Immigration detainments have been a big part of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days.

But when it comes to children, the actions against them can draw powerful responses.

New York is expected to create a new criminal charge to levy against people who wear a mask while committing another crime.

The proposal is set to be included in a sweeping state budget bill that will be taken up by lawmakers in the coming days, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

After the Trump administration's latest move toward dismantling AmeriCorps, the 30-year-old federal agency for volunteer service, and the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for state and community projects across the U.S., Sen. Chuck Schumer is highlighting the impacts the moves will have on New York.

In a press release Thursday, Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the cuts — at least 85% of AmeriCorps staff were put on administrative leave this month, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the president's Department of Government Efficiency — have affected more than 3,600 members. He also called for House Republicans from New York to " stand up to protect this vital public service" and join the effort to reverse the cuts.

Canadian tourism to the U.S. could soon see a major boost through a newly proposed bipartisan bill that would extend how long Canadian citizens could stay south of the border.

The Canadian Snowbird Visa Act, introduced by Reps. Elise Stefanik, Laurel Lee (R-Fla.) and Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), seeks to increase the length of stay for Canadian citizens older than 50 who own or lease a residence in the U.S. from 182 to 240 days annually.

The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda.

The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change. On Thursday, the DOJ sued New York and Vermont, challenging their climate superfund laws that would force fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on previous greenhouse gas emissions.

Mayor Eric Adams and First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro joined “Mornings On 1” Friday to break down the city’s $115 billion executive budget proposal.

Speaking at his alma mater in Queens Thursday, Adams outlined his priorities, including nearly $25 billion for affordable housing, $650 million to address street homelessness, and $331 million to expand after-school care.

Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced there’s finally a deal on a state budget — albeit a month late. The $254 billion plan includes much more than fiscal policy, also encompassing everything from criminal justice reforms to a school cellphone ban. Meanwhile, the ballot has been set in the June Democratic mayoral primary race with Zohran Mamdani getting top placement. But does the location of a candidate’s name on the ballot affect election results? NY1 statehouse reporter Bernadette Hogan, investigative reporter Courtney Gross and political reporter Bobby Cuza break this all down.

After that, the “Off Topic” team continues its series of profiles on Democratic mayoral primary candidates. This week, the focus is on Zellnor Myrie, a Brooklyn state senator who’s gotten attention as a legislator but is struggling to gain traction in the race.

New York state senators are gearing up for a fight after Albany's late budget chaos ends to consider bringing a bill to the floor to legalize medically assisted suicide in the state.

The Assembly passed legislation Tuesday, known as the Medical Aid in Dying Act, that would allow terminally ill, mentally capable adults who have six months or fewer to live to take their own lives with a cocktail of lethal pharmaceutical drugs prescribed by their doctor.

On the 10th time this year that the New York state Senate met to pass a budget extender, state Sen. Liz Krueger, typically tasked with explaining why the Senate is not ready to vote on budget bills, decided to try something new.

“I asked everyone if they got Monty Python references, and they said yes,” she recounted after session.

Mayor Eric Adams was celebrating and reminiscing as he delivered his fourth and potentially final executive budget proposal on Thursday.

“Leaving here as a student that was dyslexic and now, I’m returning as a mayor that is elected,” he said.

According to New York state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the leaders are close to wrapping up budget negotiations, but there are at least two outstanding issues to resolve: Foundation Aid and capital funding.

On Foundation Aid, the Senate’s top Democrat reassured school districts that current negotiations are over how much of an increase in Foundation Aid they will receive. She also stated that no district will receive less state aid than they did this year.

Gov. Kathy Hochul rode the 7 train to check out the platform barriers at the 5th Avenue-Bryant Park station Thursday, touting the money she secured to get them installed in 100 stations this year.

“You can’t tell people how to feel. I get that,” she said. “But I want them to know we’re trying. We have cameras on every train. We have police officers there. It’s a brighter experience as you’re standing on the platforms. We’re having barriers to protect people from inadvertently or intentionally pushing someone on the tracks.”

Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres introduced legislation Thursday aimed at lowering energy costs for residents of Puerto Rico and other noncontiguous parts of the United States.

His bill, shared first with Spectrum News NY1, would create a carve out to the Jones Act, a century old law which mandates that the transport of cargo between U.S. ports only can be done by U.S.-owned, -built, -crewed, and -flagged ships.

