New York

NYPD tightens security fearing protests over likely Trump indictment

Former US president Donald Trump said over the weekend that he expects to be arrested and urged supporters to "protest, take our nation back!"

'Raccoon is eating lasagna': NY reveals bizarre enquiries on 311

New York city's first-ever 311 non-emergency call in 2003 was for a noise complaint but the hotline has since then received obscure enquiries that operators struggled to answer in its 20-year operation, officials say.

There is 'no room' in New York for migrants: mayor

The influx of migrants has exacerbated a housing crisis in New York and a worsening homeless crisis in the city.

Collapsed crypto exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty in NY

Bankman-Fried, 30, is accused of illegally diverting massive sums of customer money from FTX to make lavish real estate purchases, donate money to politicians and make risky trades at his cryptocurrency hedge fund trading firm.

World welcomes 2023, bids farewell to turbulent 12 months

The world has ushered in 2023, bidding farewell to a turbulent 12 months marked by war in Europe and Africa, stinging price rises, the Qatar World Cup, floods in Pakistan, and the deaths of Queen Elizabeth, Pele and former pope Benedict XVI.

Death toll climbs as blizzard-battered US areas dig out

Two more deaths in western New York region that bore the maximum brunt of the historic storm brings total to 61, officials say.

'Blizzard of the century' pushes US death toll to 50

Number of deaths attributed to massive winter storm — most of them in road accidents — keeps rising as officials confirm another fatality in western New York's Erie County, the epicentre of the crisis.

Dozens dead in major US winter storm

New York authorities describe ferocious conditions with hours-long whiteouts, bodies being discovered in vehicles, and emergency teams going "car to car" searching for motorists -- alive or dead.

Power outages, travel snarls as deadly winter storm hits the US

The Buffalo storm is "the worst of the worst," says New York Governor, where 2.4-metre snow drifts against front doors and power outages in freezing temperatures made for life-threatening conditions.

Pioneering Black feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes dies at 84

Hughes organised the first shelter for battered women in New York City and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development to broaden childcare services in the city.

Why are New York Times staff staging the biggest walkout since the 70s?

Major news desks at the paper may lose 90 percent of their workforce during a 24-hour strike by more than 1,000 union journalists and other employees, the NewsGuild union says.

New York seeks bureaucrat to lead 'wholesale slaughter' of legendary rats

Mayor of US city posts job listing for Director of Rodent Mitigation, a position that pays between $120,000 and $170,000 a year, but applicants must have "killer instinct" to end the reign of "cunning, voracious, and prolific" rats.