Coastal residents of New York and New Jersey faced fresh warnings to evacuate their homes today as a new storm took aim, a week after Superstorm Sandy left dozens dead and millions without power.

Life in the US north-eastern states hit by Superstorm Sandy was slowly struggling back to normality for many as bodies of the more than 90 dead continued to be found.

A mother returned home to her luxury New York City apartment building to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bath and their nanny, with self-inflicted stab wounds, lying near them.

A Bangladeshi man has appeared in federal court in the US to face charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida.

New York authorities have confirmed that all nine bystanders caught in the crossfire of a shooting outside the Empire State Building were wounded by two police officers who had never fired their weapons on duty before.

US police have begun the intricate process of disarming booby traps in the apartment of the suspect behind the Colorado cinema shootings, hoping to find clues to the motive for the rampage without causing an explosion that could destroy key evidence.

Investigators looking for clues to the motive behind a shooting rampage at a screening of the new Batman movie sought to enter the suspect's elaborately booby-trapped apartment today.

A Colorado suburb shocked and saddened by a deadly shooting spree at a midnight premiere of the latest Batman movie grieved for the victims today.

A lawyer for a man who police say confessed to choking a six-year old boy to death in a landmark 1979 missing child case said his client was mentally ill and had a history of hallucinations.

A man has implicated himself in the death of six-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children’s movement that put kids’ faces on milk cartons, police said.

New York police say a person in custody has implicated himself in the case of a six-year-old boy who went missing in the city 33 years ago.

Millions of dollars in White House money has helped pay for New York Police Department programmes that put entire American Muslim neighbourhoods under surveillance.

The New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at universities far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, it has emerged.

A US citizen and al-Qaida sympathiser accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York remained in custody today on terrorism-related charges.

An “al-Qaida sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as US troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.

THE Occupy Wall Street movement in the US has been heating up again — resulting in about 50 arrests in Boston and plans for a Manhattan “Millionaires March” to the homes of some of New York city’s wealthiest residents.

Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House yesterday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.

NEW YORK’S police department amassed a display of force yesterday, including checkpoints that snarled traffic, in response to intelligence about a car or truck bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

US counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

A man suspected of killing an eight-year-old boy has told investigators that he suffocated him before dismembering his body.

Troubled star Charlie Sheen left hospital today after police found him apparently drunk in a smashed-up New York hotel room.

A PLAN to build a mosque near the site of New York’s September 11 attacks has won vital backing from the city.

A plan to build a mosque near the site of New York’s 9/11 attacks has won vital backing from the city.

A New York City community board voted today for a plan to build a mosque and cultural centre near Ground Zero.

The Pakistani Taliban denied any role in the botched car bombing in Times Square but praised the suspect for a “brave job”, as New York authorities pressed him on his claims of terrorist training.

In the days before his failed attempt to detonate a car bomb in the heart of Times Square, the American suspect, who had recently returned from his native Pakistan, did a dry run, a law enforcement official said today.

THE Times Square bomber was arrested at the last minute as his flight out of America taxied to the runway, police have revealed.

The Times Square bomber was arrested at the last minute as his flight out of America taxied to the runway, police revealed today.

The Times Square bomb suspect was due to appear in court today as a massive investigation continued across the US.

Investigators have spoken to the registered owner of a vehicle used as a homemade car bomb in a failed attack in New York, US police officials said today.

POLICE found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square, authorities said yesterday.

The US homeland security chief has said there was no evidence that a car bomb planted in the middle of Times Square was more than a one-off event.

MUCH of the world turned green yesterday for St Patrick’s Day as Ireland pushed itself especially hard as a tourist destination amid the worst recession in memory.

A plainclothes policeman chased a conman through pavements crowded with Christmas shoppers and tourists in the heart of New York’s Times Square, killing the man after a gun battle.

FOUR men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two synagogues and plotting to shoot down a military plane were bent on carrying out a holy war against America, police said yesterday.

POPE Benedict XVI’s three days in New York pose logistical challenges beyond making sure that he is safe.

US government offices received letters containing a photo of New York City’s Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed. The words “We Did It," were written on the card.

THE Standards in Public Office Commission (SIPO) referred 13 files to gardaí for alleged contraventions of the electoral acts, including files relating to former Clare TD and senator, Madeleine Taylor Quinn.

Officers acted “within guidelines” when they killed an unarmed mentally ill teenager in a hail of 20 bullets, the New York police chief said today.

People in the US who quietly band together and adopt radical ways – not just established overseas terrorist groups like al-Qaida – pose a serious threat to the American’s security, a new police analysis has concluded.

Torrential rain blamed for at least one death flooded subways and railway lines and delayed flights at New York’s three major airports today.

Observant Sikh Vacher Harpal had never had his hair cut until an older teenager at his high school chopped it off in what authorities are calling a hate crime.

A CCTV camera in a New York apartment building has captured a shocking attack on a 101-year-old woman.

A MAN charged with trying to hire a hitman to behead the city’s police commissioner is mentally ill, and his threats were simply talk, his attorney said.