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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A 12-year-old boy is in hospital and the SIU are investigating after he was shot at …
Read More »Mayhem mars Knicks euphoria as New York City celebrates first NBA championship in 53 years
It was bedlam on Broadway as the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night, with exuberant celebrations marred by mayhem and violence, including a shooting in Times Square. Outside Madison Square Garden, a crowd watching on a big screen roared as the Knicks …
Read More »U.S. rights group sues New York Times, claiming discrimination against a white man
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A U.S. federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit on Tuesday against the New York …
Read More »Girl, 6, dead after falling from bedroom window in North York, police say
Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Toronto police say they are investigating after a six-year-old girl fell to her death from a …
Read More »Rex Heuermann admits to killing 8 women in New York state
A Manhattan-based architect who led a secret life as a serial killer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings. Rex Heuermann, 62, entered the pleas in a courtroom packed with reporters …
Read More »Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro appears in New York court on drugs, weapons charges
Caracas is “slowly going back to normal,” said Venezuelan journalist Lila Vanorio. Speaking to CBC from the capital city, Vanorio said that aside from a large display of police and military around the country’s parliament for interim president Delcy Rodriguez’s oath-taking ceremony, there is little now that appears out of …
Read More »Zohran Mamdani sworn in as New York City mayor at historic subway station
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office …
Read More »New York trial of accused Indian hit squad member delayed
The murder-for-hire trial of a man accused of planning assassinations for the Indian government in New York has been delayed. The trial of alleged drugs-and-arms smuggler Nikhil (Nick) Gupta was due to start on Monday in New York City. Gupta is charged with conspiring with officials in the Indian government …
Read More »New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules
News organizations including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a U.S. Defence Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon. Those outlets say the policy …
Read More »Trump launches $15B US defamation lawsuit against The New York Times
U.S. President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday, according to court documents. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida names several articles and one book written by two of the publication’s journalists and published …
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