The New York doctor has been upgraded from serious to a stable condition. A woman in Oregon with a sustained temperate of 102 degrees is isolated and being tested for Ebola and other possible diseases.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton promised a top-to-bottom review of police training and practices following the Eric Garner chokehold death in Staten Island in July. Activists spoke out before a hearing saying the focus was on the wrong matters - police conduct and policy need reform.
Primary elections were held in five northeastern states on Tuesday. In four states, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, voters chose candidates to compete in gubernatorial races.
Following the death of Eric Garner during a police arrest, the NYPD Commissioner promised an up-and-down review of police practices and procedures. The City Council held a hearing on Monday about those plans.
Earlier this month, Argentina was pushed into default when a court ruling blocked interest payments of $539 million to some of the country's restructured bondholders. The ICMA, a group of banks and investors, released new standards aimed at reducing the ability of predatory funds and holdout investors to undermine debt restructuring.
A senior elected New York official, Public Advocate Trish James, advocated on Monday for a pilot program of police using body worn cameras because of the increased scrutiny and concern about police misconduct and released a policy study about the pilot.
Met Opera Unions contracts sunset at midnight on Thursday. As negotiations continue, the Met brought in a federal monitor. Stagehands moved their tools out not knowing if there would be a lockout Friday as the Met had proposed.
Update on the situation in Gaza following the two week offensive by Israeli forces and the Obama Administration, United Nations and Peace Groups calling for ceasefire.
At a White House press conference on Friday, President Barack Obama delivered a statement on the airliner disaster in Ukraine. "This was a global tragedy," Obama said. "An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies filled with citizens from many countries, so there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened."
The first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, in her keynote address at the League of United Latin American Citizens luncheon on Thursday in New York, emphasized education as a tool of empowerment to lift up the Latino community. Her latest initiative, Reach Higher, encourages young to people to seek education after high school, and it was a concurrent theme in her address.
At City Hall on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a hearing on legislation that would create a municipal identification card for New Yorkers.
A class action lawsuit filed in New York federal court Wednesday accuses The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., "the nation's largest direct provider of individual life insurance," of discrimination when it blocked the hiring of a legal immigrant.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Julian Castro as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Wednesday. With the 71-26 vote, the Senate made Castro one of the Obama Administration's highest-ranking Latinos.
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, along with other elected officials, announced the creation of a new merit scholarship program at the City's public colleges on Tuesday at City Hall.
To coincide with New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's attendance at the lunchtime 'Women for Cuomo' fundraiser, 75 environmental activists held a rally outside the Plaza Hotel on Wednesday. Except Governor Cuomo never arrived as the luncheon was canceled.
At the New York Academy of Medicine on Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the medical marijuana bill which allows legal access to non-smokeable medical marijuana for chronically ill or injured patients.
The League of the United Latin American Citizens joined forces with Tyson Foods on Monday and donated 30,000 pounds of chicken to Food Bank for New York City, a day ahead of LULAC's national convention.
Village Voice workers, members of UAW-Local 2110, announced in a statement released Sunday, they've ratified a new contact with Voice Media Group, averting a strike at the legendary news organization.
Scientists are studying the effects of climate change on a tropical forest, and have selected one of few United States tropical rain forests to undertake the work - El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an "unsigned emergency order" Thursday that exempts a Christian college from the regulation that provides contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The order drew a heated response in a 16-page dissent from the three female justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, who also dissented in the 5-4 Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Stores decision.
Eleven New York Public School students filed a class action lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State Thursday, claiming teacher tenure laws violated their State constitutional rights to a "sound basic education."