With the June 24 Democratic primary fast approaching, Queens state Sen. Jessica Ramos sat down with NY1’s Errol Louis for the first installment of a series of interviews with the mayoral candidates.

Ramos, who hopes to become the city’s first woman and Latina mayor, focused on key issues such as affordability, housing and mental health. She reflected on her journey from growing up in a working-class Colombian family in Queens to her accomplishments in the state Senate, including helping raise the minimum wage and securing relief funds for excluded workers. Throughout the conversation, Ramos highlighted how her Queens upbringing continues to shape her approach to public service and leadership.

New York lawmakers Wednesday said several housing issues remain open in ongoing budget talks as Gov. Kathy Hochul parades around the state touting a tentative spending agreement that isn't finished.

The governor has announced bits and pieces of the final budget this week, which she said will include $50 million for state-sponsored housing vouchers to help low-income households avoid foreclosure or eviction.

New York’s child care assistance program, the primary way the state provides child care assistance, has been thrown a life preserver in the form of a $400 million infusion that forced Gov. Kathy Hochul to dial back one of her signature budget proposals — inflation rebate checks for many New Yorkers.

Child care advocates are now breathing a sigh of relief, but not for long as they say the funding doesn’t address the scope of the problem, nor is its allocation adequate to stave off a worsening crisis upstate.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, ratcheted up his attacks on President Donald Trump Wednesday, labeling his first 100 days back in the Oval Office a “debacle.”

In a major speech timed to that 100 day mark, Jeffries railed against Trump’s handling of everything from international affairs to consumer prices.

After months of meetings and hearing from the public, the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission has come up with ideas for improving the city, including housing.

“Today, we’re able to share with the city some of the preliminary thoughts that came out of what we heard from New Yorkers about what mattered to them,” Richard Buery Jr, chair for the Charter Revision Commission, said.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — White House border czar Tom Homan visited Rochester on Tuesday to pledge his support for the city's police officers. Homan stopped at the Police Locust Club following his public criticism of City Hall and its sanctuary city policy.

The visit stems from a traffic stop in the city last month involving Homeland Security Investigations, Border Patrol agents and RPD officers. Mayor Malik Evans and RPD Chief David Smith said days after the incident that RPD officers removed and handcuffed some of the people in the vehicle, which city leaders say is against the city's sanctuary policy.

If the state budget Gov. Kathy Hochul touted on Monday stands, it will be viewed as a major victory for the moderate Democrat: she pushed for an expansion of Kendra’s Law, changes to discovery and an upcharge for masking while committing a crime, and it appears she got it all.

Moreover, according to the latest Siena College poll, Hochul is not being dinged by voters for a late budget.

Taking her state budget victory tour to New York City, Gov. Kathy Hochul talked up her tax cutting plans Wednesday, which include rebate checks to millions of New Yorkers.

Hochul is also using the budget deal as a political talking point to contrast herself with President Donald Trump.

MIDDLETOWN N.Y. -- A key component of President Donald Trump's campaign was decreasing inflation prices for the American people. After serving 100 days of his second presidential term on Tuesday, experts argue his decisions have not reflected that.

"By taking on these tariff policies that’s he’s taken on, he’s actually probably made the situation worse," David Woolner, Marist University professor of history, said.

A judge on Wednesday released a Palestinian student at Columbia University who led protests against Israel's war in Gaza and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.

Immigration authorities have arrested and detained college students from around the country since the first days of the Trump administration, many of whom participated in campus protests over the war in Gaza, which has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians.

New York lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would put a five-year moratorium on the spread of biosolids on farmland, a practice experts and homeowners say is to blame for harmful chemicals leeching into groundwater.

Ryan Dunham, a resident of New Scotland, lives across the street from a farm field that spread manure and other fertilizers for years. However, he says last summer they switched to using biosolids, which the Albany County Health Department confirmed.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — With her purple-and-pink hair swaying, Reneé Colón stands on a stepladder in the rented corner of a warehouse, pouring Brazilian coffee beans into her groaning old roasting machine. The beans are precious because they survived severe drought in a year when environmental conditions depressed coffee production globally, doubling the price of raw beans in just months.

