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Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · 70 stories
Street safety advocates are pushing Mayor Mamdani to do more amid a spike in cyclist deaths. Four New Yorkers have died in hit and runs in the last week.
LLC owners who elude the Department of Finance could escape the tax and lower overall revenue from the tax. Mayor Mamdani's pied-a-terre tax has been complicated by the number of residences owned by LLCs.
Day-trippers flood the neighborhood on any given Saturday in the summer, feeding the local economy. The scene outside Brooklyn Crab in Red Hook.
AccuWeather forecast for NYC, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut NEW YORK (WABC) -- After a stretch of beautiful weather, changes are on the way as the tri-state area returns to a more typical summer pattern, with showers and thunderstorms expected Thursday, bringing the potential for flooding and damaging winds. An AccuWeather Alert Day is in effect Thursday, and the National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for New York City and much of the Tri-State area.
A 7-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy died in a Trenton, New Jersey house fire; at least 2 firefighters were injured.
Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs.
At least 157 people dead and hundreds of tourists among missing after roads, bridges and power plants swept away At least 157 people have been killed and hundreds, including large numbers of foreign tourists, are missing after flash floods hit the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and Tibet in China , police have said, with parts of India also at risk. Officials in Nepal said 403 people, including 341 from foreign countries including India, the US, the UK, Australia, South Korea and Malaysia, had been reported missing in the country. In Tibet, China’s state broadcaster said at least three.
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you Using the bathroom or having a cry is about to become more expensive for North Americans as the US and Canada enter a full-fledged trade war that threatens to flush away decades of peaceful trading between the two nations.
The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affected A fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. Families are often more likely to seek healthcare for a sick child than for an adult, particularly in a resource-constrained setting with a fragile health system, such as Guinea-Bissau.” Marks added: “Children have close physical contact with their parents and with each other, and in settings such as Guinea-Bissau.
Bird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife trafficking South African police have arrested two Thai nationals in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle endangered parrot eggs out of the country as authorities try to stem the tide of wildlife trafficking. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested at OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg on 20 August, carrying 50 bird eggs in a homemade.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the team had not revealed the extent of the injury. New York Giants wide receiver Calvin Austin has a torn ACL in his right knee and is expected to miss the season, according to a person with knowledge of the injury.
NFL legend Tom Brady's new CardVault store in Palo Alto, California, was burglarized, just one week after opening.