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Thursday, April 30, 2026 · 75 stories
City and state officials want speed-limiting devices installed in the cars of drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a year, in hopes of preventing injuries and deaths.
New Yorkers on Fordham Road said they liked the mayor’s decision to get personal with the uber rich. Fordham Road in the Bronx.
Police and fire officials brief reporters on the house explosion and fire in South Ozone Park on April 30, 2026.
That means the bill for firefighting aircraft operations this summer will likely rise by tens of millions of dollars. The Iran war has nearly doubled jet fuel prices in the United States.
And, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map was "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The Pentagon estimates the war with Iran has cost $25 billion so far.
Israel says it has been attacking Hezbollah infrastructure, but civilian infrastructure has also been significantly affected. In southern Lebanon, towns near the border with Israel have been largely destroyed by Israeli demolitions and strikes.
At least nine people - including two children - were killed, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
Axios reported that US Central Command has prepared a plan for a wave of "short and powerful" strikes on Iran.
Media tycoon honoured in absentia as critics decry his 20-year sentence under national security law The jailed media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has been awarded Deutsche Welle’s freedom of speech award for his contribution to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. The German public broadcaster said on Thursday that Lai would be presented in absentia with the 12th iteration of the award on 23 June at the DW Global Media.
So to tell that story of who they are, she started a gallery down the street called "I can't let go." Artist and resident Maria Lupanez is showcasing paintings of her friends and neighbors and capturing moments they've shared together.
The club is the focus of Alejandro Delgado's documentary "Low & Slow, A Brief History of the NYLBC." "No one cares what you do, how much money you have, your race, gender, anything," member John Goss said. A clubhouse that's the home base for the New York Lawn Bowling Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary ahead of its opening day in Central Park. Literally the grass was moved from Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan up to Central Park," Goss said.