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The Assembly Chamber is pictured during a legislative session at the state Capitol Friday, April 8, 2022, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

NY $220B budget becomes law, boosted by federal aid, surplus

By Marina Villeneuve - Associated Press

U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, left, speaks during a news conference during U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm's visit to South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Granholm visited the school to announce $3 million in Energy Department funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions to work on decarbonizing programs. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Dems deploy Jim Clyburn to Staten Island to boost bid for House seat pickup in midterms

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

New York Knicks forward Obi Toppin (1) goes to the basket against Washington Wizards center Thomas Bryant (13) and forward Anthony Gill (16) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, April 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Toppin scores 35, Knicks rout Wizards

By Noah Trister - Associated Press

FILE —Former Goldman Sachs executive Roger Ng, center, leaves Brooklyn Federal court with attorney Marc Agnifilo, right, May 6, 2019, in New York. A U.S. jury convicted Ng on all counts in $4.5 billion scheme to loot Malaysian fund 1MDB, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Ex-Goldman Sachs banker convicted in plot to loot 1MDB fund

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

New York Mayor Eric Adams, at podium, addresses a news conference in the rotunda of City Hall, in New York, Monday, April 4, 2022. New York City is launching a digital billboard campaign, supporting LGBTQ visibility that will be displayed in five major markets in Florida for eight weeks, to lure Floridians unhappy with their state's "Don't Say Gay" law to the Big Apple, Adams announced. (Ed Reed/Office of the New York City Mayor via AP)

The irony of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ bizarre lecture to Floridians on free speech

By Billy Hallowell

New York Mets starting pitcher Tylor Megill throws during a baseball workout at Nationals Park, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Washington. Megill is schedule to start on Thursday when the Washington Nationals and the New York Mets are scheduled to play on opening day. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mets tab Megill to start opener against Nationals with no deGrom or Scherzer

By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's office shows Lawrence Ray, the ex-convict charged with sex trafficking and extortion for forcing young women into prostitution or forced labor after winning trust by posing as a father-figure. Ray, who moved into his daughter's college dorm after getting out of prison and charmed her schoolmates with stories about his wisdom was convicted Wednesday, April 6, 2022, of charges that he turned on the close-knit group of friends and used threats and violence to force them to work for him and enrich him with millions of dollars.(U.S. Attorney's office via AP, File) **FILE**

Dad who lived in college dorm convicted of abusing daughter’s friends

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

A volcano is built at the center of the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami Beach, Fla., Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. Miami is gathering thousands of cryptocurrency enthusiasts as it positions itself as one of the hubs of blockchain technology. Dozens of companies are using the Bitcoin 2022 conference as a platform to pitch ideas to investors or share announcements to the crypto world and beyond. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Miami’s crypto craze on full display at bitcoin conference

By Adriana Gomez Licon - Associated Press

In an undated file photo, smoke billows from a Marathon Petroleum refinery near a neighborhood in southwest Detroit. One year after launching its Climate Funders Justice Pledge, The Donors of Color Network says it now has a $100 million funding baseline for environmental groups led by the minorities already disproportionately harmed by extreme weather events. The network also plans to announce Tuesday, April 5, 2022 that ClimateWorks Foundation will sign the full pledge, promising transparent reporting of their grants and to direct at least 30% of its climate funding grants to groups with Black, Indigenous or other people of color as their leaders. (Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press via AP)

Donors secure $100M to benefit minorities on climate change

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

Staten Island-based Amazon.com Inc distribution center union members celebrate after getting the voting results to unionize on Friday, April 1, 2022, in New York. Amazon workers in Staten Island voted to unionize, marking the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant's history and handing an unexpected win to a nascent group that fueled the union drive. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Amazon’s first U.S. union overcomes hurdles, faces new ones

By Haleluya Hadero and Anne D’Innocenzio - Associated Press

FILE - Children and their guardians wearing masks because of COVID-19 pandemic, leave P.S. 64 in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in New York. New York City is keeping a mask mandate for children under 5 in place and will appeal a judge's ruling that struck it down. Mayor Eric Adams said Friday, April 1, 2022 the city will continue to require masks for children aged 2 to 4 in schools and daycare centers. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams sticks to preschool mask mandate, fearing BA.2 wave

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Angelika Maldonado, right, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) chairwoman of workers committee at Staten Island Amazon warehouse, and Brett Daniels, director of organizing for ALU workers committee, watch a zoom-cast of vote counting to unionize Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, N.Y., Thursday March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Amazon workers in NYC vote to unionize, a first for company

By Haleluya Hadero and Anne D'Innocenzio - Associated Press

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Adams on Tuesday, March 22, said that he will make masks optional for those in daycare and prekindergarten starting April 4 if case rates and the risk of the virus spreading remain low.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NYC Firefighters blast Adams over vaccine mandate hypocrisy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. The resignation of Chubais, who was Putin's envoy to international organizations for sustainable development, was not the first resignation of a state official over the war with Ukraine, but it was one of the most striking. (AP Photo)

Some prominent Russians quit jobs, refuse to support war

Associated Press

FILE - Firefighters from the Marins-Pompiers of Marseille extract samples of sewage water at a retirement home in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, to trace concentrations of COVID-19 and the highly contagious variant that has been discovered in Britain. As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Experts worry about how U.S. will see next COVID surge coming

By MIke Stobbe - Associated Press

In this file photo, signs and temperature stations remain in the lobby at the Kershaw County Government Offices where Kershaw County Administrator Vic Carpenter discusses how the county is getting back to normal Tuesday, March 1, 2022 in Camden, S.C. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP)

Leaders rush to lift COVID-19 rules while unvaccinated workers still out of jobs, sparking debate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Two years into New York’s bold quest to eliminate pretrial incarceration for most crimes, state officials are considering abandoning some reforms amid public pressure to curb rising violence.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Don’t blame bail reform for higher crime, NYC watchdog says

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

New York Knicks' Julius Randle (30) shoots over Washington Wizards' Kyle Kuzma (33) during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 18, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Randle, Barrett help Knicks hold on to beat Wizards

By Adry Torres - Associated Press

Caitriona Balfe, from left, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie appear in a scene from &quot;Belfast.&quot; (Rob Youngson/Focus Features via AP)

How (and where) to watch the 2022 Oscar nominees online

By Leanne Italie - Associated Press

A parade goer yells during the St. Patrick's Day Parade along South Columbus Drive, Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

St. Patrick’s Day parades turn pandemic blues Irish green

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press