New York Police Department News
New York Police said that the gunman was believed to have acted alone and immediately fled the crime scene.
Manhunt continues for a gunman who opened fire in a New York subway car.
He has injured more than 20 people.
The police said they have identified a 'person of interest' in the shooting.
Gursoach Kaur will join the New York Police Department as an Auxiliary Police Officer (APO) after graduating last week from the New York City Police Academy.
With the festive event coming just weeks after the October 31 truck attack on a bike path in New York that killed eight people -- many of them foreign tourists -- the city went all-out to ensure security.
A doctor fired from a New York hospital over a sexual harassment accusation returned to his former workplace with an assault rifle and shot dead a woman doctor and injured six others before taking his own life, the latest incident related to gun violence in the US.
A car plowed into pedestrians at the busy tourist destination Times Square in New York on Thursday, killing one person and leaving 12 others injured, authorities said.
New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill announced the measures being taken towards ensuring religious accommodation to its officers.
Police ordered Trump Tower to be evacuated on Tuesday after the discovery of a suspicious package, but the "all clear" was issued shortly thereafter, when the package was found to contain children's toys, media reports said.
In an alleged incidence of hate crime, an off-duty hijab-clad Muslim police officer was harassed, called "ISIS" and was told to go back to her country by a white man who also pushed her 16-year-old son, the latest in a series of incidents in which head-scarf-wearing women have been targeted in the US following Donald Trump's win.
The Secret Service is eyeing two contiguous floors of Trump Tower for over 250 agents and cops, sources said.
Around 25 people were on Sunday injured in an explosion that rocked New York's busy and upscale neighbourhood also frequented by tourists.
No other information was immediately available. The investigation is ongoing.
The New York Police Department wants singer Beyonce to issue an apology for her Black Panther-inspired set at the Super Bowl 50 earlier this month.
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