What New York Attack Suspect's Words May Say About ISIS Ties
It means “remaining” or “enduring,” and it is the terrorist group’s slogan, dating to when it was still an affiliate of Al Qaeda.A senior law enforcement official, who had been briefed on the investigation into the New York attack, said that the phrase appeared more than once in the note. “There’s some stuff in the beginning and then there’s the repeated, ‘The Islamic State will endure forever,’ or ‘will last forever,’ you know, three times, in Arabic,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymi..>> view originalNew York Adds Concrete Barriers on Bike Path After Attack
New York transportation authorities on Thursday began placing hundreds of large concrete barriers at 57 intersections along the Hudson River Park Bikeway in an effort to protect the popular path from future terror attacks.The move comes after the attack on Tuesday, in which Sayfullo Saipov is accused of driving a rental truck for a mile down the narrow bikeway, killing eight people and injuring 12 others.Ben Sarle, a spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, said that the concrete barriers would be p..>> view originalMore Anxiety, and More Police, Expected at New York City Marathon
At a news conference, officials with the New York Police Department discussed a range of additional security measures. Photo Security at the 2013 New York City Marathon. Since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, security at the marathon has increased. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times Carlos Gomez, the chief of department, said there would be more sand trucks and other vehicles to block intruders from entering the course. Chief Gomez also said the department had ..>> view originalNY terror suspect wanted ISIS flag in hospital room, 'felt good' about ...
The man accused of ramming a truck into people on a New York City bike path placed a call immediately before he carried out the attack on Tuesday afternoon, a law enforcement official told ABC News. The call was placed to Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, who is described by sources as a friend of suspected attacker Sayfullo Saipov. Kadirov is not being called a suspect. The significance of the call Saipov made to Kadirov is not known. The FBI had released a poster Wednesday asking for the public's he..>> view originalInvestigators probe New York attack suspect's communications ...
Investigators continued Thursday to probe the 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant charged with the New York truck attack, poring over his communications to see if he had any help or guidance before carrying out his deadly rampage, while President Trump publicly weighed in on the federal prosecution of the suspect. New York police officials say the attacker appears to have radicalized himself online and that it does not appear anyone else was involved, though they said that continues to be a key questio..>> view originalWhy the World Loves New York
Photo Brooklyn Bridge from South Street in Manhattan Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times NEW DELHI — I remember so well the first time I visited New York. I was 13, and though I had been to America once before, New York had deliberately been kept from me. The name alone conjured an adult world of glamour and excitement, the mythic New York of the 1980s: Andy Warhol and Studio 54. “It’s not a place for children,” my mother said firmly.And my God, was she right! Within..>> view originalNew York terror attack: Man FBI was seeking speaks out
NEW YORK -- The man the FBI said at one point it was seeking as a person of interest in the New York truck attack has condemned the plot and says it was "not from our religion."The man, Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, has not been detained or arrested. On Wednesday, the FBI released a poster saying it was looking for Kadirov, only to announce less than 90 minutes later that it had found him. A law enforcement official said Kadirov was a friend of suspect Sayfullo Saipov's and may not have any role in th..>> view originalDNAinfo and Gothamist Are Shut Down After Vote to Unionize
But in the financially daunting era of digital journalism, there has been no tougher nut to crack than making local news profitable, a lesson Mr. Ricketts, who lost money every month of DNAinfo’s existence, is just the latest to learn. In New York City, the nation’s biggest media market, established organizations such as The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily News have slashed staff or withdrawn from street-level reporting. The Voice stopped publishing its print edition in Sep..>> view original10 Things to Do in NYC Now
10 Things to Do in NYC NowIt’s a big city, with plenty to do, see, hear and watch. Here’s a sampling of cultural highlights this weekend and over the week ahead.The “Saturday Night Live” alumna Ana Gasteyer hosts a conversation with Samantha Bee, above, at the New York Comedy Festival. See listing below.CreditChad Batka for The New York TimesCOMEDYThe Comics Are Coming! The Comics Are Coming!The New York Comedy Festival, at various locationsMore than 200 comedians. Over 20 venues. Over eight day..>> view originalTrump Abandons Idea of Sending Terrorism Suspect to Guantánamo
“I appreciate President Trump taking the gloves off when it comes to unleashing our military on ISIL,” Mr. Graham said, referring to the battlefield gains against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “However, I’m dumbfounded as to why the Trump administration still follows the Obama playbook when it comes to dealing with terror suspects.”That drew a retort from Vice President Mike Pence. “I got to tell you, there’s nothing about President Trump’s policies that mirror the last administration,” ..>> view original
Friday, November 3, 2017
What New York Attack Suspect's Words May Say About ISIS Ties and other top stories.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Trump's Support for Law to Protect 'Dreamers' Lifts Its Chances and other top stories.
