Boston in shutdown as New York enjoys a snow day
Massachusetts has been badly hit by the US east coast snow blizzard, but in New York, where only a few inches of snow fell overnight, the mayor talked of a “better safe than sorry scenario”.
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Massachusetts has been badly hit by the US east coast snow blizzard, but in New York, where only a few inches of snow fell overnight, the mayor talked of a “better safe than sorry scenario”.
Manhattan is a ghost town as transport and businesses shut up shop in wait for giant snowfalls. Workers aren’t expected in on Tuesday – except on Wall Street.
Roads are closed and workers are told to stay at home as New York readies for expected heavy snow and blizzards from storm Juno.
A man kills himself after shooting two New York City police officers, having tweeted ‘anti-police’ comments about the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
Adnan el Shukrijumah, who was wanted in the US for planning to blow up the New York subway system, is the most senior al-Qaeda operative to be killed by the Pakistani military.
At the protests, they chanted “I can’t breathe” over and over. They were Eric Garner’s last words. The chant that echoed around Grand Central Station? “New York is Ferguson. Ferguson is New York.”
Western New York state is braced for even more snow, after freakish weather in recent days – depositing almost 1.5 metres in some areas – killed at least seven people.
For the second year running Channel 4 News has won the International Emmy Award in the news category, for a series of films charting Syria’s brutal civil war.
I’m on the train to New York where the UN Security Council is meeting in a few hours for an emergency session on the downing of MH17 – a session Britain has requested.
Olympic champion Mo Farah collapses as he finishes second in the New York half marathon and is taken away in a wheelchair.
Two people die and 22 more are injured as two buildings collapse in Harlem following an explosion.
“Ultra-rich people, including frankly distasteful ultra-rich people, create opportunities,” argues conservative Reihan Salam. He talks with satirist and voice of Montgomery Burns – Harry Shearer.
Eighty retired New York police officers and firefighters are charged with falsely claiming to have been traumatised by the 9/11 terrorist attacks so they could receive disability benefits.
New York battles with blizzard conditions as three feet of snow falls in areas around Buffalo. 60 miles per hour icy winds created a near white out as visibility dropped down to nearly zero.
Two people are critically injured in a high-rise fire in midtown Manhattan, New York. The fire broke out on the 20th floor of the Manhattan skyscraper and then spread to two upper floors.