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NEW YORK (AP) — A towering sculpture called Vessel — made up of 2,500 twisting steps the public can climb — is scheduled to open Friday as the visual centerpiece of Hudson Yards, a $25 billion urban complex on Manhattan's West Side that is the city's most ambitious development since the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.When fully complete, the 28-acre (11-hectare) site will include 16 towers of homes and offices, a hotel, a school, the highest outdoor [...]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke announced Thursday that he'll seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, pledging to win over voters from both major parties as he tries to translate his political celebrity into a formidable White House bid.Until he challenged Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year, O'Rourke was little known outside his hometown of El Paso. But the Spanish-speaking 46-year-old former punk rocker became a sensation during a campaign [...]

Newly released dash camera video shows the moments when a Travis County sheriff’s deputy was rescued after she drove into high water while responding to an emergency call near Austin, Texas, in December.Deputy Jami Speights was on Littig Road in eastern Travis County Dec. 27 when she suddenly entered the water. She was on her way to a report about a person needing to be rescued on Bitting School Road.The video shows how she suddenly entered the water. While she waited [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is announcing a plan to protect lower Manhattan from rising sea levels by surrounding it with earthen berms and extending its shoreline by as much as 500 feet.The Democratic mayor was to announce the plan Thursday after previewing it in New York magazine .Officials have been developing schemes to fortify New York City's waterfront ever since Superstorm Sandy destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in 2012. [...]

It’s been quite a week in the world of Beto O’Rourke. He made an appearance at South by Southwest, his Vanity Fair profile came out this week and he officially announced his run for president. But one big talking point has also emerged, mainly from the Vanity Fair piece: O’Rourke’s dog Artemis and her mournful yet pensive stare on the bottom right corner of the cover.[gh:blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"][gh:p lang="en" dir="ltr"]"Man, [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is urging the Federal Aviation Administration to ground the new Boeing planes involved in two fatal crashes in less than five months.The Democratic governor made the remarks Tuesday in a joint statement with Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Executive Director Rick Cotton. The Port Authority operates the New York metro area's three major airports.The statement said the FAA should "move decisively to assure that [...]

ALBANY — A former road test examiner with the New York state Department of Motor Vehicles has been arrested and accused of demanding bribes from female drivers in Queens.The office of the state inspector general announced the allegations facing Ian Cioffi on Tuesday.Officials say an investigation revealed that Cioffi refused to pass some female drivers who wouldn't pay cash bribes, and that he once groped a woman who refused to pay a bribe. The woman was later [...]

ALBANY — Hundreds of people have rallied at the New York state Capitol to encourage lawmakers to approve drivers licenses for immigrants who entered the country illegally.The group behind Tuesday's event in Albany came from around the state and includes legal and undocumented immigrants, advocates and lawmakers sponsoring bills that would authorize licenses for immigrants.Supporters say licenses would help immigrants get jobs, transport their family and apply for [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years, officials say.It's estimated that another 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits still await testing, and thousands of results have yet to be linked to suspects. Many who have been identified can't be prosecuted [...]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge, citing an "unprecedented measles outbreak" in suburban Rockland County, New York, has denied a request to let 44 unvaccinated children return to school.Parents of students in the Green Meadow Waldorf School in Chestnut Ridge have sued the county health department. They say none of the school's excluded children have contracted measles amid the county's outbreak, which started last fall.According to the Journal News , [...]