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Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 73 stories
Iron Fence leading to courtyard of Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. The hospital is the oldest public hospital in the United States.
New Jersey state capitol in Trenton New Jersey's state Legislature is back in session after Labor Day. Republicans are pushing for bold action after noncitizens were registered to vote.
A draft report from the city estimates that 700,000 new units would need to be built over the next decade to meet the need for homes.
California has adopted the toughest new rules in the country that require homeowners to manage the plants around their houses. Fire experts say it helps protect houses from burning, but public pushback has been strong.
In the final hours before Wednesday's deadline, negotiators were discussing a deal that would reduce US tariffs on Canadian autos from 25% to 15%, according to a Reuters report citing anonymous sources. US President Donald Trump said he will delay imposing new tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods for three days as the countries firm up a trade deal. The two sides have been at an impasse on several issues, including US tariffs on autos and many Canadian provinces banning American liquor sales.
NEW SPRINGVILLE, Staten Island (WABC) -- A 19-year-old man was found dead inside a Staten Island apartment under what police describe as suspicious circumstances, prompting an investigation into his living conditions and the events leading up to his death. Investigators said the teen was found unconscious and unresponsive at 65 Elmwood Park Drive in the New Springville section of Staten Island.
Fernando Cerimedo, 42, arrested on suspicion of ordering shooting of Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller A senior adviser to many of Latin America’s new wave of far-right leaders has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the attempted murder of his girlfriend. Cerimedo’s lawyer, Ernesto Giraldes, said his client had not been not trying to flee to Argentina and had travelled to Santa Cruz.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said members of the Iran-based Mabna Institute had targeted the computer systems of 144 American universities and 42 private sector firms since at least 2013. The DoJ said Mabna had targeted the accounts of 100,000 academics around the world, and successfully compromised 8,000 professor email accounts at 144 US-based universities and another 178 academic institutions internationally. At least 42 US-based private companies and 11 foreign companies based in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden and the UK were also targeted, the DoJ said.
The helicopter crashed at 9:13am local time (06:13 GMT) on Wednesday while flying from the Loisaba Conservancy to the Ewaso Nyiro area in Samburu County, according to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, which said in a statement that an investigation was under way. Michele Sensi-Contugi and his wife Stephany Hollihan were among the seven people killed when the accident happened in Samburu county at approximately 09:13 (06:13 GMT) on Wednesday. US broadcaster NBCUniversal also said its journalist Jose Alberto Suarez – president and general manager of Telemundo 31, Telemundo 49, and Telemundo Fort Myers–Naples –.
Several African countries, including Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, have already struck deals to receive those the US cannot legally send back to their home countries. On Tuesday, the Eswatini government said two people who had been deported from the US to the southern African kingdom had voluntarily returned to their home countries: Mauritania and DR Congo. The government wants to emphasise that those being brought to Liberia are being received as guests," Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah said.