Trump's Support for Law to Protect 'Dreamers' Lifts Its Chances
But he also made his frustration clear. “The president understands he has to work with the congressional majorities to get any kind of legislative solution,” Mr. Ryan said.Mr. Trump’s comments, at a time when Republicans had hoped to focus on rewriting the tax code, came amid a chaotic day of back and forth on Capitol Hill over what, precisely, had emerged from Wednesday’s White House dinner — and where Mr. Trump’s newfound alliance with Democrats might lead. On Thursday morning, the president ..>> view originalClown Rally at NYC Theater Was Publicity Stunt to Promote 'It ...
A man claiming to be a professional clown who planned to rally outside a New York City movie theater, complaining his business suffered because of marketing around the horror clown movie "It," admitted Thursday the protest was a sham -- a publicity stunt designed to promote the very movie he said cost him cash.John Nelson conceded on WOR-710's that he had been hired, though he wouldn't say who had paid him. Neither New Line Cinema, the studio behind the film, nor its parent company, Warner Broth..>> view originalSilicon Valley's favorite sneaker comes to New York — with its ...
Will it be the Warby Parker of shoes? Allbirds has already won over Silicon Valley, where the business is based, with its wool sneakers spotted on the feet of Google co-founder Larry Page, former Twitter chief Dick Costolo and venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Mary Meeker, to name a few. And after growing a successful e-commerce platform, Allbirds will test its fate in setting up a second physical storefront to showcase its products. Allbirds' "concept" shop opened Thursday in New York's SoH..>> view originalPolice Release Body Camera Footage of Shooting Death in Bronx
“Do you want to die?”After about 15 minutes, an officer with a Taser stun gun steps through the doorway to try to use the weapon to shock and subdue Mr. Richards. At that moment, Mr. Richards raises his arm — the one in which the officers had earlier observed what appeared to be a gun. In an instant, the officer with the Taser fires the stun gun as two officers behind him fire their service weapons, killing Mr. Richards in a hail of 16 bullets. The object in his hand turned out to be a toy gun...>> view originalNew York Today: Our Past in Pizza
The story goes that as technology here evolved, so did pizza style.In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Neapolitan immigrants coming to the United States brought with them the traditions of wood-oven bakeries in Naples, Mr. Wiener explained, but here, because wood was more expensive as a fuel source, they began using cheaper, coal-fired ovens instead, creating pizza with “a completely different bite characteristic.”“In the first half of the 20th century, New York pizza was thin and made in coal-f..>> view originalESPN's 'College Gameday' coming to Times Square in New York
Syracuse will not host ESPN's wildly popular 'College GameDay" show anytime soon, but the school that once used a marketing slogan of "New York's College Team" may be getting the next best thing. ESPN announced on Thursday that "College GameDay" is coming to Times Square in New York City. "GameDay" will broadcast from Times Square on Sept. 23, the first time the popular pregame road show travels to New York City. The network says the show will highlight New York's college football history and..>> view originalTrump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment
The relationship between the two men has improved marginally since midsummer, as Mr. Sessions has made a public display of hunting for the leakers among the administration’s national security officials. His allies said that despite the humiliation, the attorney general has stayed in the job because he sees a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity as the nation’s top law enforcement official to toughen the country’s immigration policies.But he may be losing that battle as well. Mr. Sessions played a p..>> view originalDe Blasio Vows to Cut Emissions in New York's Larger Buildings
He repeatedly talked about how urgent the issue was, but the announcement, reported by The Washington Post, contained few specifics. City officials struggled to answer questions or provide a fuller picture of what was being proposed.Legislation would set maximum levels of energy that a building could use. For instance, market rate apartment buildings would be permitted to use 50,000 B.T.U.s of fossil fuel per square foot per year. Today, an average apartment building over 25,000 square feet use..>> view originalNew York City Schools Are Inadequate On Sex Education, Stringer ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The New York City comptroller’s office said not all middle and high school students are being taught sex education as required by law. As WCBS 880’s Marla Diamond reported, a report by Comptroller Scott Stringer said the city’s sex education program is “inconsistent and out of date compared with other major American cities,” but worse, the city has failed to comply with state law requiring one semester of comprehensive health education. Read The Report “Only 57 percent o..>> view originalHomes for Sale in New York City
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Friday, October 27, 2017
New York's soaring pension bills and other top stories.
