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Flames from the crash, which occurred shortly before sundown, ignited a string of fires on the ground in an industrial corridor adjacent to the airport, forcing authorities to halt airport operations through the night, according to officials.
2 hours agoIn New York City, Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the mayoral race, capping a meteoric and unlikely rise from an anonymous state lawmaker to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures. And in Virginia and New Jersey, moderate Democrats Abigail Spanberger, 46, and Mikie Sherill, 53, won their elections for governor with commanding leads, respectively. ...
3 hours agoWhile Mamdani's rise is dominating headlines, off-year elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey will be seen as even more critical gauges of the US political mood nearly 10 months into Trump's bruising right-wing reign. ...
1 day agoBeing part of a crowd of 50,000-plus runners when visually impaired or blind sounds like a challenge, especially in New York, where many participants have limited or no understanding of English.
1 year agoExpectations are low, no matter who wins the deadlocked Nov. 5 election, but it would seem that Asia cautiously views Vice-President Kamala Harris as the better option.
1 year agoIn an op-ed posted to the newspaper's website, Bezos argued that with trust in news media falling, steps needed to be taken to address accusations of partisanship.
1 year agoThe Los Angeles Times and Washington Post announced they had ended their decades-long practice of officially backing a presidential contender.
1 year agoA century after their ancestors were first recognized as US citizens, many native Americans said they felt cut off from the political process.
1 year agoA sign below the desk reveals its purpose: "This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to loot, urinate, and defecate throughout those hallowed halls in order to overturn an election."
1 year agoWith traditional hotels bursting at the seams, hourly rate motels came to the rescue of stranded delegates of the United Nations biodiversity conference.
1 year agoLula had already been forced to cancel a trip to Russia for a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging markets.
1 year agoFrom the early 1800s until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to forcibly assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including conversion to Christianity.
1 year agoThe new National Security Memorandum, which comes a year after President Joe Biden issued an executive order on regulating AI, seeks to thread the needle between using the technology to counter its military applications by adversaries and building safeguards to uphold civil rights, officials said.
1 year agoIn California, the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the dioceses of Oakland and San Diego have filed for bankruptcy to resolve similar abuse claims.
1 year agoAn Indian government committee investigating Indian involvement in the foiled murder plot will meet US officials in Washington this week, the State Department said on Monday.
1 year agoChina has deployed military and coast guard vessels in recent months in a bid to eject the Philippines from a trio of other strategically important reefs and islands in the South China Sea.
1 year agoWhile those living outside hurricane-prone zones may wonder why their residents choose to stay, it is easy to see Siesta Key's appeal, even after a hurricane.
1 year agoThe key to its success was inventing a currency to encourage collection: each 250 grams of plastic collected can be redeemed for a plastic coin, which in turn can be traded for a range of goods at a store run by the charity.
1 year agoLatin America's biggest economy is struggling with what Finance Minister Fernando Haddad has called a betting "pandemic," prompting the government to tighten the screws on the sector.
1 year agoThe Republican ex-president and Democratic vice president, locked in an excruciatingly close White House battle, have faced off just once, in September.
1 year ago“It’s harmful to those that need help,” Biden said of misinformation on the storm and the government's response.
1 year agoWith the storm coming ashore before high tide, Governor Ron DeSantis said he hoped the west coast of Florida could avoid the worst of the predicted storm surge.
1 year agoBearing six-liter bottles of water on their shoulders, members of Colombia's Indigenous Yagua community tramp along the dried-up riverbed of a branch of the mighty Amazon.
1 year agoHurricane Milton barreled toward Florida's battered Gulf Coast as an enormous Category 5 storm on Tuesday, triggering massive traffic jams and fuel shortages as officials ordered more than 1 million people to flee before it slams into the Tampa Bay area.
1 year agoBrazil's Supreme Court said Tuesday it was lifting a ban on Elon Musk's social network X, which was blocked in its biggest Latin American market for over a month amid a row over disinformation.
1 year agoJoe Biden and Kamala Harris condemned Hamas's attack on Israel a year ago Monday while pushing for peace in the Middle East -- treading a tightrope on a conflict that could impact next month's US presidential election.
1 year agoHarris' meeting on Friday comes on the heels of other efforts by her team this week, with her vice presidential pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, promised on a Zoom call on Thursday with Muslim voters that Muslims would have an equal role in a Harris administration.
1 year agoJuan Lopez, who campaigned against open-pit iron ore mining, was shot dead on Sept. 14 after leaving church in the northeastern town of Tocoa.
1 year agoBiden's warning came with lawmakers and analysts voicing concern over increasingly bellicose campaign language ahead of the vote.
1 year agoOne week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swaths of half a dozen states, untold thousands remained cut off around Asheville, North Carolina, with many roads impassable and telecommunications equipment damaged or destroyed.
1 year agoDemocratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Republican rival Donald Trump are locked in a tight race ahead of the November presidential election and some on Wall Street are picking sides. Here's what we know about how some of Wall Street's top bosses are leaning.
1 year agoSpeaking at an event during Climate Week in New York City, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state sued Exxon after concluding a nearly two-year investigation that he said showed Exxon was deliberately misleading the public about the limitations of recycling.
1 year agoThese agreements were signed in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on 3-day visit to the US for the Quad Summit.
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