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Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency initiative have arrived at the Peace Corps’ headquarters, the agency confirmed Saturday, signaling possible cuts to a volunteer mission that has long enjoyed bipartisan support, NBC News reported.

New York state school officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with its demands to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices, despite the administration’s threats to terminate federal education funding.

New video has been obtained by NBC New York of a man who law enforcement sources now believe has sexually assaulted at least five women across Brooklyn. In a few seconds of video, the suspect is seen inside a Brooklyn bodega wandering the aisle and casually checking his phone. A short time later, police say he sexually assaulted a 60-year-old&#8230...

Paige Bueckers and UConn easily handled UCLA 85-51 in the Final Four Friday, setting the stage for a matchup with Dawn Staley’s South Carolina.

Unsettled weather returns this weekend, as we’ll be in and out of the rain both days — so keep the umbrella handy at all times. With temperatures taking another dive on Saturday, be prepared to break out the heavier jacket as well. High temperatures this past week were all over the place from day-to-day. Most notably was the huge temperature…...

President Trump’s recent tariff announcement sent U.S. markets into a nosedive, triggering losses in net worth for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.

A Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts is urging students to continue demonstrations and protests, NBC News reported.

The Trump administration’s shuttering of the decades-old U.S. Agency for International Development has halted foreign aid efforts around the globe.

“He wasn’t worried about what’s going to happen to him and his reputation,” one student said. “He was worried about his students.”

Trump’s latest bout of tariffs are expected to increase prices by thousands of dollars per year and slow economic growth.

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, spoke from the Senate to blast the White House’s far-reaching tariffs, imposed against nearly every country and territory in the world. “Donald Trump is using tariffs in the dumbest way possible,” Schumer said Friday. “In fact, Trump slapped tariffs on penguins but not on Putin.”

China’s commerce ministry said Friday the country will impose a 34% levy on all U.S. products.

A father and outreach coordinator who worked in social services in Bucks County and his two adult sons died when a speeding Amtrak train crashed into them in suburban Pennsylvania Thursday night.