The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox find themselves on the wrong side of ending a potential streak, while the Kansas City Royals and Toronto Blue Jays both look to end their postseason drought. How could this be?
New York City became the first jurisdiction in the United States to provide free legal counsel to detained undocumented immigrations facing deportation. New York City's Council passed the $4.9 billion program known as the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) after a "successful" yearlong trial.
The New York City Council on Thursday approved the use of municipal identification cards for undocumented immigrants in a substantial victory for city immigrant rights groups. The program will extend city services to an estimated 500,000 immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, thereby expanding access to services for undocumented immigrants.
He would have been the first Dominican-born member of the United States Congress, but for New York State Sen. Adriano Espaillat's Democratic primary election run for the 13th Congressional District, it was about policy, rather than being first in the history books.
Authorities conducted a huge raid at Rikers Island, New York City largest jail complex after months of investigating drugs, weapons and contraband being transported into the jail.
After decades of fighting for justice, the five men wrongly convicted of brutally beating and raping a female jogger in Central Park in 1989 have agreed to settle their lawsuit against New York City for $40 million.
On Monday producers of "Los Monólogos de la Vagina," the Spanish language version of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues," announced the play's early closing because of poor ticket sales.
King's College, a Christian liberal arts school in New York City's Lower Manhattan, announced on Friday that it will become the first college in the U.S. to accept bitcoin payments, starting this fall.
"A mojito is one of Cuba's oldest cocktails — it comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a little spell." — The Havana Journal. As history has shown, a spell has indeed been cast.