“Unfortunately, coffee is going to become more scarce,” said Colón, founder and roaster at Fuego Coffee Roasters in Rochester. “Seeing that dramatic loss of the Brazilian crop is a perfect example.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state budget that's nearing a final deal will not pay down $6.2 billion in outstanding federal unemployment insurance debt from the COVID pandemic — forcing New York employers to continue to shoulder the burden.

Instead, the governor said the spending plan will include $165 million to cover the interest payments business owners across the state have absorbed for the last few years.

On Monday evening, 28 days after the state budget deadline and an undetermined number of days before it is passed, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared victory.

“I’m really proud to say that we got it done,” she said of what she described as an across-the-board sweep of her top budget priorities. “The budget is largely complicated and there are members who want to weigh in on their issues. But on the big-ticket items, the middle class tax cut, child tax credit, the entire affordability agenda, the inflation rebate [check], covered school lunches and breakfasts for families...this all took a lot of effort and what I'm here to say is it's accomplished and I'm really proud of it.”

New York state Sen. Pat Fahy (D-Albany) is thrilled by the $400 million for the revitalization of downtown Albany that Gov. Kathy Hochul has said will remain in the enacted state budget, once the state spending plan is passed.

But another development plan remains on Fahy’s to-do list. Only this one hasn’t received the same attention from the governor.

Gov. Kathy Hochul got just about everything she wanted in this year’s state budget, including measures addressing affordability, public safety and mental illness.

The question is whether any of it can lift her sagging poll numbers.

New York state lawmakers could soon be cracking down on reckless drivers.

“I’m here because I lost my son Dariel Rivera,” Samuel Rivera told reporters during a press conference outside the Legislative Office Building in Abany Tuesday.

Planned protests took place around Rochester on Tuesday in response to the visit of U.S. border czar Tom Homan.

Homan stopped at the Rochester Police Locust Club following his public criticism of Rochester City Hall and its sanctuary city policy. It stems from a traffic stop in the city last month involving Homeland Security Investigations, Border Patrol agents and RPD officers. Mayor Malik Evans and RPD Chief David Smith said days after the incident that RPD officers removed and handcuffed some of the people in the vehicle, which city leaders say is against the city's sanctuary policy.

In its first two years of legal sales, New York generated more than $1 billon in retail sales of adult-use cannabis from more than 260 operational dispensaries statewide, with many individuals disproportionally impacted by its former prohibition taking part in the industry, according to a report from the state Office of Cannabis Management released Tuesday.

Those people, through the state’s Social and Economic Equity Plan, hold 55% of licenses, which exceeds the state’s initial targets. Those who qualify for the SEE Plan include a minority-owned business, a women-owned business, distressed farmers and service-disabled veterans.

The New York state Republican Party’s Albany headquarters was vandalized again, party officials announced Tuesday.

This is the second time in two weeks the building has been defaced, once again with Nazi imagery.

Congestion pricing continues to be a money-maker for the MTA.

According to new numbers released by the MTA Monday, the tolling program brought in $45 million in net revenue in March.

President Donald Trump has wasted little time in aggressively flexing the powers of the executive branch since returning to the Oval Office 100 days ago.

Many of his policies — including cracking down on undocumented immigrants, penalizing universities and seeking to end congestion pricing — have affected his native New York in profound ways.

A coalition of business advocacy organizations from across New York is imploring the state’s congressional delegation to oppose any efforts in Washington to weaken or repeal the CHIPS and Science Act.

In a letter sent to the delegation Monday, the president of the Business Council of New York State and the leaders of 10 other New York-based organizations wrote that the Biden-era law is “already creating jobs and driving economic growth across New York, and its impact will only increase in the coming years.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a “general agreement” has been made between her and legislative leaders on the state budget, totaling $254 billion and including just about everything the governor had on her legislative wish list outlined in January — a bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in schools, inflation “refund” checks, universal school meals and changes to the state’s discovery and involuntary commitment laws.

Hochul said the cellphone policy would take effect in the new academic year in September.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $254 billion state budget deal, which includes a school cellphone ban, inflation checks and discovery law changes.

State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” to talk about the budget deal.

Last-minute state budget negotiations are always fluid. There are coordinated and well-financed campaigns to both include certain policies in the spending plan, as well as pushes to keep those policies out.

One such issue this year is an effort to change the state’s public campaign finance system, which has been a success according to advocates.

Mayor Eric Adams said he is not in favor of a complete rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.

