Hundreds of protesters plan to risk arrest on Monday during an unsanctioned blockade in New York City's financial district to call attention to what organizers say is Wall Street's contribution to climate change.
World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.
Until a few months ago, the part of New York City where crowds will gather on Thursday morning to mark the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States had been mostly fenced off to the public.
The number of deaths from accidental overdoses of opioid drugs has steadily risen in New York City since 2010, in part because of an apparent resurgence in heroin use, according to data released on Thursday by the city's health department.
A case on appeal would need to determine if there is a need to prove benefit redounding to tipper to be known by tippee in order to be convicted of insider trading.
In 1975, at 18, David Bryant was locked up for the conviction of raping and murdering 8-year-old Karen Smith in a Bronx apartment building. Last Thursday, after 38 years, has been released by a judge who said he was never given a fair trial.
