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.

The number of ministerial trips abroad for the traditional St Patrick’s Day celebrations have been cut by two thirds this year in the wake of the collapse of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition.

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.

Authorities searching for two escaped killers who have been on the loose for the better part of a week have admitted they remain in the dark about the pair’s whereabouts.

Investigators are looking into whether civilian employees or private contractors helped two killers obtain the power tools they used to break out of a maximum- security state prison near the Canadian border, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo 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.

A couple of months ago we broke a story here about the GAA’s plans to cut funding to the Dublin County Board, something which even now is exercising minds in the capital.

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.

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.

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.

Residents have been urged to remain calm after a New York doctor, who had recently travelled to Guinea, tested positive for Ebola.

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An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit, hijacked the plane bound for Italy and diverted it to Geneva where he asked for asylum.

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 passenger train derailed in New York today killing four people and injuring 63 others as it came to rest just inches from the water, authorities said.

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.

President Barack Obama will reveal the details of how the US will address gun violence on Wednesday, the White House has said.

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.

More New Yorkers awoke today to power being restored for the first time since Superstorm Sandy pummelled the region, but patience was wearing thin among those in the region who have been without power for most of the week.

To see how the federal government has pursued money-laundering cases against big banks over their dealings with Iran and other countries under US trade sanctions, consider what happened when Barclays and the justice department were required to file reports describing the UK bank’s co-operation under a settlement in 2010.

Hundreds of gay couples recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates as New York became the sixth and largest state to recognise same-sex weddings.

After days of contentious negotiations and last-minute reversals by two Republican senators, New York has become the sixth and largest state in the US to legalise gay marriage, breathing life into the US gay rights movement that had stalled over a nearly identical bill in the state two years ago.

Republicans captured Democratic governorships in at least 10 states, including some prime presidential battlegrounds, and hoped for even more gains.

Three-quarters of the AIG top executives who got millions in bonuses despite the company needing billions from the US government to survive have agreed to pay the money back.

CAROLINE KENNEDY withdrew her senate bid because of a personal matter unrelated to her ill uncle, rejecting the governor’s attempt to get her to reconsider, a person who worked closely with her said yesterday.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer cruised to landslide victories in New York state’s Democratic primary day, turning back long-shot challengers on a night that produced a string of lopsided state-wide contests.

Sean “P Diddy” Combs has joined fellow rap mogul Russell Simmons and former US housing secretary Andrew Cuomo in calling for New York’s strict drug laws to be the repealed.