Benjamin Weiser

Senator Robert Menendez was found guilty of a wide-ranging international conspiracy stretching from New Jersey to Egypt.

NEW YORK — Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, a powerful Democrat who once led the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was convicted Tuesday of

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., was convicted Tuesday of taking part in a complicated bribery scheme in which he traded political favors for cash, gold bars and other gifts.

Edwin Cordero, 36, died at the Metropolitan Detention Center, where his lawyer said conditions were “awful.”

The Supreme Court has narrowed the legal definition of corruption, with political figures in New York and elsewhere having their convictions overturned as a result.

The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge.

The New York mayor was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday. He has insisted he will stay in office and asked New Yorkers to give him a chance to defend himself.

The failed plot to kill Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist, has already led to murder-for-hire charges against members of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran.

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged a senior official in Iran's Revolutionary Guard and three other men connected to the country's

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday that Iranian plotters had discussed a plan to assassinate Donald Trump before he was reelected as president this week.