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At UN, World Leaders Spar Over Fate of Syria

Mr. Putin did not hear Mr. Obama speak — the Russian leader had just arrived in New York from Moscow. But the tensions between the two are well known. In a deft bit of diplomacy, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sat in between them during a lunch he ... >> view original

MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners for 2015 Are Announced

Some of the fellows this year are already prominent, like the puppeteer Basil Twist; others are below the radar, like Marina Rustow, a history professor at Princeton University, who is using the ancient Cairo Geniza texts to shed new light on Jewish ... >> view original

New York City flood risk rising due to climate change

The risk of major New York City flooding — such as what happened during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 — is likely to occur once every 25 years, rather than every 500 years, as a result of human-caused global warming, says a study released Monday. >> view original

New York Today: Obama's New York

Locked out of his friend's apartment on his first night in New York, Barack Obama slept atop his luggage in an alleyway and woke to find a white hen pecking at the garbage. “New York,” he wrote in “Dreams From My Father.” “Just like I pictured it ... >> view original

Taliban Fighters Capture Kunduz City as Afghan Forces Retreat

KABUL, Afghanistan — After months of besieging the northern Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz, Taliban fighters took over the city on Monday just hours after advancing, officials said, as government security forces fully retreated to the city's ... >> view original

What Pope Francis ate in New York City

Sliced heirloom tomatoes, steamed lobster and house-made burrata greeted Pope Francis on his first night in New York, where a celebrity chef cooking for her second pontiff said her menu was inspired by Francis' humility and simplicity. The Associated ... >> view original

Why this New York mom is marching for better schools

New York City families have had enough. After two years of broken promises by Mayor de Blasio, we're ready to take a stand. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of families are going to speak directly to City Hall, to show the mayor we're not going to stand ... >> view original

Newborn Is Found Dead After Fall From Bronx Building

An official with the New York Fire Department said the infant was found unconscious and unresponsive in the alleyway. She was declared dead at the scene, officials said. The police said the episode was reported around 2:40 p.m. after the building ... >> view original

Anthony Bourdain's Food Market Takes Shape

For more than a year, New York's culinary grapevine has been buzzing over Mr. Bourdain's broadly stated intention of opening a major food market somewhere in the city, but details have been scant. Now he has confirmed that he and his partners have ... >> view original

District Attorney on New York's Long Island bans prosecutors from owning guns

The district attorney of one New York county is prohibiting prosecutors from owning a handgun -- a rule some law experts claim is unconstitutional. The Nassau County District Attorney's Office on New York's Long Island bars its prosecutors from ... >> view original