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Weakening Ophelia still poses a risk of coastal flooding and heavy rain in some parts of the US

Sep. 24, 2023 17:29 PM EDT

Nearly a day after being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia still threatened parts of the Northeast on Sunday with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City, the National Hurricane Center said. As Ophelia weakened, a new tropical...

As foreign minister speaks at UN blocks away, Venezuelan asylum-seekers strain New York City

Sep. 23, 2023 19:13 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Ysamar López stood beneath the old hotel's canopy, exploring New York City's unfamiliar streets on Google Maps and making a plan to set out into the rain. The Venezuelan woman arrived late the prior evening after a two-day bus ride from Texas capping weeks of...

New York City further tightens time limit for migrants to move out of shelters

Sep. 23, 2023 14:04 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Beleaguered by a continuing influx of asylum seekers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams is further tightening shelter rules by limiting adult migrants to just 30 days in city-run facilities — to help ease pressures on the city's already struggling shelter system and perhaps...

As the world's diplomacy roils a few feet away, a little UN oasis offers a riverside pocket of peace

Sep. 23, 2023 13:03 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Inside, with speeches and machinations and carefully deployed elbows, those who administer the world persist in their search for the elusive path to peace. Outside, on the wooded grounds of a place founded on the premise of ending conflict, sometimes they can find it. ...

At the edge of the UN security perimeter, those with causes (and signs) try to be heard

Sep. 22, 2023 19:16 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Pedro came to the U.S. from Angola five months ago. He works construction in the New York City borough of Queens. Kadija Tyler made the journey from Senegal to Harlem. She works in sales in a department store. Neither is a full-time activist. But they and...

Bus carrying high school students to band camp crashes, killing 2 and seriously injuring others

Sep. 22, 2023 05:52 AM EDT

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. (AP) — A charter bus carrying high school students to a band camp veered off a New York highway and tumbled down an embankment Thursday, killing two adults and seriously injuring several others, officials said. The bus was one of six in a caravan taking the...

Police discover bags of fentanyl beneath 'trap floor' of NYC day care center where 1-year-old died

Sep. 21, 2023 20:33 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The owners of a New York City day care center where a toddler died and three others were sickened by opioid exposure last week were hiding bags of fentanyl beneath a trap door in the children’s play area, police said. New York City detectives were executing a...

In chic Soho, a Hindu temple offers itself as a spiritual oasis

Sep. 21, 2023 13:26 PM EDT

On Broome Street, in the heart of Manhattan’s fashionable Soho neighborhood, a Hindu temple dedicated to the elephant-headed deity Ganesha is striving to develop its own sense of cool. Its location allows it to draw guest teachers such as prominent spiritual author Deepak Chopra, and devotees —...

Side hustles take center stage in paying bills for Hollywood workers on strike

Sep. 21, 2023 11:49 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Lighting for the entertainment industry is Ryan Meyer's lifeblood. Before the Hollywood strikes, he worked 40 hours a week or more as a gaffer or director of photography. He also has a company that usually earns more than a million dollars a year in production...

Editorial Roundup: New York

Sep. 21, 2023 07:28 AM EDT

Albany Times Union. September 20, 2023. Editorial: New York’s continuing marijuana mess The state failed to properly prepare for the legalization of recreational cannabis. Growers and retailers are paying the price. To say that cannabis legalization...