A massive winter storm, dubbed a bomb cyclone, swept from the US East Coast on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possibly record-breaking cold.

Two explosions and a fire at a cosmetics factory north of New York City have left more than 30 people injured, including seven firefighters, authorities said.

A subway train derailment in New York City that injured nearly three dozen people and sparked major delays is being blamed on human error, not a track defect.

New York would release the state tax returns for Donald Trump and other New Yorkers holding high office under state legislation crafted by Democrats.

The governors of California and New York have said they will push ahead with aggressive climate change policies despite President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to boost the coal industry.

An Iranian baby banned from entering the United States for life-saving heart surgery under President Donald Trump's executive order will now be allowed to travel for the emergency procedure, officials said.

The residents of Temple Bar are a battle-hardened bunch of people. Some might well question their sanity for moving into the area in the first place.

A work train and a commuter train "side-swiped" one another, causing a derailment that injured 33 people, New York's governor has said.

A former aide to New York governor Andrew Cuomo was among five people who died when a driver lost control and struck two other vehicles on Long Island.

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A travel ban for the New York area was lifted but Washington was still at a standstill after a blizzard paralysed the north-eastern United States, killing at least 24 people.

A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the US East Coast to a standstill today, dumping as much as three feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travellers and shutting down Washington and New York City.

Fast-food workers in New York would see a super-sized raise under a plan to phase in a $15 (€13.66) minimum wage — the first time a state has singled out a particular industry for such a rise.

The relatives of an unarmed black man who died after being put in a white police officer’s chokehold said yesterday that the nearly $6 million settlement they reached with the city wasn’t a victory as they continued pressing for federal civil rights charges.

The two killers who cut their way out of a maximum-security US prison apparently used tools stored there by contractors before returning them to their toolboxes after each night’s work, a prosecutor said.

Two convicted murderers have used power tools to cut through steel pipes at a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border and escape through a manhole, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said.

Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants who became an eloquent spokesman for a generation of liberal Democrats during his three terms as governor of New York — but could not quite bring himself to run for president — has died.

Mario Cuomo, the son of Italian immigrants who became an eloquent spokesman for a generation of liberal Democrats during his three terms as governor of New York - but could not quite bring himself to run for president – has died.

US forecasters have warned of the threat of floods after a massive seven feet of snow fell in the Buffalo area of western New York state, killing at least 12 people.

A deadly snowfall that crippled a US state is finally expected to stop – but people now face the threat of massive flooding as temperatures rise through the weekend.

A nurse who says she defied quarantine on behalf of all healthcare workers returning from fighting Ebola in west Africa is clear and free to begin the next chapter of her life.

Elton John called Pope Francis "my hero" for his compassion and push to accept gay people by the Roman Catholic Church, at his annual Aids benefit.

A US nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released, officials said.

A woman who arrived in New Jersey on a flight from west Africa has tested negative for Ebola in a preliminary test.

Alarmed governors of New Jersey and New York have ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly Ebola disease in west Africa.

A doctor who returned to New York after treating Ebola patients in west Africa has tested positive for the virus - the first confirmed case in the city and America's fourth.

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The driver whose speeding commuter train derailed along a curve, killing four people, nodded off at the controls before the crash, it has emerged.

A commuter train that derailed in New York, killing four passengers, was travelling at 82mph as it entered a 30mph curve, a US government investigator has said.

A train that derailed in New York City, killing four people and injuring dozens more, was travelling at 82mph as it approached a 30mph zone, officials have disclosed.

A New York City commuter train derailed on a sharp bend yesterday, killing four people and injuring dozens more.

Bill de Blasio has become New York City’s first Democratic mayor in more than 20 years, running on an unabashed liberal, tax-the-rich platform contrasting sharply with billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s 12 years in office.

The state which rushed the nation’s toughest gun control measure into law after the Connecticut school shootings is carving out an exemption to make sure film and TV producers can stage running gun battles on Manhattan streets.

Thousands of gun advocates gathered at state capitals across the US to protest against stricter limits on firearms.

New York state politicians have agreed the first and toughest gun control laws in the nation.

The US vice president Joe Biden has begun talks at the White House with the country’s top gun lobby, which has fiercely opposed any suggestion of new gun controls.

New York has imposed a petrol rationing plan that allows motorists to fill up every other day as the city continued to feel the effects of Superstorm Sandy.