A former New Jersey high school teacher was sentenced to 10 years in state prison after admitting she sexually assaulted two students she had groomed, including encounters prosecutors said took place at her family’s bagel shop. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s…

A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, man has been charged in an alleged murder-for-hire plot in which prosecutors say he tried to recruit an acquaintance to help kill his former girlfriend and two men she dated after their relationship ended. Eric Berkowitz,…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani told state lawmakers on Wednesday that raising taxes on the wealthy is the clearest path out of the city’s budget crisis. Speaking in Albany during his first “Tin Cup Day,” Mamdani urged the Legislature…

Sen. Thom Tillis praised a Washington, D.C., grand jury decision not to indict six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse what they called “illegal orders.” The North Carolina Republican framed the outcome as a rejection of “political lawfare”…