New York's soaring pension bills
The latest Empire Center for Public Policy report on New York’s soaring pension costs focuses on six-figure retiree payouts, which have now crossed the 3,000 mark. It’s a telling sign of how public employees continue to collect benefits far greater than most private-sector workers — at a huge cost to the taxpayers. The center does an annual update on retirees who qualify for at least $100,000 a year in a public pension. Many of the latest additions are Long Island police and firefighters (whose..>> view originalRepublican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump ...
But in interviews with more than 75 Republicans at every level of the party, elected officials, donors and strategists expressed widespread uncertainty about whether Mr. Trump would be on the ballot in 2020 and little doubt that others in the party are engaged in barely veiled contingency planning.“They see weakness in this president,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. “Look, it’s not a nice business we’re in.” Mr. Trump changed the rules of intraparty politics last year when he..>> view originalThis is why New Yorkers cheat more during the summer
Manhattan divorce attorney Nancy Chemtob was shocked last summer when her client called her frantically one morning. “She said, ‘There’s another woman in our apartment and she said she just had sex with my husband and won’t leave.’ ” According to Chemtob, her client had been stationed out in the Hamptons all summer while her financier husband toiled away in Manhattan during the workweek. One day, she returned to the city for a doctor’s appointment and decided to stay over at their four-bedroom ..>> view originalJeff Sessions is finally on Trump's good side
“Beleaguered” Attorney General Jeff Sessions is officially out of the Trump doghouse. Breaking a string of social media rebukes against Sessions, the president issued a tweet Saturday afternoon praising his AG for getting tough on White House leaks. “After many years of LEAKS going on in Washington, it is great to see the A.G. taking action! For National Security, the tougher the better!’’ In a Friday press conference, Sessions vowed to chase down government leakers, and to pressure reporters ..>> view originalJoggers, Bicyclists, & Everything In Between Descend On Park ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The tenth annual Citi Summer Streets event kicked off Saturday, with seven miles of city streets blocked off for the public to enjoy. As CBS2’s Erin Logan reported, Park Avenue and connecting streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park were taken over by hundreds of thousands of runners, walkers, bikers, and people partaking in endless activities. “The theme this year is the five senses,” said New York City Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. “So, in ad..>> view originalIllicit activity is hurting Bitcoin's future
Dear John: I really think you missed the boat on bitcoin. You assume bitcoin is just money, when in fact it has many other uses. It’s here to stay, and will disrupt every industry, including governance. Bitcoin ATMs are an easy on/off ramp, since due to regulations in the US it’s very hard to get bitcoin today. If you look at all the companies (including all banks) that are looking into utilizing this technology, I think you may want to rethink your view. Santander Bank alone will save $20 bill..>> view originalNRA Has a Message for the New York Times: “We're Coming for You”
The National Rifle Association (NRA) headquarters is seen March 14, 2013, in Fairfax, Virginia. AFP/Getty Images The National Rifle Association issued a warning to the New York Times and its journalists in the group's latest provocative recruitment video. “We're going to laser-focus on your so-called 'honest pursuit of truth.' In short, we're coming for you,” spokeswoman Dana Loesch says in the video. “Consider this a shot across your proverbial bow.” In the video published by the NRA, ..>> view originalMinnesota Mosque Hit by Early-Morning Explosion
In a news conference, Mohamed Omar, the executive director of the mosque, said the explosion had occurred “in the direction of the imam’s room.” He said one member of the congregation immediately ran outside to see what had happened, and “saw a truck fleeing from the parking lot.”While the police had not determined a motive, community members and interfaith leaders of various congregations responded to the episode as yet another attack on a Muslim place of worship.“We’re here all together in o..>> view originalThe three things you need to know today in New York: Sun August 6
1. The best new restaurant that just opened last month in New York is Sen Sakana. Find it in midtown and eat all the Japanese and Peruvian fusion fare. 2. Go play Wes Anderson Bingo at Videology this evening. The event is based on The Royal Tenenbaums, and it starts at 5:15pm. 3. It’s the International Day of Friendship, and there’s a free festival at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza. Head over at 1pm for live music and more. For more events, check in with Time Out throughout the day. ..>> view originalGetting to the bottom of an impossible-to-believe catch
In the 1946 cinematic masterpiece, “Baseball Bugs” — a tale of the downtrodden rescued and redeemed — the Gashouse Gorillas are destroying the Tea Totallers. It is a mismatch of biblical measure and deliverance, as the uncouth, unruly and unshaven Gashouse brutes score run after run — one inning forming a conga-line around the base paths while advancing to conga music — to take a 95-0 lead. Enter Bugs Bunny, who plays all nine positions and leads a stunning comeback — even striking out three Go..>> view original
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Hurricane Irma Devastates Caribbean and Heads Toward Florida and other top stories.
