The Associated Press

Fragments of a human skeleton have been found in a remote area of New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Ecuador said Thursday that it was granting asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a decision that thrilled supporters but will do little to defuse the standoff at the Latin American nation's London embassy, where the Australian ex-hacker has been holed up for almost two months.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that a Democratic committee chairman overrode his own subpoena three years ago in an investigation of former subprime mortgage lender Countrywide to exclude records showing that he, other House members and aides got discounted loans from the company.

Investigators are sifting through the debris of a house destroyed in an apparent gas-related explosion that killed a toddler and injured 17 others.

Friends and admirers of Marvin Hamlisch including Bill Clinton and Ann-Margret gathered Tuesday in New York City to bid farewell to the celebrated songwriter hailed as "the people's composer."

New York's financial regulator said Tuesday that his agency has reached a $340 million settlement with Standard Chartered Bank to resolve an investigation into whether the British bank schemed with the Iranian government to launder $250 billion from 2001 to 2007.

Four teens have been injured in a shooting at a Brooklyn playground. Police said the teens were at the playground on Fulton Street around 6:30 p.m. Monday when the shots were fired.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says an NYPD sergeant who was shot this week should be out of the hospital in a couple of days.

The U. S. Justice Department says it will not bring criminal charges against Goldman Sachs or its employees for selling investors complicated packages of mortgage-backed securitie...

A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by the New York Giants and New York Jets to halt a megamall in New Jersey's Meadowlands, though the teams can still file legal challenges.

Raymond Harding, the former leader of New York state's Liberal Party whose last years were marked by scandal, has died.

A New York City police sergeant who was shot in both legs on a Queens street was in stable condition Thursday morning, and police are questioning a suspect.

Renowned Australian art critic and historian Robert Hughes has died after a long illness. He was 74.

The NYPD has used a subpoena to force Twitter to disclose information about the source of a tweet saying "people are gonna die" at the Broadway theater staging a one-man show by former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson, the department said Tuesday.

NASA is marveling over the Mars rover’s first photographs — grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft's white-knuckle plunge through the red planet's atmosphere.

Knight Capital Group survived a near-death experience on Monday, lining up Wall Street firms to lend it badly needed cash after the brokerage lost $440 million last week when a malfunction in its trading system flooded the market with erroneous trades.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed an overhaul to New Jersey's tenure laws.

In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.

The NYPD is increasing its presence around Sikh temples across the city "as a precaution" as authorities seek a motive for the Wisconsin shooting that left seven people dead, inclu...