Tag: New York

• Friday, July 17th 2026 - 09:47 UTC

  Canada wildfire smoke blankets New York, Chicago and Detroit days before World Cup final

  

  A dense cloud of smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada covered much of the US northeast and southern Canada on Thursday, sharply worsening air quality in cities such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto. Health authorities advised residents to stay indoors, three days before New Jersey's MetLife Stadium hosts the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina.

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• Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 01:22 UTC

  “I messed up”: harrowing ATC audio emerges after fatal LaGuardia crash

  

  “We were dealing with an emergency earlier and I messed up.” The air traffic controller's voice at New York's LaGuardia Airport sounds shaken in tower frequency recordings released through LiveATC.net, barely twenty minutes after an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck on the runway, killing the pilot and copilot.

• Thursday, March 12th 2026 - 03:08 UTC

  Adorni under pressure after taking his wife on Milei’s official U.S. trip

  

  Argentina’s chief of staff, Manuel Adorni, has come under political pressure after it emerged that his wife accompanied him on the presidential aircraft during Javier Milei’s trip to the United States, triggering questions over the use of public resources and a possible contradiction with rules the government itself had set for official planes.

• Friday, January 2nd 2026 - 10:34 UTC

  New York's first-ever Muslim Mayor sworn in

  

  Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated as the 112th mayor of New York City on Thursday, marking a historic shift in the city’s political landscape. The 34-year-old former State Assemblyman, an avowed democratic socialist, became the first Muslim to lead the nation's most populous city.

• Saturday, November 22nd 2025 - 10:04 UTC

  Trump and Mamdani agree to cooperate for the sake of New York

  

  US President Donald Trump met with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday, putting aside weeks of fierce public antagonism to promise cooperation on an agenda focused on affordability and public safety for the city.

• Saturday, November 8th 2025 - 10:42 UTC

  Milei promotes Argentina's business climate at NY event

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei concluded his trip to the United States on Friday, spending the day in New York, where he met with high-profile business leaders and made a significant personal visit to a revered religious site.

• Monday, December 4th 2023 - 09:50 UTC

  Congressman Santos kicked out of US House of Representatives

  

  Republican Congressman George Santos (NY), a compulsive liar who claimed his grandparents fled the Holocaust and allegedly used his campaign funds to pay for X-rated subscriptions, got no third time lucky on Friday when the House of Representatives voted 311-114 to make him only the sixth lawmaker ever to be expelled.

• Monday, June 12th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Uruguayan President off to NYC to collect accolade

  

  President Luis Lacalle Pou left Sunday for the United States to receive the Gold Insigne Award, given by the Americas Society Forum in New York.

• Saturday, September 10th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Poliovirus disaster emergency declared in New York; fears disease could spread to hundreds

  

  The state of New York declared a disaster emergency on Friday after poliovirus was detected in wastewater samples from Long Island, signaling growing community spread of the virus which can cause paralytic disease.

• Friday, August 12th 2022 - 21:08 UTC

  “Satanic Verses” author stabbed before a lecture in NY

  

  Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie, on whose head there has been a bounty since the 1980s for his novel The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed Friday during a conference in New York State.