Hurricane Irma Devastates Caribbean and Heads Toward Florida
How is it possible, they wanted to know, that a hurricane that had passed at a safe distance and hardly claimed a shingle could leave so many in the dark? Puerto Rico’s plunge into darkness has been long coming. In July, the huge, government-owned power authority defaulted on a deal to restructure $9 billion in debt, effectively declaring bankruptcy.It has neither modernized nor kept up with maintenance. Trees have gone untrimmed, poles unattended. (The electric company did not respond to repea..>> view originalNew York's Mayoral Race
Photo Mayor Bill de Blasio and mayoral candidate Sal Albanese participate in the first debate for the Democratic mayoral primary race in New York last month. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times To the Editor:“Why the Race for Mayor Looks So Sad” (editorial, Aug. 26) laid some of the blame for this year’s “uninspired” mayoral race on New York City’s debate law, which was enacted to require candidates who receive public matching funds to stand before the voters and ..>> view originalHudson Rail Tunnel Is Focus of Meeting Between Trump and State ...
Representative Peter King, Republican of New York, said in an interview that the meeting “could not have been more positive.” He added that the only specific numbers discussed were a $30 billion price tag and a 50-50 split between the federal government and the states in picking up those costs, which has been a point of contention in the past.The meeting came one day after Mr. Trump had sided with Mr. Schumer in agreeing to a package to provide money for Hurricane Harvey relief, fund the govern..>> view originalNearly A Dozen Sharks Found Swimming In New York Home's ...
It couldn’t have been fishier. A recent search of a New York home’s basement led to the discovery of more than half a dozen sharks swimming inside of an above ground pool, conservation authorities announced Wednesday. In all, seven live sandbar sharks, as well as two dead leopard sharks and one dead hammerhead shark, were found inside of the Lagrangeville property on Aug. 23. The home, roughly 75 miles north of New York City, was suspected of harboring illegal wildlife, the state’s Department o..>> view originalNo, Irma isn't predicted to destroy New York City
"Computer models show Irma destroying New York City on Sept. 10." — Bloggers on Tuesday, September 5th, 2017 in an Internet post No, Irma isn't predicted to destroy New York City By Manuela Tobias on Thursday, September 7th, 2017 at 12:40 p.m. A story on NewsPunch.com claiming Hurricane Irma will destroy New York City is fake news. A post on NewsPunch.com claiming Hurricane Irma will destroy New York City is fake news. The Sept. 5, 2017, post said Irma was on a path to ..>> view originalSchool Lunch Without Shame
New York City’s public school system set an important national example this week when it made free lunch available to all of its 1.1 million students regardless of income level. The program ensures that more children will get proper nutrition during the school day. It will also relieve the sense of stigma and shame that often leads children to refuse subsidized meals — and go hungry — rather than let classmates find out that their families are poor.Three quarters of New York City schoolchildren..>> view originalEnergized Trump Sees Bipartisan Path, at Least for Now
For one day, though, the two sides sought to put months of acrimony behind them. “I think we will have a different relationship than we’ve been watching over the last number of years. I hope so,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House. “I think that’s a great thing for our country. And I think that’s what the people of the United States want to see. They want to see some dialogue. They want to see coming together to an extent.” Photo One area of possible agreement could be a proposal adva..>> view originalAmazon Plans Second Headquarters, Opening a Bidding War ...
But Amazon executives have talked internally and with outsiders in recent years about how much more of the company’s hyper-growth Seattle would be able to handle. Housing prices here are skyrocketing, the competition for tech industry talent is getting more fierce and traffic chokes the roads. Amazon Is Trying to Do (and Sell) Everything The company’s $13.4 billion deal for Whole Foods is the latest signal of Amazon’s ambitions to have a hold on ..>> view originalHurricane Irma impact being felt in New York area
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The impact of Hurricane Irma is being felt in the New York area by both visitors here and by those with loved ones in the Caribbean."I'm hurting inside. It is so painful. I have been crying every day. I'm not sleeping well," Lisa Willis, a U.S. Virgin Islands resident, said. Willis was vacationing here in New York with her husband and son when Irma struck. After days of watching the monster storm approach, they have no idea if their home and business in the U.S. Virgin Is..>> view originalMexico Rocked by Earthquake Called Its Strongest in a Century
The effects were also felt in Guatemala, where at least one person died and homes along the border with Mexico were leveled. Photo Damage to a building in Oaxaca, Mexico, after the earthquake late Thursday. Credit Mario Arturo Martinez/European Pressphoto Agency Schools in at least 10 Mexican states and in Mexico City were closed on Friday as the president ordered an immediate assessment of the damage nationwide. In the hours after the quake, the National Seismological S..>> view original
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Thursday, October 19, 2017
New York City's hotel industry links Airbnb to terror in harsh ad and other top stories.