“When we start talking about just across the board rent freeze, we need to talk to those small property owners. How does it impact them? Gas doesn’t freeze, electricity doesn’t freeze, insurance doesn’t freeze, the cost to run a building doesn’t freeze," he said on Monday.

White House border czar Tom Homan will be in Rochester on Tuesday.

Homan said during a White House briefing Monday morning that he'll be in town to visit the Rochester Police Locust Club. His visit follows his public criticism of Rochester City Hall and its sanctuary city policy following a traffic stop last month by the U.S. Border Patrol. RPD Chief David Smith says RPD officers removed and handcuffed some of the people in the vehicle, which city leaders say is against the city's sanctuary policy.

Some members of the City Council are asking Albany to crack down on so-called "super speeders" by using technology to force them to slow down.

Advocates and family members of people killed in traffic crashes rallied outside City Hall on Monday, where a committee held a hearing on a resolution urging Albany to pass the bill.

The number of nonprofit organizations and jobs has declined in New York while growing nationally, according to a report by New York state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli. The comptroller attributes that decline to a number of things – delays in government funding from late contracts, the devastating impacts of the pandemic, and economic uncertainty affecting donations

It’s a problem, the report highlights, because of the vital role nonprofits play in the state’s economy and the critical services they provide New Yorkers in areas like healthcare, food assistance, public safety, and childcare.

As a budget deal nears completion, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday would not rule out including changes in the final spending plan to weaken education standards for nonpublic schools in exchange for political gain.

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has led a push to amend state Education Department guidelines for religious and non-public schools as a political bargaining chip — especially amid the contentious New York City's mayoral election.

After days of anticipation that a state budget deal would be announced by the end of the week, Gov. Kathy Hochul paid a visit to the third floor press hall, one floor up from the executive chamber, to tell reporters that it was not to be.

“I just wanted to let you all know that you can go home tonight, you all look a little tired,” she joked.

Monroe County Republican state Assemblyman Josh Jensen is the vice chair of the Minority Joint Conference Committee and the ranking minority member on the Assembly Committee on Health.

He spoke with Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter about the minority’s role in the state budget process, as well as why funding early intervention is so important to him.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — ONSCREEN is a tech startup that launched during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The product allows people to use their televisions as a fully-automated communications hub for voice calls, video calls, text messages and more.

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced Friday to over seven years in prison, sobbing as he learned his punishment for the crimes that led to his expulsion from Congress.

Santos, who pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, appealed for mercy. In a federal court a short drive from his old congressional district, he said through tears that he was “humbled” and “chastised” and realized he had betrayed his constituents' trust.

Upstate city electeds Thursday put the pressure on state leaders to put more unrestricted aid in budget for municipalities as several consider tax increases to overcome double-digit budget deficits.

As Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders near a final deal, local officials said $3 billion the governor wants to spend on one-time inflation "refund" checks for low- and middle-income families would be better spent making localities whole.

The mayor’s race got a jolt this week when three unions and the New York State Attorney General backed Adrienne Adams for mayor. Unions for municipal and hospitality workers endorsed the City Council Speaker, whose campaign had failed to gain momentum so far. The endorsements come as Andrew Cuomo has continued to lay low, perhaps resting on his lead in the polls. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross, and political reporters Bobby Cuza and Dan Rivoli break down the latest developments in the race for mayor.

After that, the ”Off Topic” team continues its weekly series of profiles on Democratic mayoral candidates. This week, they discuss Scott Stringer — the former city comptroller now making a second run at the city’s top job.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress has introduced legislation aimed at reducing delays in the construction of major manufacturing facilities, like Micron’s planned multi-billion dollar semiconductor plant just outside of Syracuse.

The legislation, led by New York Congressman Nick Langworthy, seeks to streamline what the Republican argues can be a duplicative environmental review process. In short, the bill exempts such major projects from certain federal reviews when in states where they already must meet equally or more stringent state-level environmental standards.

With the state budget 24 days late, state lawmakers were back in Albany Wednesday to pass yet another budget extender to fund state government through Tuesday. The hope remains that a handshake deal is within reach Friday with remote conferencing over the weekend — ideally setting the stage for voting on a budget package next week.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie met with Gov. Kathy Hochul for just under an hour Thursday afternoon. Stewart-Cousins exited the elevator back to her third floor office to a wall of reporters with one question: Do we have a handshake deal?

