The New York Police Department marked a 25-year high in gun busts last week as violent crime continues to plague the city, officials said Tuesday.Commissioner Dermot Shea, the NYPD's top cop, said 160 gun arrests were made between Aug. 31 and Sunday.“We hit a 25-year high in gun arrests last week, the most gun arrests we’ve…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. | Bryan Thomas/Getty Images NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio, faced in May with the task of monitoring the spread of coronavirus among a population of more than 8 million people, wanted community buy-in for his city’s mammoth contact tracing program to work. So he created an…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed Monday that the “heartbreaking” shooting death of a 1-year-old at a family cookout over the weekend is “not anything we can allow in our city.”The tragic death of Davell Gardner in Brooklyn on Sunday night comes as the Big Apple has been grappling with a rise in violence in recent weeks.This weekend alone, there were 28 shooting incidents and 35…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has canceled all large events and gatherings through September to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus — except Black Lives Matter protests. Mr. de Blasio put the kibosh Thursday on all street fairs, outdoor concerts, parades and other mass get-togethers until at least Sept. 30, saying “it’s…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…