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"I was pretty excited. Coming into the internship, it would be hard to say that I expected to find a planet," Wolf Cukier said.

On December 28, a masked man brandishing a machete stabbed five people celebrating the seventh night of Hanukkah at a rabbi's home in Monsey, outside New York City.

Jonathan Gray said he recorded being threatened "literally five minutes" after attending solidarity march in Brooklyn.

New York State enacted a law Monday that bans employers from asking prospective employees how much money they earned in previous jobs.

After leaving a luncheon hosted by the Association for a Better New York, Cuomo and his staff encountered a wreck on the thoroughfare traversing Brooklyn and Queens.

The event drew some 25,000 people as they marched across the bridge Sunday to show solidarity with the Jewish community.

In just the last two weeks, New York and its suburbs have endured around two dozen crimes appearing to target Jews.

Josef Gluck, who threw a table at the machete-wielding assailant, was honored in Rockland County for his bravery.

There are a handful of ways to watch the Times Square celebration while peeking into other performances around the country.

Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli said hate crime suspect Grafton Thomas lacked "American values" in a now-deleted tweet, suggesting that the crime may have happened since Thomas's father was allowed to stay in the U.S. under the 1986 amnesty law.

"We have an education system that, from the time these kids are tots, tells them that there's nothing that is really right nor wrong," the former Republican governor told Fox Business.

"The rise in anti-Semitic violence in NYC is something that could have been stopped [if the city had] a Mayor who worked full time & paid attention to what was going on," Giuliani tweeted.

"We must all come together to fight, confront, and eradicate the evil scourge of anti-Semitism," the president tweeted Sunday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he was "horrified" by the Monsey stabbings, calling the acts "despicable" and "cowardly."

Trump told New York and California to "politely" call and ask for homelessness aid that California Governor Gavin Newsom previously said the president had been withholding for political purposes.

This week alone, at least five separate instances of apparently anti-Semitic crimes have rattled the Jewish community, especially as it celebrates Hanukkah.

In a Thursday interview on MSNBC, Rudy Giuliani's former press secretary Ken Frydman said Giuliani's seemingly erratic behavior is designed to "create chaos."

The proposal from would have expanded the allotted list to all federal district and appellate judges.

Panelists on CNN's "The Lead" laughed at Rudy Giuliani's interview in New York magazine, where he allegedly drank Bloody Marys with a reporter and discussed his wish to defend President Trump during the impeachment trial.

In an interview published Monday by the New York Intelligencer, personal lawyer for President Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani said he is not concerned if his recent work for Trump tarnishes his legacy.

Tickets are already on sale for Sunday's show.

Researchers find the forest was diverse and that some trees had features thought to have emerged far later.

Despite his "game-changing" cooperation with prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer deemed the rapper's activities with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods "too violent" to release him immediately after sentencing.

Crime Stoppers is offering a $2,500 reward for information after 16-year-old Karol Sanchez was snatched off the streets.

Whether SantaCon is "a gathering of 1000s of young adults dressed in Xmas garb partaking in binge drinking" as one Twitter user put it, or a "non-political, nonsensical, charitable" event as the organizers describe, the costumed convention has created plenty of wild photo ops over the years.

SantaCon will take over New York City's Midtown and Lower East Side on Saturday December 14.

Heavy winter weather is also affecting Minnesota, Wisconsin and the U.S. East Coast.

In a tweet Saturday, NYPD Commissioner Dermot F. Shea said the determination was made after a thorough investigation by Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapped back at her critics on Twitter after Amazon said it would be opening a New York office in 2021.

More than 200 schools across New Jersey, Connecticut, Albany and other parts of the New England area are closed following severe disruption from the winter storm that hit the Northeast this weekend.