Top US diplomat Hillary Clinton is suffering from a rare blood clot in a vein in her head but should make a full recovery, doctors said Monday as she spent New Year’s Eve in hospital.
New Jersey voters on Tuesday formed impatient lines amid rubble and rotting rubbish left by superstorm Sandy as election officials scrambled to be ready for the US presidential vote.
Severe fuel shortages on Sunday threatened New York’s attempt to recover from superstorm Sandy as cold temperatures added to almost a week of misery exacerbated by flooded homes, limited public transportation and fraying tempers.
Americans mark the 11th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001 on Tuesday with relatively low key ceremonies that reflect a gradual dampening of passions around the emotional day.
Maurice Sendak, the author who introduced millions of children worldwide to mischievous Max and his monsters in “Where The Wild Things Are,” died Tuesday, his publisher said. He was 83.
The chance to get suddenly very, very rich – even a one-in-176-million chance – sent Americans into a frenzy Friday as the hours counted down to the Mega Millions lottery, at $640 million and still growing.
Extravagant firework displays lit up the skies from Sydney to New York in a global New Year’s party that saw millions set aside their world of worries to welcome 2012.
Time magazine named the collective “protester” around the world as its person of the year Wednesday, citing the change brought by street demonstrations from Arab countries to New York.
Tropical storm Irene barreled through the northeastern United States on Sunday, sparing New York city major damage but sparking widespread flooding in several states and claiming at least 18 lives.
NEW YORK – Hurricane Irene tore Sunday into New York, hammering Manhattan’s skyscrapers with fierce winds and threatening to flood the financial district after killing at least nine people along the US east coast. The first hurricane to hit the Big Apple for a generation swept in overnight, accompanied by lightening, reports of tornados and [...]
NEW YORK—A US judge on Tuesday dismissed all sex crime charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, drawing the curtain on a torrid saga that derailed the stellar career of one of the world’s most powerful men. Judge Michael Obus took just minutes to approve the prosecutors’ request to abandon a case they said had [...]
NEW YORK—New York congressman Anthony Weiner wept, backtracked, and admitted he lied Monday about extramarital online and phone sex with several young women, but refused to leave his elected post. Weiner called a nationally televised press conference to admit he had been in a string of lewd online relationships. Pressure had been building on the [...]
NEW YORK – Fallen IMF chief and French presidential hopeful Dominique Strauss-Kahn had some quiet time Sunday before he heads to a New York court to plead not guilty to charges that he tried to rape a hotel maid. In his luxury rental house in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood the 62-year-old French politician stayed shuttered away [...]
