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The Latest on an explosion hitting a crowded Manhattan neighborhood : 11:30 p.m. Authorities say FBI agents pulled over a car on a highway in Brooklyn and are questioning the vehicle's occupants in connection with the investigation of the bombing in Manhattan. FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser says agents stopped "a vehicle of interest in the investigation" at 8:45 p.m. Sunday.
A team of five FBI agents have searched an Uber driver's vehicle that had been damaged in the Manhattan blast, ripping off the door panels inside as they examined it for evidence. The driver, MD Alam, had just picked up three passengers and was driving along 23rd Street when the explosion occurred, shattering the car's windows and leaving gaping holes in the rear passenger-side door.
A Jewish Brooklyn artist has plastered the borough with "I Sit With Kaepernick" posters backing the now-famous protest of football superstar Colin Kaepernick. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback became part of a nation-wide controversy with his refusal to stand during the national anthem to protest racism and the oppression of black people in America.
Heartbreak for Florida grandmother, 65, told to tear down her tree house paradise where she's lived with her pet racoon for 25 years 'He choked': Hillary and Bill Clinton gang up on Trump for 'causing a diplomatic incident' during Mexico trip and acting weak for not discussing his wall promise with country's president 'She doesn't have the energy': Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton was too tired to campaign properly and doesn't have the 'stamina to bring jobs back to America' The moment Ann Coulter leaves Australian TV host speechless after she calls a fallen US soldier's father a 'snarling Muslim' Pictured: High-flying female college student, 22, and teenage boy gunned down at New York West Indian carnival as officials consider canceling annual event Fifth suspect in fatal shooting of Governor Cuomo's aide at last year's J'Ouvert festival is arrested in California Johnny Manziel ... (more)
The brackish channel at the convergence of the East River and Upper New York Bay separates Red Hook from the Financial District at the southern tip of Manhattan. Take the twenty-minute ferry between the two neighborhoods and you'll see just about all of Red Hook's several miles of waterfront.
Morristown, N.J. : Colin Kaepernick, civil rights crusader. Really? Now that his career is rapidly drawing to a close, now that he's secured his multimillionaire status and has essentially nothing to risk, he's standing up for a principle - or, rather, sitting down.
From Boston to San Francisco and New York to Tokyo, traditional bike lanes running alongside vehicle traffic are being replaced in favor of "protected" lanes or "cycletracks," where physical barriers like concrete curbs, planters or fences separate cyclists from vehicle traffic. "For 50 years, we've just been putting down a stripe of white paint, and that was how you accommodated bikes on busy streets," says Martha Roskowski, director of People for Bikes, a Boulder, Colorado-based advocacy group that's calling for better designed bike lanes.
Hillary Clinton's campaign is halfway to its goal of raising a billion dollars for the 2016 race, according to her finance director. Dennis Cheng announced the achievement on Thursday in a meeting with staff at the campaign's headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, according to a campaign aide who was present for the meeting but wasn't authorized to discuss internal campaign strategy and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The New York Times published on Saturday a detailed analysis of Donald Trump's business dealings and found that his real estate holdings are racked in debt and he owes money to some organizations he has consistently criticized on the campaign trail. The report into the " financial maze " of Trump's business dealings found that companies he owns have accrued $650 million in debt.
LIFE IS A BEACH: A beach goer plays with his dogs off of Hobie Island Beach Park on Virginia Key, Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Miami. Sandals mark the crime scene, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, not far from the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where the leader of a New York City mosque has been fatally shot and an associate has been wounded in a brazen daylight attack.
The men who gathered on the steps of the small, brown-painted Al-Furqan Jame mosque Sunday had a message for the authorities. "We want justice," Badrul Khan, the mosque's founder, said as a dozen men crowded beside him repeated the chant before a line of TV cameras, reporters and police.
A giant "T" is displayed on Sam Pirozzolo's lawn in the borough of Staten Island in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. Days after the torching of a giant "T" tribute to Donald Trump on a New York City lawn, a new, even bigger red-white-and-blue letter has risen on the same grass spot.
If you're going to vote for Hillary Clinton for president, don't do it because she's a woman. In fact, ask yourself: If a man had the same policy platform, track record and resume as Clinton, would you vote for him? Cue the onslaught of outrage from actress Lena Dunham, homemaking guru Martha Stewart and the rest of Clinton's plank of prominent campaign surrogates urging women everywhere to rally behind the first female presidential nominee.
Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate and a senator from Virginia, explained on Friday on CNN that Trump's mix-up of the two at a press conference earlier this week made him "scratch his head." "Her running mate Tim Kaine, who by the way did a terrible job in New Jersey - first act he did in New Jersey was ask for a $4 billion tax increase and he was not very popular in New Jersey and he still isn't," Trump said during a Wednesday press conference.
Now Hillary Clinton's own campaign is hacked: Democrats were warned they were a target in March but REFUSED to help FBI probe into cyber attacks Sources tell Reuters that the Clinton campaign, which is based in Brooklyn, New York, was the target of a cyber breach Justice department's national security division is now leading the investigation in proof that officials believe foreign state carried out attacks First leak also revealed anti-gay slurs, mocking African Americans and attempts to con reputable news outlets with fake Trump videos The computer network used by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
After being nominated at a 2016 Republican National Convention that featured speaker after speaker attacking former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , Trump was the subject of barbs from the Democratic podium. While there were no delegate chants of "lock him up" and no one suggested that Trump go to prison, his record in business, his rhetoric and his campaign proposals were bashed time and time again.
If you only read one thing: Good morning from Philadelphia, where there is a new boss of the Democratic Party. The moment the baton was passed was not when President Obama implored his faithful to secure his legacy by voting for Hillary Clinton.
President Barack Obama praised America's diversity and solidarity, and defended his record, while telling Americans to vote for Hillary Clinton. Obama was the final speaker on a Democratic National Convention night Wednesday filled with big names.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg would stick out in a crowd of New York's delegates to the Democratic National Convention. But tonight he'll stand in front of them to endorse their party's candidate, Hillary Clinton.