In the wake of the Orlando Shootings, this year’s Pride parades had an extra layer of meaning for those who attended.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The latest winter storm to hit America’s East Coast grounded more than 6,500 flights as hundreds of thousands in the ice-encrusted South remained without power.