As Earth Week puts a spotlight on sustainability efforts across the state, New York’s school districts are preparing for a major transformation in student transportation.

Under a state mandate, all new school bus purchases must be zero-emission by 2027, and by 2035, every bus on the road must be electric. While some districts have started making the switch, many say the transition is proving more complex than expected.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you go to the Frank Merriweather Library on Buffalo's East Side, there's a good chance you'll see Dr. Eva Doyle.

The retired public school teacher, author and activist who is turning 80 next year says she started going to libraries when she was 10 years old.

Democrats in New York are condemning a decision by the U.S. Justice Department to cancel hundreds of grants to community organizations, including those that fund crime-victim advocacy and gun-violence prevention.

According to The Washington Post, the millions of dollars in grants also support nonviolent youthful offenders, mental health resources for local police, efforts to avert opioid-related deaths and hate crimes.

The City Council has passed a bill that cracks down on the commercial helicopter industry. The measure, known as Intro 26 A, passed the Council with a 46-1 vote with one abstention Thursday.

The April 10 crash of a touring helicopter, which killed a family of five and the pilot when it went down in the Hudson River, renewed calls to crackdown on non-essential helicopter flights in city airspace.

An internal legal memo that the U.S. attorney's office says was filed by mistake reveals that federal lawyers believe it will be difficult for the government to win its case against congestion pricing.

The letter, dated April 11, was uploaded to PACER, the electronic filing system for the federal courts, by a U.S. attorney defending Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in the suit brought by the MTA against him.

Council Speaker Adrienne Adams didn’t hold back on Thursday in criticizing the mayor’s blossoming relationship with the White House.

“We’ll continue to stand firm to protect the rights and safety of all New Yorkers against the Trump Administration even if our mayor will not,” she said.

Labor challenges are ongoing for many New York farmers, with some opting to bring foreign workers through the seasonal agricultural worker visa program, H-2A.

“We’ve been using the H-2A program for close to 20 years,” said Brian Reeves, an owner of Reeves Farm that raises a variety of vegetables on 300 acres in Baldwinsville.

A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday urged the Justice Department to refuse a Trump administration official’s request to prosecute the Democrat for mortgage fraud, calling it “improper political retribution."

In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the lawyer, Abbe Lowell, also offered evidence that the central accusation against James — that she had falsely told a lenders she intended to use a house in Virginia as her primary residence — is easily disproven by records and correspondence related to the real estate transaction.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A New York man told federal agents, "I know I'm finished," when he was arrested Thursday on charges that he concealed his leadership role in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 in his applications for a green card and U.S. citizenship, prosecutors said.

Faustin Nsabumukunzi, 65, was charged with hiding from U.S. authorities his role as a local leader in Rwanda when the genocide began in 1994. An estimated 800,000 Tutsis were killed during the three-month-long genocide. The indictment of the Bridgehampton man was unsealed in Central Islip on Long Island.

A combination of economic stagnation, disinvestment and mismanagement of the city’s budget brought New York into a fiscal crisis in 1975 — unlike any it had seen up to that point. The result was shuttered schools and firehouses, mountains of garbage on the streets, and cops being laid off by the thousands. But what happened next is perhaps even more important: the city somehow united to pull itself out of financial and cultural ruin.

The story is told in a new documentary called “Drop Dead City.” The film’s co-directors, Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost, joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss the movie and this infamous moment in our city’s history. The conversation touched on the film’s construction, its soundtrack, and the broader themes of governmental responsibilities and the impact on New Yorkers living through the crisis. They also talked about the co-director’s father, Felix Rohatyn, who was a pivotal figure in the financial recovery.

Just like it takes a village to raise a child, state lawmakers said getting a proposed $252 billion spending plan over the finish line requires extensive support from their families that often goes unnoticed.

The state budget, now 23 days, is testing lawmakers' ability to balance work and family as most schools across the state held spring break over the last two weeks — forcing several policymakers to bring their children to Albany as spending negotiations continue.

New York Attorney General Letitia James endorsed City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams for mayor Wednesday.

She announced the endorsement alongside DC 37, one of the city’s largest unions representing over 150,000 public sector employees.

Affordable housing advocates in New York are warning of a potentially devastating impact if the Trump administration moves ahead with threatened cuts to federal housing programs.

