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.

Thousands of New York city police officers again turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral for an officer shot dead with his partner.

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.

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.

New York City’s police commissioner says the gunman who ambushed and killed two officers had made online posts that were “very anti-police”.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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Killarney jarveys, who have had major rows with the authorities in recent years, are fully supporting colleagues fighting a ban on horsedrawn carriages in New York.

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An explosion has destroyed two New York City apartment buildings, killing at least two people and injuring 17 others.

Actor Liam Neeson had the bit between his teeth when he chided New York mayor Bill de Blasio for wanting to shut down the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry.

RTÉ’s John Creedon has reacted to the neknomination phenomenon by asking his army of listeners to join him in an alcohol-free St Patrick’s Day.

At least nine people have died as a winter storm slammed into the north eastern United States bringing travel chaos as it dumped nearly two feet of snow in some areas.

A winter storm with fierce winds has struck the north eastern United States dumping nearly two feet of snow in some parts and whipping up blizzard-like conditions.

A strong winter storm pounding north-east America with stiff winds and punishing cold has dumped nearly two feet of snow in parts of Massachusetts today.

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.

IT was a bitter political defeat. Formerly a front-runner for one of the United States’ most prestigious offices, an emotional Christine Quinn accepted her failure to secure the Democratic nomination for the New York mayoral election, and with her vanquished hopes went the last vestige of the Irish grip on Gotham.