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Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman sits and prays inside an iron cage at the opening of a court session in Cairo in 1989.

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Omar Abdel-Rahman, Radical Cleric Connected To 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Dies

3:41pm February 18, 2017

by Cory Turner

The radical Muslim cleric has spent the past 20 years in a U.S. prison, convicted of conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks across New York City.

The disappearance of Etan Patz made national headlines, as police and his family called for answers. The boy's mother, Julie Patz, is seen here in 1981 during an appearance on NBC's Today show.

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Guilty Verdict In Etan Patz Case, Nearly 40 Years After Boy's Disappearance

1:57pm February 14, 2017

by Bill Chappell

After leaving home to wait for the school bus in Manhattan more than 30 years ago, Etan Patz was never again seen by his family. His body has never been found.

Volunteers pen signs in Arabic with messages indicating "free legal help" available for arrivals at Washington Dulles International Airport in D.C.

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Dispatches Of Discontent: Protesters Of Immigration Ban Take To The Streets

10:02pm January 29, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Demonstrations against President Trump's executive order, which began Saturday outside airports, have now taken to the streets in cities across the U.S. Here's a glimpse of the protests.

New York City has issued roughly 900,000 ID cards since last year.

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City Officials Go To Court To Protect New Yorkers With Municipal IDs

6:24pm December 20, 2016

by Joel Rose

New York City wants to erase the personal information of people who've received municipal IDs — including, potentially, thousands of undocumented immigrants. State lawmakers are trying to stop them.

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Colin Ozeki, a high school student with autism, is on track to graduate this year from Millennium Brooklyn High School with an advanced diploma.

Getting Students With Autism Through High School, To College And Beyond

3:07pm December 18, 2016

by Yasmeen Khan

Nationwide, students with autism are enrolling in college in relatively low numbers, even compared to students with other disabilities. One program in New York City is trying to change that.

President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney dine at Jean Georges restaurant on Tuesday evening.

Romney Changes His Tune On Trump As President-Elect Weighs State Dept. Pick

10:58pm November 29, 2016

by Jessica Taylor

The 2012 GOP presidential nominee praises the president-elect after the two dined in New York City. Romney blasted Trump as a "phony" and "fraud" during the campaign.

Public schools and Chinese community groups in New York City are becoming increasingly familiar with "satellite babies."

Born In The U.S., Raised In China: 'Satellite Babies' Have A Hard Time Coming Home

6:46pm October 13, 2016

Some immigrant families from China send their U.S.-born babies to their home country to be raised by relatives. Psychologists are studying what happens when these children return home.

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A pastrami sandwich sits on the service counter at the Carnegie Deli in New York. The deli is closing at the end of 2016.

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Carnegie Deli Says It Is Closing Down Its Landmark NYC Restaurant

5:39pm September 30, 2016

by Bill Chappell

As news of the closing rippled far beyond the deli's home turf in Manhattan Friday, hundreds of people responded with sadness and disbelief.

Susan Frawley Eisele holds her 6-week-old son, Albert Jr., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City in 1936. Eisele, of Blue Earth, Minn., won an essay contest with Country Home magazine and was named best American rural correspondent of 1936.

When Mrs. Eisele Took Manhattan: Big City Failed To Awe Minnesota Journalist

11:21pm September 28, 2016

by Kitty Eisele

In 1936, Country Home magazine sent its "rural correspondent of the year" Susan Eisele on a trip to NYC. With a 6-week-old in tow, she soaked up the city and hit it off with hard-bitten newspapermen.

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Authorities in New York are looking to talk to two unknown individuals who may have accidentally disabled a bomb on the streets of New York.

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These Are The 2 Guys Who May Have Accidentally Disabled A Bomb In New York

1:26pm September 21, 2016

by Eyder Peralta

Authorities in New York said they want to talk to the two men, who they believed found a pressure cooker bomb in a piece of luggage. The men took out the bomb but took the luggage.