The New York Times reports President Donald Trump's White House is eying changes to housing programs, including to the Section 8 program, which helps poorer tenants pay their rent.

New York state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Wednesday after meeting with Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins that leaders are getting closer to a state budget deal, but no handshake just yet.

“We’re still talking, things are moving,” he said. “It’s not done.”

While the state budget has slowly come together, mayoral primary elections have been quickly sneaking up. On June 24, there will be Democratic primary elections in four of the larger upstate cities including Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo.

One of the most closely watched races is in Buffalo where Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon is trying to earn his first full term after the resignation of longtime mayor Byron Brown to head up Western Regional Off-Track Betting.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Democratic mayoral primary features half a dozen candidates, including longtime politicians and public servants.

However, first-time candidates and activists Anthony Tyson-Thompson and Michael Gainer said they're embracing their role as underdogs.

NEW YORK — Roughly a week after California filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s authority to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, 12 other states filed a similar suit Wednesday.

Saying the tariffs illegally imposed an unprecedented tax hike on Americans, the attorneys general for New York, Arizona, Colorado, Maine and eight other states are seeking a court order to stop the Trump administration from enforcing or implementing tariffs that have disrupted global trade.

PENN YAN, N.Y. — A decade ago, Scott Osborn would have eagerly told prospective vineyard owners looking to join the wine industry to “jump into it.”

Now, his message is different.

Several state lawmakers said Tuesday they want to pass separate legislation after the budget is finished to fix ongoing issues with a $9 billion Medicaid home care program transition as workers complain about inaccurate paychecks.

The state continues to transition thousands of disabled and elderly people who use the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program for home care to company Public Partnerships LLC.

President Donald Trump said he will deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy.

Trump said on social media earlier this week that he would deliver addresses at both West Point and the University of Alabama.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting Buffalo Mayor Chris Scanlon is asking the New York State Board of Elections to issue an opinion about whether one of his opponents, state Senator Sean Ryan's campaign, is legally transferring money from his senate campaign fund to his mayoral coffers.

A lawyer representing Scanlon's camp sent a letter Tuesday asking the BOE to clarify election law as it applies to campaign limits. In the letter, attorney Laurence Laufer said it was the campaigns understanding that Ryan maintains the law allows him to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars between his political committees.

State lawmakers bought themselves another two days to pass a state budget, now 22 days late. They passed an extender to bridge the funding gap for state services and payroll from Wednesday when the current extender expires, through Thursday.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Mike Gianaris told reporters the most likely scenario at this point seems to be a budget deal later this week with voting on budget bills spilling into early next week.

Former Congressman George Santos is preparing for life in prison.

Ahead of his criminal sentencing on Friday, Santos spoke exclusively with NY1, saying when it comes to the nearly half a million dollars he owes in restitution and forfeiture, “right now, I am unable to pay anything.”

With a focus on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, President Donald Trump’s "border czar" Tom Homan was back in the city on Tuesday.

“Every member of TDA should be on the run because the Trump administration is committed to removing every single member of TDA and MS-13," Homan said.

While the first Earth Day, in 1970, took place during the Republican administration of President Richard Nixon, many in the environmental community will use Tuesday’s 55th anniversary to rail against Republican President Donald Trump and push to unite behind renewable energy.

Earlier this month, via executive order, Trump told environmental and energy agencies to sunset an array of regulations that protect endangered species, prevent oil spills and allow the public to track progress on pollution.

Andrew Cuomo is not a candidate typically low on cash.

While the city’s campaign finance board shut down his request for matching funds last week, the former governor has a state campaign account from his previous runs for governor.

Even though a budget deal has yet to be reached, Gov. Kathy Hochul spent Tuesday celebrating a major international company announced a $1 billion investment in the state and a new poll shows she’s winning more support from voters.

It all comes just one week after Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik slammed Hochul’s leadership, positioning herself to potentially run for governor.

Three more federal prosecutors who had been involved in the now-dismissed corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams resigned on Tuesday, saying they felt pressured into admitting wrongdoing or regret as a condition for being reinstated to their jobs.

“We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” Celia Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom wrote in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Amid an ongoing battle over New York state’s prohibition on Indigenous names, mascots and logos in public schools, President Donald Trump is backing a Long Island school district’s effort to keep its “Chiefs” team name.

