Andrew Cuomo

New York's One World Trade Center spire finally goes up

2013-05-10 14:50:00

New York City can once again claim to be home to the tallest building in the country, and the Western Hemisphere for that matter. On Friday, workers topped off the new One World Trade Center building with a spire making the structure 1,776 feet tall,...

Hillary is great, but look at other women too, activists say

2013-05-02 11:03:00

WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton would be the runaway favorite among Democrats for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows, but activists at EMILY’s List, who have launched a campaign to elect the first...

Six months later, Superstorm Sandy's impact still being felt

2013-04-29 14:33:00

The Obama administration approved $1.83 billion to help New Jersey recover from the effects of Superstorm Sandy, which six months ago to the day pounded through the state and metropolitan New York City areas, bring flooding, destruction and death....

We can't let the pro-gun zealots win

2013-04-16 12:41:00

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave politicians everywhere some sound advice on gun control recently. Defending New York’s tough new measures against critics who charge that the state has exceeded its regulatory authority, he said: “Yes,...

New gun registration requirements take effect in New York state

2013-04-15 15:42:00

Even as Congress prepares to debate new gun legislation, New York’s tougher gun control provisions became effective on Monday, the latest example of how the issue has broadened into a battle on the state as well as federal level. In the wake of...

New sheriff of Wall St. is racking up insider trading convictions

2013-03-29 18:36:00

NEW YORK — Preet Bharara, the man dubbed the new sheriff of Wall Street, notched another arrest in the government's vast insider trading probe. This time the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan nabbed a top portfolio manager at one of America's...

States move quickly, divergently on gun laws

2013-04-04 05:00:00

Even as momentum for new gun legislation wanes in Washington, lawmakers across the country are fashioning their own response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, resulting in a patchwork that tightens restrictions in some places and eases them...

Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law

2013-04-04 09:56:00

Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...

Insurers eager to maintain authority over healthcare premiums

2013-03-26 15:19:00

While most of us face uncertainty with the rollout of healthcare reform, some insurance companies in California have been feeling their oats lately. Here's how they're responding to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones' warnings that their latest rate...

Hillary Rodham Clinton announces support for same-sex marriage

2013-03-18 09:56:00

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton, free to dip her toe in the water of domestic politics after four years as the nation’s chief diplomat, joined other leading Democrats in endorsing same-sex marriage. Clinton’s announcement –...

More shots fired while police hunt N.Y. gunman who killed four

2013-03-13 12:12:00

More shots have been fired in upstate New York as police continued to hunt the man they suspect of fatally shooting four people and wounding two more on Wednesday morning. See tweets and photos below. The images from Herkimer, N.Y., have been surreal...

Harvard's Hasty Pudding Institute fetes Sony's Michael Lynton

2013-03-05 16:48:00

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Institute honored Sony Pictures Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Lynton with its first-ever “Order of the Golden Sphinx” award Monday night at Manhattan’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Lynton was singled...

New York Gov. Cuomo is nearing the end of his first term in office, and given his pedigree (his father, Mario, served as New York governor from 1983 to 1994), it's inevitable that he's included in the 2016 speculation.

2012-11-19 05:28:00

Governor Andrew Cuomo at the Hugh Carey tunnel (formerly the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel)

2012-10-30 15:12:00

Governor Andrew Cuomo observes flooding in the Path Train statin at the WTC

2012-10-30 15:12:00