A 19-year-old man was in custody after a shooting at a California synagogue on the last day of Passover left at least one person dead and several others wounded, the city's mayor said Saturday.more
New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. It is estimated that New York uses 23 billion plastic bags every year with 50 percent of those plastic bags ending up in landfills and around the city and waterways.more
Increasing the number of visa applications from candidates meeting the requirements is crucial to qualifying Poland for the visa-free travel program. We encourage Poles who are considering applying for a visa or renewing it, to submit an application before the end of September - the US embassy in Warsaw appeals.more
Twitter has reported better-than-expected financial results, sending its shares surging, as Donald Trump accused the social media platform of "playing political games".more
Crowds of New Yorkers in fancy headgear and costumes participated on Sunday in the Easter Parade, which went through the representative Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The parade was accompanied by tightened security measures this year.more
A college philosophy teacher arrested after entering St. Patrick's Cathedral carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and butane lighters had also been arrested at a New Jersey cathedral this week and had booked a Thursday flight to Rome, the New York Police Department said.more
Only days after flames ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a man has been arrested after entering St Patrick's Cathedral in New York carrying two cans of gasoline, lighter fluid and butane lighters, according to the New York Police Department.more
Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly April 11 to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school.more
Donald Trump is expected to be given the honour of a state visit from the Queen when he next returns to the UK, senior Whitehall sources have said.more
The UK Government has spent £12 million of taxpayers' money to buy a luxury penthouse in New York for a British diplomat in efforts to woo Americans.more
Cristiano Ronaldo's Juventus will play the pre-season International Champions Cup in Asia and not in the United States amid the Portugal star's rape investigation there, the New York Times has reported.more
Facebook's Instagram is trialing a feature that lets U.S. users shop from the photo-sharing app by using a "checkout" option on items tagged for sale, the company said on Tuesday.more
The St. Patrick's Day parade once again kicked off in midtown Manhattan Saturday morning. Thousands lined Fifth Avenue - many decked out in green and shamrocks - for the annual event.more
The Boring Company, which Elon Musk founded in 2016 to develop the infrastructure capacity to build tunnels-presumably for projects like the Hyperloop-has a new project on the horizon. But it's not a Hyperloop. It's a "people mover" that the company could design, build, and operate beneath the Las Vegas Convention Center within the next two years if approved.more
Foreign leaders showered US President Donald Trump and his family with more than $140,000 in gifts during their first year in the White House, with China and Saudi Arabia among the most lavish givers.more
Luke Perry, who played the beloved Dylan McKay on the hit coming-of-age series "Beverly Hills 90210," has died. Perry, 52, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke, his publicist Arnold Robinson told CNN.more
The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, has come under fire from a leading food critic, a farming union and trade justice campaigners over his push to open up the UK to American farmers post-Brexit.more
Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched a rocket out of the Earth's atmosphere in a significant step towards reviving the USA's human spaceflight programme. The unmanned crew capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Florida bound for the International Space Station at 7.49am GMT on Saturday.more
The American start-up Veo Robotics intends to use lidar sensors to ensure the safety of people working in production halls with industrial robots. The company's first products are expected to hit the market in May - Bloomberg agency said.more
