks. Scorching heat waves present special firefighting challenges.

Disbarred civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart has been resentenced to 10 years in prison for helping a convicted terrorist communicate with his violent followers in Egypt.

At Vienna's airport, 10 spies arrested in the U.S. were exchanged for four convicted in Russia.

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The U.S. Justice Department announced on Friday morning that it had completed a successful spy swap that's being called the biggest exchange since the Cold War.

"The United States has successfully transferred ten Russian agents to the Russian Federation and the Russian Federation has released four ...

The U.S. government announces a plan to appeal the decision that releases Russian spy suspect, Vicky Palaez on bail.

A new indictment says the failed New York City bomb plot was led by Al Qaeda.

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The U.S. government announced on Tuesday that it plans to appeal a decision in the Russian spy case that releases a prominent Spanish language journalist on bail. The El Diario journalist is Vicky Pelaez. She is accused of passing letters to the Russian Intelligence on ...

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Federal prosecutors say a failed plan to blow up New York City subways last fall was planned and directed by Al Qaeda leaders, and had connections to another plot in Manchester, England.

In a new indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors added four defendants to the case, including ...

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Ten of the 11 accused Russian spies arrested last week will be appearing in federal court in Manhattan Thursday to hear charges a federal grand jury has returned against them. Five of these defendants were originally facing charges in Boston and Virginia.

The eleventh suspect, who ...

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One person who has been following the recent arrest of the 11 suspected Russian spies is a New Yorker with his own spy story to tell. Deputy New York City Police Commissioner Paul Browne was himself recruited to be a secret Soviet agent nearly 40 ...

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As the heat wave continues to pound New York City, stores are blasting their air conditioners as a way to lure in overheated customers. Councilwoman Gail Brewer of the Upper West Side says her office hopes to conduct surveys during this week's heat wave to ...

Nine of the 11 people arrested for allegedly serving as secret Russian spies will be appearing in federal court again today.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed out the first federal death sentence given in New York in five decades.