Bill de Blasio

The American entrepreneur Elon Musk announced through Twitter that he had received "oral approval from the government" to build a super-fast transport link between New York and Washington to cut travel time between the two cities to about 29 minutes, Reuters reported.

At the moment, Amtrak's "Asella" high-speed train takes the distance of 355 kilometers for nearly three hours.

Winter Storm Stella lashed the northeastern United States with sleet and snow on March 14, cancelling thousands of flights, closing schools and shutting stores, knocking out electricity to 200,000 customers but New York and Washington escaped the worst of the weather.

Led by women in pink "pussy hats," hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of Washington and other cities in the United States on Jan. 21 in a massive outpouring of defiant opposition to America's hardline new president, Donald Trump.

Nearly 100,000 indignant citizens of New York petitioned to have Melania Trump leave the city after an announcement first came out that the First Lady-elect intended to stay there until her son finishes out the school year.

Gone are the days when there were only two genders, male and female. Now there are 31 — at least there are in New York City, where it is illegal to discriminate against anyone on account of their sex — male, female or “something else entirely.”

New York authorities said Sept. 19 that they are seeking a 28-year-old man in connection with a bombing in the city over the weekend that injured 29 people.

Police and the FBI released a photo of Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan origin, saying he was "wanted" for questioning in the explosion on the night of Sept. 17 in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York.  

An explosion rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood and injured 29 people, and a suspicious device discovered blocks away was safely removed early Sept. 18. The city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, ruled out any terror connections, but called the blast an "intentional act."

An explosion has left twenty-nine people hurt, none of them critically, but one seriously, New York officials say.

A second device has been found by police in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where the incident took place, according to CNN.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is quoted as saying no known terror link has been established.

An explosion in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night has left 29 people injured, according to the New York police commissioner. The force of the blast blew-out windows and could be heard several blocks away. None of the injuries is life-threatening but one is serious, New York’s fire Commissioner said.

BELGRADE – It has been officially confirmed that the fire which engulfed the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan during the Easter holidays was not started deliberately, Serbia’s Consul General in New York Mirjana Zivkovic told the national broadcaster RTS after talking with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday evening. Zivkovic