“I agree with the people in Massapequa, Long Island, who are fighting furiously to keep the Massapequa Chiefs logo on their Teams and School. Forcing them to change the name, after all of these years, is ridiculous and, in actuality, an affront to our great Indian population,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.

An estimated 14 million electric vehicles were purchased globally in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency, but EV owners say they are facing challenges when it comes to charging.

In the United States, six in 10 Americans live within two miles of a public charging station, but many of those stations are in densely populated cities, not the rural areas between them.

Between now and the start of primary voting in June, NY1 will take a closer look at the key issues in the race for mayor.

This week’s topic is the mayor’s relationship with Albany — because while the mayor may be the face of New York City, the real power to enact major change often sits 100 miles north in the state capital.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul saw an improvement in her favorability and job approval last month and strong support for her top-line policy items in the still unfinished state budget, according to a Siena College poll of registered New York voters released Tuesday.

The governor has a favorability rating of 44-43%, up from 40-50% in March, and voters approve of the job Hochul is doing 48%-45%, according to the poll. Also improved from last month is her reelection stance with a year and a half until she’s set to face voters for a second full term, with 39% of voters prepared to reelect her, while 48% want someone else.

New York state lawmakers are divided on Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposal to let 18-year-olds work as correction officers in state prisons to ease the ongoing staffing shortage.

Hochul is pushing to lower the minimum age of correction officers down from 21 after firing about 2,000 officers who participated in last month's illegal wildcat strike — fueling tensions in prisons that were already battling a shortage of 2,000 officers.

City Hall’s plan to reopen a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Rikers Island could take longer than expected.

“The executive order expressly limits the cooperation to federal criminal investigations and federal criminal charges being brought, not civil matters,” First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said on Thursday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says there is light at the end of the state budget tunnel, which could include a watering down or tabling of her push for legislation related to the wearing of face masks in the commission of a crime.

“Certainly, Monday and Tuesday will be important days for us,” she said while hosting an Easter egg roll at the New York State Executive Mansion on Saturday.

The New York state Comptroller's Office says former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan pioneered the concept of balance of payments between the federal government and states with his first report in 1977.

For the vast amount of time New York has reviewed those payments, it has been what Moynihan referred to as a “donor state.”

Due to pandemic aid, New York state currently receives more money from the federal government than New Yorkers send to Washington in federal taxes. Not only is this four-year trend about to end, but it is also a shift from a decades-long imbalance that former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan would rail against in an annual report nicknamed "the Fisc."

A new bill would give the state the ability to withhold payments to the federal government if the Trump administration withholds funds from the state in defiance of court orders.

There’s a growing concern for what a trade war could mean for the restaurant industry. President Donald Trump has implemented a baseline 10% tariff on all countries and a 145% for Chinese imports — which could put pressure on costs of ingredients and supplies.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and local restaurant owners met in Syracuse on Monday, calling for a stop to this tedious trade tussle.

New York’s top Democrats, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, issued kind words for Pope Francis on behalf of the Catholics living in the city and state, mourning the loss of the 88-year-old Holy Father.

Both politicians made previous trips to Rome and spent time with him.

As Catholics the world over mourn the death of Pope Francis, New Yorkers and church leaders alike are offering tributes to the late pontiff.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, said Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, passed away at 7:35 a.m. Monday, Vatican time. He was 88.

The Trump administration on Monday issued another warning to New York about congestion pricing, giving the state until May 21 to either put a stop to the tolling initiative or prove it doesn't violate federal law.

In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said New York risks losing federal funding and approvals for certain projects from the Federal Highway Administration if it doesn't do one or the other.

On a sunny September evening, Pope Francis arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens greeted by a high school band and leaders of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Archdiocese of New York.

That was Sept. 24, 2015. He then made his way to St. Patrick's Cathedral in Midtown Manhattan for an evening prayer.

HILTON, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul’s state budget proposal allocates $13.5 million to help schools create smartphone storage solutions to cut down on clicking and scrolling during class. The continued push for a bell-to-bell ban on smartphone use in schools statewide has districts giving options a test run, including one in Monroe County.

The Hilton CSD is looking at possibly using individual student pouches to keep cellphones zipped up for the day to try and cut down on distractions in class. The district did a trial run to collect feedback from students.