Former US president Donald Trump says he expects to be arrested again – after being informed that he’s a target in a Justice Department investigation – and must report to a grand jury.
Michael Bloomberg is the former mayor of New York and the founder and CEO of Bloomberg LP, a financial services, media, and software company. He tells Matt Frei that London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has been criticised by Donald Trump after the London Bridge attacks, is “doing exactly what he should do” and he would…
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum is in New York with the latest from a new anti-Trump protest in the city and with news of Donald Trump’s first interview as President-elect.
Kylie Morris
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”.
Kylie Morris
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.
Kylie Morris
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.”
US artist Molly Crabapple does something rare in journalism – she sees and tells a story in a new way, which is why Paul Mason has nominated her as his person of the year for 2013.
Lindsey Hilsum
British MPs may think they’re debating Syria, but their frame of reference is Iraq. Of course we should learn from past mistakes but the two situations are different, the proposed intervention is different and the aim is different.
Matt Frei
In the final feverish days of the campaign both Obama and Romney are outdoing each other in air miles, rally counts, hands shaken, cheeks squeezed and flossed smiles flashed across this vast country.
Matt Frei
“The struggle between man and elements helps to define America’s character. Some day it might even define this country’s policies towards the environment.”
Matt Frei
Washington correspondent Matt Frei reports on the protestors who are camping out near Wall Street and expressing the wider public frustrations of Main Street America.
Matt Frei
“Even if they are a little queasy, no self-respecting New Yorker would ever admit as much to an alien reporter. But they do hate the gridlock created by the alerts. ”
Sarah Smith blogs from New York on reaction to threats by Florida Pastor Terry Jones to burn copies of the Koran – with one Muslim describing how members of his faith are “the new communists”.
In a further twist in the tale of the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, his extradition from Thailand to the US has been delayed. Asia Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh explains why the “merchant of death” is detained.
Jon Snow
The gaping sore that is 9/11 in the American psyche remains unhealed. We who covered the co-ordinated attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, and the Pentagon in Washington underestimated how deep, how searing, and how long lasting this event would prove to be. Today this secular nation, whose refusal to either favour or…