| | New York police poised to thwart New Year's Eve suicide bombers | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Police Department is providing officers with specialized training to stop any suicide bombers at Sunday's New Year's Eve celebration, when up to 2 million people will flood the streets of Times Square, officials said on Thursday. | | | | Land of the freeze: arctic wave hits northern United States | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - An arctic blast sent most of the U.S. Northeast and Midwest into a deep freeze that set record lows in several spots on Thursday as forecasters warned the frigid temperatures could last through the New Year holiday. | | | | New York to cross milestone in decades-long drop in murders | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York is on track to record fewer than 300 murders in 2017, a sharp drop from the previous year and a fresh milestone in a decades-long decline that began in the early 1990s, when the annual death toll in the city exceeded 2,000 people. | | | | Rushing to pay taxes? New law spurs confused pre-payment push | | NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y./FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (Reuters) - Americans scrambling to prepay 2018 state and local taxes before year end may not get the federal deductions they hoped for, but that did not slow the rush on Thursday in some of the nation's highest-taxed municipalities. | | | | | | | | Related Video | | | | | | | | | North Korea revealed | | | | {/foreach} | | | | | A quick-fix on the day's news delivered when you want it. Register Today | | | | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | » » MORE NEWSLETTERS | | |