Two girls were savagely beaten by a group of teenagers in Queens’ Kissena Park in New York earlier this month. The girls, aged 13 and 16, were ambushed, dragged into the woods, and assaulted with a baseball bat in what one relative described as an “execution-like” attack, as per a report by the New York…
A 59-year-old man died Saturday morning following an explosion aboard a boat docked on the Hudson River, The Associated Press reported citing authorities. The incident occurred around 10:30 a.m. while the man was performing work that involved flames or sparks, the US Coast Guard reported on social media. Emergency responders arrived after receiving a 911…
Representative Image (AP) LOS ANGELES: An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography. The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about…
The Trump administration plans to release audio recordings of former US President Joe Biden’s 2023 interview with Special Counsel Robert K Hur, who was investigating Biden’s handling of classified documents, The New York Times reported on Friday. The newspaper said the audio recording could be released as early as next week. Biden was interviewed at…
Image source: Live Science A historic satellite survey has found a disturbing trend among 28 of the US’s largest cities, such as New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Denver. Scientists from Virginia Tech employed the latest in radar imaging to map land subsidence, a slow sinking of the ground. Their results indicate that these large urban…
Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie in 2022 (Image: AP) The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in…
In a judgment that could help to shape how transparent the European Union must be on matters of public interest, judges on Wednesday said the bloc should not have denied a journalist’s request for text messages exchanged as a top official negotiated for coronavirus vaccine access. The ruling was issued by the European Union’s second-highest…
The New York Times has shifted its editorial tone, addressing the Pakistan-based perpetrators as “terrorists” in its headline following India’s cross-border strikes under Operation Sindoor. The front-page headline on its website read: “India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Terrorist Attack in Kashmir,” marking a departure from the paper’s previously criticised nomenclature. The coverage addressed India’s…
Upstate New York prison guard pleads guilty to manslaughter in an inmate’s 2024 beating death (Photo: AP) A correctional officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in connection with the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating at the Marcy Correctional Facility was recorded by officers’ body cameras. Christopher Walrath, 36, was one of…
New York lawmakers are considering a measure that would dramatically weaken their oversight over religious schools, potentially a major victory for the state’s Hasidic Jewish community. The proposal, which could become part of a state budget deal, has raised profound concern among education experts, including the state education commissioner, Betty Rosa, who said in an…