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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · 65 stories
The five plaintiffs, all currently or formerly affiliated with the university, said Columbia had failed to adequately protect them from harassment after the 2023 Hamas attack against Israel.
But had remained at their station houses nearby because the city’s heat emergency plan was active on Sunday. Lifeguards had finished work at 6 p.m.
The city and spurned development team suing over a decision to kill its housing plan, are due back in court Thursday. Elizabeth Street Garden in Little Italy.
Chuck Redd canceled his annual Christmas Eve performance to protest Trump's name being added to the complex. In June, a superior court judge dismissed the Kennedy Center's lawsuit against Redd.
Two Rabbis, who were in the room for the hour-long meeting organized by City Hall to discuss antisemitism, both said while Mamdani did not say it explicitly, he appeared mindful that he needs to do something different to improve his relationship with Jewish New Yorkers. She said she told Mamdani she agrees with his view that what's happening to Palestinians is "unconscionable," but asked if he could also lift up the Israelis and Palestinians who are working together toward a shared future. Mamdani has not yet commented publicly on the meeting, but Phylisa Wisdom, who heads the Mayor's Office.
FAIR LAWN, New Jersey (WABC) -- A woman is under arrest after a 47-year-old woman and her 5-year-old son were struck by a hit-and-run driver in Fair Lawn on Tuesday morning. Bergen County authorities say it happened at Broadway and Fair Lawn Parkway around 6:30 a.m. Officials allege that Salazar-Perez, who lives in Fair Lawn, was making a left turn from 32nd Street to Broadway when she struck the victims who were crossing Broadway within the crosswalk.
Flight from Victoria to Toronto forced to return to terminal after repeated attempts to secure child in seat failed A Canadian airline cancelled a flight from Victoria to Toronto after a child refused to wear a seatbelt. The child was standing in their chair as the 6 August Porter Airlines flight taxied towards the runway, the airline said.
The attacks come a day after at least 13 people were killed, including one child, in Ukrainian drone strikes on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, more than 1,100 km (680 miles) from the Ukrainian border. At least 13 killed in Ukrainian drone strike deep into Russia Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries. The Ukrainian president said strikes in Zaporizhzhia - which killed at least six and injured at least 19 - involved ballistic missiles from Russia's ally.
At first, we thought it was just a mild tremor like the ones that usually happen in Colombia, but when more than 30 seconds passed and everything was shaking harder, we realised it was an earthquake," the mother-of-four told the BBC World Service. The most important thing is life, and we have that." With at least 169 people killed, this has been the strongest earthquake to hit Colombia in the 21st Century, according to the country's Geological Service. Liliana Pérez Ocampo and her family escaped moments before their home was rocked by a 7.4 magnitude quake on Monday.
A Knicks fan wearing a Spiderman costume is seen after the team's historic comeback win against San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals Game 4. Queens boy Peter Parker is all ours, and he's all of us.