Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has been charged for his role in the Flint water crisis, which caused an outbreak of Legionnaires disease and contaminated residents’ homes with lead-based water. An indictment filed by the state attorney general’s office charged Snyder with two counts

Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, will be charged in connection with the Flint water crisis, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

The speech, Cuomo’s 11th since becoming governor, is being held virtually amid the COVID crisis and will lead into a week of similar events as the governor details his legislative wish list.

The United States has recorded more than 4,000 new coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time ever, adding another grim record to a catastrophic health crisis that continues to overwhelm hospitals and devastate families around the country.

A Buffalo-area small business owner is putting a holiday spin on a wildly popular Cuomo-themed window sticker he crafted to give customers a chuckle amid the coronavirus crisis.

Yankees president Randy Levine laid out a sweeping plan to help New York City’s cash-starved government weather the pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis on Thursday — including legalizing mobile sports betting and marijuana and imposing a new tax on wealthy hedge fund investors to generate

Louisville has declared racism a public health crisis in the wake of the police killing of Breonna Taylor in the Kentucky city. Mayor Greg Fischer made the declaration Tuesday by signing an executive order titled “Advancing Racial Equity for Black Louisville,” which calls for a focus

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday formally unveiled his economic policy nominees including Janet Yellen to be treasury secretary and already-beleaguered Neera Tanden to be White House budget director. “From the most unequal economic and job crisis in modern history, we can build

President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner will visit Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week in an attempt to end a 3½-year diplomatic crisis between the oil-rich kingdoms. A source familiar with the trip said that resolving the long-running crisis is Kushner’s objective

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the key members of his economic team led by former Fed chair Janet Yellen, who would become the first woman to serve as Treasury secretary if confirmed. “This crisis-tested team will help President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala

'I will go out there and will not only work on development but try to address the core issues that communities not only in the South Bronx but in the northern part of the Bronx are suffering from,' he told the Daily News.

Japan is struggling with a mental health crisis as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, with more people dying in one month from suicide than from COVID-19 all year long.

Sen. Brad Hoylman and Assemblyman Harvey Epstein are introducing a bill dubbed the “Manhattan Mom & Pop Tax Relief Act,” which will suspend collection of the Commercial Rent Tax during the COVID crisis from small businesses with a base rent of less than $1 million per year.

In an almost revolutionary call for change, the pope said the world should channel the pain of the coronavirus pandemic to "come out of this crisis less selfish than when we went in."

President-elect Joe Biden and future first lady Jill penned an optimistic op-ed on Thursday, saying how the COVID-19 crisis as “has revealed our collective strength” despite the tough year. As Americans prepare to celebrate a Thanksgiving like no other, the couple ran through a list

The richest 650 Americans have seen their wealth swell by more than $1 trillion, a new report reveals.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to deliver a pre-Thanksgiving address to reflect on “shared sacrifices” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden “will discuss the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and say that we can and will get through the current crisis

Extreme generosity never goes out of style – especially during a pandemic. A good Samaritan left a lofty $3,000 tip on a single $7 pint of beer at a Cleveland restaurant voluntarily shutting down amid the coronavirus crisis — giving four servers an unexpected boost to their wallets on Sunday

A Texas superintendent who believes in “love” and “prayer” to tackle the COVID-19 crisis has allegedly made face coverings optional in his schools — despite a statewide mask mandate that’s been in place since July. Lance Johnson, who oversees the Peaster

New York’s left is starting to devour its own as part of a campaign to pressure local Democratic pols to aggressively tax the rich to address the state’s pandemic-fueled fiscal crisis. A group including the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which is aligned

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday reassured Americans that there’s “help” coming to fight the COVID-19 pandemic — saying that promising vaccine candidates have the potential to curb the health crisis. The Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Students going home from college for Thanksgiving could create a COVID crisis.

With the dark winter months looming, there’s one glimmer of hope in the fight against the COVID-19 crisis. Two, to be exact. Vaccine candidates from Pfizer, and its German partner BioNTech, and Moderna have shown to be 95 percent effective in ongoing trials. The promising results

in his new book, 'American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.'

Amid the continuous COVID-19 crisis, Giant Food supermarkets has made a giant error in judgment.

Hospitals in Austin, Texas, are taking in non-COVID patients from El Paso to ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed medical facilities amid a massive surge in coronavirus hospitalizations. “We have patients in our hospitals right now from El Paso because there wasn’t room for them in El Paso,” Austin Mayor Steve Adler said during...

Saturday’s Thanksgiving-themed event handed out food to about 8,500 families facing financial stress from growing the crisis -- 17 times more people than the annual event usually serves.

The former president accused Trump of putting his own selfish whims ahead of a society grappling with a killer pandemic and an economic crisis.

North Korean despot Kim Jong Un has threatened punishment for citizens caught wasting food, as the Hermit Kingdom faces a famine. “At the beginning of this month, the Central Committee [of the Korean Workers’ Party] ordered residents to actively participate in solving our food crisis

with a pandemic, an economic crisis, urgent calls for racial justice, and the existential threat...