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Anthony Weiner announces candidacy for NYC mayor
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two years after resigning from Congress in a lewd photo scandal, former U.S. Representative Anthony Wein...
Senate backers of background checks scramble for votes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
Newtown gunman fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes
MERIDEN/NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school ...
NRA affiliate files lawsuit challenging New York's gun control laws
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association's affiliate in New York filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the s...
Judge tosses New York City's ban on large soft drinks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Monday invalidated New York City's plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants, movi...
Former New York mayor Ed Koch dies at 88
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died on Friday at age 88 after a year of repeated hospitalizations, a...
Giffords seeks $20 million for gun control effort
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX (Reuters) - A new gun control group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. congresswoman wounded in a ...
White House considers broader gun control
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is weighing a far broader approach to curbing U.S. gun violence than just reinstating ...
NRA breaks silence, pledges to help stop massacres
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Rifle Association said on Tuesday it wanted to contribute meaningfully to prevent another...
Obama wants to target gun violence, but how?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
Search for answers begins after school massacre
NEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - People in the small Connecticut community of Newtown grieved on Saturday over one of the wor...
New York, New Jersey put $71 billion price tag on Sandy
(Reuters) - New York state and New Jersey need at least $71.3 billion to recover from the devastation wrought by Supersto...
Obama tours New York storm damage, consoles victims
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama consoled grieving victims of Superstorm Sandy on the ground and surveyed disaster...
Gas rationing expands as Sandy, Nor'easter effects linger
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City drivers will wake up on Friday to the first widespread gas rationing since the fuel crisis...
Wintry storm smacks an already battered Northeast
By Daniel Trotta and Karen FreifeldNEW YORK (Reuters) - A wintry storm dropped snow on the Northeast on Wednesday and threate...
Government may pick up hotel tab for 34,000 Sandy victims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government said on Monday it had ordered the suspension of some housing foreclosures in areas hit ...
New York region struggles to move on a week after Sandy
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A week after superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City and the surrounding area, schools were set ...
In hurricane, Twitter proves a lifeline despite pranksters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy pounded the U.S. Atlantic coast on Monday night, knocking out electricity and In...
Death toll up, gasoline lines grow in monster storm's wake
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers awoke to the rumble of subway trains for the first time in four days on Thursday and the dea...
Obama hits campaign trail as storm cleanup gathers pace
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast...
Travelers, cargo stranded as airports, rails assess damage
(Reuters) - As rail, transit, airline and port workers dug through debris, dealt with power outages and assessed damage on Tu...
Sandy leaves unprecedented challenges for New York City subways
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The giant storm Sandy wreaked havoc on the New York City subway system, flooding tunnels, garages and ra...
Sandy leaves New York construction crane dangling in storm winds
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City evacuated neighbors of a nearly completed, 90-story luxury apartment building on Monday af...
Monster storm leaves U.S. East Coast crippled; 30 dead
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City...
Sandy strengthens as nears coast; Wall Street shut
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds...
Deal reached to resume construction on 9/11 museum
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A deal has been reached to resume construction on a National September 11 Museum in New York, Mayor Mich...
Americans mark 11th anniversary of 9/11 attacks
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Memorial ceremonies marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks began Tuesday under clear blue s...
Voters unconvinced on Bloomberg health measures
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two major public health initiatives pushed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a ban on the sale o...
Legendary Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown dead at 90
(Reuters) - Helen Gurley Brown, the legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine who helped usher in the 1960s sexual revolution...
Diabetes doctors: NYC big-soda ban is just a start
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Doctors treating the casualties of the global obesity epidemic say an unpopular proposal to limit so...
New York Mayor Bloomberg offers $9 million for ideas to improve urban life
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's foundation is offering $9 million in prize money to othe...
New York City official defends 'supersize' drink ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York City's top health official shot back on Thursday at critics who have blasted the city'...
Disney to stop some junk food ads on kids' TV, websites
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co, owner of the ABC broadcast network and a suite of cable channels, will stop accepting...
Exultant Giants fans celebrate with parade
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exultant fans of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants packed into downtown Manhattan for a victory pa...
Komen Struggles to Defuse Planned Parenthood Crisis
By David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's leading breast cancer charity,Susan G. Komenfor the Cure, struggled on ...
Throngs of Times Square revelers ring in 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Throngs of revelers in and around New York's Times Square gave a boisterous welcome to 2012 on Sunday am...
Baldwin Abandons Mayor Bid
Actor Alec Baldwin has given up his plans to run for the post of New York Mayor in 2013 after losing his "appetite"...
NYC police say arrest 'lone wolf' in bomb plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a "lone wolf" militant on charges of pl...
Regis Philbin says farewell to 'Live!'
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran talk show host Regis Philbin on Friday ended his run on the popular television program "Liv...
New York police evict anti-Wall Street protesters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement earl...
Mayor lashes out at Occupy Wall Street protesters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out at anti-greed Occupy Wall Street activists on Thursday ...
In politics, business experience rarely a winner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Herman Cain tout their real-world business experience...
Eight NY policemen charged in gun smuggling ring
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight New York City policemen were charged Tuesday with helping run a gun-smuggling ring in a city where...
9/11 memorial in New York opens to public
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of people visited the National September 11th Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center o...
Decade after 9/11, New Yorkers ready to move on
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The attacks of September 11, 2001 changed life in the United States forever, but 10 years after the deva...
New York City gets back to business after Irene
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City was slowly getting back to business as usual on Monday after Hurricane Irene but hundreds ...
Feds to help reimburse states for Irene damage
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds fr...
Irene rakes up East Coast, shuts down New York
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but...
NY mayor: Coastal residents should move out Friday
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers living in low-lying areas should think about moving out on Friday before Hurricane Irene hit...
East Coast readies for \'big, bad\' Irene
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - The United States urged 55 million people on its East Coast on Friday to prepare for t...
East Coast in Irene's path, scrambles to prepare
NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including the capital and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday...