By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan budget deal announced in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, though modest in its spending cuts, would end three years of impasse and fiscal instability in Washington that culminated in
“Have you heard!” “We’re going to the Bronx.” Great food, friendly people, and the largest skating rink complex in the world. “Of course we’re going to the Bronx, it’s the only place to be.” The New York City Council today […]
By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – Fresh winter snow moved into theU.S. mid-Atlantic region on Tuesday, shutting schools and offices in the nation’s capital and
BY JONATHAN KAMINSKY Sun Dec 8, 2013 8:08am EST U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after a ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva November 24, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/DENIS BALIBOUSE […]
By Jana J. Pruet DALLAS (Reuters) – Freezing weather gripped parts of the United States on Saturday, with hundreds of thousands of people in Texas andArkansas coping in the cold without power after a winter storm made roads impassable and caused severe flight delays. The Arctic […]
By Suzanne Roig (Reuters) – HONOLULU Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii coast have discovered a World War Two era Japanese submarine, a technological marvel that had been
At a time when the worlds attention is captured by the death of President Nelson Mandela, we in the Bronx remember Pearl Harbor and
By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bill Bratton, a veteran police chief who has led departments across the country, was named on Thursday as New York City’s next police commissioner, taking over a force credited with
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has begun a criminal inquiry into suspected child trafficking in the United States following a Reuters investigation which found
By Fredrik Dahl and Ana Isabel Martinez VIENNA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican police have found dangerous radioactive medical material stolen by thieves that theUnited Nations said could provide an ingredient for a “dirty bomb,” the country’s national nuclear safety commission CNSNS said on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican police have found a container that held radioactive material and which was stolen by thieves as it was being transported near Mexico City, the country’s national nuclear safety commission CNSNS said on Wednesday. The thieves […]
(Reuters) – U.S. shoppers visited more stores and spent more money at brick-and-mortar sites across Thanksgiving Day and “Black Friday” than they did in 2012 while online sales set records, data showed on Saturday. When compared with Thanksgiving on Thursday […]
By Sharon Begley and Roberta Rampton (Reuters) – The rollout of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law entered a critical phase on Saturday, the deadline for
By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) – With Bill de Blasio taking office as mayor in January, New York City appears poised for
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