What New York Attack Suspect's Words May Say About ISIS Ties and other top stories.

• 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..

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• New 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..

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• More 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 ..

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• NY 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..

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• Investigators 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..

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• Why 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..

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• New 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..

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• DNAinfo 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..

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• 10 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..

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• Trump 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,” ..

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