The United States launched military attacks on Venezuela on Saturday, capturing President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. They were detained in New York after being flown out of Caracas. Hours after the operation, President Donald Trump said the US would run Venezuela until there was a “safe, proper and judicious” transition. 03:31 Trump pledges…
Whether they’re headed down the coast to Florida or just a state over to New York, people are ditching The Garden State and settling down elsewhere. In its 49th National Movers Study, United Van Lines explored the shifts in migration throughout the United States, revealing where and why residents are moving. Typically for Americans, the…
As he named a new schools chancellor Wednesday, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani reversed course on a key but controversial campaign promise: to end mayoral control of the New York City public schools. “I will be asking the Legislature for a continuation of mayoral control,” Mamdani said during a news conference in northern Central Park to formally…
A 73-year-old woman was viciously beaten by a stranger in a Harlem subway station elevator after the victim complained that the attacker’s young daughter was touching her, police said Saturday. Cops have released an image of the menacing mother in the hopes that someone recognizes her. The victim told police she was taking the elevator…
It’s too late for a white Christmas, but New Yorkers could be in for a snowy post-holiday weekend. City Department of Sanitation workers are on double duty Friday, as a winter storm threatens to blanket the five boroughs with as much as 9 inches of snow. According to an advisory from the department, snow could…
Runners taking part in various marathon events over the coming months – including the Road Scholars China Coast Marathon on January 11 and the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon on January 18 – have been out in full force on the streets of Hong Kong lately. A marathon is not an endeavour one typically approaches…
Hong Kong boasts the strongest institutional environment of any major financial hub but lags in growth and future readiness, according to a new index launched by New York University Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The inaugural Financial Centres Competitiveness Index (FFCI), unveiled at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, ranked Hong Kong fourth overall, behind New York, London…
For decades, New York and London have defined the flow of global capital. But while markets still chase short-term returns in US equities, the next great wave of productive investment is taking shape in East Asia, led by China’s financing, manufacturing and export of the clean technologies that are remaking the global economy. That contrast…
More than a week after US immigration authorities separated 6-year-old Yuanxin from his father during a routine check-in with ICE in New York, it has been confirmed that the child has been placed in the custody of the US Office of Refugee Resettlement. However, his location still remains unknown. The ORR, a federal agency within…
For American painter Spencer Sweeney, the artistic process is less of a linear path and more of an improvised musical composition, filled with subconscious rhythm and unpredictable bursts of colour. This is perhaps unsurprising given that the 52-year-old grew up in a family of musicians and artists, and works as a painter and a DJ…