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Nurses strike outside New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospitals

January 12, 2026 at 11:11 a.m.

Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes.

Fireworks light up the sky over the Sydney Opera House during New Year's Eve celebrations on January 01, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Izhar Khan/Getty Images)

Cities around the world welcome 2026 with thunderous fireworks and heightened security

January 1, 2026 at 5:54 p.m.

In New York City's Times Square, revelers braved frigid temperatures to celebrate with the famed New Year’s Eve ball drop.

Damien Browne, vice president of research and development for PepsiCo’s beverages, is interviewed at the company’s R&D Campus, in Valhalla, NY, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Gatorade and Cheetos are among the Pepsi products getting a natural dye makeover

October 2, 2025 at 12:23 p.m.

Pepsi has a new challenge: keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting.

A New York Police Department scuba team prepares to dive, Friday, April 11, 2025, where a sightseeing helicopter crashed a day earlier into the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Divers search for parts of a NYC helicopter that crashed into the Hudson killing 6

April 11, 2025 at 3:53 p.m.

Police and fire department divers are searching for the main and rear rotors of a sightseeing helicopter that broke apart in midair and crashed into the Hudson River between New...

A New York Fire Department Marine 1 boat departs from Pier 40, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York, across from where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)

New York City sightseeing helicopter plunges into river, killing 6 including Spanish family and pilot

April 11, 2025 at 8:21 a.m.

A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the...

A demolition crew takes down a house in Woodbridge, N.J., on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. The homeowner took a buyout through a program that purchases houses, demolishes them and returns the land to wild grass and trees to help absorb the water from rising sea levels due to climate change. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

In New Jersey, a slow-motion evacuation from climate change

December 23, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

Some neighborhoods in this town of over 100,000 residents just off the bustling New Jersey Turnpike are projected to be partly or fully underwater in coming decades as global sea...

Military vehicles sit alongside Route 293 near the site where an armored personnel vehicle overturned, killing at least one West Point cadet, on June 6, 2019, in Cornwall, N.Y.

West Point cadet killed, many injured in tactical vehicle rollover crash

August 22, 2019 at 11:11 a.m.

A vehicle loaded with West Point cadets on summer training overturned in rough, wooded terrain Thursday, killing one cadet and injuring several others, according to the U.S. Military Academy. The...

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