If I hadn’t hesitated at a crucial moment, this column might be illustrated, today, by a photograph of me with the Fearless Girl statue.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has walked in New York's St Patrick's Day parade which up until recently had banned LGBT groups from marching.

The business of business is profit while the business of government is welfare, so why is it that for decades various administrations have relied so heavily on business to solve our housing crisis?

Investigators believe the blaze, the deadliest residential fire to hit New York City in at least 25 years, was caused by a child playing with a stove, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

At least 12 people, including a one-year-old baby, have died after a fire broke out in an apartment block in the Bronx area of New York.

IT is hard to know if the suggestion from New York’s mayor Bill de Blasio, that he might remove the statue of Christopher Columbus which has dominated Manhattan’s Columbus Circle since 1892, the 400th anniversary of the Genoese adventurer’s arrival in the Americas, is serious or not.

A doctor forced out of a New York City hospital over sexual harassment claims returned with an assault rifle hidden under a lab coat and shot seven people, killing a woman medic and leaving several of her colleagues fighting for their lives.

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.

Iron Man, the Hulk and Anna from Frozen were arrested for accosting tourists in New York City's Times Square, demanding cash and refusing to give them change.

All public schools in the Los Angeles area have been ordered closed after an emailed threat targeted students.

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.

With tensions in Baltimore still high, police said last night that a Fox News report of a black man being shot by police in the city was not true, and the cable news network quickly apologised.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio described a fire that killed seven children in Brooklyn as an “unbelievable tragedy”.

US cities from Boston to New York and Philadelphia are shutting down against a monster storm that could unload up to three feet of snow on a region of more than 35 million people.

A potentially historic blizzard could dump up to three feet of snow on a large part of the US north-east, the National Weather Service has said.

A potentially historic blizzard could dump up to three feet (90 centimetres) of snow on a large part of the US Northeast, the National Weather Service has said.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has said the snowstorm bearing down on the north east of the US could be among the worst the city has ever seen.

Four men are facing preliminary charges on suspicion of links to a gunman involved in France’s deadliest terrorist attacks in decades.

Three suspects were being questioned yesterday about the shootings of two New York City police officers responding to a grocery store robbery.

New York mayor Bill de Blasio said it was “disrespectful” for some city police officers to turn their backs to him during two funerals for dead police officers.

Thousands of New York police officers turned their backs yesterday as they watched mayor Bill de Blasio eulogize an officer shot dead with his partner, repeating a stinging display of scorn for the mayor despite entreaties from the police commissioner not to do so.

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.

Protesters who have rallied for weeks over excessive use of police force rejected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plea to suspend demonstrations after the killing 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.

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.

Prince William has confessed to US president Barack Obama that in the “chaos” of the maternity delivery room, he forgot to ask if Prince George was a boy or a girl.

Protests across the United States against police killings of unarmed black men have continued, with calls for nationwide dialogue and a “die in” in one city.

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.

Protests have broken out in New York City after a white police officer was cleared of blame over the chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes.

Thousands of people carrying small amounts of marijuana in New York City may no longer be arrested or face criminal charges, officials have said, marking a significant shift in how the nation’s biggest city approaches policing pot.

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.

Members of the gay community will be able to march in New York’s famous St Patrick’s Day Parade under their own banner for the first time after organisers said they were lifting a longstanding ban.

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ENGLAND: A tractor has been seized by police after drivers spotted it being driven along one of the country’s busiest motorways-

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