Category: City Buzz

The woman is the second person in NYC to die in a fire this month — and the eighth person over age 70 to die in a fire within the past six weeks, officials said.

Grace Reiter breaks down the making of “The Hunger Games (but better),” the three-day, 24th-birthday production with her friends that’s now closing…

Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham is stepping down after 21 seasons in charge of the Utes.

The 14-year-old boy fell from the top of a southbound B train into the roadbed at the Ave. J stop near. E. 16th St. in Midwood around 4:12 p.m., cops said.

Shots were fired on Gordon Street near Laurel Avenue in Stapleton.

The New York City native died Wednesday morning due to complications from advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

Lifting export controls on Nvidia’s second-best chip jeopardizes America’s AI advantage over China.

Dr. Jeffrey Mai, a MedStar neurosurgeon, says Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe has “made extraordinary progress.”

Read about fantasy football booms and busts start/sit advice for Week 15, including Brock Purdy, Michael Wilson and more.

The action came as the US executes a large-scale military buildup in the southern Caribbean and as US President Donald Trump campaigns for Maduro’s ouster. | World News

Reddit filed a legal challenge seeking to either declare the law invalid, or exclude the platform from the provisions of the law

Two 20cm waves were observed in locations off the northeast coast of Japan before the advisory was lifted.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has also warned that tsunami waves of up to one metre (three feet) could hit the northern Pacific coastline. | World News

Driving around Tokyo blaring slogans on the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, ultra-nationalist outfit Taikosha only has around 100 mostly male, middle-aged members.

The quake struck the country’s north just days after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake in the same region injured 50 people.

The escalation broke the ceasefire brokered in July by Trump who threatened to halt trade talks with the two countries unless they ended the fight.

US President Donald Trump said that the United States is working “very hard” to stop the war in Ukraine.

Spain has received a surge of citizenship applications from descendants of emigrants who fled the country’s 1930s civil war and Francisco Franco’s dictatorship under a scheme aimed at addressing historical

President Trump has been racing to rack up peace deals — but keeping them intact is proving far more difficult.

The first episode of the Taylor Swift docuseries ‘The End of an Era’ celebrates her tour’s origins but finds her shedding tears over the threat of violence.

Special forces veteran Bryan Stern says he told US defence officials some of his planned route to reduce airstrike risk

She declined to give precise details about how she managed to leave Venezuela, where she has lived in hiding since last year. | World News

The singer’s tears over the Islamic State terrorist plot against her show and Southport attack make this behind-the-scenes docuseries about her world-conquering tour more moving than anyone could have anticipated

Britain’s King Charles III offered a rare update on his cancer journey in a video message on Friday evening, revealing that he has responded well to treatment and it will be reduced in the new year.

Iranian authorities arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Friday, her foundation said, citing her brother.

Mohammadi ‘violently’ detained along with other activists at memorial event in Mashhad, her foundation says

Nobel peace laureate says Maduro’s political downfall is inevitable after her fraught journey to freedom by boat

Ukraine’s special forces said Friday they had carried out an operation with a Russian rebel group that allegedly destroyed two Russian cargo vessels they claimed were transporting arms and military equipment across the Caspian Sea.

Ukraine’s troops hail advance, a month after Putin claimed town was ‘practically’ in Russia’s hands.

Controversies about the lethal strikes touch on intelligence operations | World News

House Democrats have released several photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.

The Continent faces a crisis, but not one JD Vance wants to admit. | World News

The Ukrainian president published a video Friday from Kupyansk in Kharkiv region, visiting Ukrainian positions less than 2 kilometres away from Russian troops and well within the range of Moscow’s drones and artillery.

John Mayer has finally reached the point where he’s “ready to settle down” as the musical Don Juan is said to be “getting serious” with influencer Kat Stickler.

“He left the bar to grab something from his car,” said a friend of victm Shariq Bryant who was with him that night. “He doesn’t deserve this.”

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New reporting from the New York Times reveals Andrew Tate’s release from Romania—where he faced rape and human trafficking charges—may have involved powerful…

Sherrone Moore, abruptly fired this week as Michigan football coach, was charged Friday with three crimes including home invasion and stalking a person he had dated, prosecutors said.

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The International Olympic Committee wants Russians to compete as neutral athletes, but each sport’s federation controls qualifying events.

Scott Bessent, secretary of the U.S. Treasury and pretend soybean farmer , is here to shake things up in the financial regulation space, and by “shake things up” I mean “get rid of all the …

He ain’t no mushroom. He’s a home run hitter. But he also strikes out a lot. He’s now with the Marlins.

Steelers pass rusher T.J. Watt had surgery to repair a partially collapsed lung, his brother J.J. Watt posted on social media.

Todd Bowles hasn’t been known for fiery press conferences over the years, but the Buccaneers head coach had one on Thursday night after his team blew a 14-point lead to the Falcons and lost for the fifth time in their last six games.

A series of photos selected from Sarah van Rij’s new book, ‘Atlas of Echoes,’ shows the photographer’s fascination with layers, collage, reflections, and the city.

Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins will not play against the Ravens, marking the second game he has missed this season while in the concussion protocol.

New York routinely issues commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that may be valid long after they are legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday and he threatened to withhold $73 million in highway funds unless the system is fixed and any flawed licenses are revoked.