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(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 attacks, New York lawmakers say the health program created to care for survivors and responders is faltering and they're demanding answers.In a new letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand raised concerns about staffing shortages, frozen research grants and ongoing communication blackouts at the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), which provides care to […]

Red flag warnings remain in place for parts of Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming due to very dry conditions, low humidity and gusty winds and fires in these areas may undergo rapid development as new fires could begin quickly.This comes as 741 wildfires continue to burn in Canada, with 304 labeled “out of control” and fires have burned more than 16 million acres in Canada this year -- more than […]

(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Coast Guard has released its final report on the catastrophic implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible in June 2023, which killed five people on a deep-sea voyage to the Titanic wreckage.The 335-page report, released Tuesday, comes nearly a year after the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation held a two-week hearing into the unprecedented implosion of the experimental vessel.The board heard from more than two dozen […]

(NEW YORK) -- Much of what the Justice Department wants a federal judge to unseal from the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury investigation is already known and, at least so far, the attorney general is seeking to unseal nothing else, according to a new court filing Tuesday.The Justice Department turned over a version of the Maxwell grand jury transcripts that identifies which information is not already publicly known. That annotated version […]

Paras Griffin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in New York declined on Monday to grant Sean "Diddy" Combs bail, finding no "exceptional reasons" to release him prior to his October sentencing.Combs was convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution, which the judge said mandates incarceration. His sentencing is set for Oct. 3.Judge Arun Subramanian said Combs remains a risk of flight and a danger to the community, pointing […]

(NEW YORK) -- Two people have died and at least 58 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease in a cluster that broke out in the Harlem area of New York City last week, officials said on Monday.The New York City Health Department had reported on Thursday that one person had died and 22 people were sick in the cluster.“People living or working in the area with flu-like symptoms, such […]