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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK, Dec 5  – New York City officials on Monday vowed to swiftly find and prosecute any and all hate-crime suspects after a man threatened to kill an off-duty policewoman wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf. “If anybody’s thinking in New York City about engaging in this type of behavior, just

NEW YORK, Nov 17  – A man accused of injuring 30 people in September when he set off a homemade bomb on a crowded New York street, as well as planting other explosive devices around the region, is due in federal court on Thursday to face charges. Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, is scheduled to appear

By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, Nov 16 – Finding affordable real estate in New York City can take forever. Just ask Gloria Steinem and other feminist activists who searched for decades before finding a building to house women’s groups. “We’ve been looking for a women’s building and hoping to find one for 40 years,” said

By David Ingram NEW YORK, Nov 15 – New York City police sought to reassure residents and tourists on Monday that they would be safe attending the city’s Thanksgiving Day parade despite the militant group Daesh calling on its followers to attack the event with trucks. The largest U.S. city has prepared for such attacks in the

By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK, Nov 2 – Smiley faces and images of food and cats designed almost 20 years ago by a Japanese phone company and used in digital messages worldwide have now attained the status of art. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has been licensed to display the emojis in

By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK, Sept 27 – New York City kicked off a social media advertising campaign on Monday to combat negative perceptions of Muslims and counteract increasing instances of threats and violence, officials said. Showing an array of photographs of Muslim men and women, the campaign reads “I am Muslim. I am NYC”,

By Joseph Ax and Mica Rosenberg ELIZABETH, N.J., Sept 21 – They dot the landscape in this working-class New Jersey city, popping up every few blocks with names like U.S. Fried Chicken, Royal Fried Chicken and New York Fried Chicken and Burger and giving immigrants a foothold in a new country. One of these fried

By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK, Sept 21 – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged the Afghan-born man suspected of weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey with 10 counts including use of weapons of mass destruction, portraying him as a jihadist who begged for martyrdom and praised Osama bin Laden. The suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami,

By Mica Rosenberg and Joseph Ax ELIZABETH, N.J.  – Long before Ahmad Rahami became notorious as the suspect in this weekend’s bombings in and around New York, his family was known in Elizabeth, New Jersey, for frequent skirmishes with neighbors over its fried chicken restaurant. Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in

By Alex Dobuzinskis Sept 19  – An explosive device left near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, blew up early on Monday when a bomb squad robot cut a wire on the mechanism, one of as many as five potential bombs found at the site, officials said. No one was injured in the blast