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Judge names nonprofit leader to help reform New York ‘stop and frisk’ policy

November 3, 2021 at 6:52 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday named the head of a nonprofit group to help the New York City Police Department reform its controversial "stop-question-and-frisk" policy, after...

Judge names nonprofit leader to help reform New York ‘stop and frisk’ policy

December 24, 2018 at 4:10 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday named the head of a nonprofit group to help the New York City Police Department reform its controversial "stop-question-and-frisk" policy, after...

Elderly son of heiress Brooke Astor to plea for parole

August 24, 2021 at 2:23 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brooke Astor's 89-year-old son, in prison for swindling his late philanthropist mother, is slated to appear before the New York State Parole Board this week to...

New York City mayor says fingerprints should be used to access public housing

August 24, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that fingerprint technology should be used to admit residents to city-run housing projects as a way of...

Rare Sumatran tiger cubs born at Washington, D.C., zoo

August 24, 2021 at 2:07 p.m.

(Reuters) - A pair of rare Sumatran tiger cubs has been born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., under a program designed to help the species survive. "This...

Rare Sumatran tiger cubs born at Washington, D.C., zoo

August 22, 2019 at 9:07 a.m.

(Reuters) - A pair of rare Sumatran tiger cubs has been born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., under a program designed to help the species survive. "This...

North Carolina attorney and rights activist Julius Chambers dies at 76

August 24, 2021 at 1:51 p.m.

(Reuters) - Julius Chambers, a North Carolina attorney who helped to shape U.S. civil rights law, died aged 76 on Friday after battling declining health, the National Association for the...

In New York mayor race, lesbian candidate struggles to win women’s vote

August 24, 2021 at 1:52 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - At Cubbyhole, a popular New York lesbian bar, for every two revelers who praised City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, in her race to become the city's...

The sun sets behind the New York skyline.

Railing buckles sending ad exec plunging to death

November 3, 2021 at 6:39 p.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 35-year-old advertising executive plunged to her death from the balcony of her 17th-floor New York City apartment after the railing buckled, police said. Jennifer Rosoff...

Railing buckles sending ad exec plunging to death

December 24, 2018 at 3:32 a.m.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 35-year-old advertising executive plunged to her death from the balcony of her 17th-floor New York City apartment after the railing buckled, police said. Jennifer Rosoff...

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