Al Baker The New York Times

Gianclaudio P. Marengo, who speaks no English, was found disheveled and confused by an off-duty police officer riding the No. 2 train on Tuesday morning.

President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the CIA to the military.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended the New York Police Department's monitoring of the Web sites of Muslim student groups at more than a dozen universities across the Northeast, framing the effort as one way to guard against the threat of terrorism.

A hotel housekeeper whose account of being sexually attacked was so compelling that it brought tears to the eyes of seasoned investigators. Preliminary forensic and electronic evidence, as well as interviews with witnesses, that poked no immediate holes in her story. And an accused man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with a ticket for a flight to France, ...

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to depart for Paris on Saturday, in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said. Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected t...

The dispute between the two friends began over $20, money that had been given to buy baby formula and diapers, but that went for some other purpose. Days later, it became a heated public matter, played on the two young women's Facebook pages. At 5:44 p.m. on Sunday, one of them, Kamisha Richards, 22, wrote that this would be "the last time u will c...

A woman with stroke symptoms in Midwood, Brooklyn, waited for an ambulance for six hours, finally arriving at the hospital with telltale signs of advanced brain damage. In Forest Hills, Queens, bystanders waited for three hours next to a man lying unconscious in the snow before they were able to flag down help. And in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a mot...

The elite units of the New York Police Department will convene on the departmental range in the Bronx on Thursday for a preparedness exercise for an attack like the one in Mumbai in November 2008. The Mumbai attack has been on the department's radar since soon after it occurred, when city police officials carried out a tabletop exercise, said Paul...

Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man who was fatally shot by the police in 2006 on what would have been his wedding day. The decision b...

Among the enduring images left by car bombings, overseas or in the United States, is investigators on their hands and knees, crawling through the wreckage searching for clues: a blasting cap or a timing device, a piece of the explosive's casing or a trace of the chemicals used.

The police and FBI investigators have tracked down the owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that contained the makings of a crude car bomb discovered in Times Square over the weekend.

Law enforcement officials offered a more detailed description of the makeup of the failed car bomb found in Times Square on Saturday night.

Thousands of tourists and theatergoers were cleared from Times Square as the police investigated what they suspected was a car bomb there.

Gianclaudio P. Marengo, who speaks no English, was found disheveled and confused by an off-duty police officer riding the No. 2 train on Tuesday morning.

President Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the CIA to the military.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended the New York Police Department's monitoring of the Web sites of Muslim student groups at more than a dozen universities across the Northeast, framing the effort as one way to guard against the threat of terrorism.

A hotel housekeeper whose account of being sexually attacked was so compelling that it brought tears to the eyes of seasoned investigators. Preliminary forensic and electronic evidence, as well as interviews with witnesses, that poked no immediate holes in her story. And an accused man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with a ticket for a flight to France, ...

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to depart for Paris on Saturday, in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said. Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected t...

The dispute between the two friends began over $20, money that had been given to buy baby formula and diapers, but that went for some other purpose. Days later, it became a heated public matter, played on the two young women's Facebook pages. At 5:44 p.m. on Sunday, one of them, Kamisha Richards, 22, wrote that this would be "the last time u will c...

A woman with stroke symptoms in Midwood, Brooklyn, waited for an ambulance for six hours, finally arriving at the hospital with telltale signs of advanced brain damage. In Forest Hills, Queens, bystanders waited for three hours next to a man lying unconscious in the snow before they were able to flag down help. And in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a mot...

The elite units of the New York Police Department will convene on the departmental range in the Bronx on Thursday for a preparedness exercise for an attack like the one in Mumbai in November 2008. The Mumbai attack has been on the department's radar since soon after it occurred, when city police officials carried out a tabletop exercise, said Paul...

Closing a key chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in recent memory, New York City agreed on Tuesday to pay more than $7 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family and two friends of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old black man who was fatally shot by the police in 2006 on what would have been his wedding day. The decision b...

Among the enduring images left by car bombings, overseas or in the United States, is investigators on their hands and knees, crawling through the wreckage searching for clues: a blasting cap or a timing device, a piece of the explosive's casing or a trace of the chemicals used.

The police and FBI investigators have tracked down the owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that contained the makings of a crude car bomb discovered in Times Square over the weekend.

Law enforcement officials offered a more detailed description of the makeup of the failed car bomb found in Times Square on Saturday night.

Thousands of tourists and theatergoers were cleared from Times Square as the police investigated what they suspected was a car bomb there.