Author: Jennifer Peltz
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Jet collides with fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, 2 pilots killed
NEW YORK (AP) — An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others, officials said. The fire truck was crossing the tarmac after being given permission to respond to another plane reporting…
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Thousands of New York City nurses set to strike Monday if deal isn’t reached with hospitals
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at some of New York City’s biggest hospitals could go on strike Monday during a severe flu season, three years after a similar walkout forced some of the same medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances. The looming strike could impact operations at several of the…
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Charges are dropped midtrial in ‘Hotel California’ lyrics case. Don Henley plans to fight on
A prosecution centered on the ownership of a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to Eagles hits like “Hotel California” was highly unusual from the start, but its end is even more unexpected
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Jam Master Jay’s business partner says he grabbed a gun and sought whoever had killed the rap star
Jam Master Jay’s business partner has testified that when he saw the Run-DMC star had been shot in his recording studio, he grabbed a gun and went to look for whoever had done it
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Voting tech firm spotlights Murdochs in defamation suit
NEW YORK • A voting tech company suing Fox News is arguing that Fox leaders Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch played a leading role in airing false claims that the technology helped “steal” the 2020 presidential election from former President Donald Trump. Smartmatic said the Murdochs, as the ultimate authorities at the network’s corporate parent, “directed…
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Jury: Filmmaker Paul Haggis liable for $7.5M in rape suit
NEW YORK • A jury ordered Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis Thursday to pay at least $7.5 million to a woman who accused him of rape in one of several #MeToo-era cases that have put Hollywood notables’ behavior on trial this fall. The jury also plans to award additional punitive damages. Veering from sex to…
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U.S. urges world to tell Russia to stop its nuclear threats
UNITED NATIONS • The United States urged other nations to tell Russia to stop making nuclear threats and end “the horror” of its war in Ukraine as all three countries’ top diplomats spoke — but didn’t quite meet — at a high-profile U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday. Held alongside the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering…
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‘Our world is in peril’: At UN, leaders push for solutions
UNITED NATIONS • The world’s problems seized the spotlight Tuesday as the U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders opened with dire assessments of a planet beset by escalating crises and conflicts that an aging international order seems increasingly ill-equipped to tackle. After two years when many leaders weighed in by video because of…
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September 11 trials postponed again and again
NEW YORK • Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory yet against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks — the capture of a disheveled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, hauled away by intelligence agents from a hideout in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The global manhunt for al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader had taken…
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vana Trump, first wife of former president, dies at 73
NEW YORK • Ivana Trump, a skier-turned-businesswoman who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. She was 73. “I am very saddened to inform all of those…