In a series of skits and “Weekend Update” segments over the past two years, the cast of “Saturday Night Live” has mercilessly mocked Gov. David A. Paterson’s impaired vision and presented him as an improbably clumsy figure who walks into cameras, holds charts upside down and hates New Jersey. The genial Mr. Paterson, in turn, […]

New York Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday signed into law the first extensive domestic workers’ rights measure in the nation, which he said will correct historic injustices.

Gov. Paterson plans to meet with the developers of a planned mosque at Ground Zero this week to discuss moving the project elsewhere in Manhattan, officials said Tuesday.