Nation Dec 17 Snow continues to fall on Northeast U.S., with vaccines in tow Snow continued to fall Thursday during a key period in the coronavirus pandemic, days after the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign and in the thick of a virus surge that has throngs of people seeking tests daily.
Education Nov 18 New York City schools to close again as city fights virus surge New York City's mayor says he's shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus. It's a painful about-face for one of the first big U.S. school systems to bring students back to classrooms this fall.
World Sep 22 WATCH: UN chief says there's an 'epochal' crisis as world powers meet remotely Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the U.N.'s first-ever virtual meeting of global leaders Tuesday that the world is facing an "epochal" health crisis, the biggest economic calamity and job losses since the Great Depression, threats to human rights and worries of…
Nation Sep 11 U.S. marks 9/11 anniversary at tributes shadowed by virus Americans are commemorating 9/11 as a new national crisis in the form of the coronavirus pandemic reconfigures and divides anniversary ceremonies and a presidential campaign carves a path through the observances.
Nation Sep 10 In a year of social distancing, virus alters how U.S. observes Sept. 11 The terror attacks' 19th anniversary will be marked Friday by dueling ceremonies at the Sept. 11 memorial plaza and a corner nearby in New York. Vice President Mike Pence is expected at both remembrances.
Politics Sep 09 DOJ asks to defend Trump in rape accuser's defamation suit The Justice Department is asking to take over President Donald Trump's defense in a defamation lawsuit from a writer who accused him of rape.
Nation Sep 03 Rochester mayor suspends officers involved in man's suffocation death Daniel Prude died March 30 when his family took him off life support, seven days after officers who encountered him running naked through the street put a hood over his head to stop him from spitting, then held him down…
Education Sep 01 New York City delays start of school year to allow more prep time The development comes after de Blasio emphasized for months that the city's 1.1 million public school students need schools to resume in-person instruction this fall after a thorny plunge into remote learning in March.
Nation Aug 31 2 shootings, 2 days: In Kenosha, a microcosm of U.S. strife The police shooting of a Black man, followed by the deaths of two protesters shot by a white teenager, have made Kenosha, Wisconsin, a microcosm of a nation wracked over racial inequity, policing and public safety.
Nation Jul 22 Police in riot gear clear New York City's 'Occupy City Hall' camp Police in riot gear moved in early Wednesday to clear a month-long encampment of protesters and homeless people from a park near New York’s City Hall.