The eight people killed in the New York terror attack were remembered with a night time walk down the riverfront esplanade near the scene of Tuesday's atrocity.

A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square should have been shot by police to stop him, a prosecutor said.

A man accused of steering his car on to one of the busiest pavements in the US and mowing down pedestrians has been charged with murder and attempted murder.

Canada’s prime minister has said a shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed five people was a terrorist act.

Thousands of people in New York were surrounded by tight security as they lined the streets for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

A 21-year-old Brooklyn man has been shot dead during a scuffle with two police officers.

The FBI and New York Police Department are assessing the credibility of information received about a possible al Qaida terror attack against the US on the eve of election day.

Jennifer Peltz in New York hears from 9/11 volunteers, police officers, and bereaved who mourn the loss of national unity along with the dead.

Police arrested and charged a man with murder over the fatal shootings of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque over the weekend.

The shooting dead of a New York City mosque leader and a friend as they left afternoon prayers is being described as a hate crime by shocked members of the community.

Two high-ranking New York Police Department officers have been arrested on charges they took over $100,000 (€88,830) worth of flights, prostitutes, lavish meals, and other bribes in exchange for providing a “private police force” for local businessmen.

He spared no thought for his safety during 9/11 and its harrowing aftermath, a recovery effort which cost him his eyesight, but taking part in the Blind US Open Golf Championship was a whole different story for former Irish cop Paul McCormack

Former tennis professional James Blake said he wants an apology after a case of mistaken identity led police to handcuff him and throw him to the ground.

The live-in boyfriend of actor Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter was charged with her murder yesterday, US police said.

ENGLAND: Memorabilia from the some of the world’s most famous films is going under the hammer at an auction held inside a cinema.

A man suspected of randomly attacking four people with a hammer in New York has been shot and arrested.

Pamela Geller said she planned similar contests.

A man wanted for illegal gun possession was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head while pursuing the suspect in his unmarked car, authorities said.

A forty-year-old Munster man has died in a freak accident on a construction site in the US.

Ireland overthrows King James II today - over 300 years after his death; Kenny: ‘Government has nothing to hide’ on sale of Anglo assets; and Tess Holliday is redefining the meaning of fashion. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

Before Hillary Clinton, 34 women have tried to become US president, including a daughter of Irish parents who ran 40 years ago, and a radical feminist in the 1870s, writes Bette Browne          

A 30-year-old man shot his hedge fund founder father dead inside his New York apartment after the pair argued over the son’s allowance, police said.

New York City’s police commissioner called for a “lot less rhetoric and a lot more dialogue” to defuse the tension between officers and the population they protect.

Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was being held for a policeman killed along with his partner in an ambush shooting turned their backs on New York’s mayor as he spoke during the service.

US law enforcement agencies are a long way from being able to effectively track threats of the kind a gunman posted on Instagram before his execution-style murder of two New York City policemen last weekend.

The Interview, the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, opened in more than 300 cinemas across the US on Christmas Day, drawing many sellout audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

The Interview, the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, opened in more than 300 cinemas across the US on Christmas Day, drawing many sellout audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

As the New York Police Department mourns two of its own, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for a pause in protests amid a widening rift with those in a grieving force who accuse him of creating a climate of mistrust that contributed to the killings of two officers.

US police departments and union leaders are warning the rank and file to wear bulletproof vests and avoid making inflammatory posts on social media in the days after a man ambushed two officers and shot them to death inside their patrol car.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio called for a temporary halt to protests over police conduct as he faced a widening rift with a force preparing Christmas time burials for two of its own and decrying the demonstrations as a factor in the officers’ cold-blooded executions.

A police officer shot dead in Florida was killed by a fugitive trying to evade a warrant.

The gunman who murdered two New York City police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred of police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included a suicide attempt a year ago, it has emerged.

A veteran Florida police officer was shot and killed while on duty early yesterday by a man described as transient, according to law enforcement officials, who gave no motive for the suspect now charged with murder.

US president Barack Obama has offered full support and federal assistance to the New York Police Department after two of its officers were shot dead.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has told US cinemas they can cancel plans to show The Interview, hours after hackers invoking the memory of the September 11 2001 terror attacks issued ominous threats against film-goers and patrons of the comedy.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have rubbed shoulders with Brooklyn royalty when they met Jay Z and Beyonce at a New York basketball match.

Civil rights leaders have condemned the decision not to charge a white New York City police officer over the chokehold death of a black man and are planning a march and a summit on racial justice in Washington.

The mobile phone video of the last moments of Eric Garner’s life showed a white police officer holding the unarmed black man in a chokehold as he repeatedly gasped, “I can’t breathe.”

Protests have erupted across New York and in US cities from Georgia to California after a white police officer was cleared over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

Boxing: Boxing history will be made in Cork on Thursday night when the New York Fire Department enter the ring in Ireland for the first time.

The militarisation of policing must stop in wake of Ferguson shooting, writes Joseph D. McNamara

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