New York City's hotel industry links Airbnb to terror in harsh ad
ALBANY — New York City's hotel industry is set to deliver its harshest attack yet on Airbnb. An ad set to begin airing Monday raises security concerns about the ...>> view originalFood From Around the World, Homegrown in New York
This summer, the Parks Department’s GreenThumb program — the nation’s largest community garden program — has grown to 553 gardens, up from 501 in 2009. Most of the gardens sit on city-owned or other public property, and are maintained by community groups and a dedicated corps of 20,000 volunteer gardeners. Photo A pepper plant at the United We Stand Community Garden. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times In many neighborhoods, community gardens have fiercely loyal ..>> view originalNew York Today: The Greenest Block in Brooklyn
“It boils down to people more than plants,” Ms. Browne said. “It’s where you get that tangible sense of love. Which block really felt the most unified? Where is that sense of community really most palpable? That’s urban resilience right there.”There are three rounds of judging over the summer conducted by horticulturists, volunteers, and trustees and leaders of the botanic garden, who begin by giving each block a score to determine the finalists. After roughly 150 blocks were carefully reviewed..>> view originalVenezuela Vote Marred by Violence, Including Candidate's Death
“If these other countries don’t recognize Venezuela as a democracy, it will be hard for them to look like a legitimate power,” said David Smilde, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group. Mr. Smilde mentioned a list of consequences that such isolation could entail, from access to bank loans to straining diplomatic ties with its largest neighbors.One candidate for the constituent assembly, José Félix Pineda, a 39-year-old lawyer, was killed in his home ..>> view originalAuthorities Capture Alligator Roaming Around Upstate NY Town
WHITNEY POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities in upstate New York have captured an alligator that got loose. According to Animal Adventure Park, New York state Department of Environmental Conservation crews captured the renegade reptile Saturday behind the fairgrounds in rural Whitney Point. Sightings of the alligator were first reported July 22. Officials say the alligator is 3 feet, 3 inches long. They believe it's someone's pet. The alligator will be quarantined and then permanently place..>> view originalNew York Man Dies Swimming at Massachusetts Waterfall
MOUNT WASHINGTON, Mass. (AP) — The body of a New York man who went missing after slipping off a rock at a picturesque Massachusetts waterfall has been located, but authorities are unable to recover it. Authorities say the body of 21-year-old Aiden Campion-Pratt was located Sunday afternoon at Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington. The Ghent, New York man went missing while swimming at the state park Friday evening. Berkshire District Attorney David Capeless says the body was located wit..>> view originalWhy 'The Big Sick' resonates in the Big Apple
He’s a struggling stand-up comic, Pakistani-American, Muslim. She’s a graduate student, a white American from the South. They meet in Chicago and fall in love. That’s the plot of “The Big Sick,” a hit movie this summer, a theme as old as Romeo and Juliet and as contemporary as “My Big, Fat Greek Wedding.” The film raises the question: How realistic is such cross-cultural love? In New York — where the film’s plot eventually takes the characters — very. In the film, Kumail Nanjiani (who plays him..>> view originalPutin's Bet on a Trump Presidency Backfires Spectacularly
But it is unclear how much the announcement will affect day-to-day relations. While the Russian news media said 755 diplomats would be barred from working, and presumably expelled, there do not appear to be anything close to 755 American diplomats working in Russia.That figure almost certainly includes Russian nationals working at the embassy, usually in nonsensitive jobs. (A 2013 State Department inspector general’s report, the last concrete numbers publicly available, said there were 934 “loc..>> view originalSEE IT: Kevin Hart is reaching for the moon — and running the New ...
The actor and comedian announced over the weekend that he'll be running the New York City Marathon in November. “I want to talk about moonshots. What is ...>> view originalMTV Mines the Past for Its Future: 'Total Request Live'
“If we’re going to come back and reinvent MTV, the studio is a given,” he said. “It is the centerpiece.”It is also the centerpiece in what Mr. McCarthy believes is the beginning of MTV’s comeback. Though many observers say that is a long shot, there have been encouraging signs in recent weeks.Ratings for MTV’s core audience — 18- to 34-year-olds — went up in June and July, the first time the network has experienced back-to-back months of ratings growth in four years.So far, those gains have com..>> view original
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