New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a...
Articles by Jennifer Peltz

Help wanted. The job: putting one of the nation’s most far-reaching salary disclosure laws into practice. Location: New York City....

Angry, defiant and sometimes tearful, more than two dozen Americans whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had...

Federal appeals judges asked Friday whether a U.S. president’s every remark is part of the job as they weighed whether...

‘I WAS A WALKING ZOMBIE’ Desiree Bouchat pauses by one of the inscribed names on the 9/11 memorial: James Patrick...

As marijuana legalization spreads across U.S. states, so does a debate over whether to set pot policy by potency. Under...
New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana – even in public – under...
A major snowstorm rolled into the Northeast on Wednesday at a key moment in the coronavirus pandemic, days after the...

Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to...

Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits...