Hurricane Sandy: Latest Updates

Hurricane Sandy: Latest Updates


Hurricane Sandy: Latest Updates

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Half a dozen bridges in and around New York City are closing, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced. Others could be closed on short notice if the winds pick up.


Crane Dangling Over West 57th Street

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:56 PM PDT

The boom on a crane at a luxury skyscraper under construction at 157 West 57th Street was collapsing.


The Lede Blog: David Barboza Answers Reader Questions on Reporting in China

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT

Mr. Barboza reported last week on the extraordinary wealth accumulated by close relatives of Wen Jiabao, the prime minister of China.


The Lede Blog: David Barboza Answers Reader Questions on Reporting in China

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT

Mr. Barboza reported last week on the extraordinary wealth accumulated by close relatives of Wen Jiabao, the prime minister of China.


UPDATE: Where in the world ... ?

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Do you know where this photo was taken?


Hurricane Sandy: Latest Updates

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:50 PM PDT

A crane at the construction site of a luxury skyscraper began to collapse, dangling precariously about 80 stories above West 57th Street.


Crane Dangling Over West 57th Street

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:56 PM PDT

The boom on a crane at a luxury skyscraper under construction at 157 West 57th Street was collapsing.


G.O.P. Tries to Chip Away at Democrats’ Edge in Early Voting

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Republicans are stepping up their efforts to narrow a Democratic advantage in early voting in key battlegrounds like Florida and Ohio.


Egypt church moves closer to picking new pope

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church moved a step closer to picking a new pope on Monday when the shortlist was whittled down to three in a process the Christian minority hopes will deliver a leader to guide them safely through the upheaval of the Arab Spring.


VIDEO: Sandy 'largest storm in Atlantic'

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:35 PM PDT

Millions of residents of the northeast of the United States are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.


VIDEO: Sandy brings New York to a standstill

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:58 AM PDT

As New York city prepares for hurricane Sandy 400,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes


Likud approves merger with Yisrael Beitenu

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:29 PM PDT

Israel's ruling party approves electoral pact with ultranationlaist Yisrael Beitenu in bid to garner votes in 2013 poll.


VIDEO: Crane hangs over New York amid storm

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

As strong winds from Hurricane Sandy hit New York, a damaged crane has been filmed dangling dangerously above the streets of the city.


Hurricane Sandy: Latest Updates

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:05 PM PDT

The boom on a crane at West 57th Street began to collapse, the Fire Department said, causing debris, glass and bricks to fall onto the street.


FiveThirtyEight: Oct. 28: In Swing States, a Predictable Election?

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:38 AM PDT

The presidential polling in most swing states now looks very similar to the way it did for much of the late spring and summer.


Obama warns of 'potentially fatal' hurricane

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:06 PM PDT

Hundreds of thousands of residents ordered to evacuate from cities as Hurricane Sandy bears down on Eastern Seaboard.


Russian punk band "risk lives" in Soviet-style prisons

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:40 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member.


The scary global implications of Japan’s slowdown

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:54 AM PDT

The Washington Post's Chico Harlan had an excellent story this weekend on the declining confidence in Japan's economy, the third-largest in the world after the United States and China. "The mass turnabout has helped launch an alternative — and increasingly accepted — school of thought about Japan: The country is not just in a prolonged slump but also in an inescapable decline," Harlan writes, marshaling lots of disturbing data and analysis on the country's shrinking population and ambitions, as well as its ballooning debt and corporate losses.

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Rzeszowski sentenced to 30 years

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:28 PM PDT

A man who killed six people has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by Jersey's Royal Court.


Hurricane Sandy: Latest Updates

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:52 AM PDT

Con Edison is warning of a record number of power outages and, if the flooding is great enough, the possibility of shutting shutting off entire electrical networks.


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